Letter from Charles Bailey, Manchester, to John Hutton Balfour
- GB 235 RBG/1/JHB/1/1/B/B149
- Item
- 1881
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
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Letter from Charles Bailey, Manchester, to John Hutton Balfour
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
The Life History of Astragalus Hypoglottis’ The Purple Milk Vetch with Figures by A Ninian Bruce
Folder 1 of 2; 21 typescript leaves with 1 mounted plant sample, 200 x 260mm; manuscript: 'The Life history of Astragalus Hypoglottis’ The Purple Milk Vetch together with 7 hand coloured microscopic enlargements [see below]; Submission for Dobby Smith Gold Medal for Botany
Folder 2 of 2; 7 original drawings in coloured inks of enlarged plant mounted on board with tracing paper overlays, various sizes from 150 x 250mm to 250 x 320mm; Figure drawings for The Life History of Astragalus Hypoglottis ’The Life History of Astragalus Hypoglottis’ with figure drawing by A. Ninian Bruce
2 dried specimens.
Entered in competition for The Dobbie Smith Gold Medal in Botany, Glasgow University 1881-1882 Calender
Bruce, A. Ninian
Letter from John Gilbert Baker, Kew, London
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Letter from Balfour of Burleigh (Alexander, 6th Lord), Kennet, Alloa,
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Letter from Duncan Buchanan, Muthill, to John Hutton Balfour
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Knox, John [of Forfar]
Letter from T.G. Bonney, London, to John Hutton Balfour
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Letter from Rev. John Buchanan, Mount Zomba, East Africa, to John Hutton Balfour
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
GB 235 SAB/7: Ephemera / Objects
SAB/7/1 Snuff Mull made from horn of feral sheep with etched silver decorations and still with snuff inside. Mull held inside soft chamoix leather bag. Presented to the Club by William Brack Boyd in 1880.
SAB/7/2 large leather bag donated to the SABC by Alex Cowan of Penicuik (on shelf alongside collection)
Scottish Alpine Botanical Club
The Reginald Farrer collection comprises correspondence between Reginald Farrer and his family (his mother in particular), E.A. Bowles, John Buchan, Sir Francis Younghusband, Ernest Gye, Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour and others as detailed below. It also includes paintings, photographs, 35mm slides, glass plate negatives and lantern slides covering mainly his two plant collecting expeditions to China in 1914-15 and Burma in 1919-1920, as well as scripts for plays written by Farrer.
Farrer, Reginald John