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Buff sheet (285 x 215mm) headed in ink in John MacWatt’s hand ‘Dorothy Perkins grown on a pole in Front / 1909/ Sept 17th’ above a pasted-on photographic view, and a small cutting ‘Blue Primroses from Scotland’; and on the reverse a photographic view, probably of the garden at Morelands, marked in ink in his hand ‘Hycanth [sic] Candicans’.

[COVER] "BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY FIELD DATA BOOK No 16501-16550"

nearly the entire book is blank. Collection numbers removed from nearly all pages (bottom right corner)

1 box of general correspondence and minutes (c.1862)
1 box of R. Brown letters and lists (c.1862)
1 box of shareholders’ letters (c.1862)
1 box of financial papers (c.1862)

Three boxes of Schoenus Ferrugineus research by Brian S. Brookes
Box 1 contains 2 photos of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, future King of Bhutan inspecting Schoenus ferrugineus with George Sherriff.
Collection seems to focus around a plantation of Schoenus ferrugineus that was growing on the banks of Loch Tummel that was lost by a hydro scheme in the 1940s/1950s? and Brookes's attempts to replant a new population at Loch Tummel in the 1970s.

1 programme for The British Pteridological Society's Symposium on Cultivation and Propagation of Pteridophytes. 7-11 July 1991.

2 photocopies of the Schedule of Events for the British Pteridological Society Centenary Week Celebrations, 19-25 September 1991.

Hand drawn map in blue ink on the back of the last page.

First copy also includes a calendar of events, additional map, and a menu for the celebratory dinner.

Also found between the pages the first copy, a BPS Distribution Ferns and Fern Allies card for Perthshire, filled in.

1 booklet of abstracts for The British Pteridological Society's Symposium on Cultivation and Propagation of Pteridophytes. 7-11 July 1991.

Mary Gibby talk "Experimental Hybridizing and Hybridizers"

Also contained 5 BPS Distribution card for Ferns and Fern Allies (filled out) in the pages.

Box of black and white prints, mostly by George Sherriff, but with a few of Sherriff plants at RBGE taken by Robert Moyes Adam, comprising primulas and some related landscapes.