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•Memo book titled ‘Agarics: New Records and Observations’ (1938), from Dr. Roy Watling through Alan Bennell

medal with University of Edinburgh crest on one side and Botany (Medical) Patricia M. James 1954-55 inscribed on the reverse in a box by Alex. Kirkwood and Son.

Letter dated 1955 (or later) with Historical Note filed with “Fletcher, H.R.” papers under “Garden Society”

•Pilcomayo River Expedition. Letters dated 1889 -1890 to I.B. Balfour filed with I.B. Balfour correspondence under “Kerr, J.G.” Index page 97.

The book contains numbered sessions of creating microscope slides. The plant subject is listed along with the process used to create the slides and, in many cases, the slides' recipients. According to RBGE microscopist F. Christie, looking at the notes it appears to be plant fixation and histology prior to the preparation of microscope slides for light microscopy. Each part of the plant would need to be treated differently according to how easy it was to slice. The notes refer to the whole process of preparing the slides so for example, some of the samples didn’t cut very well first time but when soaked overnight produced better sections. This information would have saved a lot of experimentation in the future if the process was to be repeated.
The book was thought to By Matthew Young Orr's but his dates at RBGE do not match up with the dates of staff receiving the slides: John Anthony, Jimmy Keenan, Mr Roberts, Dr Blyth, Douglas Henderson, John Macqueen Cowan, Mr Lyle, P. Davies (Peter Davis?), Alexander Nelson, Dr Burns, Mr Green (Peter Green?), B.L. Burtt and Andrew Grierson. The book may have been created by Orr? But perhaps more likey Heather Prentice, Ella Stott, Willie Dickson or Archie McLeod?
The book was an unused 1941 diary.

1 presentation drawing and elevation of how the new library interior could look, dated November 28th 1962, though eventually superceded.

• Report on the Tenth International Mycology/ Plant Pathology Excursion, held in Aberdeen between August 13th and 20th, 1964. Record of site visits over the period, discusses plant diseases, list of fungi found and their locations.

•Correspondence filed with “Balfour, I.B. correspondence” under “Kesselring, W.”
•See also correspondence filed under “Russia” in main index.

•Copy of a newspaper article in which he features, taken from the Glasgow Herald dated 3 Oct 1967