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•Papers from 1893-1953 (including papers of Dr. Malcolm Wilson)
Wilson, Dr. Malcolm2 typescripts:
1st script]"Dr. Dunsmure's M.S", Titled: "Evidently note of Prof R. Graham's lecture 'Plant Life'. 25 pages signed on page 24 as James Dunsmure.
2nd script] 29 pages - headed "Richard" on 'Vascular tissues'.
10 pages - headed "Darwin" - comparing plant anatomy to animal circulatory, vascular, glandular, muscular & nervous systems.
3 pages - headed "Mr. Knight" - on sap & buds.
2 pages - headed "Decadolle & Sprengel" - on cells and root.
2 pages -headed "Thomson" on sap.
2 pages - headed "Smith" on bark.
1 page - headed "Dutrochet" 1 paragraph in French referencing tissue permeability in plants.
3 pages referencing "Caesalpinus".
letters from Malcolm Dunn (Dalkeith Gdns), dated 1880 – 1893 to Isaac Bayley Balfour.
Dunn, MalcolmPostcard to Dr. E. V. Jones at the Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford, regarding J. Sim’s hepatics dated September 27, 1966; from Ursula Katherine Duncan.
Duncan, Ursula Katherinefrom the collection of Christopher Fraser-Jenkins
Photocopies of a list of collections from Christopher Fraser-Jenkins. These numbers were used by Mary Gibby, esp. in her photography work. These photocopies are for reference only.
Fraser-Jenkins, Christopher Roy1 envelope containing a pressed specimen of Dryopteris dilatata subsp. lusitanica. collected by CR Fraser-Jenkins in 2019.
Collection number: 36189
Fraser-Jenkins, Christopher Roy1 envelope. Enclosed with dried plant specimen of Dryopteris dilatata subsp. lusitanica. Collected by CR Fraser-Jenkins.
Coll. number 36198, collected 10-10-2009
3 page draft. 2 copies. Typed. About Dryopteris affinis agg for a leaflet.
[Excerpt, Introduction] It is not accepted by most who have been studying this group that the former subspecies should be treated as distinct species. A paper giving the new terminology has been published in the Fern Gazette (February 2007) by Christopher Fraser-Jenkins.
The second copy has additional notes about Dryopteris affinis agg in VC 62 [vice county 62, North-East Yorkshire]
UnknownCatalogue of Thomas Drummond’s first parcel from St. Louis, the Alleganies and New Orleans in 1832 (hand written by R.K. Greville)
Drummond, Thomas