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typed transcription of letter from George Don to James Sowerby, 22.05.1799 regarding sending plants to be drawn. Original letter in the British Museum – now Natural History Museum. Letter reproduced in Notes of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, v.iii pt xiv, February 1905

•Prize essay, ‘The Origin and Development of the Embryo in Phanerogamous Plants’ (July 1869)

GB 235 SAB/5 Photo Album
Portraits of SABC members presented by David T. Playfair, 1900. In album order: John Hutton Balfour, Alexander Dickson, William Brack Boyd(1), David Paul, William Craig (1), Charles Stuart, P. Neill Fraser, Andrew Peebles Aitken, Robert Lindsay, A.H. Evans, Henry Macdonald Church, George H. Potts, F.C. Crawford, George Gunn, George Alison, John Sadler(1), W.W. Peyton, David T. Playfair, Archibald Gibson, Alexander Cowan, James John Marshall Lang Aiken, Robert Christison, William Craig (2), John Sadler (2), Douglas Maclagan, I. Anderson Henry, Prof. Alman, William Brack Boyd (2). Includes photographs of excursion to Fortingale, 1927, and 2 photographs of SABC members in front of the Royal Hotel, Kirkby Lonsdale, 1899 (see William Craig, “Excursion of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club to Kirkby-Lonsdale in 1899,” Trans. Boc. Soc. vol. 21, 1897). Note: Portrait of James McNab (copy of engraving) found in album moved to portrait collection.

•Paper titled ‘Lectures on the Valuation of Woodlands and the Disposal of their Produce, with its Transport, Conversion, Qualities and Uses’.

•Correspondence; newspaper clippings relating to his expeditions to Garwhal and Sikkim (1937-1938)

•Correspondence (March – April 1916) and a paper titled ‘Mosses from West Ross-shire’.

Minimal; ephemera, 3 documents including a letter from Andrew F. Kedslie to Isaac Bayley Balfour with information from his aunt, Mrs Agnes Arnand, Williamson's great grand-daughter & a copy of Williamson's Testament Dative dated 1780 - all documents appear to have been cut from one of Isaac Bayley Balfour's scrapbooks.