Inventory. Acc Sir George Taylor

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1 Acc.9533 March 2011 Inventory Acc.9533 Sir George Taylor National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Division George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EW Tel: Fax: Trustees of the National Library of Scotland

2 This collection consists of the correspondence and papers of Sir George Taylor, FRS, LLD, DSc, FRSE, FLS, UMH, ( ), formerly Principal in the Air Ministry (1940-5), Deputy Keeper of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) ( ), Keeper of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) (1950-6), Director, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew ( ) and Director of the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust ( ). Sir George was knighted in Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, , East Africa, , and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries. Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean KingdonWard, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a Horticultural Trust). Sir George was also in regular contact with, amongst others, Sir William Wright- Smith (Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh), ( ), Professor Harold Fletcher (Regius Keeper of the RBG, Edinburgh), ( ), the 2 nd and 3 rd Barons Aberconway, Sir Eric Savill (Director of the Gardens, Windsor Great Park) ( ), Sir Edward Salisbury (Director, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew), ( )) and various officials connected with Herbaria, Botanical Gardens, Museums, Universities etc, in many different countries. Of the numerous different associations and committees Sir George was connected with, his membership of the Ministry of Transport s Advisory Committee on the Landscape Treatment of Trunk Roads (hereafter known as the Landscape Advisory Committee) from 1956 to 1981 (Chairman ) is most fully reflected in this collection. There are also substantial references to Sir George s membership of the Department of the Environment s Advisory Committee on Forestry and Trees in the Royal Parks ( ) and the Windsor Gardens Consultative Committee. Other points of interest include Sir George s radio and television scripts, speeches etc, his contributions to the Dictionary of Scientific Biography and his connection with Tropical Herbaria. The general arrangement of the collection is as follows: 1-74 GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS DIARIES PRESS CUTTINGS PHOTOGRAPHS CERTIFICATES, PRIZES AND DEGREES MISCELLANEOUS RESTRICTED ITEMS

3 CORRESPONDENCE January-August September-December January-February March-May June-August September-October November-December January-March April-May June-July August-October November-December January February-March April-June July-August September-October November-December 1950.

4 24a b c June July-December January-July August-December January-June July-December January-June July-December January-May June-September October-December January-June July-December January-May June-August September-December January January January February March-April May-July August-December 1962.

5 January-June July-December January-April May-December January-July August-December

6 n.d. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE AND OTHER PAPERS 75. Aberdour Castle gardens, Bedgebury Pinetum Consultative Committee, , Bentham-Moxon Trust, Bentham-Moxon Trust, Bentham-Moxon Trust, Bentham-Moxon Trust, Bentham-Moxon Trust, Bentham-Moxon Trust, Bentham-Moxon Trust, Borders Tree and Shrub Growers Ltd, Bradford Washburn Award, Branklyn, Perthshire, Brian Clouston and Partners, British Naturalists Association, 1971, 1976, Chelsea Physic Garden, Chelsea Physic Garden, Chequers, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, 1960, , 1969, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, , Costa Rica trip, Corstorphine Angus Herbarium, , 1981.

7 (For earlier correspondence and papers, ca , see Manuscript Department, University of Dundee, MS.27). 96. Countryside Commission for Scotland, 1971, 1984, Cove, Curtis s Botanical Magazine, Department of the Environment s Advisory Committee on Forestry and Trees in the Royal Parks correspondence, Department of the Environment s Advisory Committee on Forestry and Trees in the Royal Parks reports, a. Dictionary of Scientific Biography, East Lothian Amenity Society, East Lothian (1971) and East Linton (1972) Horticultural Societies Edinburgh Botanic Garden (Sibbald) Trust, Edinburgh Botanic Garden (Sibbald) Trust, Harold Fletcher, Forestry Advisory Committee, 1971, F R Fosberg, Friends of Edinburgh University Library, 1963, Friends of Edinburgh University Library, Friends of Harthill and Calderstones Park, 1964, Garden Society, Garden Society of Scotland, Gardeners Royal Benevolent Fund, Geographical Club, J St Bodfan Gruffydd, PPILA, 1969, King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, , n.d. (including photographs) Haddington Garden Trust,

8 118. Haddington Garden Trust, Haddington Garden Trust minutes, agendas and accounts, Haddington Garden Trust minutes, agendas and accounts, Haddington Garden Trust Trust Settlement, 1972, and Plans, Haddington Garden Trust Plants Professor J Heslop-Harrison, FRS, Historic Gardens Symposium, Indian Botanic Garden, International Dendrology Society, International Botanical Congress, James Scott & Son (Portobello) Ltd, James Scott & Son (Portobello) Ltd, John Lewis Partnership, Landscape Advisory Committee and Nature Conservancy Council Road Verges and the Effect of Traffic on Plants, Landscape Advisory Committee Letters, minutes and inspection reports, Landscape Advisory Committee Letters, minutes and inspection reports, Landscape Advisory Committee Letters, minutes and inspection reports, Landscape Advisory Committee Reports and briefs, Landscape Advisory Committee Reports and briefs, Landscape Advisory Committee General reports, Landscape Advisory Committee Miscellaneous reports (DDE, Ministry of Transport etc), Landscape Advisory Committee M3-M4 link. Motorway M31 Inspection, 1966.

