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• Copy of covering letter from NLS to Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, dated 13 Jan 1978 re; letter from Minto Collection. Original of covering letter in “McNab, Wm” papers.
•Copy of letter from William McNab, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh dated 17 Oct 1845, probably to Mary, Countess of Minto concerning Minto House Garden

•Box containing notes and correspondence on Australia and the South Pacific Islands; 3 folders;

• correspondence relating to Alexander Morrison's bequest, 1913-1915
• folder of manuscript notes relating to the flora of Western Australia, e.g. 'Salt bushes and their cultivation'
• folder of manuscript notes relating to the flora of the New Hebrides [Vanuatu] and South Pacific Islands, e.g. 'Notes on a botanising Tour in the New Hebrides'

•8 boxes of papers
•1 box of Botanical notebooks
•2 boxes of Biographical Index, divided A-J and K-Z

•Annotated transcript of correspondence between Beatrix Potter and Charles McIntosh of Inver
•Reprint of her article ‘Beatrix Potter, Naturalist and Mycologist and Charles McIntosh, the “Perthshire Naturalist”’, ‘Notes From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’ Vol.44: No.3 (1987)
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•Papers re: Cryptogamic Society given by Dr. Mary Noble to Library filed in envelope in Folder under “Cryptogamic Society” (Box)
• letter from Mary Noble to Malcolm Wilson, RBGE, 9th November 1948, regarding her notes on and issues with Professor Muller's technique.

•Box containing accounts, minutes book and miscellaneous correspondence
•Box containing circulars and miscellaneous correspondence
•Box containing letters from subscribers
•Box containing miscellaneous correspondence and plant lists by Andrew Murray

•Box containing papers regarding South Asia

•Copy of letter from W.J. Hooker regarding a selection of plants from the Arctic Herbarium, put into Hooker’s hands by Capt. Parry, for publication in the appendix to Capt. Parry’s 2nd voyage (1821 – 1823).

•Brief history of the life of Henry Harold Welch Pearson, up to 1902, and list of his publications (24.11.1902)

Letter to [Gage] from Prain, (11th Dec 1909)
•Manuscript letter to D. Saville from Prain to the Government Cinchona Plantation, Sureil, Kurseong (7th Apr. 1902)

1 folder containing correspondence, map, 3 photographs and report outlining the discovery of a hybrid orchid, Rhizanthera chevallierana, on Ben Lawers by David Mardon in 1979. The folder was compiled after a search for photographs of the plant taken by Mardon in 1984. Contents include, email correspondence between Clive Stace, Adele Smith and Lorna Mitchell outlining the search for photographs and compilation of the folder (2013), report and notes compiled by David K. Mardon in 1984 outlining his find, map showing where he found it, correpondence between Douglas McKean, [Paddy Woods], R.H. Roberts and David Mardon regarding the identification of the orchid, and three photographs taken by Mardon.