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Folder containing two versions (annotated and corrected) of text for interpretation leaflets(?) for Dawyck Botanic Garden - 'The Biodiversity of Heron Wood Cryptogamic Sanctuary and Reserve'. There are also black and white line illustrations of fungi and nematodes, numbered 1-4 (Microglossum, Lectialabella(?), soil amoeba and eel-worm) to accompany the text, and 2 35mm slides
folder containing printed email outlining wording of signs at entrance to Dawyck Botanic Garden accompanied by printed photographs on A3 pages showing the locations of existing and potential interpretation signage at Dawyck.
A4 draft comprising text for an interpretation panel at Dawyck's Cryptogamic Sanctuary, accompanied by 2 draft illustrations / maps showing where the Sanctuary is. There is also a 3.5" disc labelled Crypto Sanct panel; Crypto leaflets x3; General text for back page of leaflets.
The list is titled 'Lindberg Itinerary' and is essentially a list of field numbers alongside a location and date. The locations all appear to be in and around Afghanistan. There is a note attached to the list in Ian Hedge's handwriting that states: 'These lists of Lindberg collections refer to his zoological and not botanical gatherings. They are therefore only useful in knowing where he collected on particular days. No comprehensive lists of his botanical collections exist, but a paper by Rechinger and Riedl (Ann. Nat. Mus. Wien 65:29-37 (1962) deals with the plants he collected in the Wakhan area.' Library acc no. ECEU1: (right click, open link in new tab) https://rbge.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=78813&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A%20lindberg
• WEH/1: Bound manuscript titled 'China: Wilson's journeys for Arnold Arboretum, 1907, 1908, 1910' containing numbered list of plants with descriptions and names (but no locations). Case binding with marbled end-papers. Printed label on front end-paper: Knapp, Drewett & Sons Ltd., Account book manufacturers, printers, lithographers & stationers, Kingston-Upon-Thames and branches. Book looks to have been obtained by RBGE in 1942. (right click, open link in new tab) https://rbge.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=78783&query_desc=an%3A11168 (library acc: ECDO1) • WEH/2: Folder containing a list of E.H.Wilson's Seeds from China - list compiled at RBGE from information found in the Plant Incoming Register: "Outdoor Department 1-02 to 10-12", seed sent to Edinburgh by John Stirling Maxwell in 1907 •Three folders containing three prints of Flora of Western China Kew herbarium specimens collected by E.H. Wilson (specimens on loan from Kew, photographed at RBGE) - these to be added to RBGE Archive's 'Plant Portrait Prints' collection.
5 maps: Baghdad, Resht, Teheran, Tabriz and India and the adjacent countries. 1 box of personal and miscellaneous papers
includes paper on 'A Survey of the Anatomy of the Rhododendron Leaf in relation to the Taxonomy of the Genus' by S.F. Hayes, J. Keenan and J.M. Cowan : for publication in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 21 (1), 1–34.
•1 file of miscellaneous correspondence •Box containing images of Kemp for the RBGE Archive •Newspaper cuttings, a letter from Donald Roger, Branch Secretary of the Scottish Branch of the Arboricultural Association, and a letter from J. Kenneth Hume, Librarian and the RBGE (1999) all regarding the Ken Martin Memorial Award. (Filed in the miscellaneous I-K box
