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A collection of material from and relating to the plantsman and primula specialist Dr. John MacWatt including photographs, paintings, scrapbooks, papers, nursery catalogues, articles, medals and certificates.
•1 box containing papers relating to an expedition to East Africa, Ruwenzori Mountains, (1932); papers seem to be those generated by RBGE Herbarium as opposed to Humphreys himself.
•1 box of miscellaneous Fletcher correspondence (1957-61) •1 file of miscellaneous correspondence (1960 –72) •1 box of photographs from the Scottish Daily Express
•Correspondence dated 1893 with J.J. Duthie & 1899 with I.B. Balfour (re: Col. F. Henderson collection) filed with “I. Bayley Balfour” papers under “Hope, C.W.”
• correspondence from Mr A.R.B. Hope, family tree, and copy of the John Kay portrait of John Hope with biography presented by the family of Ann Hope (1914-2007)
•Correspondence, dated May – July 1880, to I. Bayley Balfour, filed under “Pharmaceutical Society" with “Balfour, I. Bayley” correspondence. •2 Letters, dated 1885, file with “Dickson, Prof. Alex” papers under “Holmes, E.M.”
Book of newspaper cuttings and notes relative to the H.M.S Challenger (1873-76) Box of Challenger photographs ‘The Challenger Expedition, 1872-1876: A Visual Index’ by Eileen V. Brunton, 2nd Ed, The Library, The Natural History Museum, London (2004)
Correspondence with I. Bayley Balfour, 1908 -1922 filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Hill, Arthur W.” •Correspondence with Sir William Wright Smith, 1921 – 1941, filed with “Smith, Sir Wm. Wright” papers under “Hill, Sir Arthur William” in white folder in Box annotated “Kew Correspondence"
•Letter, dated 6 April 1940, •Papers, dated June – November 1900, re: Pharmaceutical Society, Regulation of Examinations filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Pharmaceutical Society"