The RBGE Guild could be joined by any member of RBGE staff and allowed them to keep in touch once they’d left.
View our list of Guild members between 1913 and the early 1960s in a Word document.
Probationers came here to work and study horticulture or forestry for a period of three years.
View the gardeners and foresters listed in our Probationer Registers between 1876 and 1935 in a Word document.
Prior to its move to Inverleith in the 1820s, RBGE was located on Leith Walk.
View the listing of Leith Walk’s men and women, known to have worked there between 1763 and 1810, in a Word document.
Between them, William McNab (1780-1848) and his son James (1810-1878) were in charge of the Horticulture Department at RBGE for almost 70 years between 1810 and 1878; James taking over on the death of his father.
View the contents of two volumes of scrapbooks compiled by the family of William and James McNab, in a pdf document.
According to RBGE Regius Keeper John Hutton Balfour, Inverleith House was uninhabitable in 1878 when he was required to move him and his family into it. It was damp, unsanitary and had mould growing on the walls – he even invited the Scottish Cryptogamic Society to identify some of the growths!
View Balfour’s Inverleith House notebook transcription pdf.
Botany was taught at the Garden to University of Edinburgh medical students; the Archives holds ledgers of students alongside their class roles and registers. Transcriptions of the matriculation books can be searched for students’ names and addresses between 1798 and 1919.
University of Edinburgh Botany Student Lists 1798-1919 pdf.
‘Granny’ was a sea-anemone that lived in a jar in the Head Curator’s Office at RBGE between 1879 and her death in 1887. She was such an attraction that a Visitor’s Book was established to record those who came to see her. RBGE Garden Guide Rachel Thomas transcribed the names in the book in 2023 – the resulting list forms an incredible insight into our Garden visitors and includes many notable figures amongst those that aren’t normally seen in our records, including women and schoolchildren.
Granny’s Visitor Book Names pdf.
We have recently researched the names on the two war memorials situated in the reception of the Science building at RBGE.
Read stories published about the men named on our war memorials.
Read stories relating to the Library and Archives on RBGE’s blog page.
The RBGE Guild could be joined by any member of RBGE staff and allowed them to keep in touch once they’d left.
View our list of Guild members between 1913 and the early 1960s in a Word document.
Probationers came here to work and study horticulture or forestry for a period of three years.
View the gardeners and foresters listed in our Probationer Registers between 1876 and 1935 in a Word document.
Prior to its move to Inverleith in the 1820s, RBGE was located on Leith Walk.
View the listing of Leith Walk’s men and women, known to have worked there between 1763 and 1810, in a Word document.
Between them, William McNab (1780-1848) and his son James (1810-1878) were in charge of the Horticulture Department at RBGE for almost 70 years between 1810 and 1878; James taking over on the death of his father.
View the contents of two volumes of scrapbooks compiled by the family of William and James McNab, in a pdf document.
According to RBGE Regius Keeper John Hutton Balfour, Inverleith House was uninhabitable in 1878 when he was required to move him and his family into it. It was damp, unsanitary and had mould growing on the walls – he even invited the Scottish Cryptogamic Society to identify some of the growths!
View Balfour’s Inverleith House notebook transcription pdf.
Botany was taught at the Garden to University of Edinburgh medical students; the Archives holds ledgers of students alongside their class roles and registers. Transcriptions of the matriculation books can be searched for students’ names and addresses between 1798 and 1919.
University of Edinburgh Botany Student Lists 1798-1919 pdf.
‘Granny’ was a sea-anemone that lived in a jar in the Head Curator’s Office at RBGE between 1879 and her death in 1887. She was such an attraction that a Visitor’s Book was established to record those who came to see her. RBGE Garden Guide Rachel Thomas transcribed the names in the book in 2023 – the resulting list forms an incredible insight into our Garden visitors and includes many notable figures amongst those that aren’t normally seen in our records, including women and schoolchildren.
Granny’s Visitor Book Names pdf.
We have recently researched the names on the two war memorials situated in the reception of the Science building at RBGE.
Read stories published about the men named on our war memorials.
Read stories relating to the Library and Archives on RBGE’s blog page.