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36 pages of copied seed sowing records made at Ascreavie by David Smith.
Sin títuloData Sheets, Lists and Guidance used in the 1989 Nature Conservancy Council Fresh Water Lochs Survey / South Argyll Lochan Survey.
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GRG/1 - 'A list of the flowering plants, ferns, mosses and liverworts of Berwickshire (Watsonian vice-county 81)' by G. Grahame, unpublished, c.1945-1956
GRG/2 - 56 page Manuscript Notebook –'A List of the Mosses and Liverworts of Berwickshire (Watsonian Vice-County 81)' by G. Grahame, c.1953 (added to collection in November 2023, was already in Archives, but catalogued separately)
GRG/3 - 'A list of the flowering plants and ferns of N.E. England and S.E. Scotland, 1829-1970', unpublished, 1970
GRG/4 - included in the folder are some notes on the VC81 list by Michael Braithwaite, 2009 who incorporated the records in the BSBI VC81 database; 'Notes on G Graham's 'List' for VC 81 Berwickshire held by RBGE' (also covers VC68, VC72, VC78, VC79, VC80, VC82, VC83
Monograph ‘Notice of a Crab Apple Tree of Unusual Size at Kelloe, Berwickshire’
Sin título2 folders, each containing around 40 specimens, the first being the collection curated by Great Aunt Lou - Louisa Hoby nee Russell in around 1862. The second seems to have been put together at least partly by 'DR' and includes seaweed specimens from Cumbrae.
Sin título2 ring-book volumes detailing the Bryophyte Flora of Barra
Sin título• Report on the Tenth International Mycology/ Plant Pathology Excursion, held in Aberdeen between August 13th and 20th, 1964. Record of site visits over the period, discusses plant diseases, list of fungi found and their locations.
Sin título2 framed pencil and watercolour paintings showing different aspects of Dawyck House.
Sin títuloThe collection comprises photographs and reports related to the gathering and preparation of Sphagnum moss, in and around the Moffat/Beattock area, S.W. Scotland, which was used as a medical dressing for wounds during the First World War.
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The Reginald Farrer collection comprises correspondence between Reginald Farrer and his family (his mother in particular), E.A. Bowles, John Buchan, Sir Francis Younghusband, Ernest Gye, Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour and others as detailed below. It also includes paintings, photographs, 35mm slides, glass plate negatives and lantern slides covering mainly his two plant collecting expeditions to China in 1914-15 and Burma in 1919-1920, as well as scripts for plays written by Farrer.
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