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Bound notebook entitled 'Lectures on The Flowering Plants (Prof. Bayley Balfour) (Monocots and Dicots) 1912-1913 (for Conifers see /o-)

Bound notebook entitled 'Botany Notes, Book 1', Lecturer, Prof, Bayley Balfour. [Student] R.W. Graham-Yooll, Edinburgh University, 21st April 1915. Notebook is full of lecture notes (lectures 1-16) accompanied by coloured illustrations.

Bound notebook entitled 'Botany Notes, Book 2', [Lecturer] Prof, Bayley Balfour. [Student] R.W. Graham-Yooll, Edinburgh University, Summer Term 1915, continued from Book 1 during lecture 16. Notebook is full of lecture notes (lectures 16-36 up to First Professional Examination, 5 July 1915) accompanied by coloured illustrations.

'A Catalogue of a few of the Rarest and Latest Introduced Plants, cultivated for sale at Don's Botanic Garden and Nursery, Forfar', by G. Don; late curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; Honorary [Corresponding] Member of the Linnaean Society, London; and late President of the Rational Institute of Dundee.
Catalogue includes greenhouse plants, shrubs and herbaceous plants, is 17 pages longs and contains the following quote from Don at the end: “this catalogue contains but a small proportion of my Herbaceous Collection; which is equaled by few in Britain, and surpassed by none perhaps but the Cambridge one. I have also upwards of three hundred species of Grasses.”
Front cover slightly annotated by former owner Patrick Neill.

Monograph: Letter to William Maurlan from Isaac Bayley Balfour, dated, November 28th 1879, advising that the Commissioners of the Board of Inland Revenue had authorized an annual provision of 30 gallons of methylated spirits to Glasgow University – for the preservation of Botanical Specimens.