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List produced on RBGE embossed paper, bound together to form a book; beginning with Ranunculaceae, there are 330 pages of plants growing in the Garden in 1883 (though the 3 could also be interpreted as a 5); the book has an index at the back.
•Letter to from J. Newman from to H. Watsonby (14 Feb 1871)
Watsonby, Hewett
•Letter to Watson from Henry Trimen (16 Jan 1876)
•Letter to Watson from Henry Roscoe (1 May 1872)
•Copy of a letter to the Linnaean Society from Watson (23 Dec 1863)
Watson, Hewett Cottrell
Wild Flower Society - Field Botanist's Diary, owned by Judith Basden, Bonnyrigg
One Field diary produced by the Wild Flower Society in which wild flowers are listed. Judith Basden has filled in dates and locations for ones she has found giving us a botanical record for the area mainly around Bonnyrigg.
Wild Flower Society
•Notebook containing an article for ‘Theosophist’ Aug – Nov 1917, titled “Francis Bacon and the Cipher Story”
Woodward, F.L
•E.R. Wilding, ‘Index to the Genus Rhododendron ’Bucks, 1920
Wilding, E.R
Frederick Morgan Webb Collection
•Copy of a letter to Webb from H.J. Geddes (4 Dec 1876)
Webb, Frederick Morgan
George Watt's Herbarium catalogue
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.
Watt, Sir George
