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Folder 1 of 2; 21 typescript leaves with 1 mounted plant sample, 200 x 260mm; manuscript: 'The Life history of Astragalus Hypoglottis’ The Purple Milk Vetch together with 7 hand coloured microscopic enlargements [see below]; Submission for Dobby Smith Gold Medal for Botany
Folder 2 of 2; 7 original drawings in coloured inks of enlarged plant mounted on board with tracing paper overlays, various sizes from 150 x 250mm to 250 x 320mm; Figure drawings for The Life History of Astragalus Hypoglottis ’The Life History of Astragalus Hypoglottis’ with figure drawing by A. Ninian Bruce
2 dried specimens.
Entered in competition for The Dobbie Smith Gold Medal in Botany, Glasgow University 1881-1882 Calender

•Annotated copy of William Jameson’s ‘Report Upon the Botanical Gardens of the Government, North Western Provinces’, Roorkee, Thomason C. E. College Press. (1855)

The collection dates between 1769 and c2003 and comprises:

• 3 notebooks including financial records, language studies and diaries;
• 17 pieces of correspondence and handwritten notes;
• a printed compendium of Swiss flora;
• a copy of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress;
• 4 prints of notable 18th century French figures; and
• two photographs of items which belonged to Blaikie's family.

medal with University of Edinburgh crest on one side and Botany (Medical) Patricia M. James 1954-55 inscribed on the reverse in a box by Alex. Kirkwood and Son.

•Correspondence (March – April 1916) and a paper titled ‘Mosses from West Ross-shire’.

• A sketchbook of watercolour and pencil scenes, people and flowers from Scotland (including Ben Lomond, River Almond, Carlowrie and Craigiehall Wood), Jerusalem, Nazareth and Galilee, plus loose picture of white house, c.1922-1924
• Two herbarium specimens of historic interest, the first displaying "flowers that spent the night with me in my tent on Eggers Island", 30-31.08.1927, South Greenland, being Carex, Rhodida Rosea, Poa and Calamagrostis; the second displaying a rose from Mrs Mathieson's house, Nanortalik, October 1927; Rose from "Kirsteen", Julianehaab, Disko Island, 09/11/1927; and a carnation from Captain Pedersen's bouquet on leaving Copenhagen for Leith, December 1927.
• Wooden plant press (elm) with leather strap and blotting paper used by Hutchison and with the name C. de Leger inscribed within.
• In 2018 a catalogue, showcasing the Isobel Wylie Hutchison Collection, inspired by Hutchison and launched at Carlowrie Castle in October 2018, along with associated tote bag, was added to the collection.

• 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

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.

•Notebook containing an article for ‘Theosophist’ Aug – Nov 1917, titled “Francis Bacon and the Cipher Story”

•Box containing glass slides
•Shelf containing papers and correspondence