Here is a selective list outlining the major and catalogued collections held by the RBGE Archives
If underlined, click on the name to download a more detailed description of the collection
- Balfour, Isaac Bayley
- Balfour, John Hutton
- Botanical Society of [Edinburgh] Scotland
- British Columbia Botanical Association
- Challenger Expedition 1872-1876
- Cooper, Roland Edgar
- Davis, Peter, H.
- Don, George (Sr)
- Farrer, Reginald
- Fletcher, Harold R.
- Forrest, George
- Graham, Robert
- Halcro-Johnson, Henry
- Hayward, Ida M.
- Hedge, Ian C.
- Henderson, Douglas
- Hope, John
- Hutchison, Isobel Wylie
- Ingram, David S.
- Kenneth, Archibald Graham
- Leveille, A.A. Hector
- Ludlow, Frank
- McNab, James
- Menzies, Archibald
- Morton, A.G.
- Oregon Botanical Association
- Primula Research
- Rock, Joseph F.C.
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Historical Archives
- RBGE Staff Records - List of Gardeners named as working at Leith Walk Botanic Garden 1763 - 1810
- RBGE Staff Records - the Probationer Gardener Registers
- Schilling, Tony
- Sherriff, George
- Sibbald, Robert
- Smith, William Wright
- Stainton, J.D.A.
- Sutherland, James
- Ward, Frank Kingdon
If you can't see what you're looking for above, we have a more detailed list available here arranged alphabetically by collection name. It is still a work in progress, and doesn't list our entire collection, but it is by far the most comprehensive list of our archives that we have and was compiled by our volunteer Claire.
Alternatively, we are gradually adding our descriptions to the Archives Hub online Catalogue allowing them to be more 'searchable'.
Click here to search the Archives Hub,
or here to browse the RBGE Descriptions.