Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Título
Fecha(s)
- 1953 (Agregación)
- 1810 - 1878 (Criação)
Nivel de descripción
Volumen y soporte
Comprehensive collection:
10 boxes of personal & misc. correspondence; tour journals & diaries; annual reports.
1 folder containing testimonials
1 bound volume
2 scrap books
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
James McNab was Principal Gardener at RBGE between 1848 and 1878.
Institución archivística
Historia archivística
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
•Box of personal papers and correspondence
•Box of papers regarding excursions (1829-32)
•Box of papers regarding his North American Tour (1834)
•Box of papers regarding his North American Tour (second copies)
•Box containing Tour Diaries (1836-38)
•Box containing a Journal of Tours, including his Germany Tour (1839-40)
•Box containing a Journal of Tours (1848)
•Box of Annual Reports to Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society (RCHS) for 1841 and 1842
•Box of miscellaneous papers; into this box ("box 9 of 9") has been added (June 2019) a typescript list entitled "Plants of McNab's Herbarium"; it has an old id number of 37,994, was stored in the Library Office and is dated to February 1953. It is in 4 stapled bundles (caution - be wary of staples) and lists what was presumably herbarium specimens from James McNab's collection.
•Box of miscellaneous papers, including correspondence and a photograph of a tree-transplanter
•Folder containing McNab’s Testimonials
•Bound volume of his ‘Journal of Tour Through North America, 1834’
•Scrapbook titled ‘McNab Cuttings’
•Untitled scrap book
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Condiciones
permission required from RBGE
Idioma del material
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descripción
The contents of the 2 volumes of scrapbooks have been listed and can be viewed here: https://www.rbge.org.uk/media/6374/jamesmcnabscrapbooks.pdf