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Rhododendron Conference Papers for the Conference planned for 1939

FRS/2/1/01-43: Rhododendron Conference (1939), papers dating to 1938 including : programme, agenda, correspondence with Fred J. Chittenden, Campbell, Robert Moyes Adam, John MacQueen Cowan, William J. Blackwood, Euan Cox, John Finnie, Donald Wyman, Lionel de Rothschild, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, etc regarding research for paper to be presented by F.R.S. Balfour at the conference – there’s a lot of weather data being passed around. Also copies of the paper “Rhododendron Species in a Cold Situation”

FRS/2/2/001-102: Rhododendron Conference 1939 – folders containing Conference Committee papers and correspondence between F.R.S. Balfour and fellow attendees including Robert Moyes Adam, George Rutherford, George Campbell, Fred J. Chittenden, K.L. Kenneth, Bruce A. Jackson, Herbert Ihrig, John MacQueen Cowan, etc and F.R.S. Balfour’s paper “Rhododendrons in the Western Highlands”

FRS/2/3/01-09: correspondence relating to the cancelled 1939 Rhododendron Conference, dating to 1940

Papers connected to F.R.S. Balfour

Papers connected to the Landowners’ Co-operative Forestry Society, Ltd.

Papers connected to the Landowners’ Co-operative Forestry Society, Ltd.; List of Plants and Shrubs for sale, 1927-28

Papers connected to the Landowners’ Co-operative Forestry Society, Ltd.: List No.1 – F.R.S. Balfour’s surplus plant list from nurseries at Dawyck, 1928.

copy letters between Samuel Crosse, F.R.S. Balfour and the Curator at Kew Gardens, 1920, regarding the sale of David Douglas’s telescope, originals filed under ‘Douglas’.

• A catalogue of the plants gathered on the islands of North Uist, Harris and Lewis during a botanical excursion, (August, 1841).
• Copy of Syllabus Botanical Lectures (1862)
• Two letters to Parnell dated 1847 and 1848
• Two letters to the Botanical Society dated 1841and 1843