From scotsman.com: Long-lost map points back to roots of Botanic Garden.
Posted on August 27, 2005 08:12 PM. Filed under: history & archaeology.A long-lost map found gathering dust in a basement is set to give a fascinating insight into the history of Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden.
The 150-year-old map has been restored from the brink of disintegration after being found by chance in a basement beneath the Botanics library.
Botanists and curators at the garden are excited by the find and believe it could shed light on the garden's past and reveal important facts about the work of the garden in the 19th century.
They now aim to study the map in detail to find out as much as they can from it and are convinced it holds more facts about how the garden used to look and why many of the features which remain today were created. [continue, see photo]