Collection MCN - McNab, James, Principal Gardener at RBGE 1848-78

Zone d'identification

Cote

GB 235 RBG/2/MCN

Titre

McNab, James, Principal Gardener at RBGE 1848-78

Date(s)

  • 1953 (Accumulation)
  • 1810 - 1878 (Production)

Niveau de description

Collection

Étendue matérielle et support

Comprehensive collection:
10 boxes of personal & misc. correspondence; tour journals & diaries; annual reports.
1 folder containing testimonials
1 bound volume
2 scrap books

Zone du contexte

Nom du producteur

McNab, James
(1810-1878)

Notice biographique

James McNab was Principal Gardener at RBGE between 1848 and 1878.

Dépôt

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives

Histoire archivistique

Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

Zone du contenu et de la structure

Portée et contenu

•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

Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation

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Conditions d'accès

Conditions de reproduction

permission required from RBGE

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      Notes de langue et graphie

      Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques

      Instruments de recherche

      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

      Générer l'instrument de recherche

      royal-botanic-garden-edinburgh-4.pdf

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