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A series of 10 letters transcribed and typed onto 27 pages of letters from George Don to Nathaniel J. Winch, copied by the Linnaean Society of London by B. Daydon Jackson [see correspondence in the Don scrapbook, GDS/1] 1802-1812, some reproduced in Notes of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, v.iii, pt xiv, February 1905. There are some annotations / corrections by Isaac Bayley Balfour.

XVIII - A Catalogue of the Plants gathered in the islands of North Uist, Harris and Lewis, during a Botanical Excursion in the month of August, 1841. By J.H. Balfour, M.D. Edin., Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow; and Charles C. Babington, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., &c.; Read 11th November 1841 and reprinted from the Transactions of the Botanical Society vol. I. pp.145-154.
Reprint was in an acidic paper sleeve marked with title and 2866 [separated in October 2026].

XVII- Account of a Botanical Excursion to Skye and the Outer Hebrides, during the month of August 1841. By J.H. Balfour, M.D. Edin., Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow; and Charles Babington, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., &c. Read 11th November 1841 and reprinted from the Transactions of the Botanical Society, vol. I. pp.133-144.
Reprint was in an acid paper sleeve marked with title and the number 2867. [separated October 2026]

Account of a Botanical Excursion to the Mull of Cantyre [Mull of Kintyre] and the island of Islay, in August 1844. By J.H. Balfour M.D.Edin., F.L.S., F.R.S.E., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, and Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. Printed in Glasgow by Bell & Bain, 15 St Enoch Square, MDCCCXLV [1845] from the Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, pp.3-30.

Accounts, Invoices, and Statements relating to Friends of Hopetoun Crescent Garden and the Heritage Lottery Fund's involvement in the RBGE Botanic Cottage Project

• “Herbaceous Rock Garden Plants: Some introductions from the Himalaya and S.W. China” Lecture given March 1921, 1950 by W.G. MacKenzie, reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, v.75 pt.6, June 1950.
• RBGE Guidebook, 1934
• Plant catalogues:
o Hardy Plants Worth Growing; catalogue – V.N. Gauntlett & Co., Ltd., Japanese Nurseries, Chiddingfold, Surrey, No.90, c.1910 [image from RBGE on p.190]
o Trees and Shrubs catalogue – John Waterer, Sons & Crisp Ltd, Twyford, Berks – Autumn 1927- Spring 1928
o Ornamental Shrubs, Conifers and Climbers; catalogue – William Watson & Sons, Ltd., Killiney Nurseries, Co. Dublin – 1928-1929
o Choice Plants for the Rock Garden – Laird and Dickson, Pinkhill Nurseries, Edinburgh, c.1933
o Well’s Hardy Plants Catalogue – Wells Jun., The Nurseries, Merstham, Surrey – 1935-1936
o Trees and Shrubs catalogue – R.V. Roger, Pickering, Yorkshire – 1938-1939
o Hardy Heathers catalogue – Maxwell & Beale Ltd, Broadstone, Dorset – 1952-1953
• Sutton’s Seeds from Reading, England tin (lid cracked at back right corner – caution)

'A Catalogue of British Plants; Part First containing the Flowering Plants and Ferns by J.H. Balfour, M.D.Edin., Regius Professor of Botany, Glasgow; Charles C. Babington, M.A.Cantab., F.L.S. and W.H Campbell, Secretary to the Botanical Society, 2nd ed. 1841; a few copies, alongside copies of the London Catalogue of British Plants, printed up and bound in such a way that it can be used as a checklist to record plants seen on various excursions, annotated heavily with lists and locations.