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•Letter dated 29 Mar 1877 to Capt. Henderson, filed with papers under “Henderson, F”
Mitten, WilliamMonograph; letter dated 10th June 1908 at Aviemore, from R Ellis to Prof Chieni regarding 'Mr Neill's papers'. The correspondence seems to relate to Prof. Balfour's attempt to collect all papers related to former Regius Keepers at RBGE
Ellis, RAlbum is attributed to Nigel Douglas McDouall of Logan and includes:
East Africa Rift Valley: January-June 1909; 77 photographic prints, 33 watercolours and 5 pencil studies through the territories of the Uganda Protectorate (Uganda), Congo Free State (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and the North Western corner of German East Africa (Rwanda)
Angola: May-October 1904, 29 watercolours, 4 views from the Africa West Coast steamer with the remainder being landscapes, vegetation and portraits of local people in the south west highland area.
Mediteranean views - 15 unlabelled watercolour views of the Mediterranean, probably Spain, including coastline views, highland scenes, a village scene and 2 views of roads through arid landscapes featuring local people.
•Book containing photographs of personalities, plants and landscapes, China
Pratt, Antwerp E.1 sketchbook showing scenes of life in Burma (plus one sketch of Loch Eck)
Buchanan, E.M."Vorlesungen über Bakterien” Pub. Jena :Fischer,1897..
Fischer, Alfred•Copy of the title page of his ‘Report on an Exploration on the North East Frontier, 1913
Morshead, Captain H.T.•Two newspaper cuttings, 3 Mar 1913 & 4 Jan 1914, (Isaac Bayley Balfour was a member)
Selbourne Society•Brief history of the life of Henry Harold Welch Pearson, up to 1902, and list of his publications (24.11.1902)
Royal Botanic Gardens, KewCatalogue of hardy plants grown at Bitton Vicarage. 88 typed pages dated on cover April 1901
Ellacombe, Canon Henry Nicholson