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This collection comprises some items that accompanied a donation to the RBGE Herbarium (01700) in April 2024; the folder in the RBGE Archives includes Ogilvie's passport, 1968-1978 and a letter that was found inside a pamphlet that was part of the donation (Min. Agr & Fisheries Bull. no.123 6th ed. 1969); John G.S. Marshall to L. Ogilvie, 31/12/1971, discussing the popularity of the Bulletin, plans for a Spanish version and a revision.
Two copies of Diseases of Vegetables, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Bulletin No. 123 were included in the accession; the first, (2nd ed. 1944) is annotated and to be housed in the Archives, the second (6th ed. 1969) is to go to the RBGE Library Periodicals section.
The accession also includes a print out of Ogilvie's Wikipedia page (in the Archives folder), and a cover note from his son, W. Duncan Ogilvie (in the Archives Accession file), who donated the collection in April 2024.

Set of printed / published and transcript summaries of donations of plants and seeds to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh dating to between 1855 and 1890 (incomplete).

The 1870 pamphlet contains the following information:
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN OF EDINBURGH.
In issuing the usual list of Donations to the Garden, the Regius Keeper begs to subjoin the following particulars :ㅡ
The Botanic Garden of Edinburgh is one of the oldest establishments of this kind, having been founded in 1670. It was used for the purpose of Teaching by the Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh in the year 1676. Since that time it has undergone many changes, both as regards its situation and extent. It now contains 27.5 Scotch acres of ground. The Garden is constantly used for instruction in Botany. The Botanical School is the largest in Britain. The number of pupils who attended the Lectures last summer (1870) amounted to 283, besides those who attended the popular class for ladies. In addition to the daily lectures, demonstrations are given in the hot-houses and in the open ground of the Garden; and facilities are afforded for practical investigation, to all students who desire to carry on researches into the structure and physiology of plants. A special room and microscopes are provided for instruction in Histological Botany. There is a Class Museum, open daily to the public, which contains specimens and models for illustrating the lectures. There is also a large Herbarium which is open for consultation, -the specimens being arranged so as to illustrate the Floras of different countries, The Garden is open free to the public every lawful day, during summer, from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M., and during winter, from daylight to dusk. For the benefit of the working classes it is also open to a late hour on Saturdays during summer. The number of visitors during the year 1870 amounted to 63,521. The Garden is laid out specially for teaching, and a large portion of the ground is occupied with plants arranged in classes and orders distinctly named. There is a collection of medicinal plants, and one of British plants, arranged according the natural system.
There is a large collection of European herbaceous plants, and of hardy exotic species, from various parts of the world, capable of enduring the climate of Scotland. There is also a special collection of Alpine plants. There is an extensive Arboretum, containing a valuable collection of coniferous trees, arranged in groups and named.
There are several ranges of hot-houses and green-houses, and a palm house 72 feet in height. The Edinburgh Government School of Design is supplied with specimens from the Garden, and demonstrations are given occasionally by the Regius Keeper to the working classes.
31st January 1871.
Professor BALFOUR Will be glad to receive donations of plants and seeds, as well as specimens for the Herbarium and Museum, from Correspondents abroad. He trusts that his pupils, who are scattered over various parts of the world, will
aid him by their contributions.
New trees and shrubs from British and Continental nurserymen, suited for the Arboretum, will be specially acceptable; and exchanges will be made by Mr M'Nab, the Curator. AIl donations will be duly acknowledged and labelled in the collection.

This is a set of ledgers and notebooks that document seed and live plant material being sent to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, who donated them, where from and when.

Five duplicate reprints from the RBGE Library reprint collection (the reprints were to be withdrawn from the collection as the articles are in published journals in the Library Collection; however, as there are so few traces of the Chinese botanists who travelled to Edinburgh in the 1930s/40s to study, a decision was made to retain these as a way of preserving the memory of Feng-Hwai Chen at RBGE; it appears at least one may have his handwriting on a dedication to WW Smith.

