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Hand written letter from J. Gordon Senior, to Reverend/Mr. Tilson, dated 10th of February 1767, re: strawberry plants – Bath strawberry/Chili Beet, Discussing the identification of the strawberry originally brought to England by the Spanish ambassador 10 years previously, falsely called the chili beet. Enclosed seed of the humming–bird plant.

•Helen Graham, James Irvine (ed.)‘Parties and Pleasure: The Diaries of Helen Graham, 1823-26’, Munro Press, Perth, 1957

•Obituary of Robert James Douglas Graham, from the Year Book R.S.E., 1950-51 by William Wright Smith.

• 1 short handwritten narrative regarding the foundation of Hamburg Botanic Garden by Prof. C. Lehmann between 1820 and 1822. There is no author's name or date but it is an expert description of the contents of the Hamburg Botanic Garden.

• Booklet, “Laws of The Harveian Society of Edinburgh; instituted 12th April 1782”, with Chronological Lists of Presidents (including D. Rutherford (1787 & 1818), J.H. Balfour (1852) and R. Graham (1825)) and Members since 1782 with Rules of Membership.

•Paper ‘On the Fossil Plants Discovered by Dr. Lyall in Greenland’, Zurich, 1st of May 1862

Correspondence with I Bayley Balfour 1892 -1907 filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Hemsley, W.B.”
• Letter dated 21st Feb 1867 to Dr. Thos. Anderson – item 111 in bound volume filed under “Anderson, Dr. Thos” – Box 2

• Report on the Tenth International Mycology/ Plant Pathology Excursion, held in Aberdeen between August 13th and 20th, 1964. Record of site visits over the period, discusses plant diseases, list of fungi found and their locations.

Sanderson's Prize essay manuscript, ‘The Origin and Development of the Embryo in Phanerogamous Plants’, submitted in July 1849 as part of his Botany course for his Medical degree at the University of Edinburgh. Sanderson has illustrated the manuscript with pencil illustrations drawn from the microscope.
Impressed by the content, Hutton Balfour deemed it worthy of a prize, with part of the content read at a meeting of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in February 1850.

1 sheet with John Sibthorp's book plate attached to it, alongside email correspondence outlining the discovery.