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

•Correspondence (March – April 1916) and a paper titled ‘Mosses from West Ross-shire’.

SAB/1: Minute Books, 4 volumes
SAB/2: Accounts
SAB/3: Correspondence / papers
SAB/4: Publications
SAB/5: Photo Album
SAB/6: Maps
SAB/7: Ephemera / Objects including snuff mull and leather bag

List produced on RBGE embossed paper, bound together to form a book; beginning with Ranunculaceae, there are 330 pages of plants growing in the Garden in 1883 (though the 3 could also be interpreted as a 5); the book has an index at the back.

various photographs and illustrations
series of papers donated in February 1978 by Mary Noble including a leaflet for a Scottish Arts Council Exhibition in Charlote Square, March 1970; photocopy of his obituary in The Scotsman in 1967 and two excerpts from the Scots Magazine, September and October 1954 containing two parts of an article about Adam and his photography.

1 document. Photocopy. Bound

[TITLE] The Restoration of Ascog Hall Fernery Isle of Bute, Plant Inventory.
Prepared by The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. By D.R. Mitchell, Curator. 1997.

[Excerpt from Introduction] This document was prepared by staff of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh following the request by Mr. & Mrs. W. Fyfe in January 1996, to assist with the research, planning and replanting of the Ascog Hall Fernery.

It is a record of the material selected to replant the fernery during the spring of 1997, in a style evocative of the original planting recorded int eh article from the Gardeners Chronicle of 1879. Following extensive research in the gardens library and consultation with science staff regarding changes in nomenclature, as many of the original plants as possible were obtained.

7 boxes containing correspondence, reports, minutes, circulars and agendas produced by the CSSF (Committee for the Study of the Scottish Flora)

Manuscript titled 'Localities for New or Rare Mosses in Scotland'.
The names Alexander McKinlay, James Stirton and John Shaw are mentioned as collectors in the manuscript, alongside three dates, 1861, 1864 and 1868. Although not definite, the handwriting in the documents compares very favourably to that of James Hardy (1815-1898), Secretary of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club and compiling a work on Mosses of Berwickshire at the end of the 1860s.

GB 235 ANT/1 - photo album including photographs of John Anthony and his family, Edinburgh views and photos relating to World War One, including the Edinburgh University Officers Training Corps at Peebles in 1915 showing Cadets Brown, Purves, Mills, Anthony, Smith, Hatton and Wallinck; Anthony with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in Oswestry and Llangollen (Anthony, Evans, Edwards, Gavin, Richards and Mitford) and Capt J Anthony M.C. and Capt J.H. Dick M.C. on the Somme in 1916.
GB 235 ANT/2 - Transcripts of 'The Identification of British Trees, Shrubs and Under Shrubs by means of the Microscopic Structure of their Wood', including photographs - 2 copies, loose sheets.
GB 235 ANT/3 - Original Manuscript for Flora of Sutherland, c.1970 - comparison with the published version shows the extent of J.B. Kenworthy's editing, as described in his introduction (right click, open link in new tab): http://www.botanical-society-scotland.org.uk/John_Anthonys_Flora_of_Sutherland

• Report on the Tenth International Mycology/ Plant Pathology Excursion, held in Aberdeen between August 13th and 20th, 1964. Record of site visits over the period, discusses plant diseases, list of fungi found and their locations.