RBGE Archive

typed transcription of letter from George Don to James Sowerby, 22.05.1799 regarding sending plants to be drawn.

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1799 - 1905

Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

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

Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley

Isaac Bayley Balfour’s George Don Collection – Various papers / articles / letters relating to George Don and his family collated by Isaac Bayley Balfour.

GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/7
Subseries
1804 - 1910

Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley

Typed transcription – 3 pages – Notes for a sketch of the Botanists George [Jr.] and David Don of the Dove Hillock, Forfar, includes an extract of David Don’s birth in the Forfar Parish register, author – Alex. P. Stevenson, Dundee

GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/7/6
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1900 - 1910

Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

Stevenson, Alexander P.

Notice and Review of publication of Claridge Druce’s “Life and Work of George Don” in the Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh reprinted from the Journal of Botany, February 1906.

GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/8/5
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1906

Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

Neill, Patrick

GB 235 NEI
File
1811 - 1828

•File containing a copy of a transcript of a letter from Neill to Sir J.E. Smith (15 Feb.1811)
Neil, Patrick (Biog. Index; p.126: Index p.113)
1.Copy of letter to Mr. Winch dated 12 May 1828 – filed under “Winch, N.J.”
2.Copy of letters to J.E. Smith in “Don, George” under “Mackay, John” correspondence

Neill, Patrick

Typed transcription – Notice of George Don’s life by Patrick Neill contributed to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 15.05.1851 and published in the North British Agriculturist and Henfrey’s Botanical Gazette, 1851