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-Photograph of David Douglas
-2 handwritten letters from Samuel Crosse regarding David Douglas’s telescope.
1) dated April 29th 1920 to The Curator at Kew Gardens, London + photocopy
2) dated May 6th 1920 to Lt. Col. F.R.S. Balfour at Dawyck, Peeblesshire
-Reprint from the Transactions of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science - R. Dow on David Douglas, Scone - "David Douglas, Scone, Botanist and Pioneer of Arboriculture", read 14th April 1910.
Crosse, Samuel
•Miscellaneous letters, papers and newspaper and magazine articles.
•Otto Degener, ‘Flora Hawaiiensis, or New Illustrated Flora of the Hawaiian Islands’
Degener, Drs. Otto and Isa
Letter thanking the Council of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh for giving him a copy of the Third Annual Report of Proceedings (November 3, 1840)
Don, David (1799-1841)
•Correspondence Dobbie & Co. to I. B. Balfour filed under “Balfour, I. B.” papers under” Cuthbertson, W.” – individual folder
Dobbie & Co.
(Index p.74)
•Correspondence from Rupert Smith 1941 – 1942, filed under “Smith, Rupert”
Dennis, Prof. R
Dickson Nurserymen family; article by Hamish Johnston
•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)
Johnston, Hamish
Mairi Planner's Downie, Laird and Laing Research
Collection consists of Mairi Planner's research into the Edinburgh nurserymen Downie, Laird and Laing, including material used in exhibiting the research. Mairi's great great grandfather Andrew Robertson Annan worked for the firm in the 1860s before moving to the Ravelston Estate in Edinburgh where he became Head Gardener - in researching him, Planner became interested in the nurserymen he worked for.
Planner, Mairi
•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’
Dickson's Ltd
Hand written cover letter dated 1st July 1903 & 7 page typed "Essay on Menyanthes Trifoliata". Hand written list of diagrams and microscopic illustrations, lodged in competition for the Dobbie Smith Prize in Botany, Glasgow University
Davidson, J. Randolph
•Hand written letter dated 11 Jan 1945 to: Davis, Peter Hadland
Dinsmore, J.E.
