Letter from Richard Chandler Alexander, Bath, to John Hutton Balfour
- GB 235 RBG/1/JHB/1/1/A/A15
- Stuk
- 1837
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
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Letter from Richard Chandler Alexander, Bath, to John Hutton Balfour
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Letter from Richard Chandler Alexander, Bath, to John Hutton Balfour
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Letter from George Arnott Walker Arnott, Arlary, to William Hunter Campbell
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Sadler, John (Principal Gardener at the Royal Botanic Gardens, 1879-1882)
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• Bound ms. notebook containing 64 lectures on botany, topics for weekly examinations, with 13 loose ms. sheets, principally plant lists, 1868–1877
• Flora of Edinburgh, by John Hutton Balfour, assisted by John Sadler, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1863, with ms. corrections and annotations (title page changed to “Second Edition, 1871”; front cover label = “Flora of Edinburgh / Third Edition / Additions and Corrections”).
• Reprints of articles on Scottish flora, principally from Trans. Bot. Soc., including “Mr Sadler on the Flora of the Bridge of Earn,” 1862; “Mr Sadler’s Remarks on Boehmetria nivea,” 1870; Mr Sadler’s Report on Open-Air Vegetation,” 1879;” Notes on the Alpine Flora of Ben Nevis, Inverness-Shire,” 1879; “On the Flowering of Yucca gloriosa, L., in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh,”1880 (ms. inscription: “With J. Sadler’s Compts”); “On a Curious Form of Kohl Rabi,” 1880; Report on Notes on a Botanical Trip to Ben Nevis, Inverness-Shire, in July, 1876, by John Sadler, reprinted from the Gardeners’ Chronicle, March 17, 1877, 2 copies, 1 with ms. annotations and corrections; notice of publication of Gardiner’s [sic] Flora of Forfarshire, 2nd edition by John Sadler (1872); 4 reports on temperatures at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 1880–1882; copies of 2 letters regarding the appointment of a new Curator for the RBG (originals in “Balfour, J.H.”, supp. boxes under “Nicholson, G.”), 1878.
• Obituaries of John Sadler, including “John Sadler,” by Professor Bayley Balfour, Trans. Bot. Soc., 1883 (with typescript); “The Late Mr John Sadler,” by William Craig, reprinted from Berkshire Naturalists’ Club Transactions, 1882 (with typescript); typescript of notice in Gardeners’ Chronicle, July–Dec. 1882; typescript of entry in A Biographical Index of British and Irish; newspaper clippings of obituary; ms. letter from William Craig to “My dear Professor” [I. Bayley Balfour] regarding Sadler’s supposed sojourn in Bristol, 1905; ms. of “medallion” on Sadler’s tombstone (Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh), which was erected “in affectionate remembrance by his friends in the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club,” 1884.
• Caricature: ink and watercolour drawing of 3 mycologists flying high in a mushroom-shaped hot air balloon. Inscribed: “Authorities high in fungi. 1872” in John Sadler’s handwriting.
• Index card: Sadler, John. 3 ltrs 1879/80 filed “Balfour, I.B.” papers under “Sadler, J.”
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Letter from George Arnott Walker Arnott, Arlary, to William Hunter Campbell
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Letter from George Arnott Walker Arnott, Arlary, to William Hunter Campbell
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
John Hutton Balfour- Lecture labelled 'July 1840, Private lecture'
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Letter from Robert Ball, Dublin, to W.H. Campbell
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Letter from Thomas Johnston Bowman, London, to W.H. Campbell
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University of Edinburgh Botany Class List
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John Hutton Balfour's University of Edinburgh Botany Class Register, but also includes listings for the courses he taught at the University of Glasgow.