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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.

Small card guide produced by Charles Gane of Charles Gane & Co., Timber, Lath and Slate Merchants, Wisbeach, outlining how to calculate the cost of lengths of timber, published by William Rider and Son, at the Office of the Timber Trades Journal, 14 Bartholomew Close, London. There is an accompanying notebook, blank, but with columns for No., Length, Girth, Contents and Cost.

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.

•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.

•Large case marked ‘Orchids’ c.1840

8 glass lantern slides showing images of Meconopsis taken by Mrs Knox-Finlay at Keillour Lake, Keillour Castle:
Meconopsis
Meconopsis x musgravei
Meconopsis sherriff 600
Meconopsis grandis 600
Meconopsis grandis (true)
Meconopsis coxiana
Meconopsis betonicifolia praetensis
Meconopsis beamishii

Photocopy of Obituary from Bot. Soc. Trans. 31 to Wiiliam Grant Craib, Regius Professor of Botany at Aberdeen, who died on 1st Sept. 1933 at Kew

Copy of a letter from J.H. Balfour to the Secretary of the Botanical Society (10.02.1841)

•One letter dated 3 May 1841

box containing progress reports of the Scottish Seaweed Research Association based at the Institute of Seaweed Research in Musselburgh. There are also Newsletters, and correspondence with William Wright Smith, all arranged chronologically.