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The lists consist of a series of registers, lists and indices relating to the Edinburgh University Botany and Practical Botany classes held at RBGE.
Class Lists: CL/01: Class Lists 1798-1803 CL/02: Class Lists 1804-1813 CL/03: Class Lists 1814-1819 CL/04: Class Lists 1820-1837 CL/05: Class List 1840-1853 [JHB’s register, includes Glasgow lists] CL/06: Class List 1854-1871 CL/07: Class Roll 1872-1878 University of Edinburgh botanical class CL/08: Class Roll 1879-1880 CL/09: Class Lists 1881-1884 Botany CL/10: Class Lists 1885-1887 CL/11: Class Lists 1888-1897 CL/12: Class Lists 1898-1909 Elementary botany CL/13: Class Lists 1908-1910 CL/14: Class Lists 1909-1914 Elementary botany CL/15: Class Lists 1915-1919 Elementary botany Class Registers: CR/01: Class Register 1831-1842 CR/02: Class Register 1841-1853 CR/03: Class Register 1854-1868 CR/04: Class Register 1869-1877 Class Indices: CI/01: Class Index 1846-1868 alphabetical CI/02: Class Index 1869-1878 CI/03: Class Index 1879-1887 Practical Botany: PB/1: Class Lists 1854-1875 Practical botany and vegetable histology PB/2: Class Lists 1876-1878 vegetable histology PB/3: Class Lists 1880-1887 vegetable histology and practical botany PB/4: Class Lists 1888-1898 practical botany PB/5: Class Lists 1898-1909 practical botany Other Registers: PH/1: Class Lists, examination results and honours 1870-1896
•2 letters dated 1861 & 1863 to Dr Thos. Anderson – item 86 & 87 in bound volume filed under “Anderson, Dr. Thos” – Box 2 •3 letters dated 1877 -1878 to I. Bayley Balfour filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” correspondence under “Decaisne, J”
•3 boxes of translations and correspondence between Rev. Henry Edward Fowler Garnsey and Isaac Bayley Balfour relating to Garnsey's translation of A.W. Eichler, including the m/s translation itself.
• Letter to Dr. Robert Wright regarding Orchids, dated 8 Sep.1832 •Copy of a typed letter [for I.B.B] from Dr. Masters, regarding having a memoir of Lindley prefacing one of ‘their’ volumes of the Annals of Botany (21 Jun 1903)
Galloway, Robert (Secretary to Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society) Correspondence filed in “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Arboricultural Society”