Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
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- 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland, UK
- Opening Hours
- Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am to 4pm by appointment, check website for details
- Closing Hours
- The Archives closes occasionally due to public holidays, training days or staff shortages - see webpage for details
- Access Information
- Please see the website for details on accessing: https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/
- Photographs Allowed
- Depending on the material
- Photocopying Services
- scanner available - usb stick/cable desirable, otherwise b/w printouts can be purchased
- Public Internet Access
- via wi-fi
- Accessible
- Yes
List of Collections(View as Search Results)
- The Garden
- The Joseph Rock Collection
- The Life History of Astragalus Hypoglottis’ The Purple Milk Vetch with Figures by A Ninian Bruce
- The Timber Merchant's Pocket Companion by Charles Gane, Wood Auctioneer
- Adam Forman Sphagnum Moss papers and photographs
- Alexander P. Stevenson papers
- Alice Balfour notebook - List of Plants in Whittinghame collection
- Alistair Watt donation - Robert Fortune related ephemera
- Andrew Grierson papers
- Anne Neilson Cumming Course attendance and results
- Archibald [Archie] Kenneth Collection
- Arthur Francis George Kerr Siam Expedition papers
- Arthur Humble Evans Ephemera
- Article on ‘British Alpine Gardens’ Gardeners’ Chronicle (July 9, 1910)
- Ascreavie Seed Sowing Record 1951-1983
- Ash Dieback Disease - Chalara Fraxinea
- Baber, Edward Colborne
- Balfour Family information
- Ballantyre, Lord Bernard Fergusson (Ephemera)
- Bertha Chandler notebooks and thesis
- Blacklock letter relating to Francis Buchanan Hamilton's herbarium
- Botanical Society of [Edinburgh] Scotland Archives
- Botanical Society of the British Isles Threatened Plants Project (2008-2012)
- Botany Dept, Museum of Natural History, Paris, France
- Brian S. Brookes - Schoenus Ferrugineus Research
- British Columbia Botanical Association
- Burma Expedition (1961-62)
- Bust of William Brand WS
- Caledonian Horticultural Society; Report by the Garden Committee, relative to the establishment of the Experimental Garden in Inverleith
- Castle Menzies garden and farm papers
- Catherine F. Glen's pressed wildflowers collection
- Charles Cardale Babington Ephemera
- Charles E. Foister papers
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Cicely M. Crewdson Collection
- Col. Edward Madden Plant Collection List
- Collecting Books of David Irvine
- Collection of items relating to Lichen Dyes including a pattern book of Dyeing Properties of some Scottish Lichens by T.S. Patterson
- Collins, Ernest Jacob (1878-1939)
- Comber, Harold Frederick (1897-1969)
- Completed and incomplete draft accounts for projected new students – Polygonum, Fagopyrum and Oxyria
- Constance Drummond Hay's Fungi Illustrations
- Copies of RHS fieldnotes from Furse expedition to Iran and Turkey, 1962
- Copy of painting of the view of the Edinburgh skyline from Inverleith House lawn, c.1912 by Isaac Bayley 'Bay' Balfour, I.B. Balfour's son.
- Correspondence and crocus specimens of E.A. Bowles
- Correspondence between Henry John Elwes and Isaac Bayley Balfour
- Correspondence from and papers relating to Colonel Henry Halcro Johnston
- Correspondence regarding the membership of the Natural History Society and other references
- Cousens, John E. and Cousens, Malcolm, Douglas
- Crawford, Francis Chalmers
- Cronk, Quentin C. B.
- Cryptogamic Society of Scotland (incorporated into the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in 1935)
- Cunningham, Robert
- Dalziel, Dr. John McEwan; West African Notes
- Darbishire, Dr. O.V.
- David Douglas Ephemera
- David Hosack collection
- David Mann illustrations and photographs
- David Wilkie photos in possession of Trevor Jephcott
- Davidian, Hagop H. Notes on Rhododendrons
- Davidson, J. Randolph
- Day, John
- Decaisne, Joseph
- Degener, Drs. Otto and Isa
- Dennis, Prof. R.
- Devonshire, William George Spencer
- Dickson Nurserymen family; article by Hamish Johnston
- Dickson, Archibald
- Dickson’s Ltd. letter
- Dinsmore, J.E.
