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

•Hand written letter dated 11 Jan 1945 to: Davis, Peter Hadland

•Correspondence Dobbie & Co. to I. B. Balfour filed under “Balfour, I. B.” papers under” Cuthbertson, W.” – individual folder

Documents found inside a copy of Gerarde's Herbal (1633) bought at auction of Captain Henry Trotter of Mortoun Hall's Library on February 10 1947, alongside an extract from a letter presumably sent to RBGE with the documents.
• TRO/1: 'Hardy Tree Seeds of Plants from America for Season 1760': List of seeds and plants imported from America in 1760 and sold by Mrs Drummond, Seed Merchant, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh
• TRO/2: 'A List of the Different kinds of Fruit Trees wanted for the different aspects of the Wall round the new Kitchen Garden at Mortounhall 1772': List of fruit required for Mortonhall, 1772.
• TRO/3: Abstract from Mrs J.W. Hely-Hutchinson’s letter, 26 February 1947: 'The Gerarde's Herbal in which the papers were found is dated 1633 and was bought at Christie's from the sale of the library of Captain Henry Trotter of Mortoun Hall on Feb. 10th, 1947.'

Letter thanking the Council of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh for giving him a copy of the Third Annual Report of Proceedings (November 3, 1840)

4 folders containing Donald Pigott's notes and photos relating to his research on Tilia:
1: Photographs of living Tilia; folder of labelled photographs of living trees taken by Donald Pigott
2: China 1993, 1995; folder of notes on Donald Pigott's China trips in 1993 and 1995
3: Chinese Visit; folder detailing further Chinese trips taken by Pigott, includes 1993 and 1995.
4: Tilia Types, China; a folder containing good images / copies of Tilia type herbarium specimens from China.

•Box containing papers, correspondence, microfilm and information regarding the 1970 accrual of index cards.
•Two boxes of collection field books
•One box of papers and correspondence on ‘Nutrition and Vitamins’
•One box of papers on ‘World Food Problems, etc. and Food Science’
•One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods in Europe (except Britain and Russia)’
•One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods - Britain’
•One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods - Russia’
•Two boxes of papers titled ‘Emergency Foods – North and West Africa’
•One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods – Central and South East Africa’
•One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods – Middle East and India’
•One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods – China, Malaya, Hawaii and Australia’
•One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods – U.S.A.’
•One box containing two folders, one of papers on ‘Emergency Foods - Canada’ and one of papers on ‘Food Plants of U.S. Indians’
•One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods Central and South America’
•One box of papers on ‘Commodity Plants’
•One box of papers on ‘Voandzeia (Bambarra Groundnut)’
•One box of papers on ‘Bee-Keeping in Africa’
•One box of papers on ‘Edible Earths, Snakes and Insects’
•One box of papers on ‘Cattle and Sheep’
•One box of containing two folders, one of papers on ‘Lizards and Mammals (East Africa)’ and one of containing a Zoo Aquarium Guide
•One box containing miscellaneous papers, papers on crop plants and bibliographies
•Six boxes of index cards and papers, divided from: Nos.1-50 (92); Nos.51 (93) – 80 (146); Nos. 81 (147) - 111 (212); Nos. 112 (213) – 134 (249); Nos. 135 (250) – 174 (313), Nos. 175 (314) – 183 (332)

1 box of correspondence between Heinrich Handel-Mazzetti and William Wright Smith dating from 1922-1930.

•2 Pharmacognosy notebooks from the University of Glasgow, Pharmacy degree (1946-48)
•1 First Class degree certificate of merit in Botany (1946-47)

•1 box of miscellaneous papers and glass plate negatives regarding Bhutan, 1949, also 3 reels of film, now converted to DVD:

• Diary Materials 1, 1949
• Diary Materials 2, 1949
• Transcript of Diaries by David Shepherd - not for reproduction
• letters, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff, Frank Ludlow and David Humphreys
• Christmas cards, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow, usually illustrated with photographs or Margaret Stones illustrations
• small box of 12 glass lantern transparencies, mostly plant portraits - tape around slides very brittle; annotations in danger of being lost, so handle with extreme care
• cine film x 3 - converted to dvd
• 'misc' folder; contains LSH seed lists 1949 documents and key to the cine film
• newspaper cuttings - mostly relating to Bhutan
• 'misc' publications - mostly relating to Bhutan, some by Frank Ludlow