12x 35mm colour slides in a plastic wallet housed with a blue title card that states:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Some Views and Plants of the Garden
12 Colour Transparencies (35mm)
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland

The slides are titled:

• Herbarium in Winter
• Cactus House
• Herbaceous Border
• Victoria 'Longwood Hybrid'
• Rock Garden and Stream
• Beech tree in Autumn
• Plant Houses [Palm House]
• Nomocharis mairei
• Nymphaea 'Midnight'
• Pond
• Rock Garden
• Gentiana lutea

12 black and white photographs that appear to have once been the property of Frederick Orpen Bower, four of them being used as figures in his 1925 publication 'Plants and Man'. The photographers appear to be mainly Skeen and Scowen of the Colombo Apothecaries Co. Ltd, Ceylon [Sri Lanka].
Descriptions of the photographs are as follows:

• Peradeniya Gardens; ‘No. 20’; marked ‘Frontispiece’ with annotated instructions for reproduction in ‘Plants and Man’ by Bower; photo credited in the publication as being ‘Bases of the stems of the Giant Bamboo (Dendrocalamus), in Peradeniya Gardens, Ceylon, with a garden-coolie standing at their foot. Photograph by Mr. Skene.’ [Skeen]. Photograph glued to contemporary stiff board.
• Corypha umbraculifera (Talipot); marked with C.A. Co. (?) Ceylon and stamped with [Apothe]caries Co. Photographers, [Colombo,] Ceylon; ‘218’ glued to reverse; annotated with printing instructions; edited version used as Fig.22A (p.48) in ‘Plants and Man’ as ‘A Talipot Palm (Corypha umbaculifera) in the flowering state’; photograph credited to Mr Skene [Skeen]. Photograph glued to contemporary stiff board.
• Corypha umbraculifera. The last stage of the Talipot; marked with ‘& Co. Ceylon’ - name obscured, and stamped with ‘Botanical Department, University Glasgow.’ and ‘Apothecaries Co. Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon’; edited version used as Fig.22B (p.49) in ‘Plants and man’ as ‘The same Palm after fruiting. The photographs were taken by Mr. Skene [Skeen], Ceylon.’ Photograph glued to herbarium sheet.
• Bamboo Stems; stamped with ‘Botanical Department, University Glasgow.’ and ‘Apothecaries Co. Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon’; ‘217’ glued to reverse, annotated with printing instructions; edited version used as Fig.86 (p.215) in ‘Plants and man’ as ‘Photograph showing the Bases of Bamboo Stems which may grow over 100 feet high. The stems are marked by rings, each of which is a leaf insertion, and the hollow stem is there supported by a hard transverse plate or septum. Note that at the base, where the leverage will be greatest, the septa are nearest together, so that the resistance will be greatest there. One of the young conical shoots has been cut so as to show the septa, crowded before the shoot has elongated.’ No photography credit given.
• ‘Nos 19 and 20, Giant Bamboos’; this photo marked ‘No.19’; ‘219’ glued to reverse; annotated with printing instructions, including ‘Schimper, make block from this, not from book’; used as Fig.87 (p.217) in ‘Plants and man’ as ‘Group of Giant Bamboos (Dendrocalamus giganteus) in the Royal Botanic Garden, Peradeniya, Ceylon. Note the man at the foot of the clump which gives the scale : also the successively shorter internodes at the base of the stems, and the curvatures above. (After Schimper.) Compare Frontispiece, and Fig. 86’. Photograph glued to contemporary stiff board.
• Corypha umbraculifera; young Talipot palms, No.519; marked with C.A. Co. Ltd, Ceylon, but other letters seem to have been scored out; stamped with ‘Botanical Department, University Glasgow.’ and ‘Apothecaries Co. Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon’; photograph glued to herbarium sheet.
• Caryota urens (Kitul) 144; marked with C.A. Co. Ltd, Ceylon; stamped with ‘Botanical Department, University Glasgow.’ and ‘Apothecaries Co. Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon’; photograph glued to herbarium sheet.
• Caryota urens. Branches of the Influorescense of the Kitul Palm shewing development of fruit. marked with Scowen & Co. Ltd (almost scored out), Ceylon; stamped with ‘Botanical Department, University Glasgow.’ and ‘Apothecaries Co. Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon’; photograph glued to herbarium sheet.
• Oreodoxa regia; Avenue of Cabbage Palms, Peradeniya Gardens; further annotated with ‘Cabbage Palms, Peradeniya Gardens (Scowen); marked with Scowen & Co. Ltd? (scored out), Ceylon; stamped with ‘Botanical Department, University Glasgow.’ and ‘Apothecaries Co. Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon’; photograph glued to herbarium sheet
• Cocos nucifera; Cocoa-nut Palm, 143; marked with C.A. Co. Ltd, Ceylon; stamped with ‘Botanical Department, University Glasgow.’ and ‘Apothecaries Co. Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon’; photograph glued to herbarium sheet.
• Lodoicea seychellarum – Double Cocoa-nut Palm, 125; marked with Scowen & Co. But scored out so it reads C.A. Co. Ltd; stamped with ‘Botanical Department, University Glasgow.’ and ‘Apothecaries Co. Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon’; photograph glued to herbarium sheet.
• Ravenala madagascariensis (Traveller’s Palm) 557?; marked with Scowen & Co. But scored out so it reads C.A. Co. Ltd, Ceylon; stamped with ‘Botanical Department, University Glasgow.’ and ‘Apothecaries Co. Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon’; photograph glued to herbarium sheet.

