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Receipt letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Edinburgh to Bees Ltd
GB 235 FRG/1/1/1/1906/10 · Item · 29/06/1906
Part of George Forrest Collection

Receipt letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to the Co-operative Bees Ltd, Ness, Neston, dated 29 June 1906.
Standard letter giving identification of seven plant specimens:
No. 1, Spiraea Ulmaria
No. 2, Asphodelus fistulosus
No. 3, Polygonum molle
No. 4, Spiraea Humboldtii
No. 5, Lindelofia spectabilis
No. 6, Veronica Teucrium
No. 7, Potentilla chrysantha
Plants referenced: Asphodelus; Lindelofia; Polygonum; Potentilla; Spiraea; Veronica
Letter has been fire damaged with some loss.

 Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
Receipt letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Edinburgh to Bees Ltd
GB 235 FRG/1/1/1/1906/15 · Item · 05/09/1906
Part of George Forrest Collection

Receipt letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh to Bees Ltd, dated 05 September 1906.
Standard letter giving identification of seven specimen plants and 5 plants grown from seeds sent by Forrest from China:
No. 1, Spiraea Ulmaria
No. 2, Asphodelus fistulosus
No. 3, Polygonum molle
No. 4, Spiraea Humboldtii
No. 5, Lindelofia spectabilis
No. 6, Veronica Teucrium
No. 7, Potentilla chrysantha
The plants sent from seeds sent from China by Mr. Forrest are:

  1. Adenophora polymorpha
  2. Potentilla n.sp. near gelida
  3. Adenophora n.sp.
  4. Sedum asiaticum var.
  5. Silene apetala
    Plants referenced: Adenophora; Asphodelus; Lindelofia; Polygonum; Potentilla; Sedum; Silene; Spiraea; Veronica
 Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
Receipt from Dulau and Co., London, to Isaac Bayley Balfour
GB 235 FRG/1/1/1/1905/64 · Item · 24/10/1905
Part of George Forrest Collection

Receipt from Dulau and Co., Foreign and English Booksellers, 37 Soho Square, London, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 24 October 1905.
Invoice for £12.6s for despatch of a seven volume set of Hooker’s Flora of British India that Balfour has ordered to be sent to George Forrest, c/o Thomas Cook & Sons, Rangoon, Burma.
The invoice is slightly scorched with some loss, though not of text.

 Dulau and Co.
Reaux, J(ules)
GB 235 REA · Item · 1890

•Letter and exchange request / book plate c.1890? French collector looking to exchange books? Reference to an Ex-Libris Society. Reaux based at 26 Rue des Dames, Paris. Letter and Card found in RBGE copy of Matthioli’s ‘De Plantis Epitome Utilissima’ 1586 [belonged to John Hope, so presumably not received by exchange with Reaux]

 Reaux, Jules
R.E. Holttum to M. Gibby
GB 235 GBY/1/1/41 · Item · 15 Nov 1984
Part of Professor Mary Gibby Collection

1 page letter.

Enclosed material:

  • 2 photographs of Dicksonia x lathamii, images of spores taken by an SEM by Peter Edwards (Sept. 1983)

Attached to 3 letters:

  • From J. Aldred to A.C. Jermy (20 Dec 1984)
  • From J. Aldred to A.C. Jermy (14 Jan 1986)
  • From A.C. Jermy to J. Aldred (n.d. Jan 1986)
 Holttum, Richard Eric