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George Watt's Herbarium catalogue
large register partly filled with information regarding George Watt's herbarium specimens collected in India, mainly north-western Himalayas, Manipur and the plains and lower hills of India.
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•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.
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Glasgow University Herbarium Card Index
2 card index boxes (possibly incomplete) listing monocots from Glasgow University's Herbarium that came to RBGE on permanent loan in 1942.
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Imperial Bureau of Mycology (Established Kew 1920)
•Papers correspondence re: Dutch Elm Disease, filed in Box “Dutch Elm Disease” – “Papers 1893 – 1953”.
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Imperial Forestry Institute (Oxford)
Papers correspondence re: Dutch Elm Disease, filed in Box “Dutch Elm Disease” – “Papers 1893 – 1953”.
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International Botanical Congress (10th)
• Report on the Tenth International Mycology/ Plant Pathology Excursion, held in Aberdeen between August 13th and 20th, 1964. Record of site visits over the period, discusses plant diseases, list of fungi found and their locations.
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Photographs of trees and flowers by Henry Irving
•Folder containing photographs of trees, (1901), used in Percy [Groom’s] ‘Trees and their Life Histories’ (1907), found in the National Museum of Scotland. [accession 2005/08]
•Four small folders containing photos of plants and flowers, dated 1901 on the front but all dated on the back 24/11/1923 and stamped ‘The Royal Scottish Museum’ [already at RBGE by 2005]
•Four large folders containing photos of plants and flowers dated 1901 on the front but all dated on the back 24/11/1923 and stamped ‘The Royal Scottish Museum’ [already at RBGE by 2005]
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•B. Daydon Jackson, General Secretary, Linnean Society 1902 – 1926; correspondence filed under “Linnean Society”
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•GB 235 JAF/1: Folder containing Mary Beresford's genealogical research into Andrew Thomas Jaffrey, her Great Great Grandfather - contains biography and copies of letters and documents from numerous sources.
•GB 235 JAF/2: Copy of “Hints to the Amateur Gardeners of Southern India” by Andrew Thomas Jaffrey, 1860 held by the British Library.
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Japanese Expedition (prospective c. 1859 -1860)
Japanese Expedition (prospective c. 1859 -1860). Consideration papers filed under “British Columbia Botanical Association” in main index
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