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The original G. Sherriff photographs are a range of flora, people and landscape shots. The reverse of the photo often has the date, location, country. If the photograph is of a plant then the name, number of the plant and location will often be written on the reverse. They are stamped on the reverse as being a 'vivid colour print'. The prints of the digital, exhibition display images, have the photo disk number written on the reverse of the print.

Box of black and white prints, mostly by George Sherriff, but with a few of Sherriff plants at RBGE taken by Robert Moyes Adam, comprising primulas and some related landscapes.

1 booklet of abstracts for The British Pteridological Society's Symposium on Cultivation and Propagation of Pteridophytes. 7-11 July 1991.

Mary Gibby talk "Experimental Hybridizing and Hybridizers"

Also contained 5 BPS Distribution card for Ferns and Fern Allies (filled out) in the pages.

2 photocopies of the Schedule of Events for the British Pteridological Society Centenary Week Celebrations, 19-25 September 1991.

Hand drawn map in blue ink on the back of the last page.

First copy also includes a calendar of events, additional map, and a menu for the celebratory dinner.

Also found between the pages the first copy, a BPS Distribution Ferns and Fern Allies card for Perthshire, filled in.

1 programme for The British Pteridological Society's Symposium on Cultivation and Propagation of Pteridophytes. 7-11 July 1991.

Three boxes of Schoenus Ferrugineus research by Brian S. Brookes
Box 1 contains 2 photos of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, future King of Bhutan inspecting Schoenus ferrugineus with George Sherriff.
Collection seems to focus around a plantation of Schoenus ferrugineus that was growing on the banks of Loch Tummel that was lost by a hydro scheme in the 1940s/1950s? and Brookes's attempts to replant a new population at Loch Tummel in the 1970s.

1 box of general correspondence and minutes (c.1862)
1 box of R. Brown letters and lists (c.1862)
1 box of shareholders’ letters (c.1862)
1 box of financial papers (c.1862)

[COVER] "BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY FIELD DATA BOOK No 16501-16550"

nearly the entire book is blank. Collection numbers removed from nearly all pages (bottom right corner)