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•Miscellaneous letters, papers and newspaper and magazine articles.
•Otto Degener, ‘Flora Hawaiiensis, or New Illustrated Flora of the Hawaiian Islands’

8 medals:
1857 Royal Botanic Society of London for pansies
1868 Glasgow and west of Scotland Horticultural Society for 24 blooms – Dahlias
1878 Royal Horticultural Society Sir Joseph Banks medal for cut blooms – Pansies
1897 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society Jubilee Prize medal for group of plants
1901 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society for flowering and foliage plants
1905 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society for group of plants – internal exhib
1908? Leith Horticultural Industrial Sports Society for violas and pansies
1925 Royal Horticultural Society for hardy flowers

16 seed catalogues:
1x Undated but likely Victorian
the rest dated 1907; 1922; 1927; 1930; 1931; 1942; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1949; 1950; 1952; 1953; 1955; 1961

1 poem regarding the cessation of the Scottish Horticultural Association in 1921, "The Passing of the Scottish Horticultural Association" by Charles Comfort.

Letter thanking the Council of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh for giving him a copy of the Third Annual Report of Proceedings (November 3, 1840)

Minute Books, Transactions and boxes containing exchange lists, correspondence regarding transactions, invoices and cheque books.
BSS/1 - Society Laws, Annual Reports and Lists of Members
BSS/2 - Botanical Society Minute Books
BSS/3 - Council Minutes inc. Agendas, Annual Reports, etc.
BSS/4 - Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh
BSS/5 - Transactions Administration / Exchange Lists
BSS/6 - Secretary's Papers inc. questionnaire results and name change referenda
BSS/7 - Treasurer's Papers
BSS/8 - Programme Correspondence inc. Symposia and Projects
BSS/9 - Publications
BSS/10 - Botanical Society Club
BSS/11 - Centenary / Celebrations
BSS/12 - Ephemera

Part of a letter which refers to old school friends.

•Correspondence with James Keenan, (1962-1972)

Box 1 of 2
• GB 235 BEK/1/01-51: Persia 1932: Correspondence from E.K. Balls to J. MacQueen Cowan and William Wright Smith, field notes, list of specimens despatched, and list of shareholders regarding Balls’ expedition to Persia in 1932, 76 pp., typescript and ms., 1932.
• GB 235 BEK/2/01-78: Correspondence from E.K. Balls to J. MacQueen Cowan and to William Wright Smith, field notes, list of specimens despatched, and list of shareholders regarding Balls’ expedition to Turkey in 1933, 78 pp., typescript and ms., 1933.
• GB 235 BEK/3/001-111: Correspondence from E.K. Balls to J. MacQueen Cowan and to William Wright Smith, field notes, list of specimens despatched, and list of shareholders regarding Balls’ expedition to Turkey in 1934, 111 pp., typescript and ms., 1934.
• GB 235 BEK/4/01-38: Correspondence from E.K. Balls to J. MacQueen Cowan and to William Wright Smith, field notes, list of specimens despatched, list of subscribers, and “A Plant Collecting Expedition into Kurdistan,” an advertisement for shareholders regarding Balls’ expedition to Turkey in 1935, 38 pp., typescript and ms., 1934–1935.

Box 2 of 2
• GB 235 BEK/5/01-21: Correspondence from E.K. Balls to J. MacQueen Cowan and to William Wright Smith, field notes, and list of specimens despatched regarding Balls’ expedition to Morocco in 1936, 21 pp., typescript and ms., 1936.
• GB 235 BEK/6/01-23: Correspondence from E.K. Balls to William Wright Smith, field notes, list of subscribers, and list of seeds and specimens regarding Balls’ expedition to Greece in 1937, 24 pp., typescript 1937.
• GB 235 BEK/7/01-37: Correspondence from E.K. Balls to J. MacQueen Cowan and to William Wright Smith, field notes, and list of specimens despatched regarding Balls’ expedition to Mexico in 1938, 38 pp., typescript and ms., 1938.
• GB 235 BEK/8/01-33: Typescript and ms., correspondence from E.K. Balls to J. MacQueen Cowan and to William Wright Smith, field notes, and list of specimens despatched regarding Balls’ expedition to the Andes, 1938–1939, 33 pp., 1938–1939.

Postcard to Dr. E. V. Jones at the Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford, regarding J. Sim’s hepatics dated September 27, 1966; from Ursula Katherine Duncan.

Catalogue of hardy plants grown at Bitton Vicarage. 88 typed pages dated on cover April 1901

W. Thiselton-Dyer's correspondence dated 1905-1909 filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Dyer, W. Thiselton” cross-ref in entry (IBB)
W. Thiselton-Dyer's correspondence with Sir Geo. Watt filed with “Watt, Sir Geo.” Papers under “Dyer, W. Thiselton” cross-ref in entry (WSG)
W. Thiselton-Dyer's letters dated 10:7:1877 filed in “Balfour, J. Hutton” “Supp. corresp.” cross-ref in entry (JHB)