- Dobbie & Co. (Seedsmen)
- Don, David (1799-1841)
- Donald Pigott Collection
- Dr Mark Newman - Ginger correspondence
- Dr Thomas Anderson correspondence and papers
- Dr. F.R. Irvine papers
- Dr. Heinrich Handel-Mazzetti correspondence with William Wright Smith
- Dr. Jean D. Doyle (nee Garven)
- Dr. Robert Chapman Davie, correspondence and papers
- Druce, George Claridge
- Drumlanrig Gardens
- Drummond, Thomas
- Duncan, Ursula Katherine
- Dunn, Malcolm ( Dalkeith Gardens)
- Dunsmure, Dr. James
- Dutch Elm Disease (Ephemera)
- Duthie, J.J.
- Dyer, W. Thiselton-
- E.K. Balls Collection
- E.M. Buchanan Burma sketchbook
- E.V. Watson's manuscript Bryophyte Flora of Barra
- East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalist Society
- Eaton, D. L.
- Edinburgh Microscopical Society
- Edinburgh School of Gardening, List of Rock plants for sale
- Eichler, August Wilhelm
- Elizabeth P. Beattie's Plant Records (card index and slides)
- Ellacombe, Canon Henry Nicholson
- Elliot, George Francis Scott
- Ellis, R
- Ernest Frederick Gye scrapbook
- Evans, William
- Evans, William Edgar
- Extract from Register of Deaths for Alexander Craig-Christie
- Extracts translated from Dr. Karl von Goebel's "Experimental Morphology"
- F.R.S. Balfour Collection
- Falconer, Agnes C.
- Farmer, Prof. B.
- Fellowes-Gordon, Ian
- Field Notebooks belonging to Charles C.V. Batts
- Fischer, Alfred
- Flint, Professor
- Flora Buchan Murray's notebook / lecture notes
- "Flora of Ascension, 1889" by Henry J. Gordon
- Flora of China
- 18 Flower Paintings by Agnes Fletcher Nobbs
- Focker, Edward
- Foot, Simon
- Forbes, Henry Ogg
- Forestry Commission
- Forman, Adam
- Forrest family donation
- Four photographs taken by Thomas Bartlett showing Palm Houses, NE Corner Propagation yard and interiors of two glasshouses including the Cactus House at RBGE c. 1955
- France, C
- Fraser, Capt. L.D
- Fraser-Jenkins, Chris
- Freeman, W.E. - Report on Victoria Botanic Garden, Cameroons.
- Gage, Andrew Thomas
- Garden Society
- Gardeners’ Club
- Garnsey, Rev. Henry Edward Fowler
- George Arnott Walker Arnott Collection
- George Don [Sr.] Collection
- George Forrest Collection
- George Grahame's Plant Lists
- George H. Cave Collection
- George Paxton Photographic Collection
- George Watt's Herbarium catalogue
- Gilbert McNab information
- Gillies, Dr. John
- Glasgow Botanic Garden
- Glasgow University
- Glasgow University Herbarium Card Index
- Glenarn Garden, Rhu, Dumbartonshire
- Godwin-Austen, Henry Haversham
- Goethe, M. (Expedition to the Andes, 1924 )
- Goodier, R (colour slides from the area of the Flora Zambesiaca)
- Gordon, J. Senior
- Gordon, Rosemary
- Graham, Helen
- Graham, Robert James Douglas
- Granny (Sea Anemone) 1828 - 1887
- Gray, Asa
- Greville, Robert Kaye
- Grieve, James
- Gunnera Nature Print
- Guthrie-Smith, Herbert
- H.M.S. Challenger Collection
- Hamburg Botanic Garden
- Hand coloured multi block wood engravings featuring Reginald Farrer
- Harley, Andrew (c. 1872 – 1950)
- Harry Lonie objects created from trial pieces for the East Gate entrance rhododendron gates
- Harveian Society of Edinburgh Booklet
- Haryats(?), Pedro L (Portugal?)
- Hawaii –Pacific Tropical Botanic Garden
- Heer, Oswald
- Helen A. Milford collection
- Hely-Hutchison, Mrs. J.W.
- Hemsley, Wm. Botting (Kew)
- Henderson, Col. Frederick
- Hicks, J.H. Collection
- Hill, John Rutherford
- Hill, Sir Arthur William (Kew)
- Hillebrand, William
- Holmes, Edward Morell, (Curator of Museum at Pharmaceutical Society)
- Hope Family information
- Hope, Charles William Webley
- Horlick, Lt-Col., Sir James Nockells
- Humphreys, Dr. G.N.
