•Box of personal papers and correspondence
•Box of papers regarding excursions (1829-32)
•Box of papers regarding his North American Tour (1834)
•Box of papers regarding his North American Tour (second copies)
•Box containing Tour Diaries (1836-38)
•Box containing a Journal of Tours, including his Germany Tour (1839-40)
•Box containing a Journal of Tours (1848)
•Box of Annual Reports to Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society (RCHS) for 1841 and 1842
•Box of miscellaneous papers; into this box ("box 9 of 9") has been added (June 2019) a typescript list entitled "Plants of McNab's Herbarium"; it has an old id number of 37,994, was stored in the Library Office and is dated to February 1953. It is in 4 stapled bundles (caution - be wary of staples) and lists what was presumably herbarium specimens from James McNab's collection.
•Box of miscellaneous papers, including correspondence and a photograph of a tree-transplanter
•Folder containing McNab’s Testimonials
•Bound volume of his ‘Journal of Tour Through North America, 1834’
•Scrapbook titled ‘McNab Cuttings’
•Untitled scrap book
•Box, including Copy of a letter most probably sent to Mary Countess of Minto, dated 17 October1845
McNab, William•Copy of ‘The Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries: Syllabus of Lectures on Botany’, (March 1869)
•Copy of ‘The Royal College of Science for Ireland: Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Botany’, (1872-73)
•Copy of The Royal College of Science for Ireland: Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Botany‘ (1876-77)
McWatt, John, ‘Spanish Irises in a Scottish garden’, cutting (76 x 65mm) from an unidentified and undated publication, referring to plants in bloom in his garden on 27 July.
MacWatt, Dr. John
1931 National Auricula Society Northern Section; Medal for a Group of Primulas (38mm diameter), cased.
1931 National Auricula Society Northern Section; Medal for Collection of Primulas (38mm diameter), cased.
Memo from Isaac Bayley Balfour to Mr John F. Jeffrey, Keeper of the RBGE Herbarium dated 03 September 1903 advising that George Forrest will begin work on Monday [7 September] between 9 and 10 am; note has been annotated by J.F. Jeffrey to acknowledge contents, and again on 7 September 1903 by Henry Hastings to confirm that Forrest had started work.
•Memoir of Dr Thomas Charles Hope, Late Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh by Thomas Stewart Traill (from Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. xvi, part iv; 1848
•Copy of letters to Sir J.E. Smith, dated January 1784 – May 1785 filed under “Smith, JE.”