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Two copies of the Notes of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, comprising numbers XII, XIII and XIV, November 1904 and February 1905 containing, amongst information about RBGE's Principal Gardeners, George Claridge Druce's account of George Don's life and work.
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Two photocopied letters between Claridge Druce and Bayley Balfour regarding Druce’s account of Don and the suggestion that it be published in the Notes of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. February-March 1903.
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Stevenson, Alexander P.
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Handwritten note by Isaac Bayley Balfour indicating result of a search through the matriculation registers at Edinburgh University – George Don found in Index of Matriculated Students, 1804 – ‘Chem’, but not in any Matriculation Albums for 1802-1805
Typed transcript – Don’s entry in A Biographical Index of British and Irish Botanists, pp.50-51
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