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FRS/2/2/001-102: Rhododendron Conference 1939 – folders containing Conference Committee papers and correspondence between F.R.S. Balfour and fellow attendees including Robert Moyes Adam, George Rutherford, George Campbell, Fred J. Chittenden, K.L. Kenneth, Bruce A. Jackson, Herbert Ihrig, John MacQueen Cowan, etc and F.R.S. Balfour’s paper “Rhododendrons in the Western Highlands”

Papers connected to the Landowners’ Co-operative Forestry Society, Ltd.

FRS/1/2/001-129: 129 letters mainly between F.R.S. Balfour and William Wright Smith, but alsp Gertrude Balfour, John Macqueen Cowan, Foister, William Gibson and John Andrew, dating to between 1930 and 1935.

FRS/2/3/01-09: correspondence relating to the cancelled 1939 Rhododendron Conference, dating to 1940

copy letters between Samuel Crosse, F.R.S. Balfour and the Curator at Kew Gardens, 1920, regarding the sale of David Douglas’s telescope, originals filed under ‘Douglas’.

Correspondence, mainly between F.R.S. Balfour and William Wright Smith

Rhododendron Conference Papers for the Conference planned for 1939

FRS/2/1/01-43: Rhododendron Conference (1939), papers dating to 1938 including : programme, agenda, correspondence with Fred J. Chittenden, Campbell, Robert Moyes Adam, John MacQueen Cowan, William J. Blackwood, Euan Cox, John Finnie, Donald Wyman, Lionel de Rothschild, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, etc regarding research for paper to be presented by F.R.S. Balfour at the conference – there’s a lot of weather data being passed around. Also copies of the paper “Rhododendron Species in a Cold Situation”

Papers connected to the Landowners’ Co-operative Forestry Society, Ltd.: List No.1 – F.R.S. Balfour’s surplus plant list from nurseries at Dawyck, 1928.

FRS/1/1/001-221: 221 letters, mainly between F.R.S. Balfour and William Wright Smith, but also James Fraser regarding James Murray, and with A. Bruce Jackson regarding William Evans, dating between 1920 and 1928; includes information on the Botany of Peebleshire.