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Transcript of Rock’s Diary, Vol. 8, 1927 entitled 'Cho-ni to Sung-Pan; Journey from Cho-ni via The-wu country to Chung-Cheng, Director Arnold Arboretum, Harvard Expedition. From March 9 to April 22 1927, Volume No. VIII (8)'
Transcript has been prepared for Rock and includes the corrections made in his annotated copy and although space has been left for him to add Chinese / Tibetan characters, this was not done.

•Letter to W.H. Campbell form Rollo (8 April 1840)

• Draft copy of an article titled ‘The New Plant Houses at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh’ (stored in the ‘R’ box)
• History and development of the garden
• Accounts, 1764-1876 (incomplete)
• Staff Records (incomplete)
• Probationer Gardener records (1889-1935)
• Records relating to education at RBGE
• Photographs
• Maps
• Papers relating to regional gardens – Dawyck, Benmore and Logan
• Plant flowering records (phenology registers)
• Plant records, including inventories, and registers of plants entering and leaving the garden

List of packages received from George Forrest, compiled from Packages Book by Henry Hastings:
1905 February 13; Basket; Botanical Specimens
1905 April 22; Package; Specimens
1905 August 01; Case; Specimens
1906 June 06; Package; Herbarium Specimens
List has been fire damaged with some loss, including of text.

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.

Letter from A. Cameron, Bees Ltd, Wapping Buildings, Cornhill, Liverpool, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, The Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, dated 03 August 1906.
A Cameron, the Manager at Bees Ltd, [he's now scoring out 'The Co-operative' on the letterhead] writes to request Balfour's opinion on plants raised from seed supplied by George Forrest and sent to RBGE on 28 June 1906.
Letter has been fire damaged with some loss.

Letter from A.K. Bulley, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 21 August 1906.
Bulley writes to agree to Balfour’s request [to treat Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh as a customer rather than exchange partner] 'All right, good friend. It shall be as you wish'. Bulley expects George Forrest to return at beginning of the new year and to marry Miss Traill 'regardless of mother-in-law's tin cap views'. As to Forrest’s prospects: ‘I certainly shan't let F. sink into the ranks of the out of works, though it wont be too easy to find a job for him.’
Letter has been fire damaged with some loss.

Letter from George Forrest, China Inland Misison, Talifu [Dali], to Professor Isaac Bayley Balfour M.D., 'Regius Keeper', Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, dated 01 September 1906.
Forrest writes to thank Balfour for applying to the F:O [Foreign Office] for protection and travel facilities for him. Consuls Ottewill and Wilkinson and other officials have already offered help. Forrest has suffered a period of ill health culminating in high fever and loss of consciousness. He is now recovering and hopes to return to the Lichiang [Lijiang] range [Yulong Xue Shan] where his three best collectors have continued work in his absence. Hopes to bring home with him about 3,000 species, mostly plants from an altitude of 9-15,000 feet.
Letter has been fire damaged with some loss, including of text; handle with care.

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

A set of seven incomplete letters from George Forrest to his fiancee Clementina Traill that was donated to RBGE by Forrest's family, likely via their son Eric Forrest.