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• Booklet, “Laws of The Harveian Society of Edinburgh; instituted 12th April 1782”, with Chronological Lists of Presidents (including D. Rutherford (1787 & 1818), J.H. Balfour (1852) and R. Graham (1825)) and Members since 1782 with Rules of Membership.

•Paper ‘On the Fossil Plants Discovered by Dr. Lyall in Greenland’, Zurich, 1st of May 1862

Correspondence with I Bayley Balfour 1892 -1907 filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Hemsley, W.B.”
• Letter dated 21st Feb 1867 to Dr. Thos. Anderson – item 111 in bound volume filed under “Anderson, Dr. Thos” – Box 2

• Printed copy of Henslow's "Syllabus of Botanical Lectures"; edited and printed by Charles Babington, 22 April 1862.
• References in printed papers dated 1828, 1829 & 1830 filed under “Cambridge, University of”
• Letter dated 22nd Sep.1860, to Dr. Thos. Anderson – item 16 in bound volume filed under “Anderson, Dr. Thos” – Box 2

"On the Physiology of some Phaeophyceae"; a 14 page monograph (12 ms pages), written by Thomas Hick B.A., B.Sc., Demonstrator and Assistant Lecturer in Botany, Owen's College, Manchester. This is Hick's account of the experiments he carried out to study the physiology of Phaeophyceae [Brown Algae]. Possibly published in the Journal of Botany or Annals of Botany in 1885.

• Detailed Lycopodium Bibliography of articles / papers, 1858-1915; arranged chronologically by Rev. J.E. Holloway, M.Sc. [c.1915] 4 typed pages, the latter article by Holloway.

large register partly filled with information regarding George Watt's herbarium specimens collected in India, mainly north-western Himalayas, Manipur and the plains and lower hills of India.

• Report on the Tenth International Mycology/ Plant Pathology Excursion, held in Aberdeen between August 13th and 20th, 1964. Record of site visits over the period, discusses plant diseases, list of fungi found and their locations.

• One folder containing a 27 page manuscript paper titled Contribution to Natural History: Re the roots of the Bromeliaceé. Detailed examination of root behaviour in these and allied species.

•Pilcomayo River Expedition. Letters dated 1889 -1890 to I.B. Balfour filed with I.B. Balfour correspondence under “Kerr, J.G.” Index page 97.