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Four photographs taken by Thomas Bartlett showing Palm Houses, NE Corner Propagation yard and interiors of two glasshouses including the Cactus House at RBGE c. 1955

  • GB 235 BAR
  • Series
  • c.1955

Four photographs, each around 6cm square, showing the Palm House, the Palm Houses from the North East Corner Propagation yard, and two glasshouses interiors including the Cactus House, taken by Thomas Bartlett in around 1955. Bartlett worked for a company called Burgess & Co. of Bracknell after his National Service. The company installed large industrial boilers and he worked on their installation at RBGE.

Bartlett, Thomas

Thomas McNab letters

  • GB 235 MNT
  • Series
  • 1845 - 1846

7 letters from Thomas McNab to his family, including his father, William McNab plus 2 photocopies of Jane McNab Petry, Thomas's daughter, and family gravestone.

McNab, Thomas

John MacWatt Primula papers

  • GB 235 MCW
  • Collection
  • 1905 - 2023

A collection of material from and relating to the plantsman and primula specialist Dr. John MacWatt including photographs, paintings, scrapbooks, papers, nursery catalogues, articles, medals and certificates.

MacWatt, Dr. John

Humphreys, Dr. G.N.

  • GB 235 HUM
  • Collection
  • 1932

•1 box containing papers relating to an expedition to East Africa, Ruwenzori Mountains, (1932); papers seem to be those generated by RBGE Herbarium as opposed to Humphreys himself.

Humphreys, Dr. G.N.

Horlick, Lt-Col., Sir James Nockells

  • GB 235 HSJ
  • Collection
  • 1886 - 1972

•1 box of miscellaneous Fletcher correspondence (1957-61)
•1 file of miscellaneous correspondence (1960 –72)
•1 box of photographs from the Scottish Daily Express

Horlick, Lt-Col., Sir James Nockells

Hope, Charles William Webley

  • GB 235 HCW
  • File
  • 1832 - 1904

•Correspondence dated 1893 with J.J. Duthie & 1899 with I.B. Balfour (re: Col. F. Henderson collection) filed with “I. Bayley Balfour” papers under “Hope, C.W.”

Hope, Charles William Webley

Hope Family information

  • GB 235 HFI
  • File
  • 1914 - 2007

• correspondence from Mr A.R.B. Hope, family tree, and copy of the John Kay portrait of John Hope with biography presented by the family of Ann Hope (1914-2007)

Hope Family

Holmes, Edward Morell, (Curator of Museum at Pharmaceutical Society)

  • GB 235 HEM
  • File
  • 1840 - 1930

•Correspondence, dated May – July 1880, to I. Bayley Balfour, filed under “Pharmaceutical Society" with “Balfour, I. Bayley” correspondence.
•2 Letters, dated 1885, file with “Dickson, Prof. Alex” papers under “Holmes, E.M.”

Holmes, Edward Morell

H.M.S. Challenger Collection

  • GB 235 CHL
  • Collection
  • 1872 - 1876

Book of newspaper cuttings and notes relative to the H.M.S Challenger (1873-76)
Box of Challenger photographs
‘The Challenger Expedition, 1872-1876: A Visual Index’ by Eileen V. Brunton, 2nd Ed, The Library, The Natural History Museum, London (2004)

Brunton, Eileen V.

Hillebrand, William

  • GB 235 HBW
  • File
  • 1821 - 1886

•(Tenerife) 3 letters, dated 1880 filed under “Henderson, Col. F”
•(Honolulu) 2 letters, dated 1866 -1867, to Dr. Thos. Anderson – items 112 & 113 in bound volume filed under “Anderson, Dr. Thos” – Box 2

Hillebrand, William

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