• ‘A preliminary study on the vegetation of the Ching-Po-Hu lake and its vicinity, in the Northeastern part of Kirin Province, Manchuria’ F-H Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, January 1 1934; annotated to Dr. R.E. Cooper (in REC’s handwriting?)
• ‘A preliminary study of the Compositae in Hopei Province’, Feng-Hwai Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, May 1 1934
• ‘Enumeration of Primula collected by Mr T.T. Yu from Northwestern Yunnan, F.H. Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, March 1939; annotated ‘To Prof. W.W. Smith with the author’s compliments Fenghwai Chen, May 30/40’
• ‘A study of Primula seeds with reference to the criteria of sections’, Feng-Hwai Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, July 1940
• ‘An Enumeration of Aconitum collected by T.T. Yu from N.W. Yunnan’, Feng-Hwai Chen & Ying Liu, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, June 1941; annotated with ‘To Mr W.E. Evans’

Letter from William Benjamin Carpenter, 22 Park Street, Bristol, to Dr. John Hutton Balfour, Dundas Street, Edinburgh, dated 20 December 1837.
W.B. Carpenter writes: I am very obliged by the trouble you have taken regarding the Cryptogamic Flora which arrived safely, the copy is for our purposes as good as new; in fact better being so neatly bound. I received the money some days since and I am sorry through forgetfulness allowed it to lie on my desk without taking the necessary steps to transmit it to you. We have been disappointed respecting a copy of the Wernerian Transactions which we expected to get from a London shop but it had been sold. If you should meet with a cheap copy [say 2 1/2 or 3 guineas] I might trouble you to send it to the Institution or if you should fall in with the volume containing Greville’s & Arnott’s account of the “fructifications of mosses” I would like it for myself. In the latter case send it to London. I have just finished a long and wearying article for the April number of Forbes and am now intending to take up the Fluirative[?] system of plants. There will be a paper in an early issue of the Philosophical Magazine translated from the German which will delight Martin Barry; the author founds his views of analogy and therefore his morphological doctrines entirely upon development which he has very minutely studied and his results are very interesting. His account of the early formation of the embryo confirms my speculation of the correspondence in their first stages, up to the formation of the cotyledons, of the germination of the Peria[?] And the full development within the ovule of the flowering plant. Reid’s paper reached me safely and has interested me both regarding the subject itself and the candid and philosophical mode in which he has treated it. Will you tell him that Forbes seems desirous of engaging his assistance for his Review and will write to him soon.
I sent my programme to Dr. Tweedie last week and mentions you along with Simpson and Maclagan as very able coadjutors. I am rather surprised that the Thorntons should not have mentioned Lindon/Simson[?] As Dr. W.P. and his father are to concoct the Article Inflammation, and were consulted as to the plan of the work. Christison also is to do a good deal for it [He is Tweedie’s brother–in-law] but I believe principally in the development of Practical Medicine. As my plan will probably occupy him some time in digesting, I do not expect to hear very soon from him.
I was much amused in some of the bits in Mafa[?]. Pray put by a series for me to send when you have an opportunity. W.P.’s Phiz is as well hit off as if Phiz himself had done it. Martin Barry is not quite so well sketched but the idea is good. It is very easy to trace Long Forbes’s style in many of the articles especially his typical subtypical and aberrant which reminded me of a disquisition of his on the components of whisky toddy. I am not sorry that Hopper has been so well cut up. Why did not the writer [Percy I believe] bring in his 300 and odd cholera cases and his going to sleep on the body. His story of his French blanchisseuse would not have been amiss? Pray give my kind regards to Percy and tell him it will give me great pleasure if he can find time to write to me, especially if he will give me some good critique on my botanical article in Forbes. I had an application from the mistress of a large and fashionable girls' school at Clifton to repeat my lectures to her pupils for a handsome fee but I declined it as rather infra dig now that I am established as a professional man.
Believe me to be most sincerely yours, William B. Carpenter.