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•Copy of a newspaper cutting regarding the election of Donald F. Mackenzie as an Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society

•Papers referencing obituaries. Mackay, John (Biographical. Index of British & Irish Botanists, p.111); Scots Magazine, 1802, Vol. LXIV, p.448; Edinburgh Courant, 22 April 1802.
•8 page extract of article on The Death of John Mackay, A Worthy Young Man, and an Eminent Botanist - ‘Edinburgh Evening Courant’ 3rd June 1802
•John Mackay, A Gifted Young Botanist, 1772 – 1802, A Link With Leith by D.W.K.
•Copy of letters dated Nov. 1800 – May 1802 to N.J. Winch – filed under “Winch, N.J.” also copy of letters dated 3 June 1801 to G. Houston, Paisley & Mr. Combie Inverness introducing N.J. Winch
•Typed extract from Scots Magazine, 1803, Vol. LXV, pp.96 -97, tribute to John Mackay.
•Letter from John Mackay at Botanic Garden, Leith Walk, dated 6 March 1800, to Lt. Col. Brodie, M.P. at Brodie House by Forres (presented by Sir George Taylor, 8 June 1963)
•3 manuscript pages of Mackay’s records relating to ‘Smith’s English Botany’
•Typed extract from ‘Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, Vol.1, p.215 – A List of the rarer Plants observed in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh.

•File containing typed miscellaneous notes regarding his life and work

•Folder containing a covering letter dated 26 June 1933 from Logan Turner to W. W. Smith requesting the preservation of an autograph notebook belonging to John M. McFarlane in the library of the Dept. of Botany, Edinburgh. The notebook contains ‘Remarks on the Fossil flora of Edinburgh and Neighbourhood, by John M. McFarlane, session 1877 and a pencilled copy of transcript of Foster & Balfour’s “Embryology”
•McFarlane, John M. (Edinburgh & USA) correspondence dated 1888 – 1905, filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under, “McFarlane, John M.”

• Detailed Lycopodium Bibliography of articles / papers, 1858-1915; arranged chronologically by Rev. J.E. Holloway, M.Sc. [c.1915] 4 typed pages, the latter article by Holloway.

•List of plants collected in Vancouver Island, 1858-61, and adjacent U.S. Territory filed in “L” (Box 2)

•1 Letter, dated 24th December 1917, from Lushington to James Sykes Gamble from Madras

Box of photographs of Sikkim including plants and locations, taken by Colonel Duncan George Lowndes between around 1935 and 1937, filed alongside correspondence to R.E. Cooper regarding the photographs, and lists of plants sent to RBGE (accompanying herbarium specimens) and notes to and from James Sinclair regarding some of his plant identifications.

•Some correspondence is filed with Sir. Wm. Wright Smith papers under “Smith, Sir Wm. W.”, “Rhododendron Correspondence”, material boxed alphabetically in these boxes

Part of a letter which refers to old school friends.