1 page letter.

Enclosed material:

• 2 photographs of Dicksonia x lathamii, images of spores taken by an SEM by Peter Edwards (Sept. 1983)

Attached to 3 letters:

• From J. Aldred to A.C. Jermy (20 Dec 1984)
• From J. Aldred to A.C. Jermy (14 Jan 1986)
• From A.C. Jermy to J. Aldred (n.d. Jan 1986)

Binder with negative of chromosomes, images taken by Mary Gibby from specimens collected by Christopher Fraser-Jenkins.

[SPINE] CRFJ Ferns N1 → O35

Contains

• approx. 860, 2.25"x3" black and white negatives, across approx. 123 pages
• approx. 1, 35mm strip, 1 page

Many of the page protectors have titles and/or annotations (typically collection/reference number), either written on directly in pen/marker or have a label. a few of the negatives have not been cut apart

Binder with negative of chromosomes, images taken by Mary Gibby from specimens collected by Christopher Fraser-Jenkins.

[SPINE] CRFJ Ferns M1 → M75

Contains

• approx. 765, 2.25"x3" black and white negatives, across approx. 133 pages
• approx. 5, 35mm strips, 1 page, variable length strips

Many of the page protectors have titles and/or annotations (typically collection/reference number), either written on directly in pen/marker or have a label. Contact sheet with 5 images on it (no annotation); 1 page is empty, 1 page is made of cellophane.

Binder with negative of chromosomes, images taken by Mary Gibby from specimens collected by Christopher Fraser-Jenkins.

[SPINE] 35mm O15-O39 P1-26 X3-30 Y9-41

Contains

• approx. 790, 2.25"x3" black and white negatives, across approx. 150 pages
• approx. 17, 35mm strips, across 3 pages, variable length strips

Many of the page protectors have titles and/or annotations (typically collection/reference number), either written on directly in pen/marker or have a label. single contact of some negatives (total 6), annotated with date: Nov 1981.

1 binder with black and white photographs of chromosomes. some of the plastic holders have a label. The prints have labels on back.

2 pages of negatives found in middle and at the end of the binder (total of 40 images across 8 strips)

[COVER] PHOTO-SCIENCE Storage File
[SPINE] CHROMOSOME

Contains

• approx. 124 black and white photographs across 31 pages

1 binder with black and white photographs of chromosomes. Some of the plastic holders have a label. The prints have labels on back. 4 images share page with negatives

4 pages of negatives found in middle and at the end of the binder

[NO TITLE]

Contains

• approx. 117 black and white photographs across 29 pages
• 35mm film with 37 images across 4 pages and 14 strips

1 - 7"x10"Photograph taken at The Ecology and Conservation of Scotland's Rare Ferns conference, a meeting of the British Pteridological Society at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) Thursday 28 - Sunday 31 July 1994.

Photograph includes a key, identifying all figures in the photograph from the conference. Also lists, those absent from the photograph.

Mary Gibby #75 in key, 2nd/3rd row from top at the end on right side

1 - 4"x6" colour photograph print. [LEFT to RIGHT] UNKNOWN, J. Vogel, M. Gibby, UNKNOWN

[TEXT ON BACK]
In Verscio b. Locarno
22.8.1992