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Manuscript titled 'Localities for New or Rare Mosses in Scotland'.
The names Alexander McKinlay, James Stirton and John Shaw are mentioned as collectors in the manuscript, alongside three dates, 1861, 1864 and 1868. Although not definite, the handwriting in the documents compares very favourably to that of James Hardy (1815-1898), Secretary of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club and compiling a work on Mosses of Berwickshire at the end of the 1860s.

•List of books from J. Ball’s Botanical Library, presented by the Trustees (printed list).

• Original transcript of George Gardner's "Brazilian plants, 1836-41". 3 copies of transcription made, 2 for J. A. Ratter (donor) & 1 to be bound for Library shelves RBGEA2006.08

•Signatures of Carl von Linné and Carolus a Linné (Linnæus the younger) filed with the collection of Signature under “S” in general alphabetical category

• Letter to Dr. Robert Wright regarding Orchids, dated 8 Sep.1832
•Copy of a typed letter [for I.B.B] from Dr. Masters, regarding having a memoir of Lindley prefacing one of ‘their’ volumes of the Annals of Botany (21 Jun 1903)

M/S Catalogue of Artocarpeae, "L'Herbier Boissier" by Pierre Edmond Boissier, catalogue comprising 42 mss leaves, 200 x 320mm

The letter, dated 11/11/1947, is from Felix Eugen Frisch (1879-1954), who was Professor of Botany at Queen Mary College, University of London between 1924 and 1948. He is writing in response to a parcel sent to him by Miss Muriel J. Hay, Room 39, Dept. of Botany, RBGE, EH4. She was a student at RBGE and obtained a 2nd class, BSc Hons, Botany in July 1948. He criticises the way she packaged up the slide and tubes of material she wanted him to identify, as the slide was completely broken and one of the tubes was cracked, but he was able to identify one of the specimens as Coelosphaerium naegelianum, and asks her to send more as it would repay detailed study.

Letter from A. Engler to Douglas Maclagan, Secretary of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 9 March 1886, Kgl. Botan. Garten, Breslau, thanking the Society for electing him a corresponding fellow.

Copy of his obituary, 1896
•Copy of eulogy
•Notice of interment

•Syllabus of Three Lectures on Charles Darwin and His Works