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•10 folders of plant lists •List of Léveillé / Leveille duplicates sent to Tokyo and Seoul •Léveillé Plantae Novae Sandwicencis •List of correct names for Léveilléan species described in the wrong family •Léveillé lists •Folder containing Douglas McKean’s correspondence and research relating to the re-organisation and identification of RBGE’s Léveillé herbarium. •File containing a Dicots Index – working copy for counting Léveillé Taxa, Douglas McKean’s notebook on Léveillé Chinese and Indian localities, and Douglas McKean’s notes and correspondence relating to Léveillé’s Carex types. •Correspondence with I.B. Balfour filed with “Balfour, I.Bayley” papers under “Léveillé, H.”
•Papers & correspondence re; Sphagnum Moss – use as medical dressing, (1st & 2nd World War references) – including W. Wright Smith’s report to R.A.M.C. (War Dept.) dated 1916 are filed under “Sphagnum Moss as medical dressings” – index “S”
• Letter to Dr. Robert Wright regarding Orchids, dated 8 Sep.1832 •Copy of a typed letter [for I.B.B] from Dr. Masters, regarding having a memoir of Lindley prefacing one of ‘their’ volumes of the Annals of Botany (21 Jun 1903)
Logan Botanic Gardens, Stranraer, Wigtownshire •2 boxes of papers marked ‘Acquisition’ •1 box of papers marked ‘Deed of Gift from Trustees’ Logan Gardens Trust •1 file containing miscellaneous correspondence (1965-67) •1 file containing miscellaneous correspondence and minutes of the trustees meetings (1961-63) •2 different rough drafts of ‘A Guide to the Gardens’ (Logan Gardens) Logan House •2 boxes of papers marked ‘Sale to Sir Ninian Buchan-Hepburn’ London, Royal Botanic Society •Regulations and lists of members (1877)
Box of photographs of Sikkim including plants and locations, taken by Colonel Duncan George Lowndes between around 1935 and 1937, filed alongside correspondence to R.E. Cooper regarding the photographs, and lists of plants sent to RBGE (accompanying herbarium specimens) and notes to and from James Sinclair regarding some of his plant identifications.
•Some correspondence filed with Sir Wm. Wright Smith papers under “Smith, Sir Wm. W.”, “Rhododendron Corresp”, material boxed alphabetically in these boxes
•Letter (12 handwritten pages on 4 sheets) to George Arnott Walker Arnott, regarding Ficus, dated 14 March 1847 •4 separate autograph notes on Ficus / Figs
