Collectie SCH - Tony Schilling Collection

Comprehensive collection; 7 boxes ephemera (notes, correspondence, documentation) & artefacts (ceremonial knives & bowl)

7 boxes containing -
•Photographic notes (1965-1966)
•Trek diaries
•Field notes
•correspondence
•Immigration papers and trekking permits
•Notes on living plants and herbarium material sent to Royal Botanic Garden Kew (1965-1966)
•List of publications and papers
•Folders of articles
•Bowl made from leaves
•2 ceremonial Ghurkha knives (access restrictions apply - the scabbards are in poor condition, and in one case has split, making the knives extremely dangerous to handle)

•2 VHS videos added to collection, Aug, 2012, “Great Storm Legacy, Wakehurst 1987” and “Dogwood Garden, Ullapool, Summer 2005”
•3 packets of scanned photos and a bundle of 27 loose photos (may be copies of slides in ADS slide collection already held in RBGE library?) added to the collection in January 2020

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/
Access restrictions apply to the knives in this collection as they pose a health and safety risk.

Permission required from RBGE.

• Engels

There is no equipment available to view VHS at present.