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•Papers re: 1899 Forbes/ Ogilvie-Grant Expedition to Socotra filed with "Balfour, I.B." papers under "Socotra"

Forestry Commission:
Papers /correspondence re: Dutch Elm Disease, filed in Box “Dutch Elm Disease”, - “Papers 1893 – 1953”
Letter from I.B.Balfour, dated 19 Nov. 1903, to N. Smith; Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters, regarding 'Forestry'.
Imperial Foretry Institute, Oxford -Papers /correspondence re: Dutch Elm Disease, filed in Box “Dutch Elm Disease" “Papers 1893 – 1953”

Forman, Adam (1916 corres.)
•Papers and Correspondence re: Sphagnum Moss – Use as medical dressings (1st World War & 2nd World War references) - inc. W Wright Smith’s report to R.A.M.C. (War Dept.) dated 1916 are filed under “Sphagnum Moss as medical dressings” – index “S”

•Two folders of photographs, correspondence, reports, maps etc. from 1967 Soqotra Expedition

References in papers filed “Swarbrick, J.T” – Report on Victoria Botanic Garden, Cameroons.

•11 copies of his obituary: Extracted from “Proceedings of The Linnean Society of London, Session 157, 1944-1945, Pt.2, 23 May 1946. Photograph: Lt-Col Andrew Thomas Gage, C.I.E. & pages105-109.
•Correspondence dated 1912-1913 on Primula filed with subject material under “Primula” (Box 1) in main index.
•Letter from D. Prain (Kew) dated 11 Dec 1909 to Major Gage re: max Sterculia filed under “Prain, D” in general index.

•Materials related to his book ‘Flora of Forfarshire’ – 16 page handwritten monograph ‘Catalogue of Mosses Collected in Forfarshire and Perthshire; including 155 species and varieties belonging to 26 genera.’ bound in card cover. Inset at the end is a copy of a letter from Alex. P. Stevenson, stamped 17 Jun 1903, referencing James Donald – Hampton Court Gdns.
•Note from W.W. Smith, dated 23 Dec 1931 referring to Gardiner’s own copy of his book ‘Flora of Forfarshire’. The copy was lent by Alexander Hutcheson and is believed to be unique, as having mounted specimens of plants interleaved and named by Gardiner himself. The copy referred to in the note is in the Library of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.
•Lent by Alexander Hutcheson – an advertisement for a proposed 2nd edition of “Gardiner’s Flora of Forfarshire”, which was never published.
•Letter written by William Gardiner to his wife Elizabeth from Castleton of Braemar, dated 26 July 1844, on one of his botanical excursiions; acknowledging receipt of a P.O. money order.
•Letter dated 30 Jan 1896 from James Scrymgour to Alexander Hutcheson re: Wm. Gardiner.
•“The Flora Of Forfarshire”, Gardiner, William, London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longman, 1848. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015061233758

Glenarn Garden, Rhu, Dumbartonshire
Owned by the Gibson family between 1922 and 1984, archive consists of:
• Early Plant Book – 1
• Rhododendron Book (Bible / Stud Book)
• List of Abbreviations relating to above two books
• Letter from Jim Gibson to David Ingram dated 24/01/1994 regarding donation of above and history of the Garden.

2 folders relating to M. Goethe's Plant Collecting Expedition to the Andes, 1924
•Folder 1: correspondence, dated 1924 – 1925, with M. Goethe, Henry D. McLaren & Prof. W. W. Smith
•Folder 2: Original handwritten list of 273 specimens of plants & seeds collected by M. Goethe

Gordon, Rosemary
• Thesis: a General Account of the Anatomy of Saurauja Subspinosa, 1935
66 typed pages, inc. 2 page Bibliography; 19 pages describing 22 Figures & 6 pages describing 12 Plates (Thesis Bot. IV, no plates but negatives with m.y.o. [Matthew Young Orr])