File DEL-temp - Research notes related to the Delile specimens in the RBGE Herbarium

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GB 235 DEL-temp

Title

Research notes related to the Delile specimens in the RBGE Herbarium

Date(s)

  • 1955 - 1984 (Creation)

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File

Extent and medium

1 folder, 1cm

Context area

Name of creator

Hedge, Ian Charleson
(1928-2022)

Biographical history

Repository

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Transferred to Archives in 2023

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Scope and content

Folder of notes comprising Ian Hedge's attempts to discover more about a set of Egyptian specimens in the RBGE Herbarium, mostly incorporating the name of Delile [or Delille, Delisle], but sometimes also, Vahl, Desfontaines, Lippi, Vaillantes or Zorsbial [Forskal?] 'Scattered throughout the Edinburgh herbarium are a number of specimens, probably a few score, which appear from the evidence of the labels, to be an early Egyptian collection. In common with some other of the older collections they are often mounted on sheets which have other specimens and labels on them.' The file includes letters written to other institutions by Ian Hedge with their responses between 1983 and 1986.
The collection also includes a set of correspondence between ,B.L. Burtt and Dr Hagerup, Copenhagen, dating to 1955 and relating to similar/connected collections made by Schumacher, Vahl and Forskal.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Arranged as they were when received.

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

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    Note

    stored in general Herbarium box currently on shelf J:1:3.

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    Dates of creation revision deletion

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