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•File containing 3 collectors books, No. 1-300
Sans titre•File containing miscellaneous correspondence regarding his expedition to Karakoram and Lebanon and plant lists (1959-1962)
Sans titre•File containing photocopies of Potter’s correspondence with Charles McIntosh (typescript copies filed under Mary Noble)
Sans titre•Large case marked ‘Orchids’ c.1840
Sans titreLetter to [Gage] from Prain, (11th Dec 1909)
•Manuscript letter to D. Saville from Prain to the Government Cinchona Plantation, Sureil, Kurseong (7th Apr. 1902)
•Book containing photographs of personalities, plants and landscapes, China
Sans titreBiography written in 1966 by H.C. Pugsley, filed in Fletcher correspondence – 1966-P
Sans titreFolder 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)
Sans titre•Letter and exchange request / book plate c.1890? French collector looking to exchange books? Reference to an Ex-Libris Society. Reaux based at 26 Rue des Dames, Paris. Letter and Card found in RBGE copy of Matthioli’s ‘De Plantis Epitome Utilissima’ 1586 [belonged to John Hope, so presumably not received by exchange with Reaux]
Sans titre•Letter from Richardson to unknown 2 Sep 1841, describing a meeting of the British Association regarding a grant for preparing maps for illustration of the geographical distribution of plants & animals, which had lapsed, due to inconsistencies
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