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17 photographs acting as a photocopy of George Don's entry in the 1893 publication 'Portrait Gallery of Forfar Notables, from drawings by John Young'. Letterpress by Alexander Lowson, pp.39-52, 178-9 and Young's portrait of George Don [Jnr]. Date of photography unknown - 1960s-1980s? perhaps earlier?; photographer unknown. Photographs were found among the Don reprint collection, January 2014.

15 boxes of 35mm slides (around 306) taken by E.P. Beattie and covering British plants, including Papaveraceae, Cruciferae, Resedaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Leguminosae, Rosaceae, Saxifragaceae, Grossulariaceae, Umbelliferae, Polygonaceae, Saliaceae. Ericaceae (Rhododendron ponticum), Menyanthaceae, Boraginaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Orobanchaceae, Labiatae, Caprifoliaceae, Dipsaceae, Compositae, Liliaceae and Orchidaceae.

Two boxes of card indices - one card per plant appearing in the B.S.B.I. vascular plant survey of the Midlothian Vice County V.C.83, listing the historic literature relating to each plant.

copy letters between Samuel Crosse, F.R.S. Balfour and the Curator at Kew Gardens, 1920, regarding the sale of David Douglas’s telescope, originals filed under ‘Douglas’.

FRS/2/1/01-43: Rhododendron Conference (1939), papers dating to 1938 including : programme, agenda, correspondence with Fred J. Chittenden, Campbell, Robert Moyes Adam, John MacQueen Cowan, William J. Blackwood, Euan Cox, John Finnie, Donald Wyman, Lionel de Rothschild, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, etc regarding research for paper to be presented by F.R.S. Balfour at the conference – there’s a lot of weather data being passed around. Also copies of the paper “Rhododendron Species in a Cold Situation”

FRS/2/2/001-102: Rhododendron Conference 1939 – folders containing Conference Committee papers and correspondence between F.R.S. Balfour and fellow attendees including Robert Moyes Adam, George Rutherford, George Campbell, Fred J. Chittenden, K.L. Kenneth, Bruce A. Jackson, Herbert Ihrig, John MacQueen Cowan, etc and F.R.S. Balfour’s paper “Rhododendrons in the Western Highlands”

FRS/2/3/01-09: correspondence relating to the cancelled 1939 Rhododendron Conference, dating to 1940

FRS/1/1/001-221: 221 letters, mainly between F.R.S. Balfour and William Wright Smith, but also James Fraser regarding James Murray, and with A. Bruce Jackson regarding William Evans, dating between 1920 and 1928; includes information on the Botany of Peebleshire.