•Folder of slide collection of Icelandic Plants
•Box of slide collection of Arctic Plants
•Menu and invitation to the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society Bicentenary celebrations (2009)
Sans titre•Application and testimonials for part of the Secretary /Registrar of the University College of Dundee. (see George Don Sr Collection for further information) http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/GB 235-gds
• paper entitled 'Patrick Blair, Surgeon-Apothecary, Dundee, Scotland: A Memoir' by Alex. P. Stevenson, read to the Dundee Symposium, 9th February 1907 and to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 11th April 1907 - reprint was owned by Isaac Bayley Balfour and has a letter from Stevenson glued into the front cover. It refers to the Blair elephant.
Folder containing 4 letters and 1 photo of Shaw.
Sans titre•Catalogue of Micrographs of woods structure
Sans titre•Correspondence Dobbie & Co. to I. B. Balfour filed under “Balfour, I. B.” papers under” Cuthbertson, W.” – individual folder
Sans titre•monograph; 8 pencil written notes of a biographical nature (originator of letter was James Grieve) detailing his work on Violas at Dickson's Ltd.
and extract of Roy Genders ‘Pansies and Violas’
watercolour illustrations of Fungi
Sans titre1 folder of project publication and photograph by Corinne McDonough.
Corinne was a 4th year photography student at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2014 and involved in a project looking at the need for libraries, human interactions with objects and behind the scenes views. She visited RBGE on the 20th March 2014 to take photographs, 3 of which ended up in the project publication, Ordo Librorum. This publication (1), one of the photographs (2) and two publicity cards (3) are in this small collection.
•2 boxes of notes on Rhododendrons
•1 box containing notes on rhododendrons, a copy of an ecological study on the vegetation of Cyprus, first degree notes, a list of plant explorations in Western China, Lothian Plant collecting field notes, a survey of the flowering plants and their distribution in the Lothians, and a personal letter