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•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)
•1 file of miscellaneous correspondence with Dr. Harold R. Fletcher (1958-71) •Copy of a letter to Taylor from H.R. Fletcher (15 Dec 1965) and an article by Taylor titled ‘Himalayan Plants in the Field’ from The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, (1948) •Two boxes of index cards to N. Douglas Simpson’s Index (a gift from Taylor to Royal Botanic Garden Trust)
1 album containing ephemera to do with the Balfour professors; John Hutton Balfour, Isaac Bayley Balfour and John Cleland, plus other papers of interest.
•Papers regarding the Victoria Botanic Gardens, Southern Cameroons (1916-1961) •Papers regarding horticulture and agriculture in Southern Nigeria (1906) •Illustrations, drawings and abstracts.
•Annotated copy of William Jameson’s ‘Report Upon the Botanical Gardens of the Government, North Western Provinces’, Roorkee, Thomason C. E. College Press. (1855)
• Invitation to Royal Dinner – 400th Anniversary of the Union of the Crowns • Invitation to the tercentenary celebration of the birth of Carl Linnaeas • Notes written on the train to London, 4th Feb 2008 as an outline of contents for ‘Gardening the Earth’.