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•Box containing papers, correspondence, microfilm and information regarding the 1970 accrual of index cards. •Two boxes of collection field books •One box of papers and correspondence on ‘Nutrition and Vitamins’ •One box of papers on ‘World Food Problems, etc. and Food Science’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods in Europe (except Britain and Russia)’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods - Britain’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods - Russia’ •Two boxes of papers titled ‘Emergency Foods – North and West Africa’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods – Central and South East Africa’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods – Middle East and India’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods – China, Malaya, Hawaii and Australia’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods – U.S.A.’ •One box containing two folders, one of papers on ‘Emergency Foods - Canada’ and one of papers on ‘Food Plants of U.S. Indians’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods Central and South America’ •One box of papers on ‘Commodity Plants’ •One box of papers on ‘Voandzeia (Bambarra Groundnut)’ •One box of papers on ‘Bee-Keeping in Africa’ •One box of papers on ‘Edible Earths, Snakes and Insects’ •One box of papers on ‘Cattle and Sheep’ •One box of containing two folders, one of papers on ‘Lizards and Mammals (East Africa)’ and one of containing a Zoo Aquarium Guide •One box containing miscellaneous papers, papers on crop plants and bibliographies •Six boxes of index cards and papers, divided from: Nos.1-50 (92); Nos.51 (93) – 80 (146); Nos. 81 (147) - 111 (212); Nos. 112 (213) – 134 (249); Nos. 135 (250) – 174 (313), Nos. 175 (314) – 183 (332)
•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’
•22 page, bound article written by Hamish Johnston adding new information about the Dickson nurserymen families to an article written by Priscilla Minay for the Old Edinburgh Club Vol. 1 1991. Accompanied by 2 pages of corrections to the Dickson entries in Ray Desmond’s Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists. 6 pages of email correspondence with Archive Librarian at RBGE (Feb.2011)
