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•Various copies of Isaac Bayley Balfour’s Family Tree
•Copy of the Balfour family photo album
•1 box of miscellaneous papers regarding the Balfour family tree

E. Colborne Baber ‘Royal Geographical Society Supplementary Papers Vol. I. Part 1: Travels and Researches in Western China’ London, 1882

Personal communication between Roger West and Ian Murray M.P. regarding outbreak of Ash Dieback Disease, Chalara fraxinea - includes Parliamentary question and small report.

36 pages of copied seed sowing records made at Ascreavie by David Smith.

Article on ‘British Alpine Gardens’ Gardeners’ Chronicle (July 9, 1910) by H. Correvon, Floraire, Geneva
– refers to RBGE, I.B.Balfour and R. Farrer

• Obituary, reprinted from "The North Western Naturalist" September 1943; a 3 page obituary by George Taylor which includes a portrait of A.H. Evans.
• Three items from Botanical Society of Edinburgh archives relating to Evans’s biography and bibliography – correspondence between William Wright Smith, George Taylor, Alex Cowan and J.T. Johnstone including a typed letter from George Taylor to Professor William Wright Smith (6 April 1943) regarding Evans's biography and bibliography; a handwritten note from Alex Cowan to Professor William Wright Smith (12 April 1943) regarding Evans's notification of death and clarification of a date; and a cover note from William Wright Smith to librarian J.T. Johnstone.

• 3 hand drawn maps & 1 printed map of an Expedition in Siam (1921), Chengmai district, N. Thailand, to be found in Archive Box I-K. 2 expeditions were taken during 1921. Routes followed day by day marked in red. Jan-April and late April –Jun. Printed map of the Kingdom of Siam and neighbouring states pre-1939
• Hand written list of plants extracted from a copy of J.G. Koenig's ‘Journal of a Voyage from India to Siam and Malacca in 1779’ (April 26th 1931), in folder in Archive Box I-K. Plants noted at Ban Pak nam, Siam. Some plants introduced since his visit.

•Box containing a notebook, papers and correspondence, moss specimens, bryophyte master cards and a checklist of the bryophytes of V.C.101
•5 boxes containing 52 notebooks mostly relating to VC101
•2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and correspondence (to be checked)
•3 boxes of correspondence (to be checked)

Note: Anne Neilson Cumming attended two term courses; Autumn & Spring 1918-1919 for Arts. First Class Examination 92%; Second Class Examination 66%; Passed for Arts March 1919; Demonstrated to Medical Class during the Summer of 1919, 1920 and 1921.

2 boxes of correspondence, notes & papers relating to Burma Expedition, plant identifications and information relating to colleague's expeditions in Afghanistan, Nepal and Bhutan.