| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and notes, press cuttings, and printed documents regarding botany and forestry institutions and personnel in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Includes information regarding the acquisition of specimens following the International Forestry Exhibition 1884, the Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Cruickshank Botanic Gardens, and discussion of education in vegetable economics. Includes letters to Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer, David Prain and Arthur Hill, and letters from Thiselton-Dyer and Hill.
Volume includes sections on the following subjects:
---- Aberdeen ----
-- Diatomaceous deposit --
(Ff1-16) Papers regarding a diatomaceous deposit, including specimens sent to the Kew Museum. Includes letters by George Dickie to Kew, and extract of the following printed document:
- W Popplewell Bloxam, EXPLOSIVES (Wallington: William Pile, 1882).
-- University Botanic Garden --
(Ff17-27) Papers regarding the establishment of the Cruickshank Botanic Garden, and specimens and books donated by Kew.
---- Edinburgh ----
-- Balfour, Sir I B (Memorial) --
(Ff232-238) Papers regarding a proposed memorial to Isaac Bayley Balfour, with letter from Arthur Hill.
-- Botanic Garden --
(Ff41-66, 79-132, 228-231) Papers regarding the history of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and its relation to the University of Edinburgh, technical education in horticulture, the death of John Sadler, and other administrative subjects. Includes letters and reports by John Hutton Balfour, Isaac Bayley Balfour, Spring Rice, John Sadler, Henry Primrose, Thiselton-Dyer, Prain and others. Includes critical letter by Thiselton-Dyer to Bayley Balfour regarding the purpose and performance of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, and the Regius Keepership.
-- Bower, Prof F O (Address to Pharmaceutical Society) --
(Ff223-227) Papers regarding Professor Bower's proposal that vegetable economics be studied, and extract from PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL, and INDIAN GARDENING AND PLANTING titled ''Botany: Pure and Applied'.
-- International Forestry Exhibition 1884 --
(Ff133-222) Papers including regarding the acquisition of Exhibition specimens from Gambia, Sierra Leone, and the Cape of Good Hope by the Kew Museum. Includes letters and reports by George Cadrell, John Reader Jackson, Thiselton-Dyer, James Marshall, Hugh Cleghorn and the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art. Includes printed document of the Board of Revenue, Madras, 14 Oct 1884, regarding transfer of exhibits to the Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill.
-- St Andrew's Botany Course --
(Ff28-40) Papers regarding botany teaching at St Andrews, with letters from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Thiselton-Dyer, Alexander Lawson [Professor of English Literature], with following printed document:
- 'Appeal by Professor McIntosh to the University Court of the University of St Andrews against a decision of the Senate at its adjourned Meeting on the 18th March, 1899, to the effect that "a qualifying course for Arts in Zoology or Botany shall include at least 50 lectures and shall involve meetings on 100 separate days. It may also be taken in two half-courses of fifty meetings each".
-- Universities (Scotland) Act 1888 --
(Ff67-78) Printed documents:
- 'A Bill Intituled An Act for the better Administration and Endowment of the Universities of Scotland'
- 'Observations by the Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh upon the Proposed Transfer of the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh to the University of Edinburgh, under Clauses 20, 21, 222, 24, and 26 of the Universities (Scotland) Bill, 1888'.
---- Glasgow ----
-- Balloch Estate --
(Ff313-319) Printed document titled:
- CORPORATION OF GLASGOW. REPORT BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PARKS ON BALLOCH ESTATE (1916)
Includes printed map of Balloch Estate and Loch Lomond Park.
-- Botanic Garden --
(Ff239-312) Papers regarding the Botanic Gardens, Glasgow, including letters from Bayley Balfour to Joseph Hooker, and from F O Bower, W Boyd Anderson, among others, to Thiselton-Dyer. Includes information regarding donations of books, plants and seeds from Kew, and discussion of the status of the Botanic Garden. Includes printed 'Sketches for Botanical Institute in Botanic Garden, Glasgow', 1881, report of W Watson on a visit to the Botanic Gardens, 23 Mar 1893, and the following printed documents:
- Ch Joly, NOTE SUR LES SERRES DU JARDIN BOTANIQUE DE GLASGOW (1882)
- THE SIXTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC INSTITUTION OF GLASGOW (Glasgow: James Macnab, 1882).
Volume also includes (ff311-312) correspondence between James Whitton and David Prain regarding the conditions and duties of park rangers. |