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Account book (217 x 184 x 28mm), marked ‘PRIVATE LEDGER’ on spine, with additions pasted in and annotated, generally in ink, in John MacWatt’s hand. Contents, dated 1913 on, include handwritten copies or drafts of articles for The Garden, newspaper and journal cuttings (many from The Garden, also Gardener’s Chronicle, Popular Gardening, Amateur Gardening, etc), prints of Primulas, sometimes with annotations attributing the photograph to Amy Cameron; cuttings from The Times of India Illustrated Weekly (1923,1926) including photographs of Major-General R.C. MacWatt, (John MacWatt’s younger brother); cuttings from various publications regarding Chelsea 1927 and the associated Royal visit; and an official copy of a War Office letter 22 April 1918, confirming the appointment of Mr J. MacWatt as Medical Officer and temporary Captain in the Berwickshire Volunteer Regiment.

MacWatt's copy of Pax, F and Knuth, R, Das Pflanzenreich, IV 237 Primulaceae Leipzig 1905, a leather-bound volume (245 x 170 x 35mm) with annotations in both pencil and ink in John MacWatt’s hand, with cuttings, notes and illustrations of Primulas pasted in or loosely interleaved.

1 sheet with John Sibthorp's book plate attached to it, alongside email correspondence outlining the discovery.

• One folder containing a 27 page manuscript paper titled Contribution to Natural History: Re the roots of the Bromeliaceé. Detailed examination of root behaviour in these and allied species.

Handwritten letter on 3 sides describing “new” method of propagation- “striking on the live plant”. By cutting 4/5 through the plant stalk and binding with damp moss a new shoot grows strongly and quickly. Anderson made successful experiments with fuchsia, heliotrope, jasmine, rose, etc. showing that this method can be used both in the greenhouse and in the open in situ. He grants Patrick Neill permission to publish them in the Transactions of the Caledonian Horticultural Society.

• Printed copy of Henslow's "Syllabus of Botanical Lectures"; edited and printed by Charles Babington, 22 April 1862.
• References in printed papers dated 1828, 1829 & 1830 filed under “Cambridge, University of”
• Letter dated 22nd Sep.1860, to Dr. Thos. Anderson – item 16 in bound volume filed under “Anderson, Dr. Thos” – Box 2

•Pilcomayo River Expedition. Letters dated 1889 -1890 to I.B. Balfour filed with I.B. Balfour correspondence under “Kerr, J.G.” Index page 97.

•Correspondence filed with “Balfour, I.B. correspondence” under “Kesselring, W.”
•See also correspondence filed under “Russia” in main index.

•Letter, dated, 2 January 1900, re: (proposed) visit to Socotra, filed with “Balfour, I.B. correspondence”, under “Socotra”