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Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, no XII and XIII, published in November 1904 and containing information on the principal gardeners at RBGE, mainly John Williamson, Malcolm McCoig, Robert Menzies, John Mackay and George Don. The bulk of the document comprises George Claridge Druce's memoir 'The Life and Works of George Don' followed by Appendices A-E. Appendices F, G and postscript are in the following volume.

• Three passports
• B.L. Burtt’s Obituary, Edinburgh Evening News, p.14, (7th of June 2008)
• Two boxes of B.L Burtt’s notebooks
• Three boxes containing reprints and annotated working copies of various journals and articles
• in 2019 a folder of biographical information, including 3 photographs, compiled by Henry Noltie was added to the collection. It includes the obituaries and biographical articles Henry wrote, plus other obituaries, articles about Bill, and memories by him and about him.

contains notes from:

conference/workshop presentation: 'Repetitive DNA and the evolution of plant genomes by RB Flavell' (Royal Society Discussion Meeting March 1985)
specimen data? (e.g. 'Ferns to Saville Gardens)

loose documents found folded in the middle:

2 tickets to 'Royal Society Meeting', dated 13-14 March 1985
copy of the agenda for 'The Royal Society' meeting 13-14 March 1985, with handwritten note on the front
copy of the abstracts for 'The Royal Society' meeting 13-14 March 1985

[INSIDE FRONT COVER] "St. Andrew's CE School Governor's Meetings"

contains notes from:

conference/workshop presentations
meeting notes from 26 Sept 1995

[PAGE 1] Nature Conservation Act

contains notes from:

conference/workshop presentations
meetings
Chinese translations for localities
specimen data?
other (e.g. to-do lists, plans)

• loose document found in folder at the back of notebook

[PAGE 1] 3 March 2006, James Curran....

contains notes from:

conference/workshop presentations
meetings
specimen data?
other (e.g. to-do lists)

contains a pressed fern frond

contains notes from:

conference/workshop presentations
meetings
specimen data?
other (e.g. to-do lists, plans)

loose document found in folder at the back of notebook (a receipt, email printout from her daughter - 29 Aug 2007, agenda for Edinburgh Consortium for Rural Research - 16 Nov 2011, draft agenda for Spore Bank Meeting - 13 Oct 2011, information about Moleskine notebooks)

contains notes from:

speeches (2)
conference/workshop presentations
meetings
Genealogy notes on: Annie Speight (b. 1896), Thomas Speight (b. 1870), Sarah Goodhall (b. 1856)
specimen data?
other (e.g. to-do lists)

contains a pressed plant material (x2) between pages, and 1 bit of pressed plant material in the folder on the back cover, enclosed in notebook paper.