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• Draft copy of an article titled ‘The New Plant Houses at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh’ (stored in the ‘R’ box) • History and development of the garden • Accounts, 1764-1876 (incomplete) • Staff Records (incomplete) • Probationer Gardener records (1889-1935) • Records relating to education at RBGE • Photographs • Maps • Papers relating to regional gardens – Dawyck, Benmore and Logan • Plant flowering records (phenology registers) • Plant records, including inventories, and registers of plants entering and leaving the garden
2 limited edition hand coloured multi block wood engravings showing the plantsman Reginald Farrer created in 2015 by artist Abigail Rorer of the Lone Oak Press. There is also accompanying correspondence detailing the donation.
box containing progress reports of the Scottish Seaweed Research Association based at the Institute of Seaweed Research in Musselburgh. There are also Newsletters, and correspondence with William Wright Smith, all arranged chronologically.
1 album containing ephemera to do with the Balfour professors; John Hutton Balfour, Isaac Bayley Balfour and John Cleland, plus other papers of interest.
