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•File containing typed miscellaneous notes regarding his life and work

•Papers referencing obituaries. Mackay, John (Biographical. Index of British & Irish Botanists, p.111); Scots Magazine, 1802, Vol. LXIV, p.448; Edinburgh Courant, 22 April 1802.
•8 page extract of article on The Death of John Mackay, A Worthy Young Man, and an Eminent Botanist - ‘Edinburgh Evening Courant’ 3rd June 1802
•John Mackay, A Gifted Young Botanist, 1772 – 1802, A Link With Leith by D.W.K.
•Copy of letters dated Nov. 1800 – May 1802 to N.J. Winch – filed under “Winch, N.J.” also copy of letters dated 3 June 1801 to G. Houston, Paisley & Mr. Combie Inverness introducing N.J. Winch
•Typed extract from Scots Magazine, 1803, Vol. LXV, pp.96 -97, tribute to John Mackay.
•Letter from John Mackay at Botanic Garden, Leith Walk, dated 6 March 1800, to Lt. Col. Brodie, M.P. at Brodie House by Forres (presented by Sir George Taylor, 8 June 1963)
•3 manuscript pages of Mackay’s records relating to ‘Smith’s English Botany’
•Typed extract from ‘Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, Vol.1, p.215 – A List of the rarer Plants observed in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh.

•Correspondence 1905 – 1909, 7 letters filed with “Balfour, I.B.” papers under “Macvicar, S.M.”

•Some correspondence filed with Sir Wm. Wright Smith papers under “Smith, Sir Wm. W.”, “Rhododendron Corresp”, material boxed alphabetically in these boxes

1.Correspondence with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Gardeners’ Chronicle”
2.Correspondence with “Balfour, J. Hutton” papers under “Gardeners’ Chronicle”

•Refs. To botanical exchanges filed under “Mackechnie, Robert”

•Some correspondence filed filed with Sir Wm. Wright Smith papers under “Smith, Sir Wm. W.”, “Rhododendron Corresp”, material boxed alphabetically in these boxes

•3 letters dated 1879 – 1880 under “Henderson, Col F.”

1. Five page, Autograph document: Copy of Testament Dative & Inventory of the goods and gear of the late Malcolm McCoig, gardener at the Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, dated 1st April 1789
2. One page, Autograph document: Letter from Henry Paton (Genealogist) to Prof. Balfour, dated 7 March 1908, re: the Testament of Malcolm McCoig – to clarify a name referenced in the document (possibly Ludovick Gerardi)
3. Printed book extract referring to a proposal to publish a “Flora Edinburgensis” by Malcolm McCoig c.1811

•Some correspondence is filed with Sir William Wright Smith papers under “Smith, Sir William W.” “ Rhododendron Correspondence,” material boxed alphabetically in these boxes