- Hutchinson, John
- Hutchison, J.J.
- Ian C. Hedge Collection
- Ida M. Hayward Collection
- Imperial Bureau of Mycology (Established Kew 1920)
- Imperial Forestry Institute (Oxford)
- Institute of Horticulture (I.O.H), Established 1984; Chartered 2014 now CIOH
- International Botanical Congress (10th)
- Isobel Wylie Hutchison collection
- Items relating to the Botanic Ash Exhibition 1993
- J.A.R. Anderson 35mm Diapositive Slide Collection
- J.S. Anderson letter to Dr Patrick Neill
- J.S. Henslow's "Syllabus of Botanical Lectures" edited and printed by Charles Babington.
- Jack Clendinnen's death notice, 1954 & photograph
- Jackson, Benjamin Daydon
- Jaffrey, Andrew Thomas
- James Bisset's Flora of Japan notebooks
- James Collins ephemera
- James Groves Correspondence
- James Todd Johnstone collection (Librarian, RBGE, 1912-46)
- Japanese Expedition (prospective c. 1859 -1860)
- John Anthony collection
- John D. Main's notes on the genus Primula including primula synonymy
- John Downie Ephemera
- John Jacob Lavranos papers
- John MacWatt Primula papers
- John Sibthorp bookplate
- Jörgensen/Jorgensen manuscript
- Keeble, Prof. (Reading University)
- Keenan, James (Jimmy)
- Kemp, Dr. Edward Edmund
- Kerr, John Graham
- Kesselring, W.
- Kirby, Mary E.
- Knuth, Paul
- Koch II (Composer)
- Krug, Dr. John Christian
- L'Herbier Boissier; Catalogue of Artocarpeae by Pierre Edmond Boissier
- Lace, John Henry
- Langrishe, Col. J (British Red Cross)– 1939 references
- Lankaster, Prof. Ray
- Larachmhor Garden Papers
- Lecombe, H (Paris)
- Lecture on ‘The Scope and Tendency of Botanical Study; An Inaugural Address delivered before the Liverpool Royal Infirmary School of Medicine’ (May 3, 1858)
- Leitch, Dr. John, of Silloth, in Cumberland
- Letter from Felix Eugen Frisch to Miss Muriel Jenny Hay, 1947
- Letters, exam papers and horticultural handbook from the family of Thomas Douglas Grieve
- Levigne, Harry Corbyn
- Lindley, John
- Lindsay, Robert
- Lindsay, William Lauder
- Linnean Society (Founded 1788)
- Linné.
- List of 6,114 plants from Brazil collected by George Gardner
- List of books from John Ball's Botanical Library
- Logan Botanic Gardens
- London, University of
- Lord Ardmillan letter
- Lord Headfort - Taylour, Geoffrey Thomas (4th Marquess of Headfort)
- Lowndes, Col. Donald George
- Ludlow, F. and Sherriff, G. Collection
- Lushington, Madras Timbers
- Lyall, David
- Lycopodium Bibliography arranged by the Reverend John E. Holloway MSc.
- Léveillé, A.A. Hector
- MacFarlane, John Muirhead
- Mackay, James Townsend
- Mackay, John - Principal Gardener at RBGE (1800-02)
- Mackenzie, Donald F.
- MacVicar, Symers Macdonald
- Magor, E.J.P.
- Mairi Planner's Downie, Laird and Laing Research
- Mary Mendum Field Notes - Irian Jaya
- Masters, Maxwell Tylden (Gardeners’ Chronicle)
- Mathew Young Orr papers
- Mathieson, Wilfrid / Robert Mackechnie
- Maughan, Edward James
- Maughan, Robert
- Mayer, E (Karlsruhe)
- McCoig, Malcolm, Principal Gardener at RBGE (1782-89)
- McDouall Album - Album of watercolours and photographic prints of E. Africa Rift Valley and Angola attributed to N. Douglas McDouall
- McDouall, Kenneth
- McEwan, Rory
- McIntosh, Charles (of Inver)
- McLaren, Alexander
- McLaren, Henry Duncan, 2nd Baron Aberconway, (Bodnant, Tal-y-Cafn, North Wales)
- McNab, William Ramsay
- Memoir of Dr Thomas Charles Hope, Late Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh by Thomas Stewart Traill
- Memorial to Dr. Leonard Cockayne, C.M.G., F.R.S. by the Royal Society of New Zealand
- Menzies, Archibald
- Mill, Robert
- Miller, Phillip
- Minto Papers; NLS MS.11908: f.17
- Miquel, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Ephemera
- Mitten, William
- Mo Farquharson; papers and photographs relating to Arid House sculptures at RBGE
- Moffat, Charles Bethune
- Monograph on Figs
- Montrose, Duchess of
- Monty A. Faithfull's Botanical Society of Scotland Botany of the Lothians survey papers
- Moore, D (1808 – 1879?)
