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Letter from George Forrest to Isaac Bayley Balfour dated 17 August 1903, asking if there has been ‘something definite regarding the situation we spoke of when I called on you’.

ARNOTT, S, ‘Primula Rushie’, short note (cutting 95 x 64mm) from an unidentified journal, referring to a comment in the 1912 article ‘Some of the Rarer Primulas’ by Dr John MacWatt

1915, Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea; Silver Gilt Floral Medal Certificate for Primulas (158 x 227mm) awarded to Dr John MacWatt.

1924, May, Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea; Silver Flora Medal for Primulas Certificate (156 x 227mm) awarded to Dr MacWatt.

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

This is a series created by bringing known sets of lecture notes, usually taken by students attending Botany lectures at the University of Edinburgh provided by the Regius Keeper of the RBGE who usually also held the post of Professor of Botany. Many of these books will have been acquired by Isaac Bayley Balfour.

1 box containing Farrer's 'chop' - a wooden stamp used to write his name in Chinese[?], and his medals as follows: 1902; silver Flora medal, RHS, for Alpine Plants at Temple Show; 1903, silver Flora medal, RHS, for Alpines at Temple Show; 1904, silver gilt Flora medal, RHS, for a Rock Garden at Temple Show; 1904, silver gilt Banksian medal, RHS, for Alpines at Holland House Show; 1905, silver gilt Flora medal, RHS, for Alpines at Chelsea Show; 1905, silver Banksian medal, RHS, for Alpines at Temple Show; 1913, silver medal, Shropshire Horticultural Society, for Rock Garden. Also 2 cassette tapes, 1991, in poor condition. [They seem to be a recording of a talk about Farrer given by Joan Farrer.]