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7 boxes containing - •Photographic notes (1965-1966) •Trek diaries •Field notes •correspondence •Immigration papers and trekking permits •Notes on living plants and herbarium material sent to Royal Botanic Garden Kew (1965-1966) •List of publications and papers •Folders of articles •Bowl made from leaves •2 ceremonial Ghurkha knives (handle with extreme caution - scabbard has split)
•A revised copy of ‘The Scottish Naturalist: Revision of the Uredineae and of the Ustilagineae of Scotland’ (1899) submitted to the Scottish Cryptogamic Society, • Some correspondence and information regarding a proposed memorial for him.
M/S Outline of General Treatise on Botany proposed by Wm. Brand for the Botanic Society's adoption and which he suggests that the Society should invite its members to write a series of distinct but connected Essays with a view to publication under the Society's direction and auspices. 11 January 1839
•List of seeds and plants imported from America in 1760 and sold by Mrs Drummond, Seed Merchant, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh •List of fruit required for Mortonhall, 1722 and an abstract from J.W. Hely-Hutchison’s letter regarding the list.
