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•File containing typescript extracts relating to the Royal College of Physicians, (1761-1899)
Royal College of Physicians•Folder of slide collection of Icelandic Plants
•Box of slide collection of Arctic Plants
•Pamphlet entitled, ‘To Dr. William Pitcairne…This Small Tribute to the Memory of a Distinguished Kinsman’
Pitcairne, Dr. WilliamTheatre programme for the play 'Plant Hunter: The Tibetan Journeys of Joseph Rock' which was performed at RBGE during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1996 by Theatrum Botanicum, Theater of Plantes.
The programme has Rock's Naxi bookplate on the front cover and a timeline of Rock's life inside. The play was written using Rock's diaries which are held in the RBGE Archives, and Evan-Wentz's Tibetan Book of the Dead.
2 notebooks and 2 lists and 1 letter (D. Morris of RBG Kew to Kenrick, 1895)
Kenrick, Rev. Henry William GordonI. See references in Rodriguez (Transit of Venus) papers, filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Rodriguez”
II. See papers filed with “PANDANUS” (mainly I.B. Balfour’s) in general index of archival material. (4 boxes)
III. Letter dated 25 June 1866 from Chas. James Meller – item 141 in bound volume, filed under “Anderson, Dr. Thos.” – Box 2
IV. 12 letters dated 1875 -1876 filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers, under “Horne, F”
Copy of a letter from J.H. Balfour to the Secretary of the Botanical Society (10.02.1841)
Balfour, Professor John Hutton•File containing 3 collectors books, No. 1-300
Plumtre, E.D (Kew)