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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

•Correspondence 1905 – 1909, 7 letters filed with “Balfour, I.B.” papers under “Macvicar, S.M.”

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

Collection consists of Mairi Planner's research into the Edinburgh nurserymen Downie, Laird and Laing, including material used in exhibiting the research. Mairi's great great grandfather Andrew Robertson Annan worked for the firm in the 1860s before moving to the Ravelston Estate in Edinburgh where he became Head Gardener - in researching him, Planner became interested in the nurserymen he worked for.

1 small blue notebook containing field notes for plants collected by Mary Mendum on expedition to Irian Jaya in 1992. Irian Jaya is now known as Western New Guinea or West Papua.

•Copy of the first page of a paper by I.B. Balfour titled ’The Pandaneae of the Mascarene Islands’, 1875

1. Refs: M/S notes “Scraps on Palms” – Wendland – filed in “Balfour, I. Bayley” correspondence under “Misc. Papers” – Box 9
2. Correspondence, dated 1887 Capt. Pasfield Oliver/ I.B. Balfour re: Mascarene / Madagascar filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Oliver, Capt. Pasfield”
3. References filed in “PANDANUS” boxes in general index.

1.Correspondence with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Gardeners’ Chronicle”
2.Correspondence with “Balfour, J. Hutton” papers under “Gardeners’ Chronicle”

•1 Box containing 4 ledgers (transferred to folders) of lists of identifications of plant material and pathologies made by Orr between 1925 and 1952.

•Refs. To botanical exchanges filed under “Mackechnie, Robert”

•Typed note of information about his life given by Miss Maughan, 4th March 1908.