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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 Stephen
Part of F.R.S. Balfour Collection
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’.
F.R.S. Balfour Collection: Correspondence
Part of F.R.S. Balfour Collection
Correspondence, mainly between F.R.S. Balfour and William Wright Smith
Balfour, Colonel Frederick Robert Stephen
F.R.S. Balfour Collection: Ephemera
Part of F.R.S. Balfour Collection
Papers connected to F.R.S. Balfour
Balfour, Colonel Frederick Robert Stephen
Part of F.R.S. Balfour Collection
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.
Part of F.R.S. Balfour Collection
Papers connected to the Landowners’ Co-operative Forestry Society, Ltd.; List of Plants and Shrubs for sale, 1927-28
F.R.S. Balfour Collection: Rhododendron Conference Papers
Part of F.R.S. Balfour Collection
Rhododendron Conference Papers for the Conference planned for 1939
Balfour, Colonel Frederick Robert Stephen
F.R.S. Balfour Collection: Rhododendron Conference Papers, 1938
Part of F.R.S. Balfour Collection
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”
Balfour, Colonel Frederick Robert Stephen
F.R.S. Balfour Collection: Rhododendron Conference Papers, 1939
Part of F.R.S. Balfour Collection
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”
Balfour, Colonel Frederick Robert Stephen
F.R.S. Balfour Collection: Rhododendron Conference Papers, 1940
Part of F.R.S. Balfour Collection
FRS/2/3/01-09: correspondence relating to the cancelled 1939 Rhododendron Conference, dating to 1940
Balfour, Colonel Frederick Robert Stephen
