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•1 box donated via the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sibbald Trust containing original letters c.1783 (RBGEA2023/014) and a folder of B.L. Burtt's papers and correspondence used in his contribution to A.G. Morton's book.
•1 box containing I.B. Balfour’s scrap book, memoirs and other assorted items
•Box of index cards referring to John Hope
•1 box containing indices to NAS papers and various photocopies of correspondence, etc.
There is a detailed list stored with the following boxes containing photocopies of papers from the SRO which notes what is inside each box and what the references refer to. Documents include correspondence, bills, receipts and other financial accounts
•12 boxes containing copies of NRS Papers marked:
-1. GD253/143/1-4
-2. GD253/143/5-6
-3. GD253/143/7-9
-4. GD253/143/10-13
-5. GD253/144/1-4
-6. GD253/144/5-7
-7. GD253/144/8-10
-8. GD253/144/11-14
-9. GD253/145/1-6
-10. GD253/145/7-10
-11. GD253/145/10-13
-12. GD253/145/4

•13 boxes containing copies of NRS Papers marked:
-E215/3-6, 1769-1829
-E414/1-7, 1764. 1769, 1789, 1825
-E414/8, 1767, 1770, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1782
-E414/9-11, 1785, 1786, 1788, 1789
-E414/12-15, 1789, 1790, 1792
-E414/16-18, 1793, 1794, 1795
-E414/19-22, 1788, 1789, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799
-E414/23-25, 1797, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802
-E414/26, 1803
-E414/27, 1801, 1803, 1804
-E414/28, 1804, 1805, 1806
-E414/32, 1899, 1800, 1801, 1803
-E414/33-40, 1769, 1776
-E414/41-46, 1777, 1778
-E414/47, 1782
-E414/48, 1783
-E414/49, 1785, 1784
-E414/50, 1787
-E414/51, 1789, 1788
-E414/52, 1789
-E414/53, 1790
-E414/54 ,1791
-E414/55, 1792
-E414/56, 1793
-E414/57, 1794
-E414/58, 1795
-E414/59, 1796
-E414/57, 1794
-E414/58, 1795
-E414/59, 1796
-E414/60, 1797
-E414/61, 1798, 1797
-E414/62, 1799
-E414/63, 1800
-E414/64, 1801
-E414/65 ,1802

N.B. Researchers should come directly to the NRS if they wish to request copies of papers held at the NRS (including GD253). Researchers can access the copy which held at RBGE to view and take notes, but copies cannot be made: to obtain copies, researchers must request these be made from the original by NRS.
Researchers must also cite the NRS reference accurately in any work, regardless of whether an image is provided or whether they simply take notes from the RBGE copy.
Researchers must also obtain permission from the collection owner to use any images (if provided) or quote directly from the record. They are also responsible for establishing whether there is any copyright subsisting in the record, which may be separate from ownership, and clearing any usage accordingly.
If researchers have any further queries about this, or wish to request a copy, please contact NRS at lsrhe@scotlandspeople.gov.uk .

• Exhibition catalogue: John Hope; Enlightened Botanist written by Henry Noltie and relating to exhibition at Inverleith House, May to July 2011

•Box containing miscellaneous papers; 1st folder contains correspondence around Isaac Bayley Balfour's attempts to piece together elements of RBGE's history- mainly genealogical research around the Prestons, but other figures are mentioned too, including Arthur and Alston; the 2nd folder contains copies of documents used in the research such as Edinburgh Town Council Minute Books (therefor other aspects of the Garden's history are covered too; also copies of George Preston's lecture notes.

•1 box of miscellaneous papers
•1 box of miscellaneous correspondence and lecture notes
Correspondence from Archibald Dickson (brother of Prof. Alexander Dickson, Regius Keeper 1880-87) re: his late brother's affairs dated 1889 filed with "Balfour, I Bayley" corresp. under "Dickson, Archibald".

