File 03 - Robert Rowat Botany Collection

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GB 3488 WoSCA/12/03

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Robert Rowat Botany Collection

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  • 1979 (Creation)
  • 1937 - 1938 (Creation)

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one box of 24 folders containing 108 botanical specimens.
4 pages of index
'Trained manpower for agricultural and rural development' by R. Rowat 1979
(Photograph of Robert Rowat inside cover of book)

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Rowat, Robert

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SRUC Archive and Special Collections

Archival history

The collection was kept in the family after Robert Rowat's death in 1983. Robert Rowat's daughter donated to SRUC Archive and Special Collections.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Gifted by Robert Rowat's daughter to SRUC Archive and Special Collections 03-03-2025.

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Specimens believed to have been prepared by Robert Rowat as a project in senior class of agricultural (and horticultural botany) and for which he won the McAlpine memorial prize in 1939-40 (WOSAC)

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