9 140. Landscape Advisory Committee M40 Crossing of the Chilterns, Landscape Advisory Committee Motorway and Major Trunk Roads Scheme Progress Map, Landscape Advisory Committee M1-A1 Feasibility Study, Landscape Advisory Committee Site Inspection reports and briefs (and loose maps), Landscape Advisory Committee Yorkshire to North-East, Kirkhampton to Dishforth, Landscape Advisory Committee Proposed Extension of the M1 to the North of Leeds, n.d Land Use Consultants, Les Roses, Linnean Society of London, 1969, , 1981, London s Garden Society, Birthday congratulations and obituary for Sir David Love, , Lucretions, , , 1984, Frank Ludlow, Mitchell Beazley International Ltd, John Murray, John Murray, National Trust National Trust for Scotland Gardens committee, Percy Sladen Memorial Fund, Percy Sladen Memorial Fund, Seymour Preston, Charles Puddle,

10 161A. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Report of a Visiting Committee, Royal Horticultural Society, Royal Horticultural Society, Royal Horticultural Society, Royal Horticultural Society, Royal Horticultural Society Botanical Magazine, Royal Horticultural Society Botanical Magazine, Royal Society, , Royal Society, Royal Society, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Sir Eric Savill, Scone Palace Estate, Scotland s Gardens Scheme, Scottish Houses (not Belhaven), l Scottish Rock Garden Club, Scottish Wildlife Trust, Major George Sherriff, and Mrs E H Sherriff, Stainton Botanical Trust, Stainton Botanical Trust, Stainton Botanical Trust, Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust, (see also nos )

11 186. Miss E M Taylor, Graham S Thomas, Thomas Phillips Price Trust Report for Trustees, Thomas Phillips Price Trust Markshall Estate, Thomas Phillips Price Trust Markshall Estate, Thomas Phillips Price Trust Markshall Estate, Thomas Phillips Price Trust Markshall Estate, Thomas Phillips Price Trust Markshall Estate, Thomas Phillips Price Trust Markshall Estate, Tibetan expedition of Tibet Visiting Committee for Tropical Herbaria, Visiting Committee for Tropical Herbaria Questionnaires and reports, Wakehurst Place, F KingdonWard and wife, Westonbirt Arboretum Consultative Committee, Windsor Gardens Consultative Committee Correspondence, Worshipful Company of Gardeners, DIARIES Diary of a tour in East Africa, (by Edwards).

12 209. Original and typed transcript of Tibet Diary, Ludlow s Diary,

13 PRESS CUTTINGS AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES n.d. PHOTOGRAPHS Photographs from the South African Expedition of Numbers Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos

14 Photographs from the East African Expedition of Numbers Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos Nos Eight albums containing photographs from the Tibet expedition of 1938 (with contents lists) Box containing photographs from the Tibet expedition of Album containing glass negatives from the Tibet expedition Boxes containing glass negatives from the?tibet expedition, Photographs from the Bhutan expedition by Sherriff, Box containing miscellaneous negatives, including Sherriff s negatives from an expedition of SE Tibet in Landscape photographs Lancaster-Penrith motorway Miscellaneous photographs on various subjects including Sino- Himalayan Garden, Rhododendron Species Foundation, Kew Palace 17 th cent Gardens Miscellaneous photographs and slides. CERTIFICATES, PRIZES AND DEGREES Prizes, Certificates, Degrees, etc Prizes, Certificates, Degrees, etc.

15 MISCELLANEOUS 306. Ludlow, Sherriff & Taylor Field notes (Fourth set nos ) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Visitors, Book, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Visitors, Book, Volume containing hand coloured etchings by James Bolton Volume containing dried ferns Catalogue of British plants Sketches, diagrams and material relating to the flora of Africa British and Irish Botanists, Britten and Boulger, 2 nd edition, interleaved with newspaper obituaries of botanists Papers relating to Sir George s interest in the Reverend John Walker DD ( ), Professor of Natural History, Edinburgh University Newspaper and magazine articles relating to Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker ( ), John Reid ( ) and Willilam Curtis ( ) Letters of botanical interest, , including many written to C E Salmon Radio and TV Scripts, Speeches, Replies to Toasts, etc, Book reviews Autobiography of Sir George Taylor Bank statements Biographic Index to The Dillenian Herbaria from Druce and Vines Articles (Typescript and printed) by Sir George Taylor Miscellaneous articles, photographs etc concerning meconopsis and podostemaceae Miscellaneous articles (Typescript and printed) by various people including Frank Kingdon Ward.

16 332-4 Miscellaneous papers Miscellaneous drawings Miscellaneous printed material. REFERENCES (NOT FOR CONSULTATION) 338. Personal References, A-F Personal References, G-K Personal References, L-O Personal References, P-Z. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL (NOT FOR CONSULTATION) STANLEY SMITH HORTICULTURAL TRUST (see also no.185) DIRECTOR S REPORTS 342. No.1 1 December No.2 31 May No.3 1 December No.4 31 May No.5 30 November No.6 31 May No.7 30 November No.8 31 May No.9 30 November No May No November No May No November 1977.

17 355. No May No November No May No November No May No November No May No November No May 1982 (pt.1) No May 1982 (pt 2) No November No May No November No May No November No May No November No May No November No May No October No May No October No.36 June No.37 October 1989.

18 380. No.38 April No.39 October US Trust matters US applications requiring a decision from the Trustees, n.d. ADDITIONAL BUSINESS AND PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE Business and Personal correspondence MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS 393. Extracts from manuscript descriptions of plants in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, or found in the neighbourhood, May 1792 October Extracts from Dr Walker s diary Extracts from records List of distribution of reprints Audio tape (contents unknown).