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Correspondence dated 1873/1874 filed under “Henderson, Col. F”

The 28 photographs in this series, taken by Pietro Guidi in San Remo, Italy, in the 1870s formed part of the Photographic Flora of San Remo, supervised by local pharmacist Francesco Panizzi. Each photograph has a Latin name, locality and a flowering time and som are hand coloured.

R.G. Alexander writes: Dear Professor Balfour I have just taken my B.A. at Cambridge. My final exam was Botany, knowledge of which I am indebted to your book. Dr. Babington told you when you were last here, that it was not so much used as in the past. I think he must be mistaken. It was used by nearly all the men. However it has placed me in First Class a thing which has never occurred in Botany before. 14 candidates and 6 passed. I feel it my duty to say how indebted I am to the thorough teaching which your lectures gave me and to the careful perusal of your valuable works. I am still the only Physican in Bradford while there are 50 G.P.s and am [satisfactory as it may appear on account of my youth] head of the honorary staff at the general hospital in virtue of my title. I trust you are well and that the duties at this time of the year are not too arduous. I hope that the time is far distant when Edinburgh will be deprived of your valuable lectures upon a subject which is of such essential reading in training the mind to form exact opinions and accurate diagnoses. With renewed thanks, believe me , dear sir yours gratefully R.G.A. p.s. added by D.Alexander “I am pleased to see that you still have time for original communications”

‘Short Account of the Fossil Tree at Kinneil’, written by William Badger in July 1875. Account includes 3 sketches of the Fossil Tree, numbered 1,2 and 4.