Fonds RBG - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

Identity area

Reference code

GB 235 RBG

Title

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

Date(s)

  • 1670 - 2025 (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

~80m

Context area

Name of creator

(1670-present)

Administrative history

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Content and structure area

Scope and content

• Draft copy of an article titled ‘The New Plant Houses at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh’ (stored in the ‘R’ box)
• History and development of the garden
• Accounts, 1764-1876 (incomplete)
• Staff Records (incomplete)
• Probationer Gardener records (1889-1935)
• Records relating to education at RBGE
• Photographs
• Maps
• Papers relating to regional gardens – Dawyck, Benmore and Logan
• Plant flowering records (phenology registers)
• Plant records, including inventories, and registers of plants entering and leaving the garden

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Currently by general subject area. Correspondence and papers relating to the Regius Keepers or Directors of the Garden has been separated out and described separately.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Collection is open to researchers by appointment, some files may be restricted due to GDPR legislation, 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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    Finding aids

    Generated finding aid

    Allied materials area

    Existence and location of originals

    Existence and location of copies

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    Notes area

    Note

    Draft copy of an article titled ‘The New Plant Houses at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh’ (stored in the ‘R’ box)
    Main collection in boxes

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    Description control area

    Description identifier

    Institution identifier

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    Status

    Level of detail

    Dates of creation revision deletion

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        Accession area