Catherine F. Glen's pressed wildflowers collection

• Reference:GB 235 GLE
• Dates of Creation:1927 - 2009
• Name of Creator:
  Glen, Catherine F.
• Physical Description:
  1 box, 30cm

• Scope and Content

  1 Jenner's shoe box containing:
  - 11 jotters of pressed wildflowers made when Catherine was 14 years old in 1927/28 for the Girls' Guildry (now the Girls' Brigade) Edinburgh 17th Coy.
  - list of the flowers in the 11 jotters
  - 2 letters:
  --7th September 1945, Roland Edgar Cooper to Miss C.F. Glen - thank you for sending sprays of heather - RBGE hoping to propagate and name them - shorthand writing on the reverse, and the envelope has been kept.
  --6th September 1948, Roland Edgar Cooper to Miss Glen acknowledging receipt of her 'very fine contribution ' of heather on the 31st August 1948.
  - modern photograph showing Catherine Glen in old age.

• Access Information

  Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/herbarium/visiting-the-herbarium/

• Note

  This collection is kept in the RBGE Herbarium as it contains pressed flowers and is often used in demonstrations.

• Archivist's Note

  description created by L Paterson, September 2019

• Conditions Governing Use

  Permission required from RBGE

• Additional Information

  published

  GLE

  GB 235

• Subjects

  Herbarium

  Hortus Siccus

• Personal Names

  Cooper, Roland Edgar