- Morrison, Dr. Alexander (1849-1913)
- Morshead, Captain H.T.
- Morton, A.G. (Alan Gilbert)
- Mottet, M (of Vilmorin-Andrieux et Cie – Seed Company, Paris)
- Mount Everest Collection
- Mrs Knox-Finlay Meconopsis Lantern Slides
- Mueller, Ferdinand von (Melbourne) 1825 – 1896
- Mulligan, Brian O.
- Murie, John
- Mycology, Imperial Bureau of
- Natural History Museum
- Nature Conservancy Council - Fresh Water Lochs Survey / South Argyll Lochan Survey, 1989
- Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel
- Neill, Patrick
- Nelson, Alexander
- Ness correspondence between Balfour and Bulley (1896-1921)
- New Herbarium Library Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Scheme 2, 1B
- Nisbet, John
- Noble, Dr. Mary
- Nolischlan, J (Batavia)
- Norman E.G. Cruttwell photographs; Flora of Papua and interview
- Notebooks & Articles by B. L. Burtt
- ‘Notice of a Crab Apple Tree of Unusual Size at Kelloe, Berwickshire’
- Obituary to William Grant Craib, 1882-1933
- Olive Hilliard collection
- "On the Physiology of some Phaeophyceae" by Thomas Hick, B.A., BSc.
- Ordo Librorum
- Oregon Botanical Association (1850-59)
- Original Artwork by Hugh S.D. Garven for his 1937 publication 'Wild Flowers of North China and South Manchuria'
- Oxford Botanic Garden pamphlet
- Paper on investigations connected with mould developing on cheeses by T. A. Coward
- Paper on Sequoias (1896)
- Paper on the ‘On the Sexuality of Algae’ (1855)
- Papers of the Committee for the Study of the Scottish Flora
- Papers relating to Golden Gate Park Secretary John McLaren
- Papers relating to Robert MacKechnie, his plant collecting and herbarium
- Papers relating to William Gardiner’s Flora of Forfarshire
- Park, Mungo
- Parkinson, Charles Edward
- Parry, Cpt.
- Paterson, William
- Patrick Neill Fraser papers
- Pearson, Arthur Anselm
- Pearson, Henry Harold Welch
- Pennant, Thomas
- Penson, Jim
- Peter Michie ephemera
- Photocopy of diary covering 1919 Burma Expedition with Reginald Farrer
- Photographs attributed to David Sydney Fish
- Photographs by George T. Malthouse
- Photographs from Flora Fotografata delle piante piu pregevoli e peregrine di San Remo e sue adiacenze per Francesco Panizzi
- Photographs of trees and flowers by Henry Irving
- Photographs owned by Stuart F. Hayes relating to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
- Photographs owned by William Gregor Mackenzie relating to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
- Photographs taken in Yunnan China, 2003, by Leonie Paterson
- Physicians, Royal College of
- Pilling, Liz
- Pitcairne, Dr. William (President Royal College of Physicians, London)
- Plant lists of Rev. Henry William Gordon Kenrick (1862-1943)
- Plants of Mauritius
- Plinian Society
- Plumtre, E.D (Kew)
- Polunin, Oleg Vladimirovich
- Popular History of Palms by B. Seebold, presented to Robert Lewis Harrow in 1893
- Potter, (Helen) Beatrix
- Powell, E
- Prain, David (Kew)
- Pratt, Antwerp E.
- Preliminary report of an expedition to Colombia, South America, between 27 Dec. 1974 & 29 March 1975 by R.B. Burbidge
- Pressed Plant Greetings Card
- Prijanto Correspondence
- Primula papers
- Printed papers regarding the Cambridge Botanical Museum and Library (1828, 1829 and 1830)
- Professor Henry Edward Armstrong Lecture Notes
- Professor Mary Gibby's Retirement Card - blank copy
- Pugsley, Herbert William
- Ramsbottom, John
- RBGE Plant Labels
- RBGE Plant Phenology Records
- Reaux, J(ules)
- References relating to Joseph Dalton Hooker
- References relating to William Jackson Hooker
- Reginald Farrer Collection
- Regulations of the Agri-Horticultural Society of Western India; with a list of members and a short account of its establishment and operations.
