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1 album containing ephemera to do with the Balfour professors; John Hutton Balfour, Isaac Bayley Balfour and John Cleland, plus other papers of interest.

•Papers regarding the Victoria Botanic Gardens, Southern Cameroons (1916-1961)
•Papers regarding horticulture and agriculture in Southern Nigeria (1906)
•Illustrations, drawings and abstracts.

•16 boxes of Gardeners’ Register
•Business records yet to be listed

•Correspondence regarding the deposit of films and slides at RBGE
•Papers collated and donated by Christina Noble
•Correspondence
•Field books (1954-1985)
•Photographs and reprints
•Slides and cine film also held

5 boxes of slides, totalling around 400 slides, and an envelope "Botanic Garden Notes" (now in Box 1) of news clippings relating to the opening of the Glasshouses.

•Herbarium catalogues, including London and South Africa, and a collecting book from Sierra Leone

•6 binder boxes of artwork produced between c.1915 and c.1920, mainly Primulas and Rhododendrons
•Extract from Snelling’s obituary by the Earl of Morton, taken from the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1973, vol.98, p.139, mounted onto card.

1 folder with the handwritten title "Skeleton Leaves Madeira 1854" - inside are 6 pages on blue folded paper containing skeletonised leaves inserted into cuts in the paper. Leaves include magnolia, ivy, oak, coral or erythrina crista-galli, sword coral, Portugal rose tree, common custard apple, lemon and citron. Who compiled it and wher it came from is currently unknown.
Also in the box are three loose leaves, found in the archives store, origin unknown.

•Two boxes containing pre- and post-expedition correspondence (1973-1996) and reports

•5 boxes including papers regarding the bequest of the herbarium, British plants field notes and India and Malaya field notes.