Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1983 - 2008 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
5 notebooks; 5cm
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
RBGE Herbarium; September 2025
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Rita Calder was a mounter in the Herbarium and documented her mounting numbers in notebooks before the advent of an electronic Mounting Backlog spreadsheet now held on SharePoint. LIVE Mounting Backlog Spreadsheet.xlsx
These notebooks are handwritten and document the year and date collections were submitted for mounting and then when they were completed (1983 – 2008). From 2007 the new mounter Kate Eden also completed entries, obvious by a change in handwriting. They also make references to specimens which were repaired and which member of staff submitted them.
There appear to be two sets of books. The ones with In/Out columns are specimens mounted in any given month/year. The other books are a record of specimens coming into the Mounting Room in any given year. They record the country of origin and the donor or member of RBGE staff who submitted them. They could be viewed in the context of the Incoming Specimen/Donation books already held in the Archive.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The Notebooks were divided into their two series; 1/The books recording specimens coming into the Mounting Room recorded by year and 2/ the 'In/Out' books for specimens mounted in any given month/year; and numbered chronologically.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/
Conditions governing reproduction
Permission required from RBGE.
Language of material
- English