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Folder of postcards and photographs, many annotated by Ewen, from and of Forfar at the turn of the 20th century, presumably all sent by Jane Taylor Ewen, Mill Bank, Forfar to Isaac Bayley Balfour in addition to those stored in Bayley Balfour’s George Don scrapbook, GDS/1.
Includes: 9 postcards
8 photographs of Forfar including one taken at the unveiling of the Don memorial in Forfar churchyard, 08/09/1910 – shows Claridge Druce holding his address and John Knox.
1 pamphlet – “Sixteen Views of Forfar”
1 pamphlet – “A Month in the Country for Working Girls” about a raspberry picking scheme for city girls to work on a Blairgowrie raspberry farm – Jane Taylor Ewen’s cousin is involved; she owns the farm – see Balfour’s Don scrapbook, GDS/1. On reverse of pamphlet is poem written by Willie Taylor, Ewen’s cousin, called ‘Immortality’ (An Ode to Century old rose leaves) – rose leaves thought to have been given to Taylor Ewen’s grandmother by George Don. JTE had to copy out as she could not get a copy. Originally published in “St Andrew”, a parish church magazine. No date. [c.1905]

Plus – 2 photographs of Brechin – not J.T. Ewen’s handwriting on reverse, and postcard to I. Bayley Balfour from Eug. [Eugenius] Warming, Denmark, 21.12.1905 – unrelated to above but found in same folder so kept together.

Bound notebook entitled 'Botany Notes, Book 2', [Lecturer] Prof, Bayley Balfour. [Student] R.W. Graham-Yooll, Edinburgh University, Summer Term 1915, continued from Book 1 during lecture 16. Notebook is full of lecture notes (lectures 16-36 up to First Professional Examination, 5 July 1915) accompanied by coloured illustrations.

Bound notebook entitled 'Botany Notes, Book 1', Lecturer, Prof, Bayley Balfour. [Student] R.W. Graham-Yooll, Edinburgh University, 21st April 1915. Notebook is full of lecture notes (lectures 1-16) accompanied by coloured illustrations.

Two notebooks of lecture notes taken at Isaac Bayley Balfour's botany lectures at the University of Edinburgh between 21 April 1915 and 5 July 1915 by R.W. Graham-Yooll.

Bound notebook entitled 'Lectures on The Flowering Plants (Prof. Bayley Balfour) (Monocots and Dicots) 1912-1913 (for Conifers see /o-)

• Report on the Tenth International Mycology/ Plant Pathology Excursion, held in Aberdeen between August 13th and 20th, 1964. Record of site visits over the period, discusses plant diseases, list of fungi found and their locations.