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•10 folders of plant lists •List of Léveillé / Leveille duplicates sent to Tokyo and Seoul •Léveillé Plantae Novae Sandwicencis •List of correct names for Léveilléan species described in the wrong family •Léveillé lists •Folder containing Douglas McKean’s correspondence and research relating to the re-organisation and identification of RBGE’s Léveillé herbarium. •File containing a Dicots Index – working copy for counting Léveillé Taxa, Douglas McKean’s notebook on Léveillé Chinese and Indian localities, and Douglas McKean’s notes and correspondence relating to Léveillé’s Carex types. •Correspondence with I.B. Balfour filed with “Balfour, I.Bayley” papers under “Léveillé, H.”
•Papers & correspondence re; Sphagnum Moss – use as medical dressing, (1st & 2nd World War references) – including W. Wright Smith’s report to R.A.M.C. (War Dept.) dated 1916 are filed under “Sphagnum Moss as medical dressings” – index “S”
• Letter to Dr. Robert Wright regarding Orchids, dated 8 Sep.1832 •Copy of a typed letter [for I.B.B] from Dr. Masters, regarding having a memoir of Lindley prefacing one of ‘their’ volumes of the Annals of Botany (21 Jun 1903)
Logan Botanic Gardens, Stranraer, Wigtownshire •2 boxes of papers marked ‘Acquisition’ •1 box of papers marked ‘Deed of Gift from Trustees’ Logan Gardens Trust •1 file containing miscellaneous correspondence (1965-67) •1 file containing miscellaneous correspondence and minutes of the trustees meetings (1961-63) •2 different rough drafts of ‘A Guide to the Gardens’ (Logan Gardens) Logan House •2 boxes of papers marked ‘Sale to Sir Ninian Buchan-Hepburn’ London, Royal Botanic Society •Regulations and lists of members (1877)
•Card 1 - Material re Gilbert McNab contained in guard book filed under “McNab, Wm.” (brother) – individual box •Card 2 - McNab, Gilbert W. (Jamaica) – 2 letters dated 7 Jun 1850 & 11 May 1851 respectively, filed in “Balfour, J.H.”, supplementary correspondence (boxes) under “McNab, Gilbert W.”
•Box of personal papers and correspondence •Box of papers regarding excursions (1829-32) •Box of papers regarding his North American Tour (1834) •Box of papers regarding his North American Tour (second copies) •Box containing Tour Diaries (1836-38) •Box containing a Journal of Tours, including his Germany Tour (1839-40) •Box containing a Journal of Tours (1848) •Box of Annual Reports to Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society (RCHS) for 1841 and 1842 •Box of miscellaneous papers; into this box ("box 9 of 9") has been added (June 2019) a typescript list entitled "Plants of McNab's Herbarium"; it has an old id number of 37,994, was stored in the Library Office and is dated to February 1953. It is in 4 stapled bundles (caution - be wary of staples) and lists what was presumably herbarium specimens from James McNab's collection. •Box of miscellaneous papers, including correspondence and a photograph of a tree-transplanter •Folder containing McNab’s Testimonials •Bound volume of his ‘Journal of Tour Through North America, 1834’ •Scrapbook titled ‘McNab Cuttings’ •Untitled scrap book
