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2 reprints written by H.H. Hu and gifted to W.W. Smith, rather than be withdrawn from the collection, 2 reprints were selected to be archived in order to provide a tangible link to one of the Chinese botanists who worked at RBGE in the 1930s, of whom little evidence is left in the RBGE Archives.

• 'Smithiodendron, a new Genus of Moraceae' by H.H. Hu, Separate from Sunyatsenia, vol. 3, No. 2-3, issued May 12, 1936, signed to W.W. Smith by Hu.
• 'Recent Progress in Botanical Exploration in China' by H.H. Hu, Reprinted from the Journal of the R.H.S. vol.LXIII, Part 8, 1938, signed to W.W. Smith by Hu, has Smith's stamp and a Christmas postcard sent to Smith as an insert.

•Letter, dated 6 April 1940,
•Papers, dated June – November 1900, re: Pharmaceutical Society, Regulation of Examinations filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Pharmaceutical Society"

Correspondence with I. Bayley Balfour, 1908 -1922 filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Hill, Arthur W.”
•Correspondence with Sir William Wright Smith, 1921 – 1941, filed with “Smith, Sir Wm. Wright” papers under “Hill, Sir Arthur William” in white folder in Box annotated “Kew Correspondence"

•(Tenerife) 3 letters, dated 1880 filed under “Henderson, Col. F”
•(Honolulu) 2 letters, dated 1866 -1867, to Dr. Thos. Anderson – items 112 & 113 in bound volume filed under “Anderson, Dr. Thos” – Box 2

Book of newspaper cuttings and notes relative to the H.M.S Challenger (1873-76)
Box of Challenger photographs
‘The Challenger Expedition, 1872-1876: A Visual Index’ by Eileen V. Brunton, 2nd Ed, The Library, The Natural History Museum, London (2004)

•Correspondence, dated May – July 1880, to I. Bayley Balfour, filed under “Pharmaceutical Society" with “Balfour, I. Bayley” correspondence.
•2 Letters, dated 1885, file with “Dickson, Prof. Alex” papers under “Holmes, E.M.”

• correspondence from Mr A.R.B. Hope, family tree, and copy of the John Kay portrait of John Hope with biography presented by the family of Ann Hope (1914-2007)

•Correspondence dated 1893 with J.J. Duthie & 1899 with I.B. Balfour (re: Col. F. Henderson collection) filed with “I. Bayley Balfour” papers under “Hope, C.W.”

•1 box of miscellaneous Fletcher correspondence (1957-61)
•1 file of miscellaneous correspondence (1960 –72)
•1 box of photographs from the Scottish Daily Express

•1 box containing papers relating to an expedition to East Africa, Ruwenzori Mountains, (1932); papers seem to be those generated by RBGE Herbarium as opposed to Humphreys himself.