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Fonds FOA - Adam Forman Sphagnum Moss papers and photographs
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Identity area

Reference code

GB235 FOA

Title

Adam Forman Sphagnum Moss papers and photographs

Date(s)

  • 1916 - 1918 (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

one box, 46cm

Context area

Name of creator

Forman, Adam

Biographical history

Repository

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Dr Adam Forman, Rev Adam Forman's grandson

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Scope and content

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.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

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

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

open

Conditions governing reproduction

Permission required from RBGE and Forman family retain copyright.

Language of material

  • English

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Language and script notes

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

good, album in need of some cleaning.

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Existence and location of copies

Related units of description

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).

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Description identifier

FOA

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Partial

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