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How big was our garden?

…Sibbald must have meant 400 foot. Google Earth 2015 screen shot In our library we have a “The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722)” by Francis Paget Hett (1932) which…

Battle of Loos, 25th September 1915

…after a recommendation for re-enlistment given by Professor Francis Mitchell Caird of the Royal Infirmary, artist for the Botanical Society of Edinburgh and contemporary of RBGE Regius Keeper Isaac Bayley…

Autumn Screenings at Inverleith House: Anne-Marie Copestake and Duncan Marquiss

…Inside As Out, Part One, by Anne-Marie Copestake, and Search Film by Duncan Marquiss. The artists will be joined by invited speakers Isla Leaver-Yapp, Project Director, Lux Scotland and Francis

Interleaving in the RBGE Collections, Part 2: British Marine Algae

…artistic liberties were taken…) There is no information given on the origins of the plates, but the signatures on the plates (“Lydon”) give us a clue. Alexander Francis Lydon was…

Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania – Signatory to the Declaration of Independence

…lectures – one from Maryland (Gustavus Richard Brown), 4 from South Carolina (Thomas Caw, Isaac Chanler, Charles Drayton, Peter Faissoux) and one from Virginia (James McClurg). Also present was Francis

Wild Rice in Isleworth, 1790

…about one of Scotland’s greatest botanical masters. Nooth reported uncheerfully that Francis Masson who was now living in Montreal “ was still in good health but out of humour with…