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GB 235 SAB/2: Accounts, ledger, ms., 1871–1946. Includes list of members in order of seniority, July 1942.

GB 235 SAB/5 Photo Album
Portraits of SABC members presented by David T. Playfair, 1900. In album order: John Hutton Balfour, Alexander Dickson, William Brack Boyd(1), David Paul, William Craig (1), Charles Stuart, P. Neill Fraser, Andrew Peebles Aitken, Robert Lindsay, A.H. Evans, Henry Macdonald Church, George H. Potts, F.C. Crawford, George Gunn, George Alison, John Sadler(1), W.W. Peyton, David T. Playfair, Archibald Gibson, Alexander Cowan, James John Marshall Lang Aiken, Robert Christison, William Craig (2), John Sadler (2), Douglas Maclagan, I. Anderson Henry, Prof. Alman, William Brack Boyd (2). Includes photographs of excursion to Fortingale, 1927, and 2 photographs of SABC members in front of the Royal Hotel, Kirkby Lonsdale, 1899 (see William Craig, “Excursion of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club to Kirkby-Lonsdale in 1899,” Trans. Boc. Soc. vol. 21, 1897). Note: Portrait of James McNab (copy of engraving) found in album moved to portrait 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.

Papers connected to the Landowners’ Co-operative Forestry Society, Ltd.; List of Plants and Shrubs for sale, 1927-28

File containing correspondence from J.R. Anderson regarding photographs and notes by C.C. Pemberton on abnormal growths of trees growing near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. N.B. In Anderson's first letter there is a reference to the fate of John Jeffrey in 1851 as recorded by Anderson's father.
the file contains letters from Anderson, copies of letters between Anderson and Pemberton, around 50 of Pemberton's photographs showing the tree growth and a report from Borthwick with his interpretation of the photographs.

• James Robert Anderson, 1841-1930, the son of A.C. Anderson, left Fort Nisqually in 1850 to attend school in Victoria for two years. He returned in 1858 and remained until his death. He was an accountant and businessman, and from 1894 until 1908, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture. He had a keen interest in natural history. His father, Alexander C. Anderson, was an early B.C. land surveyor. (right click, open link in new tab) https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/anderson-james-robert-1841-1930]
• Chartres Cecil Pemberton, 1864-1943, was a barrister, law clerk to the legislature, aboriculturist and realtor (right click, open link in new tab) https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/pemberton-c-c

One file of letters from G.S. Puri, Regional botanist, Botanical Survey of India, Wester Circle, Poona to H.R. Fletcher at RBGE describing the development of the Poona herbarium, museum and experimental garden in around 1958. There is discussion of a seed exchange plus a short article on the activities of the Poona herbarium for publication in our journal [was it ever published?].

folder contains an original letter written by George Don, alongside an annotated transcription.