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From the Register of Deaths in the District of Tulliallan in Kincardine an extract copy of the Death Certificate of Alexander Craig-Chrisite; Lecturer on Botany,
died 30 June 1914, aged 71 years. Extract is addressed to Henry H Johnston Esq., Stromness, Orkney

• Loose pages of typed, transcript translations (by Garnsay?) of 4 extracts from Goebel’s, “Experimental Morphology”; a comprehensive study of how plants can regenerate.

Flora of Perthshire, July-August 1928, a book of dried plants or Hortus siccus compiled as part of teacher training (summer project) at Moray House College of education, Edinburgh

Three letters

Farmer, Prof. B. – Imperial College of Science & Technology.
Papers and Correspondence re: Sphagnum Moss – Use as medical dressings (World War 1 & World War 2 references) - inc. W Wright Smith’s report to R.A.M.C. (War Dept.) dated 1916

•One letter dated 3 May 1841

•Correspondence begins with letter from James Keenan to Ian Fellowes-Gordon dated 18 August 1960; in which Keenan asks for any information Fellowes-Gordon might have on North Burma that would be helpful to Keenan’s proposed plant collecting expedition.
•Misc. handwritten & typed correspondence from 1960 – 1973
•Dust jacket of the American edition of “The Magic War; the battle for North Burma” by Ian Fellowes-Gordon; Pub. 1972 typed cover note to James Keenan dated 22 March 1972
Handrawn map of 'Collecting areas' Hpaungdaw, Heinde, Banchaung & Tenasserim Rivers.

Five duplicate reprints from the RBGE Library reprint collection (the reprints were to be withdrawn from the collection as the articles are in published journals in the Library Collection; however, as there are so few traces of the Chinese botanists who travelled to Edinburgh in the 1930s/40s to study, a decision was made to retain these as a way of preserving the memory of Feng-Hwai Chen at RBGE; it appears at least one may have his handwriting on a dedication to WW Smith.

• ‘A preliminary study on the vegetation of the Ching-Po-Hu lake and its vicinity, in the Northeastern part of Kirin Province, Manchuria’ F-H Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, January 1 1934; annotated to Dr. R.E. Cooper (in REC’s handwriting?)
• ‘A preliminary study of the Compositae in Hopei Province’, Feng-Hwai Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, May 1 1934
• ‘Enumeration of Primula collected by Mr T.T. Yu from Northwestern Yunnan, F.H. Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, March 1939; annotated ‘To Prof. W.W. Smith with the author’s compliments Fenghwai Chen, May 30/40’
• ‘A study of Primula seeds with reference to the criteria of sections’, Feng-Hwai Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, July 1940
• ‘An Enumeration of Aconitum collected by T.T. Yu from N.W. Yunnan’, Feng-Hwai Chen & Ying Liu, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, June 1941; annotated with ‘To Mr W.E. Evans’

A letter from Jane Fergus to Hugh Cleghorn, dated 7 December, 1839

•Notebook field notes of Uredinales, 100-209
•Notebook of field notes of Uredinales, 210-248