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- 1898
Letters dated 30 November 1898 & 2 December 1898, Re; Socotra for Chairman's address to Royal Society of Edinburgh; filed with "Balfour, I.B." papers under "Socotra" - misc. correspondence folder - Box 1.
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Letters dated 30 November 1898 & 2 December 1898, Re; Socotra for Chairman's address to Royal Society of Edinburgh; filed with "Balfour, I.B." papers under "Socotra" - misc. correspondence folder - Box 1.
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Freeman, W.E. - Report on Victoria Botanic Garden, Cameroons.
References in papers filed “Swarbrick, J.T” – Report on Victoria Botanic Garden, Cameroons.
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The undernoted papers, which are filed under “Trotter, Capt. H.” are those referred to in the appended extract from Mrs. J.W. Hely-Hutchison’s letter of 26th Feb. 1947:
[1] List of seeds and plants imported from America 1760 and sold by Mrs. Drummond, Seed Merchant, Lawn Market, Edinburgh
[2] List of fruit trees required for Mortonhall (Mortoun Hall), 1772
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• correspondence from Mr A.R.B. Hope, family tree, and copy of the John Kay portrait of John Hope with biography presented by the family of Ann Hope (1914-2007)
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Correspondence between Forrest and RBGE pertaining to his first expedition to Yunnan
Fait partie de George Forrest Collection
Set of letters between RBGE and Forrest, or connected to Forrest, dating to 1904.
Box 2 - Photographs attributed to G. Sherriff 'Primulaceae (L-Z) Tibet and Bhutan'
Fait partie de Ludlow, F. and Sherriff, G. Collection
Fait partie de Ludlow, F. and Sherriff, G. Collection
Box 7 - Photographs attributed to Frank Ludlow 'Tibet 1936-1947'
Fait partie de Ludlow, F. and Sherriff, G. Collection
Papers relating to William Gardiner’s Flora of Forfarshire
•Materials related to his book ‘Flora of Forfarshire’ – 16 page handwritten monograph ‘Catalogue of Mosses Collected in Forfarshire and Perthshire; including 155 species and varieties belonging to 26 genera.’ bound in card cover. Inset at the end is a copy of a letter from Alex. P. Stevenson, stamped 17 Jun 1903, referencing James Donald – Hampton Court Gardens.
•Note from W.W. Smith, dated 23 Dec 1931 referring to Gardiner’s own copy of his book ‘Flora of Forfarshire’. The copy was lent by Alexander Hutcheson and is believed to be unique, as having mounted specimens of plants interleaved and named by Gardiner himself. The copy referred to in the note is in the Library of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.
•Lent by Alexander Hutcheson – an advertisement for a proposed 2nd edition of “Gardiner’s Flora of Forfarshire”, which was never published.
•Letter written by William Gardiner to his wife Elizabeth from Castleton of Braemar, dated 26 July 1844, on one of his botanical excursions; acknowledging receipt of a P.O. money order.
•Letter dated 30 Jan 1896 from James Scrymgeour to Alexander Hutcheson re: Wm. Gardiner.
•“The Flora Of Forfarshire”, Gardiner, William, London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longman, 1848.
(right click, open link in new tab:) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015061233758
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•Correspondence dated 1872 – 1881 filed under “Henderson, Col. F
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