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Book of newspaper cuttings and notes relative to the H.M.S Challenger (1873-76)
Box of Challenger photographs
‘The Challenger Expedition, 1872-1876: A Visual Index’ by Eileen V. Brunton, 2nd Ed, The Library, The Natural History Museum, London (2004)
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Cryptogamic Society of Scotland (incorporated into the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in 1935)
1 box containing constitution, reports, field reports of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh Cryptogamic SectionCryptogamic Society of Scotland (1875 - 1935) (incorporated into the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in 1935).
1 box containing laws, lists of members, conference reports (1903-1937) and photographs
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Mascarene / Madagascar Islands
•Copy of the first page of a paper by I.B. Balfour titled ’The Pandaneae of the Mascarene Islands’, 1875
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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”
•Notebook containing manuscript essay on ‘The Fiographical Distribution of Algae’
•Copy of 'A Manual of Botany' by Le Maout and Decaisne, translated by Mrs Hooker and with an Appendix by Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1876, awarded to James Adam Terras by Prof. Alexander Dickson in July 1886 as a Special Prize for High Proficiency in the Class of Advanced Practical Botany (ELWU2) (seems likely Terras eventually donated the book to the Botanical Society Library?) (book in state of disrepair now)
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Collins, Ernest Jacob (1878-1939)
1 box of general correspondence, photographs, floral diagrams and correspondence between Darlington, Hall and B.L. Burtt about Collin’s material.
1 box of drawings and descriptions of crocus
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Snelling, Lilian - MBE, V.M.H (Victoria Medal in Horticulture)
•4 solander boxes of artwork produced between c.1915 and c.1920, mainly Primulas and Rhododendrons
•Extract from Snelling’s obituary by the Earl of Morton, taken from the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1973, vol.98, p.139, mounted onto card.
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The Reginald Farrer collection comprises correspondence between Reginald Farrer and his family (his mother in particular), E.A. Bowles, John Buchan, Sir Francis Younghusband, Ernest Gye, Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour and others as detailed below. It also includes paintings, photographs, 35mm slides, glass plate negatives and lantern slides covering mainly his two plant collecting expeditions to China in 1914-15 and Burma in 1919-1920, as well as scripts for plays written by Farrer.
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•Box containing glass slides
•Shelf containing papers and correspondence
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•Collection of photographs, glass plate negatives and lantern slide [to be arranged]
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