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1931 National Auricula Society Northern Section; Medal for a Group of Primulas (38mm diameter), cased.

1931 National Auricula Society Northern Section; Medal for Collection of Primulas (38mm diameter), cased.

1 page letter. Handwritten.

attached to 5 other letters.

Memo from Isaac Bayley Balfour to Mr John F. Jeffrey, Keeper of the RBGE Herbarium dated 03 September 1903 advising that George Forrest will begin work on Monday [7 September] between 9 and 10 am; note has been annotated by J.F. Jeffrey to acknowledge contents, and again on 7 September 1903 by Henry Hastings to confirm that Forrest had started work.

•Memoir of Dr Thomas Charles Hope, Late Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh by Thomas Stewart Traill (from Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. xvi, part iv; 1848
•Copy of letters to Sir J.E. Smith, dated January 1784 – May 1785 filed under “Smith, JE.”

Memorandum from A.K. Bulley on S. Marshall Bulley and Son Memorandum notepaper, to Isaac Bayley Balfour at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 02 October 1905, describing the communication of 17 August from Mr Embery, China Inland Mission, Talifu [Dali] [GB 235 FRG/1/1/1/1905/26]; that Forrest was expected there in four days and would be well cared for. ‘The 1st “nice” plant fr[om] F[orrest] has just been determined at Kew – Cyananthus incanus var. leiocalyx. Yellow fl[ower]s. In Robinson’s Eng[lish] Fl[ower] Garden C. incanus is described as having light blue fl[ower]s.’
Plants referenced: Cyananthus incanus var leiocalyx
The memo is slightly charred.

Printed document by by the Royal Society of New Zealand - 'A Memorial to the late Dr. Leonard Cockayne C.M.G., F.R.S.' dated 28th August 1935

•Box containing Menzies Bequest (1842-43), miscellaneous papers, correspondence and lists.
•Newspaper article titled ‘Renaissance Man’ about Archibald Menzies, celebrating the 250th anniversary of his birth, from the Courier and Advertiser, 14.08.2004

11 binders of Mike Richardson's coprolitic fungi collection notes, taken from samples of animal dung between c. 1996-2020, from locations around the U.K., Iceland and the Falkland Islands.