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•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]

Regulations for the Preliminary Scientific (M.B.) Examination, 1st Feb 1886
•Syllabus of a Course of Ten Lectures on Botany by George Masse

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

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.

•Book containing photographs of personalities, plants and landscapes, China

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.

•Photocopy of a letter to Mr Watson, dated 16th January 1878

•Eaton, D.L. letter to Capt Henderson dated 2 Dec 1878, Re: exchange of specimens. Filed under “Henderson, F”.

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.

•Correspondence filed with “Balfour, I.B. correspondence” under “Kesselring, W.”
•See also correspondence filed under “Russia” in main index.