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Collector Cards - The "B"'s

SpecimensRoyal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has been a repository for plant collections since 1670. 

Over the years we have received plants collected by many individuals and expeditions and during this time we have tried to keep lists and databases of the collectors of our plants and herbarium specimens. 

Early paper lists were soon supplanted by a card file and, more recently, a relational database.

We would now like to link some of the valuable information handwritten onto these cards with the "agents" records in the database. 

To do this we need a transcription of the cards .....

NOTE TO TRANSCRIBERS 

Please be aware that there appears to be a bug in the system that causes your first card to display incorrectly - skip to a second card and start transcribing 

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