Zona de identificação
Código de referência
Título
Data(s)
- 1953 (Acumulação)
- 1810 - 1878 (Produção)
Nível de descrição
Coleção
Dimensão e suporte
Comprehensive collection:
10 boxes of personal & misc. correspondence; tour journals & diaries; annual reports.
1 folder containing testimonials
1 bound volume
2 scrap books
Zona do contexto
Nome do produtor
História biográfica
James McNab was Principal Gardener at RBGE between 1848 and 1878.
Entidade detentora
História do arquivo
Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência
Zona do conteúdo e estrutura
Âmbito e conteúdo
•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
Avaliação, selecção e eliminação
Ingressos adicionais
Sistema de arranjo
Zona de condições de acesso e utilização
Condições de acesso
Condiçoes de reprodução
permission required from RBGE
Idioma do material
Script do material
Notas ao idioma e script
Características físicas e requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descrição
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