- Reports of the Scottish Seaweed Research Association
- Reprint by J.C. Adam - "Mosses of West Lothian (V.C.84)"
- Research notes related to the Delile specimens in the RBGE Herbarium
- Rhizanthera chevallierana - Ben Lawers
- Richardson, John
- Robert Galloway Correspondence
- Robertson, Dr. James
- Robertson, John
- Robertson, Revd. Andrew
- Roland Edgar Cooper Collection
- Rollo, Hon. R
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Laboratory Notes
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - correspondence
- Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society
- Rutherford, Revd. A
- Sandeman, F.D. Stewart (New York Botanical Garden)
- Sanderson, John Scott
- Scarlett, Robert
- Scottish Alpine Botanical Club Collection
- Scottish Natural History Society Photograph Album
- Scottish Rock Garden Club Archives
- Selbourne Society (1885 – 1939)
- Seller, Dr.
- Shaw, Richard ‘Dick’ (Collection)
- 'Short Account of the Fossil Tree at Kinneil' by William Badger
- Signatures (autographs)
- Sikkim
- Sinclair, James
- Sino British Expedition to Cangshang (SBEC) (1981)
- Sir Bernard Augustus Keen Lecture Notes
- Skeleton Leaves
- Slater, Andrew
- Smith, Rupert
- Smith, Sir James Edward
- Smith, William Gardner
- Smythe, (Francis “Frank”) Sydney
- Snelling, Lilian - MBE, V.M.H (Victoria Medal in Horticulture)
- Somerville, Alex
- Southam slides - RBGE visits
- Sphagnum Moss as a Medical Dressing (1st & 2nd World War References)
- Spruce, Richard
- St Brody, Dr Gustavus A Ornano
- Stainton, J.D.A.
- Stewart and Co., Seedsmen, Ltd.
- Stewart, John Lindsay; Annotated copy of William Jameson’s ‘Report Upon the Botanical Gardens of the Government, North Western Provinces’
- Stirton, Dr. James (1833 – 1917)
- Swarbrick, John T. (Specialist Officer Cameroons; collecting 1958 - 1963)
- Swinley Album: Papers relating to Prof. J.H. Balfour, Prof. I.B. Balfour and Prof. J. Cleland
- Tagg, Harry Frank (Keeper of the Museum RBGE)
- Taylor, Sir/ Dr George
- Templeton, James (BSc) Senior Botanist, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt
- Terras, James Adam
- Thomas Blaikie collection
- Thomas McNab letters
- Thurn, Sir Everard Francis Ferdinand Im
- Tony Schilling Collection
- Trail, Professor James William Helenus
- Treatise on Botany by Wm. Brand
- Trimen, Henry
- Trotter, Captain H. of Mortonhall
- Turner, Alexander (Alick) J.
- Two letters to Dr William Roxburgh from Thomas Horsfield in Batavia
- University of Edinburgh Medal for Botany (Medical) awarded to Patricia M. James in 1954-55
- University of Edinburgh, miscellaneous papers and references
- Unwin, Prof. R
- Vancouver Botanical Garden
- Victorian Specimens - "Botanical Specimens collected by Great Aunt Lou c.1862"
- Ward, Francis ‘Frank’ Kingdon
- Watson, Hewett Cottrell
- Watsonby, Hewett
- Watt, Sir George
- Weale, James A.
- Wild Flower Society - Field Botanist's Diary, owned by Judith Basden, Bonnyrigg
- Wilding, E.R
- William (Bill) Steel papers
- William Alfred Hughes's Silver RHS Medal 1929
- William Austin Manuscript - Heavy Inflammable Air
- William Burns, Botanist in India, 1908-1943
- William Milne papers
- William Steel Trust
- Williamson, John (Principal Gardener 1755-1780)
- Willis, John Christopher
- Wilson, E.H. (Arnold Arboretum)
- Wilson, Malcolm
- Winch, Nathaniel J.
- Wood samples from the International Forestry Exhibition held in Edinburgh in 1884
- Woodward, F.L
- Wright, [A.A.]