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.

3 page draft. 2 copies. Typed. About Dryopteris affinis agg for a leaflet.

[Excerpt, Introduction] It is not accepted by most who have been studying this group that the former subspecies should be treated as distinct species. A paper giving the new terminology has been published in the Fern Gazette (February 2007) by Christopher Fraser-Jenkins.

The second copy has additional notes about Dryopteris affinis agg in VC 62 [vice county 62, North-East Yorkshire]

3 maps of Great Cumbrae Island and 1 map labelled Provincia Della Spezia & Provincia di Massa Carrara (Italy)

1) "Important Fern sites" Great Cumbrae Island. Hand drawn. Photocopy.
2) "Sites of Botanical Value" Great Cumbrae Island. Digitally annotated.
3) "Cumbrae's Orchids" Great Cumbrae Island. Digitally annotated.
4) " Les vallees du Vara et du Magra se trouvent dans la Lunigiana" Italy. Annotated.

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

1 - 7"x10" black and white group photograph of the participants of the Holttum Memorial Pteridophyte Symposium, 'Pteridology in Perspective', 17-21 July 1995. Taken at the Princess of Wales Conservatory, Kew, Richmond upon Thames, England.

Copy of photograph and a list of participants can be found in Camus, J., Gibby, M. and Johns, R.J. (1996). Pteridology in Perspective. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew., p.ix-xii

A collection of items relating to George Forrest and his family comprising:
GB 235 FIA/1/1: ‘Rhododendrons and the Various Hybrids’, by J.G. Millais, 1917, No.6, signed by author and annotated by George Forrest
GB 235 FIA/1/2: ‘Rhododendrons and the Various Hybrids’, 2nd Series, by J.G. Millais, 1924, No.5

GB 235 FIA/2/1-7: 7 x ‘Marine Algae of Joppa’ by George William Traill, 1886 (inc. author’s copy(1), Phebe M. Traill(2), W.H. Traill(3), scored out name(4) and 3 unsigned books(5-7, 5 possibly Clementina Traill))
GB 235 FIA/2/8: 1 x ‘Marine Algae of Elie’, by George William Traill, reprint from the Transactions of the Botanical Society of Scotland, 1888
GB 235 FIA/2/9: 1 x ‘Marine Algae of the Orkney Islands’ by George William Traill, 1890, H.C.M.W. (Clementina) Traill’s copy

GB 235 FIA/3: 1 box of 87 microscope slides, mostly trees and shrubs, made by Dr G. Ian Forrest (G. Forrest’s grandson) between 1959 and 1960 whilst studying for his B.Sc in Botany at University College London.

4 folders containing Donald Pigott's notes and photos relating to his research on Tilia:
1: Photographs of living Tilia; folder of labelled photographs of living trees taken by Donald Pigott
2: China 1993, 1995; folder of notes on Donald Pigott's China trips in 1993 and 1995
3: Chinese Visit; folder detailing further Chinese trips taken by Pigott, includes 1993 and 1995.
4: Tilia Types, China; a folder containing good images / copies of Tilia type herbarium specimens from China.
1 folder of original drawings by Professor Donald Pigott; A collection of drawings, both in pencil and ink, of leaves and flowering parts of different species of Tilia, the subject of his monograph (Lime-trees and Basswoods; A Biological Monograph of the Genus Tilia; Donald Pigott, Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-521-84054-5)

1 folder containing correspondence, map, 3 photographs and report outlining the discovery of a hybrid orchid, Rhizanthera chevallierana, on Ben Lawers by David Mardon in 1979. The folder was compiled after a search for photographs of the plant taken by Mardon in 1984. Contents include, email correspondence between Clive Stace, Adele Smith and Lorna Mitchell outlining the search for photographs and compilation of the folder (2013), report and notes compiled by David K. Mardon in 1984 outlining his find, map showing where he found it, correpondence between Douglas McKean, [Paddy Woods], R.H. Roberts and David Mardon regarding the identification of the orchid, and three photographs taken by Mardon.

8 glass lantern slides showing images of Meconopsis taken by Mrs Knox-Finlay at Keillour Lake, Keillour Castle:
Meconopsis
Meconopsis x musgravei
Meconopsis sherriff 600
Meconopsis grandis 600
Meconopsis grandis (true)
Meconopsis coxiana
Meconopsis betonicifolia praetensis
Meconopsis beamishii

Two sided Christmas card with colour photograph adhered to the front with a caption. Reverse has printed image of holly & berries along side a pre-printed message.

The photograph is in colour and features Meconopsis integrifolia in front of the house at Ascreavie.

TRANSCRIPTION

[FRONT]

[COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH]

meconopsis integrifolia
at Ascreavie

[REVERSE]
[PRINTED TEXT]

All Good Wishes for Christmas
and the New Year
from
[signed] George + Betty Sherriff