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•Note of plants found in Ross-shire by Dr. John Robertson (14 Jul1847)

• One letter (June 21, 1847), Botanical Society communications

•Manuscript paper titled ‘The Culture of the Potato’ being an extract of a letter from Alexander McLaren, gardener to the Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry at Coton House, Rugby 1847 to be read to meeting by Lt. Col. Belshes, President of the Society

Copy of his obituary, 1896
•Copy of eulogy
•Notice of interment

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.

• Notebook list of collection, list of plants in Whittinghame collection

•References to “Handbuch der Blütenbiologie” filed in “Balfour, I.B.” papers under “Oxford Unversity Press”

Letter to [Gage] from Prain, (11th Dec 1909)
•Manuscript letter to D. Saville from Prain to the Government Cinchona Plantation, Sureil, Kurseong (7th Apr. 1902)

"Vorlesungen über Bakterien” Pub. Jena :Fischer,1897..

•Letter to J.A. Terras, from C. B. Moffat, dated 17 Aug1897. re; memoire of A.G. More