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1 box containing correspondence and papers (1911-19) including details of Chapman Davie's will alongside a list of books bequeathed to the University of Edinburgh Library (Botany Dept)
Temporary Summary Listing (M.R.):
• GB 235 DRC/1 Correspondence, ms., 1913–1915. Subjects include Inula helenium in Mull, Culbin Sands, and Melampsora orchidis repentis. Includes “The Flora of the Culbin Sands” by Donald Patton, Trans. Boc. Soc. Edinburgh, reprint, 1914.
• GB 235 DRC/2 Correspondence, papers, and notes relating to Stratiotes aloides, ms., 1911–1915. Includes hand-drawn map of Blackbank Pond (Puddock’s Pond), Creiff, and photographs of the pond with Stratoides aloides; draft ms. for “On the leaves of some species of Banksia; corrected galley proof for “On the leaves …” and for “Stratiotes aloides, Linn., near Crieff”; misc. notes.
• GB 235 DRC/3 Notebook (ledger) listing plant material collected, Brazil 1914, ms. Includes 3 botanical photographs (liverwort, bracken); letter regarding the bequest by R.C. Davie to the Library and Botanical Department of the University of Edinburgh (includes excerpt from the will of R.C. Davie, dated May 1917), typescript, July 1919.

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)

East Lothian Antiquarian & Field Naturalist Society
Note book list of Miss Alice Balfour. Collection filed under “Balfour, Miss Alice" (BAA)

• Loose pages of typed, transcript translations (by Garnsay?) of 4 extracts from Goebel’s, “Experimental Morphology”; a comprehensive study of how plants can regenerate.

•Capt. L.D. Fraser. ‘Military Report of Yun-Nan: Part III, Route Book’, Calcutta,1901. (Belonged to George Forrest so was stored with Forrest collection, but is now housed in the Rare Book Room)

W. Thiselton-Dyer's correspondence dated 1905-1909 filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Dyer, W. Thiselton” cross-ref in entry (IBB)
W. Thiselton-Dyer's correspondence with Sir Geo. Watt filed with “Watt, Sir Geo.” Papers under “Dyer, W. Thiselton” cross-ref in entry (WSG)
W. Thiselton-Dyer's letters dated 10:7:1877 filed in “Balfour, J. Hutton” “Supp. corresp.” cross-ref in entry (JHB)

Correspondence; see “Aglen Collection”. “W.H. Campbell Correspondence” Botanical Society of [Edinburgh] Scotland (BSS)

• One letter (June 21, 1847), Botanical Society communications

Postcard to Dr. E. V. Jones at the Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford, regarding J. Sim’s hepatics dated September 27, 1966; from Ursula Katherine Duncan.

Box 1 of 2
• GB 235 BEK/1/01-51: Persia 1932: Correspondence from E.K. Balls to J. MacQueen Cowan and William Wright Smith, field notes, list of specimens despatched, and list of shareholders regarding Balls’ expedition to Persia in 1932, 76 pp., typescript and ms., 1932.
• GB 235 BEK/2/01-78: Correspondence from E.K. Balls to J. MacQueen Cowan and to William Wright Smith, field notes, list of specimens despatched, and list of shareholders regarding Balls’ expedition to Turkey in 1933, 78 pp., typescript and ms., 1933.
• GB 235 BEK/3/001-111: Correspondence from E.K. Balls to J. MacQueen Cowan and to William Wright Smith, field notes, list of specimens despatched, and list of shareholders regarding Balls’ expedition to Turkey in 1934, 111 pp., typescript and ms., 1934.
• GB 235 BEK/4/01-38: Correspondence from E.K. Balls to J. MacQueen Cowan and to William Wright Smith, field notes, list of specimens despatched, list of subscribers, and “A Plant Collecting Expedition into Kurdistan,” an advertisement for shareholders regarding Balls’ expedition to Turkey in 1935, 38 pp., typescript and ms., 1934–1935.

Box 2 of 2
• GB 235 BEK/5/01-21: Correspondence from E.K. Balls to J. MacQueen Cowan and to William Wright Smith, field notes, and list of specimens despatched regarding Balls’ expedition to Morocco in 1936, 21 pp., typescript and ms., 1936.
• GB 235 BEK/6/01-23: Correspondence from E.K. Balls to William Wright Smith, field notes, list of subscribers, and list of seeds and specimens regarding Balls’ expedition to Greece in 1937, 24 pp., typescript 1937.
• GB 235 BEK/7/01-37: Correspondence from E.K. Balls to J. MacQueen Cowan and to William Wright Smith, field notes, and list of specimens despatched regarding Balls’ expedition to Mexico in 1938, 38 pp., typescript and ms., 1938.
• GB 235 BEK/8/01-33: Typescript and ms., correspondence from E.K. Balls to J. MacQueen Cowan and to William Wright Smith, field notes, and list of specimens despatched regarding Balls’ expedition to the Andes, 1938–1939, 33 pp., 1938–1939.