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•File containing 2 notebooks, titled ‘Flora Scotica’ and ‘Local Flora – Mainly West Cornwall’
Sans titreCopy of a letter from J.H. Balfour to the Secretary of the Botanical Society (10.02.1841)
Sans titre•File containing typescript extracts relating to the Royal College of Physicians, (1761-1899)
Sans titre•Folder of slide collection of Icelandic Plants
•Box of slide collection of Arctic Plants
•Pamphlet entitled, ‘To Dr. William Pitcairne…This Small Tribute to the Memory of a Distinguished Kinsman’
Sans titre•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)