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•File containing typed miscellaneous notes regarding his life and work

•Papers referencing obituaries. Mackay, John (Biographical. Index of British & Irish Botanists, p.111); Scots Magazine, 1802, Vol. LXIV, p.448; Edinburgh Courant, 22 April 1802.
•8 page extract of article on The Death of John Mackay, A Worthy Young Man, and an Eminent Botanist - ‘Edinburgh Evening Courant’ 3rd June 1802
•John Mackay, A Gifted Young Botanist, 1772 – 1802, A Link With Leith by D.W.K.
•Copy of letters dated Nov. 1800 – May 1802 to N.J. Winch – filed under “Winch, N.J.” also copy of letters dated 3 June 1801 to G. Houston, Paisley & Mr. Combie Inverness introducing N.J. Winch
•Typed extract from Scots Magazine, 1803, Vol. LXV, pp.96 -97, tribute to John Mackay.
•Letter from John Mackay at Botanic Garden, Leith Walk, dated 6 March 1800, to Lt. Col. Brodie, M.P. at Brodie House by Forres (presented by Sir George Taylor, 8 June 1963)
•3 manuscript pages of Mackay’s records relating to ‘Smith’s English Botany’
•Typed extract from ‘Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, Vol.1, p.215 – A List of the rarer Plants observed in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh.

•Copy of a newspaper cutting regarding the election of Donald F. Mackenzie as an Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society

•Correspondence 1905 – 1909, 7 letters filed with “Balfour, I.B.” papers under “Macvicar, S.M.”

MacWatt, Dr John, ‘European Primulas’, offprint from RHS Journal of his paper read to the April 1913 Primula Conference. Two copies (each 248 x 157 x 2mm), one inscribed in ink on the cover ‘To Anne/ from her father/ John MacWatt’.

MacWatt, Dr John, ‘Ferns for the Rock Garden’, undated private publication or possible offprint from an unidentified journal; three copies (each 216 x 139 x 1mm), two held in a paper wrapper.

MacWatt, Dr John, ‘Some of the Rarer Primulas’, 46-48, contained in The Hardy Plant Year Book 1912 (216 x 140 x 6mm). The first yearbook produced by the newly-formed National Hardy Plant Society. Apart from a number of reports and articles, it contains a list of office-holders (John MacWatt is listed as a Vice-Chairman and a member of the Scientific Committee), a list of members, the first annual report, various rules and regulations, and advertisements.