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Box containing glass plate negatives, lantern slides and microscope slides relating to William Burns's time in India, 1908-1943.
•Collection of photographs, glass plate negatives and lantern slides [to be arranged] (includes 2 photos taken by Roland Edgar Cooper, and one by A.W. Borthwick)
Evans, William Edgar•Proposed engagement for expedition to Japan – Correspondence, etc. re: consideration (1859 – 1860) filed under “British Columbia Botanical Association” in main index.
Milne, William•William Steel Trust Accounts including a financial report from 1990-1992 and a report from 1999.
Steel, William –(William Steel Trust)Set of letters and notes between William Wright Smith, A. Grove, H.D. McLaren, F.C. Puddle, and William Edgar Evans and including references to Messels of Nymans, all relating to Frank Kingdon Ward's Lilium wardii no. 6034.
Smith, Sir William WrightMinimal; ephemera, 3 documents including a letter from Andrew F. Kedslie to Isaac Bayley Balfour with information from his aunt, Mrs Agnes Arnand, Williamson's great grand-daughter & a copy of Williamson's Testament Dative dated 1780 - all documents appear to have been cut from one of Isaac Bayley Balfour's scrapbooks.
Williamson, John•Copy of ‘Sherardian Professorship of Botany: Application and Testimonials of J.C. Willis’ (18 Nov 1919)
•6 boxes of papers and correspondence (1914-1935)
•Box containing glass slides
•Shelf containing papers and correspondence
•Correspondence with Jonn Mackay (1800-1801), G.A. Walker Arnott (1828), P. Neill (1828), J. McNab (1834), R. Graham (1826), and also referenced to correspondence with G. Don (1802-1812) and W.M. McNab (1818 and 1823).
Winch, Nathaniel John