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Folder 1 of 2; 21 typescript leaves with 1 mounted plant sample, 200 x 260mm; manuscript: 'The Life history of Astragalus Hypoglottis’ The Purple Milk Vetch together with 7 hand coloured microscopic enlargements [see below]; Submission for Dobby Smith Gold Medal for Botany
Folder 2 of 2; 7 original drawings in coloured inks of enlarged plant mounted on board with tracing paper overlays, various sizes from 150 x 250mm to 250 x 320mm; Figure drawings for The Life History of Astragalus Hypoglottis ’The Life History of Astragalus Hypoglottis’ with figure drawing by A. Ninian Bruce
2 dried specimens.
Entered in competition for The Dobbie Smith Gold Medal in Botany, Glasgow University 1881-1882 Calender

1 box of Ness correspondence between Balfour and Bulley (1896-1921)

1 folder; Colombia 1974/75; File containing correspondence and reports

• Three passports
• B.L. Burtt’s Obituary, Edinburgh Evening News, p.14, (7th of June 2008)
• Two boxes of B.L Burtt’s notebooks
• Three boxes containing reprints and annotated working copies of various journals and articles
• in 2019 a folder of biographical information, including 3 photographs, compiled by Henry Noltie was added to the collection. It includes the obituaries and biographical articles Henry wrote, plus other obituaries, articles about Bill, and memories by him and about him.

3 printed annual reports (3 x 4 pages, 200 x 250mm) of The Botanical Museum & Library at Cambridge University; dated 25 March 1828, 25 March 1829, 25 March 1830.
The 1828 report outlines the start of a proper funded botanical museum. Prof Henslow lists present acquisitions and solicits help in augmenting the collection. The 1829-30 reports demonstrate success in increasing the collection of plant samples and publications.

11 page printed report with illustration of the engraved plan for the proposed experimental garden to be established at Inverleith (1825)

Book of newspaper cuttings and notes relative to the H.M.S Challenger (1873-76)
Box of Challenger photographs
‘The Challenger Expedition, 1872-1876: A Visual Index’ by Eileen V. Brunton, 2nd Ed, The Library, The Natural History Museum, London (2004)

• Bertha Chandler's thesis, 1913, "The Theory and Practice of Vegetative Propagation in the Flowering Plants", illustrated by Bertha's drawings and photographs, and photographs by Robert Moyes Adam.
• 4 notebooks; Botany, May 1905 - Bertha's University of Edinburgh lecture notes; Practical Botany sketch book, Winter 1907-08, drawings and notes; Hardy Shrubs, drawings, notes and literature references, plus numerous enclosure, including partial notes for a talk on plant luminescence; and 'Where is it?' - an indexed book containing an alphabetical list of plants experimented with for Callus formation and Propagation with numerical list at end of book.
• Reprint - Utricularia emarginata by Chandler, Annals of Botany, vol. XXIV, No., XCV, July 1910, owned by Chandler.
• 7 copies of Chandler's biography for the RBGE Guild journal.

Monograph ‘Notice of a Crab Apple Tree of Unusual Size at Kelloe, Berwickshire’

15 page Paper titled 'Sequoia' (1896) with additional 4 pages of measurement tables & diagram of annual rings of various specimens.
Memo on Sequoia paper D. Christison;
Memo 18 June 1903 by H. Hastings to the Regius Keeper regarding return of 'Sequoia' portfolio to Mr. Clayton at Bradford