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•Copy of a letter to Webb from H.J. Geddes (4 Dec 1876)

•Copy of the first page of a paper by I.B. Balfour titled ’The Pandaneae of the Mascarene Islands’, 1875

1. Refs: M/S notes “Scraps on Palms” – Wendland – filed in “Balfour, I. Bayley” correspondence under “Misc. Papers” – Box 9
2. Correspondence, dated 1887 Capt. Pasfield Oliver/ I.B. Balfour re: Mascarene / Madagascar filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Oliver, Capt. Pasfield”
3. References filed in “PANDANUS” boxes in general index.

A letter from Jane Fergus to Hugh Cleghorn, dated 7 December, 1839

Three letters

One letter

•One letter dated 3 May 1841

•1 box of general correspondence from 1990-92 (now in Registry, SFC/1/1 and SFC/1/2)
•1 box of general correspondence from 1993 (now in Registry, SFC/1/3 and SFC/1/4)
•2 folders of information regarding the Society of Flora of China’s Joint Editorial Meeting, Edinburgh, April 1995 (now in Registry, SFC/2/2)
•Signed posters from 1995 and final 2013 meeting, with photographs relating to the latter.

•Correspondence filed with “Balfour, I.B. correspondence” under “Kesselring, W.”
•See also correspondence filed under “Russia” in main index.

drawings and photographs used to illustrate Mann's thesis and drawings on permatrace used in other publications.

Added in 2020 (RBGEA2020/007):

3 sets of postcards depicting algae or diatoms as follows:

• 3 envelopes of Algal picture postcards from M. Adei; Scanning electron micrographs of diatoms (1994); Marine algae in coral reef (1993); and Algal vegetation in cold current area (1993)
• pack of 12 poscards from the British Bryological Society (1994)
• pack of Stereographs of the Diatom World, The Educational Association of Algae (2002)

The collection comprises photographs and reports related to the gathering and preparation of Sphagnum moss, in and around the Moffat/Beattock area, S.W. Scotland, which was used as a medical dressing for wounds during the First World War.