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3 misc. items with references to: Charles Robert Darwin
Copy of Tribute to Dr. Wm Pitcairne, Pres Roy. Coll. Phys. (original complete copy filed under "Pitcairne, Dr. Wm.)
Copy of Edinburgh University Darwinian Society; Syllabus for Session Nov. 1891 – Mar. 1892 (original filed with "Balfour, J.B.," correspondence under "Darwin" 3.Syllabus of Three Lectures; “Charles Darwin and his Works” by Prof. Ray Lankester
Minute Books, Transactions and boxes containing exchange lists, correspondence regarding transactions, invoices and cheque books. BSS/1 - Society Laws, Annual Reports and Lists of Members BSS/2 - Botanical Society Minute Books BSS/3 - Council Minutes inc. Agendas, Annual Reports, etc. BSS/4 - Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh BSS/5 - Transactions Administration / Exchange Lists BSS/6 - Secretary's Papers inc. questionnaire results and name change referenda BSS/7 - Treasurer's Papers BSS/8 - Programme Correspondence inc. Symposia and Projects BSS/9 - Publications BSS/10 - Botanical Society Club BSS/11 - Centenary / Celebrations BSS/12 - Ephemera
•1 box of general correspondence from 1990-92 (now in Registry, SFC/1/1 and SFC/1/2) •1 box of general correspondence from 1993 (now in Registry, SFC/1/3 and SFC/1/4) •2 folders of information regarding the Society of Flora of China’s Joint Editorial Meeting, Edinburgh, April 1995 (now in Registry, SFC/2/2) •Signed posters from 1995 and final 2013 meeting, with photographs relating to the latter.
Copy of lecture paper sent to Miss Noble with covering letter; Cards containing corrections to lecture; Extracts showing tables of locations and quantities of various fungi compiled by Stevenson in 1879; Extract of list of plant diseases recorded in Greville’s “Scottish Cryptogamic Flora”, 1823; List of 8 types of virus (?) and their quantities added by Boyd in 1924; list as follows: •1 letter dated January 8, 1976 to Miss Noble regarding the manuscript of the talk “History and Developments in Scottish Botany V. Progress in Mycology”. •15 page typed manuscript on the “History and Developments in Scottish Botany V. Progress in Mycology”, with handwritten corrections. •7 handwritten topic cards relating to the M/S •2 handwritten notes 0n Numbers of Fungi Collected by Stevenson (1879) •4 printed pages relating to Distribution Chart; Stevenson’s Mycologia Scotica (1879)
