- GB 235 RBG/2/MNW
- Collection
- 1780 - 1848
Fait partie de Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
•Box, including Copy of a letter most probably sent to Mary Countess of Minto, dated 17 October1845
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Fait partie de Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
•Box, including Copy of a letter most probably sent to Mary Countess of Minto, dated 17 October1845
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Thomas Blaikie diary 1781-1792, lesson notes and accounts
Fait partie de Thomas Blaikie collection
Vellum bound notebook including notes of French lessons, lists of accounts, housekeeping expenses and an account of events from 1781 to 1792. (Box 1)
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McCoig, Malcolm, Principal Gardener at RBGE (1782-89)
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Fait partie de Thomas Blaikie collection
Four engravings of notable French figures and two photographs of decorative items thought to belong to Blaikie and his family.
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Linnean Society (Founded 1788)
•Miscellaneous correspondence - “L” (Box 1)
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Thomas Blaikie accounts book 'Comptes Particulier de B'
Fait partie de Thomas Blaikie collection
One green vellum bound notebook containing accounts for customers arranged by surname. A number of pages have been removed. The earliest entry is January 1789 and latest is June 1822.
Contains a loose handwritten note compiled in 2003 detailing the missing pages and method of their removal and noting that it was faxed to Pat Taylor. (Box 2)
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Print of Michel Gabriel Pacard
Fait partie de Thomas Blaikie collection
Portrait of Michel Gabriel Pacard in a circular frame; beneath is a ledge on which is an engraved plaque; beneath this is a picture with a view of Mont Blanc in a gold frame; foliage and pink ribbon decorate the structure.
Etching with hand-colouring. Source: British Museum collection, where copies of this portrait are also held. https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3308005&partId=1&searchText=Pacard&images=true&page=1
(Box 3)
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William Austin Manuscript - Heavy Inflammable Air
Paper on 'Experiments on the Analysis of Heavy Inflammable Air' (1789) published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in 1780 - (right click, open link in new tab) https://archive.org/details/jstor-106830 - there is a copy of the paper in the packet alongside the handwritten manuscript, possibly written by Austin himself. Manuscript is incomplete, 8 pages along, finishing on page 56 of the article. There is also a copy of Austin's entry in the Dictionary of National Biography in the packet.
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Fait partie de Thomas Blaikie collection
Portrait of Jacques Balmat wearing a navy jacket and purple waistcoat in a circular, ageing stone frame; beneath is an old ledge under which is a old, cracked, inscribed tablet supported by two wooden bars; an axe and a broken spear cross each other beneath the portrait; foliage grows around the whole structure. Source: British Museum collection, where additional copies are held.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3308021&partId=1&searchText=Balma&page=1
(Box 3)
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•Typed note of information about his life given by Miss Maughan, 4th March 1908.
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