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•2 boxes of notes on Rhododendrons
•1 box containing notes on rhododendrons, a copy of an ecological study on the vegetation of Cyprus, first degree notes, a list of plant explorations in Western China, Lothian Plant collecting field notes, a survey of the flowering plants and their distribution in the Lothians, and a personal letter

Hand written cover letter dated 1st July 1903 & 7 page typed "Essay on Menyanthes Trifoliata". Hand written list of diagrams and microscopic illustrations, lodged in competition for the Dobbie Smith Prize in Botany, Glasgow University

File card (Biog. Index p.47.; Index p.74)
•Letters to Col. F Henderson dated 1879 -81, filed under “Henderson, F”

•2 letters dated 1861 & 1863 to Dr Thos. Anderson – item 86 & 87 in bound volume filed under “Anderson, Dr. Thos” – Box 2
•3 letters dated 1877 -1878 to I. Bayley Balfour filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” correspondence under “Decaisne, J”

•Miscellaneous letters, papers and newspaper and magazine articles.
•Otto Degener, ‘Flora Hawaiiensis, or New Illustrated Flora of the Hawaiian Islands’

(Index p.74)
•Correspondence from Rupert Smith 1941 – 1942, filed under “Smith, Rupert”

•Letter regarding being elected an honorary member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh (October 7, 1837)

•22 page, bound article written by Hamish Johnston adding new information about the Dickson nurserymen families to an article written by Priscilla Minay for the Old Edinburgh Club Vol. 1 1991. Accompanied by 2 pages of corrections to the Dickson entries in Ray Desmond’s Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists. 6 pages of email correspondence with Archive Librarian at RBGE (Feb.2011)

•monograph; 8 pencil written notes of a biographical nature (originator of letter was James Grieve) detailing his work on Violas at Dickson's Ltd.
and extract of Roy Genders ‘Pansies and Violas’

•Correspondence, re: late brother’s affairs dated 1889 filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” correspondence under “Dickson, Archibald”