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GB 235 SAB/2: Accounts, ledger, ms., 1871–1946. Includes list of members in order of seniority, July 1942.

GB 235 SAB/5 Photo Album
Portraits of SABC members presented by David T. Playfair, 1900. In album order: John Hutton Balfour, Alexander Dickson, William Brack Boyd(1), David Paul, William Craig (1), Charles Stuart, P. Neill Fraser, Andrew Peebles Aitken, Robert Lindsay, A.H. Evans, Henry Macdonald Church, George H. Potts, F.C. Crawford, George Gunn, George Alison, John Sadler(1), W.W. Peyton, David T. Playfair, Archibald Gibson, Alexander Cowan, James John Marshall Lang Aiken, Robert Christison, William Craig (2), John Sadler (2), Douglas Maclagan, I. Anderson Henry, Prof. Alman, William Brack Boyd (2). Includes photographs of excursion to Fortingale, 1927, and 2 photographs of SABC members in front of the Royal Hotel, Kirkby Lonsdale, 1899 (see William Craig, “Excursion of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club to Kirkby-Lonsdale in 1899,” Trans. Boc. Soc. vol. 21, 1897). Note: Portrait of James McNab (copy of engraving) found in album moved to portrait collection.

•Notes on his Rocky Mountain and Appalachian Expeditions (1933-1937)

•Papers referring to John McLaren (1969-1970)

•Correspondence with J. Brodie (1795-1811), T.C. Hope (1784-1785), and A. Menzies (1819) - all appears to be copies of correspondence held at the Linnean Society

•Prize essay, ‘The Origin and Development of the Embryo in Phanerogamous Plants’ (July 1869)

•Paper titled ‘Lectures on the Valuation of Woodlands and the Disposal of their Produce, with its Transport, Conversion, Qualities and Uses’.

•Correspondence from Rupert Smith 1941 – 1942 to Prof. R Dennis, filed under “Smith, Rupert”

•Correspondence; newspaper clippings relating to his expeditions to Garwhal and Sikkim (1937-1938)

1 photograph album showing the range of activities of the Scottish Natural History Society at the end of the 1890s.