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- 1805 - 1905
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
folder contains an original letter written by George Don, alongside an annotated transcription.
Don, George
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Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
folder contains an original letter written by George Don, alongside an annotated transcription.
Don, George
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
A series of 10 letters transcribed and typed onto 27 pages of letters from George Don to Nathaniel J. Winch, copied by the Linnaean Society of London by B. Daydon Jackson [see correspondence in the Don scrapbook, GDS/1] 1802-1812, some reproduced in Notes of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, v.iii, pt xiv, February 1905. There are some annotations / corrections by Isaac Bayley Balfour.
Don, George
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
typed transcription of letter from George Don to James Sowerby, 22.05.1799 regarding sending plants to be drawn. Original letter in the British Museum – now Natural History Museum. Letter reproduced in Notes of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, v.iii pt xiv, February 1905
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
Correspondence between Forrest and RBGE pertaining to his employment
Part of George Forrest Collection
Folder of letters and copy letters sent at the time Forrest started working at RBGE between June and September 1903.
Forrest, George
•Correspondence 1888 – 1900 (George Murray/ I.B. Balfour) filed under “ Balfour, I.Bayley” papers under “Murray, George
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
Mascarene / Madagascar Islands
•Copy of the first page of a paper by I.B. Balfour titled ’The Pandaneae of the Mascarene Islands’, 1875
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Knox, John [of Forfar]
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Knox, John [of Forfar]
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Knox, John [of Forfar]
Monograph: Letter to William Maurlan from Isaac Bayley Balfour, dated, November 28th 1879, advising that the Commissioners of the Board of Inland Revenue had authorized an annual provision of 30 gallons of methylated spirits to Glasgow University – for the preservation of Botanical Specimens.
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley