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FRS/2/1/01-43: Rhododendron Conference (1939), papers dating to 1938 including : programme, agenda, correspondence with Fred J. Chittenden, Campbell, Robert Moyes Adam, John MacQueen Cowan, William J. Blackwood, Euan Cox, John Finnie, Donald Wyman, Lionel de Rothschild, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, etc regarding research for paper to be presented by F.R.S. Balfour at the conference – there’s a lot of weather data being passed around. Also copies of the paper “Rhododendron Species in a Cold Situation”

• WEH/1: Bound manuscript titled 'China: Wilson's journeys for Arnold Arboretum, 1907, 1908, 1910' containing numbered list of plants with descriptions and names (but no locations). Case binding with marbled end-papers. Printed label on front end-paper: Knapp, Drewett & Sons Ltd., Account book manufacturers, printers, lithographers & stationers, Kingston-Upon-Thames and branches. Book looks to have been obtained by RBGE in 1942.
(right click, open link in new tab) https://rbge.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=78783&query_desc=an%3A11168 (library acc: ECDO1)
• WEH/2: Folder containing a list of E.H.Wilson's Seeds from China - list compiled at RBGE from information found in the Plant Incoming Register: "Outdoor Department 1-02 to 10-12", seed sent to Edinburgh by John Stirling Maxwell in 1907
•Three folders containing three prints of Flora of Western China Kew herbarium specimens collected by E.H. Wilson (specimens on loan from Kew, photographed at RBGE) - these to be added to RBGE Archive's 'Plant Portrait Prints' collection.