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Monograph: Letter to William Maurlan from Isaac Bayley Balfour, dated, November 28th 1879, advising that the Commissioners of the Board of Inland Revenue had authorized an annual provision of 30 gallons of methylated spirits to Glasgow University – for the preservation of Botanical Specimens.
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
•Letter to Watson from Henry Trimen (16 Jan 1876)
•Letter to Watson from Henry Roscoe (1 May 1872)
•Copy of a letter to the Linnaean Society from Watson (23 Dec 1863)
Watson, Hewett Cottrell
•Paper ‘On the Fossil Plants Discovered by Dr. Lyall in Greenland’, Zurich, 1st of May 1862
Heer, Oswald
List produced on RBGE embossed paper, bound together to form a book; beginning with Ranunculaceae, there are 330 pages of plants growing in the Garden in 1883 (though the 3 could also be interpreted as a 5); the book has an index at the back.
L'Herbier Boissier; Catalogue of Artocarpeae by Pierre Edmond Boissier
M/S Catalogue of Artocarpeae, "L'Herbier Boissier" by Pierre Edmond Boissier, catalogue comprising 42 mss leaves, 200 x 320mm
Boissier, Pierre Edmond
Regulations for the Preliminary Scientific (M.B.) Examination, 1st Feb 1886
•Syllabus of a Course of Ten Lectures on Botany by George Masse
London, University of
Eichler - References filed in “Balfour, I.B” papers under “Oxford University Press”
Eichler, August Wilhelm
George Watt's Herbarium catalogue
large register partly filled with information regarding George Watt's herbarium specimens collected in India, mainly north-western Himalayas, Manipur and the plains and lower hills of India.
Watt, Sir George
List of books from John Ball's Botanical Library
•List of books from J. Ball’s Botanical Library, presented by the Trustees (printed list).
Ball, John
•Letter and exchange request / book plate c.1890? French collector looking to exchange books? Reference to an Ex-Libris Society. Reaux based at 26 Rue des Dames, Paris. Letter and Card found in RBGE copy of Matthioli’s ‘De Plantis Epitome Utilissima’ 1586 [belonged to John Hope, so presumably not received by exchange with Reaux]
Reaux, Jules
