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•Book containing photographs of personalities, plants and landscapes, China

Biography written in 1966 by H.C. Pugsley, filed in Fletcher correspondence – 1966-P

•Letter and exchange request / book plate c.1890? French collector looking to exchange books? Reference to an Ex-Libris Society. Reaux based at 26 Rue des Dames, Paris. Letter and Card found in RBGE copy of Matthioli’s ‘De Plantis Epitome Utilissima’ 1586 [belonged to John Hope, so presumably not received by exchange with Reaux]

•Letter from Richardson to unknown 2 Sep 1841, describing a meeting of the British Association regarding a grant for preparing maps for illustration of the geographical distribution of plants & animals, which had lapsed, due to inconsistencies

•Letter from W.H. Campbell to Andrew Robertson, 10 Jan 1837

•Note of plants found in Ross-shire by Dr. John Robertson (14 Jul1847)

•Letter to W.H. Campbell form Rollo (8 April 1840)

•Letter to W.H. Campbell from Rutherford (8 January 1840)

Sanderson's Prize essay manuscript, ‘The Origin and Development of the Embryo in Phanerogamous Plants’, submitted in July 1849 as part of his Botany course for his Medical degree at the University of Edinburgh. Sanderson has illustrated the manuscript with pencil illustrations drawn from the microscope.
Impressed by the content, Hutton Balfour deemed it worthy of a prize, with part of the content read at a meeting of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in February 1850.

•Copy of the Scrapbook of Robert Scarlett, containing mostly newspaper articles (1909-1953)