- GB 235 MJT
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- 1775 - 1862
•File containing typed miscellaneous notes regarding his life and work
Mackay, James Townsend
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•File containing typed miscellaneous notes regarding his life and work
Mackay, James Townsend
Mackay, John - Principal Gardener at RBGE (1800-02)
•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.
Mackay, John
•Correspondence 1905 – 1909, 7 letters filed with “Balfour, I.B.” papers under “Macvicar, S.M.”
MacVicar, Symers Macdonald
•Some correspondence filed with Sir Wm. Wright Smith papers under “Smith, Sir Wm. W.”, “Rhododendron Corresp”, material boxed alphabetically in these boxes
Magor, E.J.P.
Masters, Maxwell Tylden (Gardeners’ Chronicle)
1.Correspondence with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Gardeners’ Chronicle”
2.Correspondence with “Balfour, J. Hutton” papers under “Gardeners’ Chronicle”
Masters, Maxwell Tylden
Mathieson, Wilfrid / Robert Mackechnie
•Refs. To botanical exchanges filed under “Mackechnie, Robert”
Mathieson, Wilfrid
Maxwell, Sir John Maxwell Stirling-
•Some correspondence filed filed with Sir Wm. Wright Smith papers under “Smith, Sir Wm. W.”, “Rhododendron Corresp”, material boxed alphabetically in these boxes
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir John Maxwell
•3 letters dated 1879 – 1880 under “Henderson, Col F.”
Mayer, E
McCoig, Malcolm, Principal Gardener at RBGE (1782-89)
McCoig, Malcolm
•Some correspondence is filed with Sir William Wright Smith papers under “Smith, Sir William W.” “ Rhododendron Correspondence,” material boxed alphabetically in these boxes
McDouall, Kenneth