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•H.R. Fletcher’s Taxonomic Lecture Notes
•1 box of miscellaneous papers, including notes, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, etc. regarding ‘A Quest of Flowers’ – Ludlow and Sherriff, miscellaneous information on National Trust Gardens and Island Cruises (where Fletcher was on board as a Botany expert) – 1963-1966, and manuscripts of ‘History of Investigation of British Flora,’ and ‘The Exploration of the Scottish Flora’, published in 1959.
•Correspondence regarding Fletcher’s election as a member of the Garden Society in1955, including an historical note.
•3 boxes of Fletcher correspondence form 1963 organised alphabetically
•2 boxes of Fletcher correspondence from 1965 organised alphabetically
•2 boxes of Fletcher correspondence form 1966 organised alphabetically
•2 boxes of Fletcher correspondence from 1967 organised alphabetically
•2 boxes of Fletcher correspondence from 1968 organised alphabetically
•4 boxes of Fletcher correspondence with various people in the U.S.A. organised chronologically from 1961-1965.
•1 box of miscellaneous papers, taxonomy notes and correspondence
•1 file of Fletcher correspondence from 1962-1963 regarding donations to B.L. Burtt and Woods expedition to Malaysia
•1 file containing 2 photographs, miscellaneous correspondence, lists, publications, his application for the post of Office of Director of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens at Wisely, Surrey and his application for the appointment of Director of the Cambridge Botanic Garden (1950).
•1 box of 11 photographs taken by the Scottish Daily Express
•1 box of miscellaneous correspondence 1957-61

•1 box of miscellaneous papers
•1 box of miscellaneous correspondence and lecture notes
Correspondence from Archibald Dickson (brother of Prof. Alexander Dickson, Regius Keeper 1880-87) re: his late brother's affairs dated 1889 filed with "Balfour, I Bayley" corresp. under "Dickson, Archibald".

Temporary numbering and descriptions courtesy of Marcia Rodriguez:
Box 1 of 2
• GB235 DPA/1 Papers, correspondence, drawings, and reprints. Coloured [crayon?] botanical drawings (leaf forms, sections, cellular details, etc.) by W.M.C.(?) with ms. captions (6 booklets, 14 loose sheets), summer 1885; “Histological Demonstration Drawings /Prof Dicksons Practical Class, summer 1885,” by W. E. Fothergill (?), watercolour drawings with ms. captions, 25 pp., 1885; 1 photograph copy of drawing, mounted on cardboard; typescript and ms. correspondence and papers, including a ms. extract from an address by Dickson to the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh on the necessity of vaccination, 1 p., 1881; ms. questions for botany exam, 1 p., June 1880; typescript obituary, 12 pp., 1889, published in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh XVII, 1886–1889; typescript obituaries, 5 pp.; ms. (2 pp.) and typescript (1 p.) copy of letter from Victoria R appointing Alexander Dickson Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh, 1880; copies of correspondence from William Wright Smith to Dr Cairns, 3 pp., 1946 (originals in “Smith, W. W.” correspondence); reprints of articles by Dickson: “On Abnormal Cones of Pinus Pinaster, Trans. Royal Soc. Edinburgh XXVI, 1871; “On Septa Across the Ducts in Bougainvillea glabra and Testudinaria elephantipes, Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh XIV, 1882; typescript abstracts of yearly payments, Royal Botanic Garden and Royal Arboretum, , 2 pp., 1879–1888 and 1881–1888.
• GB235 DPA/2 Articles by Dickson published in Trans Bot. Soc., 1861–1866; reprints, including “On the Development of the Flower of Pinguicula Vulgaris, L.,” Trans. Royal Soc. Edinburgh XXV, 1869, and address by Dickson to the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh in 1881,”On Some of the Relations of the Present State of the Law to Medical Science and to Public Health,” Edinburgh Medical Journal, 1882; “Syllabus of Lectures on Botany,” by Professor Dickson, University of Glasgow, 1869, 1872, 1876; “Inaugural Address, On Functional Specialisation of Individuals in Animals and Plants,” by Alexander Dickson, 1879; “Syllabus of Lectures on Botany,” by Professor Dickson, University of Edinburgh, 1880, 1882 (3 copies).

Box 2 of 2
• GB235 DPA/3 2 bound journals: ms. student notes on Dickson’s lectures.
• GB235 DPA/4 Ms. notes for the arrangement of a collection of histological specimens supplied by Dickson for the Practical Class in Botany, University of Edinburgh, summer 1885, 2 pp.; unbound notebook, “Insectivorous Plants,” drawings with ms. captions, 25 pp.; unbound notebook, botanical drawings, pencil, 15 pp., misc. ms. correspondence on botanical subjects, 1881–1887; ms. list of specimens collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger by Dr A. Crosbie, R.N. and presented by [?] Evans, 1 p.

Name access points:
Dr. [Murray?] Cairns
W. E. Fothergill
William Wright Smith

3 printed annual reports (3 x 4 pages, 200 x 250mm) of The Botanical Museum & Library at Cambridge University; dated 25 March 1828, 25 March 1829, 25 March 1830.
The 1828 report outlines the start of a proper funded botanical museum. Prof Henslow lists present acquisitions and solicits help in augmenting the collection. The 1829-30 reports demonstrate success in increasing the collection of plant samples and publications.

Portrait of Michel Gabriel Pacard in a circular frame; beneath is a ledge on which is an engraved plaque; beneath this is a picture with a view of Mont Blanc in a gold frame; foliage and pink ribbon decorate the structure.
Etching with hand-colouring. Source: British Museum collection, where copies of this portrait are also held. https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3308005&partId=1&searchText=Pacard&images=true&page=1
(Box 3)

Print of Marie-Anne Charlotte Corday entitled, 'Marie Anne Charlotte Corday, ci-devat Darmans Agée de 25 ans'. Portrait of Charlotte Corday, half-length, sitting at desk in her cell, holding a letter to her parents; in circle, with below a small figurative scene showing her assassinating Marat in his bath-tub. The portrait is in a black and gold painted wooden frame with a glass panel.
Another copy is held in the British Museum collection: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3599824&partId=1&searchText=Massol&page=1
(Box 4)

Monochrome print of Louis XVI, Queen Marie Antoinette and Louis XVII (the Dauphin), pictured in a circular frame above a marble stand containing a vase and various plants. The picture itself has been cut from a larger image and mounted on another piece of paper. The picture is in a black and gold painted wooden frame with a glass panel.
A similar copy of the portrait is held at the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3523963&partId=1&searchText=Louis+seize&page=1
(Box 4)

Portrait of Jacques Balmat wearing a navy jacket and purple waistcoat in a circular, ageing stone frame; beneath is an old ledge under which is a old, cracked, inscribed tablet supported by two wooden bars; an axe and a broken spear cross each other beneath the portrait; foliage grows around the whole structure. Source: British Museum collection, where additional copies are held. https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3308021&partId=1&searchText=Balma&page=1
(Box 3)