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A collection of material from and relating to the plantsman and primula specialist Dr. John MacWatt including photographs, paintings, scrapbooks, papers, nursery catalogues, articles, medals and certificates.

letters, documents and photographs from the arcihves left by John Jacob Lavranos, and printed copy of field notebooks

photographs relating to Jennifer's career at RBGE, Flora of Turkey, cigarette cards, Betty Fletcher's History of RBGE (written 1954) and folder of Flora Iranica S.E.M. photographs of Umbelliferae fruits.

drawings and photographs used to illustrate Mann's thesis and drawings on permatrace used in other publications.

Added in 2020 (RBGEA2020/007):

3 sets of postcards depicting algae or diatoms as follows:

• 3 envelopes of Algal picture postcards from M. Adei; Scanning electron micrographs of diatoms (1994); Marine algae in coral reef (1993); and Algal vegetation in cold current area (1993)
• pack of 12 poscards from the British Bryological Society (1994)
• pack of Stereographs of the Diatom World, The Educational Association of Algae (2002)

•Box of ‘Fungi References’, reports, descriptions and field notes
•Folder containing his thesis ‘Fungal Succession Found on Bird Pellets and its comparison with the Dung Sequence’ (Jun – Oct 1959)
•Four folders of papers
•Two boxes of material for a biography of James Bolton (1735-1799) and his collecting sites and lecture notes on the same. (Slides are kept in the slide collection)

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

•6 notebooks of sketches (South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland) donated to D. Henderson and RBGE.

Logan Botanic Gardens, Stranraer, Wigtownshire
•2 boxes of papers marked ‘Acquisition’
•1 box of papers marked ‘Deed of Gift from Trustees’
Logan Gardens Trust
•1 file containing miscellaneous correspondence (1965-67)
•1 file containing miscellaneous correspondence and minutes of the trustees meetings (1961-63)
•2 different rough drafts of ‘A Guide to the Gardens’ (Logan Gardens)
Logan House
•2 boxes of papers marked ‘Sale to Sir Ninian Buchan-Hepburn’ London, Royal Botanic Society
•Regulations and lists of members (1877)

•Collection of signatures (originals), including Carl v Linné, Archibald Menzies and initials (received with papers of Isaac Bayley Balfour).

•Miscellaneous correspondence - “L” (Box 1)