Letter from Foreign Office on behalf of Secretary Canning responding to Thomas Blaikie’s request for intervention on his claim.
Sans titreTwo textbooks - Haller's 'History of the Plants of Switzerland' published in 1769 and Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress' published in 1775. Both include some degree of annotation or inscription.
Sans titreColour photograph of a marble bust of Marie Antionette, on a black plinth and standing on a wooden table in front of a painted background. Believed to be a sculpture which belonged to the Blaikie family. (Box 3)
Sans titre8 glass lantern slides showing images of Meconopsis taken by Mrs Knox-Finlay at Keillour Lake, Keillour Castle:
Meconopsis
Meconopsis x musgravei
Meconopsis sherriff 600
Meconopsis grandis 600
Meconopsis grandis (true)
Meconopsis coxiana
Meconopsis betonicifolia praetensis
Meconopsis beamishii
Data Sheets, Lists and Guidance used in the 1989 Nature Conservancy Council Fresh Water Lochs Survey / South Argyll Lochan Survey.
Sans titrec. 1000 Kodachrome slides with paper index arranged taxonomically
Sans titre1 Jenner's shoe box containing:
- 11 jotters of pressed wildflowers made when Catherine was 14 years old in 1927/28 for the Girls' Guildry (now the Girls' Brigade) Edinburgh 17th Coy.
- list of the flowers in the 11 jotters
- 2 letters:
--7th September 1945, Roland Edgar Cooper to Miss C.F. Glen - thank you for sending sprays of heather - RBGE hoping to propagate and name them - shorthand writing on the reverse, and the envelope has been kept.
--6th September 1948, Roland Edgar Cooper to Miss Glen acknowledging receipt of her 'very fine contribution ' of heather on the 31st August 1948. - modern photograph showing Catherine Glen in old age.
2 folders, each containing around 40 specimens, the first being the collection curated by Great Aunt Lou - Louisa Hoby nee Russell in around 1862. The second seems to have been put together at least partly by 'DR' and includes seaweed specimens from Cumbrae.
Sans titre1 album containing ephemera to do with the Balfour professors; John Hutton Balfour, Isaac Bayley Balfour and John Cleland, plus other papers of interest.
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