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Henry Noltie’s Botanical Novelties and other adventures

…August, 2015 Botanical commemoration Gagea noltiei J.-M. Peruzzi et al., Taxon 57: 1371. 2003 – nomen novum for Lloydia delicatula Noltie Unsupported repository item type: Specimen Photo   Carex noltiei…

Cupressus himalaica

…Carrière Family:Cupressaceae Genus:Cupressus Epithet:cashmeriana Collector:Noltie, Henry J.; Pradhan, Rebecca,; Sherub & Wangdi, Tandin Year:1998 Origin:Bhutan, Sikkim & Darjeeling:Thimphu Dist.:Inside ruins of Drukyel (Drugye) Dzong Elevation:2,500m Plant:19982541W Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced Plant:19982541L Location:/Living…

Trachycarpus latisectus

17. Trachycarpus latisectus Spanner, Noltie and Gibbons PALMAE The Windamere palm On an RBGE expedition in 1992 two trees of this hardy palm were spotted growing outside the Windamere Hotel,…

First records of British plants – three Indian connections

Henry Noltie In pursuit of interesting facts for some captions I was recently asked to write I turned to David Pearman’s fascinating account of the first records of British plants…

Part 1/2: ‘Sensing and Presencing the Imperceptible’, Siân Bowen’s Micro-conference

…Archival materials during Dr. Henry Noltie’s talk Photograph courtesy of Caterina Salvi Henry spoke about ‘The Garden of Malabar Refigured: a set of mid-nineteenth-century drawings after the Hortus Malabaricus made for…

In memory of Corporal Henry McBeath (1878-1918)

McBeath’s name on the RBGE war memorial, 20a Inverleith Row. Henry McBeath was from Rogart in Sutherland, born in November 1878 to James McBeath, a farm grieve (foreman) and his…

Towards 3 million specimens: Caroline Henry

…named in honour of them. Specimen of Penstemon glaber https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E01046336 References Primula World post on Carolinella henryi: https://primulaworld.blogspot.com/2016/04/sweet-caroline-section-carolinella.html Protologue for Carolinella henryi: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16049293#page/64/mode/1up National Archive records for Augustien Henry: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16386…

The giant butterbur, Petasites japonicus

By Henry Noltie Rituals to mark the unrolling of the seasons have always seemed important, but never more so than as reference points by which to punctuate the longueurs of…

Sir Henry Raeburn and Indian Botany

Recently I was looking at the catalogue of the memorable exhibition of Raeburn portraits held in the Royal Scottish Academy in 1997. In it is reproduced a radiant portrait of…

Colonel and Mrs Walker: Ceylon 1830–1838

…a series of studies by Henry Noltie on little-known collections in the RBGE herbarium and archives. As with previous work the specimens form part of the herbarium of George Walker-Arnott…

A Lockdown Flora of Melville Street, Edinburgh: Chloris Via-Melvilliana

Henry Noltie Introduction In 1823 Robert Brown published an account of the plants collected on Melville Island in the Canadian Arctic during the first voyage (1819–20) commanded by William Edward…

The Collectors of the Wallich (or East India Company) Herbarium. Part III

By Henry Noltie & Mark Watson (continued from Part II) Horticulturists and Civil Servants The designation ‘professional’, which, during the twentieth century, increasingly came to be used in antithesis to…

Embedding Repository Items in Botanics Stories

…factsheet for a living collection accession. RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19151008 Scientific Name:Sorbus japonica (Decne.) Hedl. Family:Rosaceae Genus:Sorbus Epithet:japonica Collector:Wilson, Ernest Henry Year:1914 Origin:Japan:Honshu:Tochigi Pref:Yumoto, Shimotsuke [Yashu region]…

The Indian botanical drawings reproduced in Ocean Flowers

…Bombay Botanic Gardens. Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Noltie, H.J. (2005). The Botany of Robert Wight. Ruggell, Liechtenstein: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag. Noltie, H.J. and Watson, M.F. (2019). The Buchanan-Hamilton collection…

Commemorating the First World War – our Stories

…In memory of Private Thomas Adam (1878-1915) In memory of Private Walter Henry Morland (1881-1915) In memory of Private William Gordon Dickson (1871-1915) In memory of Sergeant George Cruickshanks Fallow…

Ross Eudall (1924-2021)

…by Leonie Paterson and Henry Noltie using the eulogy compiled by Annalese McDermott of the Humanist Society Scotland after talking to Ross’s friends and family, including Henry Noltie, RBGE and…

Elements of Botany at Inverleith House

…Elements of Botany; an exhibition of botanical drawings and plant models from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh‘s archives curated by Henry Noltie. Located in the central rooms on the ground…

Hydrangea sargentiana – Ernest Henry Wilson’s collection

Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, London., vol. 138 [= ser. 4, vol. 8]: Tab. 8447 During August of 1907, in western part of Hubei province in China, Ernest Henry Wilson collected a…

In memory of Private Arthur Henry Jones (c.1882-1916)

…in March, the second was Arthur Henry Jones who died in hospital in April 1916, but he wasn’t an infantry man. Papaver rhoeas from A. Dietrich’s Flora Regni Borussici. III;…

Fern Book Presents from Christmas Past – 2

…best wishes, Mary G. Henry, Christmas 1945’ Below this inscription in purple ink is the rubber-stamp signature: ‘William Wright Smith’ By 1945 the sender and the recipient had exchanged correspondence…