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•16 boxes of Gardeners’ Register
•Business records yet to be listed
•Annotated copy of William Jameson’s ‘Report Upon the Botanical Gardens of the Government, North Western Provinces’, Roorkee, Thomason C. E. College Press. (1855)
Sem título•Correspondence (March – April 1916) and a paper titled ‘Mosses from West Ross-shire’.
Sem títuloFolder containing 4 letters and 1 photo of Shaw.
Sem título•Papers regarding the Victoria Botanic Gardens, Southern Cameroons (1916-1961)
•Papers regarding horticulture and agriculture in Southern Nigeria (1906)
•Illustrations, drawings and abstracts.
•Obituaries, rhododendron descriptions and memos
Sem título•Duplicate copy of his thesis: ‘Perennial Cultivation of Cotton with Special Reference to the cultivation of Ratoons in Egypt’ (1927).
Sem título•Notebook containing manuscript essay on ‘The Fiographical Distribution of Algae’
•Copy of 'A Manual of Botany' by Le Maout and Decaisne, translated by Mrs Hooker and with an Appendix by Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1876, awarded to James Adam Terras by Prof. Alexander Dickson in July 1886 as a Special Prize for High Proficiency in the Class of Advanced Practical Botany (ELWU2) (seems likely Terras eventually donated the book to the Botanical Society Library?) (book in state of disrepair now)
•Collecting book with list of plants and 6 photographs of pencil sketches by Thurn made during first ascent of Roraima - December 14th, 1884,
Sem título•A revised copy of ‘The Scottish Naturalist: Revision of the Uredineae and of the Ustilagineae of Scotland’ (1899) submitted to the Scottish Cryptogamic Society,
• Some correspondence and information regarding a proposed memorial for him.