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•Box of ‘Fungi References’, reports, descriptions and field notes •Folder containing his thesis ‘Fungal Succession Found on Bird Pellets and its comparison with the Dung Sequence’ (Jun – Oct 1959) •Four folders of papers •Two boxes of material for a biography of James Bolton (1735-1799) and his collecting sites and lecture notes on the same. (Slides are kept in the slide collection)
•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)
• Two boxes of papers and correspondence • Box of original manuscripts in English of ‘First Step in Botany’, published in Bengali (1876) • Box containing three books of correspondence • Box of notes on Botany in Manipur • Box of books and correspondence on Gossypium • Box containing his diary from 1878, a notebook of P. Neill Fraser’s and a text book with specimens inside it. • Box containing notebooks and plant lists • Three boxes of cotton papers and correspondence • Box containing papers on commercial products of India • Box containing correspondence regarding commercial products of India • Folder containing two of the same photograph, one mounted, one not, of Abies Smithiana, Noghanda-Bagi Forrest, Sisula • Numerous boxes of glass plate negatives
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.
The medal is a silver Royal Horticultural Societ Joseph Banks medal and is inscribed 1929 Junior Section General Examination in Horticulture William A Hughes First. In 1987 Hughes made contact with Roy Watling at RBGE and donated his medal - both men had been office bearers for the Botanical Society of Scotland. The medal, and eventually the certificate and all associated correspondence came to the care of M.V. Mathew in the library who placed them in the Archives.
Paper on 'Experiments on the Analysis of Heavy Inflammable Air' (1789) published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in 1780 - (right click, open link in new tab) https://archive.org/details/jstor-106830 - there is a copy of the paper in the packet alongside the handwritten manuscript, possibly written by Austin himself. Manuscript is incomplete, 8 pages along, finishing on page 56 of the article. There is also a copy of Austin's entry in the Dictionary of National Biography in the packet.