Temporary numbering and descriptions courtesy of Marcia Rodriguez:
Box 1 of 2
• GB235 DPA/1 Papers, correspondence, drawings, and reprints. Coloured [crayon?] botanical drawings (leaf forms, sections, cellular details, etc.) by W.M.C.(?) with ms. captions (6 booklets, 14 loose sheets), summer 1885; “Histological Demonstration Drawings /Prof Dicksons Practical Class, summer 1885,” by W. E. Fothergill (?), watercolour drawings with ms. captions, 25 pp., 1885; 1 photograph copy of drawing, mounted on cardboard; typescript and ms. correspondence and papers, including a ms. extract from an address by Dickson to the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh on the necessity of vaccination, 1 p., 1881; ms. questions for botany exam, 1 p., June 1880; typescript obituary, 12 pp., 1889, published in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh XVII, 1886–1889; typescript obituaries, 5 pp.; ms. (2 pp.) and typescript (1 p.) copy of letter from Victoria R appointing Alexander Dickson Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh, 1880; copies of correspondence from William Wright Smith to Dr Cairns, 3 pp., 1946 (originals in “Smith, W. W.” correspondence); reprints of articles by Dickson: “On Abnormal Cones of Pinus Pinaster, Trans. Royal Soc. Edinburgh XXVI, 1871; “On Septa Across the Ducts in Bougainvillea glabra and Testudinaria elephantipes, Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh XIV, 1882; typescript abstracts of yearly payments, Royal Botanic Garden and Royal Arboretum, , 2 pp., 1879–1888 and 1881–1888.
• GB235 DPA/2 Articles by Dickson published in Trans Bot. Soc., 1861–1866; reprints, including “On the Development of the Flower of Pinguicula Vulgaris, L.,” Trans. Royal Soc. Edinburgh XXV, 1869, and address by Dickson to the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh in 1881,”On Some of the Relations of the Present State of the Law to Medical Science and to Public Health,” Edinburgh Medical Journal, 1882; “Syllabus of Lectures on Botany,” by Professor Dickson, University of Glasgow, 1869, 1872, 1876; “Inaugural Address, On Functional Specialisation of Individuals in Animals and Plants,” by Alexander Dickson, 1879; “Syllabus of Lectures on Botany,” by Professor Dickson, University of Edinburgh, 1880, 1882 (3 copies).

Box 2 of 2
• GB235 DPA/3 2 bound journals: ms. student notes on Dickson’s lectures.
• GB235 DPA/4 Ms. notes for the arrangement of a collection of histological specimens supplied by Dickson for the Practical Class in Botany, University of Edinburgh, summer 1885, 2 pp.; unbound notebook, “Insectivorous Plants,” drawings with ms. captions, 25 pp.; unbound notebook, botanical drawings, pencil, 15 pp., misc. ms. correspondence on botanical subjects, 1881–1887; ms. list of specimens collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger by Dr A. Crosbie, R.N. and presented by [?] Evans, 1 p.

Name access points:
Dr. [Murray?] Cairns
W. E. Fothergill
William Wright Smith

•10 boxes of correspondence divided up alphabetically including after dinner speeches
•Large wall hanging of a copy of a picture of a plant painted by D.S. Ingram in 1995
•Article by Victoria Crowe and D.S. Ingram ‘Portrait of the Master’, featured in ‘St Catherine’s College Society Annual Magazine’ pg.90-95, (2004)

• Bound ms. notebook containing 64 lectures on botany, topics for weekly examinations, with 13 loose ms. sheets, principally plant lists, 1868–1877
• Flora of Edinburgh, by John Hutton Balfour, assisted by John Sadler, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1863, with ms. corrections and annotations (title page changed to “Second Edition, 1871”; front cover label = “Flora of Edinburgh / Third Edition / Additions and Corrections”).
• Reprints of articles on Scottish flora, principally from Trans. Bot. Soc., including “Mr Sadler on the Flora of the Bridge of Earn,” 1862; “Mr Sadler’s Remarks on Boehmetria nivea,” 1870; Mr Sadler’s Report on Open-Air Vegetation,” 1879;” Notes on the Alpine Flora of Ben Nevis, Inverness-Shire,” 1879; “On the Flowering of Yucca gloriosa, L., in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh,”1880 (ms. inscription: “With J. Sadler’s Compts”); “On a Curious Form of Kohl Rabi,” 1880; Report on Notes on a Botanical Trip to Ben Nevis, Inverness-Shire, in July, 1876, by John Sadler, reprinted from the Gardeners’ Chronicle, March 17, 1877, 2 copies, 1 with ms. annotations and corrections; notice of publication of Gardiner’s [sic] Flora of Forfarshire, 2nd edition by John Sadler (1872); 4 reports on temperatures at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 1880–1882; copies of 2 letters regarding the appointment of a new Curator for the RBG (originals in “Balfour, J.H.”, supp. boxes under “Nicholson, G.”), 1878.
• Obituaries of John Sadler, including “John Sadler,” by Professor Bayley Balfour, Trans. Bot. Soc., 1883 (with typescript); “The Late Mr John Sadler,” by William Craig, reprinted from Berkshire Naturalists’ Club Transactions, 1882 (with typescript); typescript of notice in Gardeners’ Chronicle, July–Dec. 1882; typescript of entry in A Biographical Index of British and Irish; newspaper clippings of obituary; ms. letter from William Craig to “My dear Professor” [I. Bayley Balfour] regarding Sadler’s supposed sojourn in Bristol, 1905; ms. of “medallion” on Sadler’s tombstone (Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh), which was erected “in affectionate remembrance by his friends in the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club,” 1884.
• Caricature: ink and watercolour drawing of 3 mycologists flying high in a mushroom-shaped hot air balloon. Inscribed: “Authorities high in fungi. 1872” in John Sadler’s handwriting.
• Index card: Sadler, John. 3 ltrs 1879/80 filed “Balfour, I.B.” papers under “Sadler, J.”

