GB235 FOA

Adam Forman Sphagnum Moss papers and photographs

• 1916 - 1918 (Creation)

Fonds

one box, 46cm

Forman, Adam

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives

Dr Adam Forman, Rev Adam Forman's grandson

The collection comprises photographs and reports related to the gathering and preparation of Sphagnum moss, in and around the Moffat/Beattock area, S.W. Scotland, which was used as a medical dressing for wounds during the First World War.

The collection was categorised and arranged as follows:
GB235 FOA/1 Photographs
GB235 FOA/2 Forman’s Reports
GB235 FOA/3 Later Additions (photocopied reports, articles, poem)

FOA/1 Photographs
FOA/1/1 Album: ‘Moss Photographs’, photograph album, 92 b&w photos depicting the gathering and preparation of Sphagnum moss, many taken outside of Craigielands, home of the Forman family.
FOA/1/2 Loose photographs, mainly Duplicates from ‘Moss Photographs,’ approx. 70 b&w photos

FOA/2 Forman’s Reports
FOA/2/1 “Memo re Gathering” by Rev A. Forman, Craigielands, Beattock, June 1918, carbon copy, 6 pp.
FOA/2/2 Reports on 12 gathering areas, carbon copy with ms. Annotations - by Mr Archer?

FOA/3 Later Additions
FOA/3/1 Report on Sphagnum Areas, W.W. Smith, RBGE, 1916, photocopy.
FOA/3/2 Prof. George E. Nichols, “Sphagnum Moss: War Substitute for Cotton in Absorbent Surgical Dressings,” pp. 221–235, Annual Report Smithsonian Institution, 1918, photocopy.
FOA/3/3 “Sphagnum Moss,” poem by A.M.S. - photocopy

open

Permission required from RBGE and Forman family retain copyright.

• English

good, album in need of some cleaning.

See also Sphagnum Moss collection for related material, including photocopies of reports on gathering areas, a memo by Rev Adam Forman, and a report by W.W. Smith.
For information on the Forman family, including a family tree, see Denis Forman, Son of Adam (London: Andre Deutsch, 1990).

• Sphagnum Moss
• WW1

• Dumfries and Galloway

• Forman, Adam (Creator)
• Smith, Sir William Wright (Subject)

FOA

Partial