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•Map of Sikkim and a box containing photographs and negatives (1948-1950) and also a letter to Henry Noltie from D. Jeremy Wood regarding the photos (19 Jul 1995).

•Collection of signatures (originals), including Carl v Linné, Archibald Menzies and initials (received with papers of Isaac Bayley Balfour).

Thirteen samples of wood displayed at the International Forestry Exhibition held in Edinburgh in 1884 - all are labelled with "Sierra Leone, Edinburgh Forestry Exhibition, 1884" - additional markings are as follows:

• No 5, Gree-Gree, Greegree, 1884.83.31
• Beck, 1884.83.32
• Koronko, Coronko, Kronko, 1884.83.39
• Monkey Apple, 1884.83.40
• Oak, [Teak scored out], 1884.83.41; caution, tack nailed through wood
• Sugar Plum, 1884.83.43
• Conta-Cobang, Contabang, Cotan Cobang, 1884.83.45
• Koondee, Cundee, 1884.83.46
• White Brimstone, 1884.83.47
• Cabapp, 1884.83.49 - with torn Exhibit label still attached
• Iron Wood, 1884.83.53
• Babu Bone, 1884.83.54
• Cedar, 1884.83.56; caution, tack nailed through wood
  The Exhibition Catalogue indicates that the Government of Sierra Leone had a stand at the exhibition where they displayed "Specimens of the Woods of the Colony, native, polished 1865, redone 1884" - it is assumed that these may have been part of this display.

Census information for Nepal, 1900. Annotations made in red pen to correct the spelling of certain indigenous groups.

‘Short Account of the Fossil Tree at Kinneil’, written by William Badger in July 1875. Account includes 3 sketches of the Fossil Tree, numbered 1,2 and 4.

Typed list of seeds and bulbs. Listed by field number. Includes number of packets, name of plant, and any remarks. Annotated in pen by George Sherriff. 13 pages.

Letter to George Sherriff from K. Biswas (10 June 1949). Requesting photograph of Sherriff and Ludlow with a "short note on the nature of collections of the Himalayan plants..." For incorporation into a book on "Plants of the Eastern Himalaya..." 1 page.

HR Fletcher research notes, 1 page for the book "Quest of Flowers"

hand-drawn map, in pencil. Found folded in the back of Sherriff's 1938 diary.