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Postcard from A.K. Bulley, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 06 September 1905.
Bulley writes a short to Balfour on a postcard approving the photographs and regretting that they are unlikely to get seeds of the Tsekou plants unless Forrest got them on his first trip there. Bulley requests that the label printed for Forrest's herbarium collections simply says ‘collected by George Forrest’, removing his own name from it.

Postcard from A.K. Bulley, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, The Regius Keeper, Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, dated 24 September 1905.
Bulley writes to advise Balfour that he does not expect to receive any seeds of the plants from Tsekou this year, blue rhododendrons included.

One book, "Popular History of Palms" by Berthold Seeman, 1856; stamped W.H. Smith & Son Library, 186 Strand, with following inscription: "Presented to Mr R.L. Harrow by his associates in the Fernery Department, Kew, on the occasion of his leaving that establishment for Edinburgh. Royal Gardens, Kew, Jany 28 1893". Book is also stamped ex libris Anthony Huxley.
Book is in a box alongside, documentation, correspondence relating to Richard Hancock's original query to RBGE in 2002 and his bequest in 2016-7.

•File containing miscellaneous correspondence regarding his expedition to Karakoram and Lebanon and plant lists (1959-1962)

•File containing 3 collectors books, No. 1-300

Copy of a letter from J.H. Balfour to the Secretary of the Botanical Society (10.02.1841)

I. See references in Rodriguez (Transit of Venus) papers, filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Rodriguez”
II. See papers filed with “PANDANUS” (mainly I.B. Balfour’s) in general index of archival material. (4 boxes)
III. Letter dated 25 June 1866 from Chas. James Meller – item 141 in bound volume, filed under “Anderson, Dr. Thos.” – Box 2
IV. 12 letters dated 1875 -1876 filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers, under “Horne, F”