5 maps: Baghdad, Resht, Teheran, Tabriz and India and the adjacent countries.
1 box of personal and miscellaneous papers

• includes paper on 'A Survey of the Anatomy of the Rhododendron Leaf in relation to the Taxonomy of the Genus' by S.F. Hayes, J. Keenan and J.M. Cowan : for publication in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 21 (1), 1–34.
• 'The Rhododendrons of India' by J.M. Cowan

various photographs and illustrations
series of papers donated in February 1978 by Mary Noble including a leaflet for a Scottish Arts Council Exhibition in Charlote Square, March 1970; photocopy of his obituary in The Scotsman in 1967 and two excerpts from the Scots Magazine, September and October 1954 containing two parts of an article about Adam and his photography.

• Folder of illustrations
• Letter from J.E. Dinsmore (January 11, 1945)
• Folder of family photographs
• Map of Turkey (1973)
• Folder of various loose prints and mounted photographic/artistic material
• 2 boxes of negatives and prints
• 2 boxes of negatives and contact prints
• 1 box of transparencies
• 1 box of medals
• 3 degree certificate scrolls
• 1 box of transparencies
• 5 boxes of correspondence with contributors of Flora Turkey Accounts
• 1 vol. of Turkish meteorology
• Block of Flora of Turkey map
• Flora Iranica funding application
• 1 box of correspondence regarding collecting trips to Turkey: 1954, 1957, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1975, 1982, 1983.
• Correspondence regarding collecting trips to Morocco (1970), Algeria (1971), Iran (1974), N. Africa (1975), Brasil (1976), Ghana - cancelled (1978)
• Itineraries and maps of various plant collectors in Turkey
• 1 box containing general correspondence regarding Flora Turkey project including:
  o SRC 1961-1976 (cost of project in that time)
  o SRC 1961-1976 (grants and claims)
  o SRC reports 1982-1985
  o NATO grants
  o Composer and EUP
  o Senior Research Fellowship
  o Box containing correspondence with Edinburgh University Press and Authors, vol.1-7 Plant geography of the Middle East
• Flora of Turkey book reviews
• Synopsis of costing of Flora of Turkey project
• P.H. Davis various Articles
• Diary of a visit to Leningrad in 1959
• Seed and bulb lists (various) and subscribers
• Steedman Ramage/ Curator Bonis correspondence (access restrictions apply)
• Varia, C.V. and obituaries

•Henderson’s annotated copy of ‘Lost of British Uredinales’ by M. Wilson and G.R. Bisby, 1954
•Box of papers regarding conferences, foreign trips and reports, 1957-78
•Box of papers regarding conferences and foreign trips, 1980-81
•Box of specific correspondence
•Box of general correspondence
•Box of minutes, meetings and agendas
•Box of papers regarding PhD students, thesis and references
•1 file of miscellaneous correspondence between Henderson and Peter F. Stevens and Dr. Geoff N. Greenhalgh (1972-73)
•Framed photographs of the Royal Botanic Garden in the late 19th century by C. Piazza [Piazzi] Smyth, presented to Henderson on his retirement as Curator of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic Garden. September 1987.
•Box donated by Henderson’s family containing a thesis on ‘Observations on the Comparative Anatomy, Life History and Host Relationships of Sclerotinia Tberosa (Fr.) Fuckel’, H.B. Gjaerum correspondence, notes for a talk on the ‘History of Scottish Cryptographic Botany’, and research notes on Omphalina.
•Box donated by Henderson’s family containing research on John Hutton Balfour’s ‘Battle of Glen Tilt’, a collection of obituaries, folders of Gairloch, Inverewe, Brodie and Roxburgh, research including notes and publication relating to Wm. Roxburgh, folder of West Ross Flora, and annotated checklist of the flora of West Ross.