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UF Dawyck
2 framed pencil and watercolour paintings showing different aspects of Dawyck House.
Anonfolder containing printed email outlining wording of signs at entrance to Dawyck Botanic Garden accompanied by printed photographs on A3 pages showing the locations of existing and potential interpretation signage at Dawyck.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)Papers relating to Colonel F.R.S. Balfour of Dawyck, including Correspondence, papers relating to the Rhododendron Conference due to be held in 1939, and papers related to the Landowners' Co-operative Forestry Society Ltd.
Balfour, Colonel Frederick Robert StephenFolder containing two versions (annotated and corrected) of text for interpretation leaflets(?) for Dawyck Botanic Garden - 'The Biodiversity of Heron Wood Cryptogamic Sanctuary and Reserve'. There are also black and white line illustrations of fungi and nematodes, numbered 1-4 (Microglossum, Lectialabella(?), soil amoeba and eel-worm) to accompany the text, and 2 35mm slides
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)A4 draft comprising text for an interpretation panel at Dawyck's Cryptogamic Sanctuary, accompanied by 2 draft illustrations / maps showing where the Sanctuary is.
There is also a 3.5" disc labelled Crypto Sanct panel; Crypto leaflets x3; General text for back page of leaflets.