Papers relating to Golden Gate Park Secretary John McLaren
- GB 235 SFG
- File
- 1969 - 1970
•Papers referring to John McLaren (1969-1970)
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
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Papers relating to Golden Gate Park Secretary John McLaren
•Papers referring to John McLaren (1969-1970)
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
•References re John McLaren, in papers 1969 -1970 re centenary celebrations of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, are filed under “San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, Centenary” – individual white folder
McLaren, John
•J.C. Krug’s research proposal, application for a Scientific Research Fellowship, Curriculum Vitae and correspondence with D.M. Henderson (1972).
Krug, Dr. John Christian
Ballantyre, Lord Bernard Fergusson (Ephemera)
•Correspondence with James Keenan, (1962-1972)
Fergusson, Bernard Edward
•Information and references to John Hutchinson at, Kew in heavily annotated press clipping. Correspondence re: this extract is filed with “Balfour, I.B.” papers under “Hutchinson”
•George Sherriff/ Dr. J Hutchinson, Correspondence (via Peter Cox) filed under “Ludlow & Sherriff” “misc. corres.” Box 10 in main index
•Some correspondence is filed with Sir. Wm. Wright Smith papers under, “Smith, Sir. Wm. W.”; “Rhododendron Corres.”, material boxed alphabetically in these boxes.
Hutchinson, John
•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.
Fellowes-Gordon, Ian
Folder containing a notebook, correspondence, a draft copy of a paper titled ‘History of Scottish Mycology’, and a reprint of ‘History of Scottish Mycology’ by John Ramsbottom, Transactions of the British Mycological Society, Vol. 46, Part 2, (1963)
Ramsbottom, John
1 folder; Colombia 1974/75; File containing correspondence and reports
Burbidge, R. Brinsley
Copy of lecture paper sent to Miss Noble with covering letter; Cards containing corrections to lecture; Extracts showing tables of locations and quantities of various fungi compiled by Stevenson in 1879; Extract of list of plant diseases recorded in Greville’s “Scottish Cryptogamic Flora”, 1823; List of 8 types of virus (?) and their quantities added by Boyd in 1924; list as follows:
•1 letter dated January 8, 1976 to Miss Noble regarding the manuscript of the talk “History and Developments in Scottish Botany V. Progress in Mycology”.
•15 page typed manuscript on the “History and Developments in Scottish Botany V. Progress in Mycology”, with handwritten corrections.
•7 handwritten topic cards relating to the M/S
•2 handwritten notes 0n Numbers of Fungi Collected by Stevenson (1879)
•4 printed pages relating to Distribution Chart; Stevenson’s Mycologia Scotica (1879)
Foister, Charles Edward
Papers relating to Robert MacKechnie, his plant collecting and herbarium
•Folder containing lists and records of plants
references to plants received by Mackechnie from E.C. Wallace, J.E. Lousley, P.M. Hall, W.A. Sledge and J.W. Heslop-Harrison amongst others
MacKechnie, Robert