- GB 235 KOC
- Dossiê
- 1979
•Folder containing rough work and correspondence relating to the transcription of work regarding the Flora of Turkey, part of The University of Edinburgh’s Botany Unit onto floppy discs (1979)
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•Folder containing rough work and correspondence relating to the transcription of work regarding the Flora of Turkey, part of The University of Edinburgh’s Botany Unit onto floppy discs (1979)
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•1 page of a draft of ‘A Survey of the Anatomy of the Rhododendron Leaf in relation to the Taxonomy of the Genus’, written by Hayes, Keenan and Cowan (copy in Index Box I-K) - original draft filed with J.M. Cowan papers
•Folder containing- 11 page report titled ‘Battleby House: A Survey of Some Important Trees ’ (J. Eric Robson, October 1970),
•3 copies each of Battleby Estate Management Plans 2 & 3 & “Trail” plans
•28 page Report on “Battleby House Estate” by J Keenan, 19 October 1972; referencing 119 tree species
•2 copies of two page ‘Battleby Report Continuation’ (J Keenan, 19 June 1973), duplicate copies tree records, 29 – 40, 79-107 &108-119
•4 letters to Keenan from Peter J. Bickmore, Projects Advisory Officer for the Countryside Commission for Scotland, (letters from 1971-73) and one from Tom Huxley, Assistant Director of Resource Management for the Countryside Commission for Scotland, (1972) (Folder in in Index Box I-K)
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Two letters to Dr William Roxburgh from Thomas Horsfield in Batavia
•2 letters, dated 1801 & 1803, from Thomas Horsfield in Batavia to Dr. Roxburgh, Calcutta, previously filed under “Roxburgh, Dr. Wm.” At this time, Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies, and corresponds with Jakarta, Indonesia today.
Second letter relates to Thomas Horsfield exploring the vegetation of Java, learning of indiginous knowledge of medicinal plants and his thoughts of publishing a 'Plantae Javanicae Rariores', which he eventually did.
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1 folder containing correspondence and papers regarding Tatsienlu, West China (1920-38)
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•Prize essay, ‘The Origin and Development of the Embryo in Phanerogamous Plants’ (July 1869)
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•Paper titled ‘Lectures on the Valuation of Woodlands and the Disposal of their Produce, with its Transport, Conversion, Qualities and Uses’.
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Smythe, (Francis “Frank”) Sydney
•Correspondence; newspaper clippings relating to his expeditions to Garwhal and Sikkim (1937-1938)
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Stirton, Dr. James (1833 – 1917)
•Correspondence (March – April 1916) and a paper titled ‘Mosses from West Ross-shire’.
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Williamson, John (Principal Gardener 1755-1780)
Minimal; ephemera, 3 documents including a letter from Andrew F. Kedslie to Isaac Bayley Balfour with information from his aunt, Mrs Agnes Arnand, Williamson's great grand-daughter & a copy of Williamson's Testament Dative dated 1780 - all documents appear to have been cut from one of Isaac Bayley Balfour's scrapbooks.
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Correspondence and crocus specimens of E.A. Bowles
Bowles, Edward Augustus (1865-1954)
Correspondence and crocus specimens, 1 Folder
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