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M/S Outline of General Treatise on Botany proposed by Wm. Brand for the Botanic Society's adoption and which he suggests that the Society should invite its members to write a series of distinct but connected Essays with a view to publication under the Society's direction and auspices. 11 January 1839
56 mss pages in ink and pencil in brown paper folder, 200 x 320mm comprising Part complete and incomplete drafts for projected “New Students’ Flora” – Polygonum, Fagopyrum and Oxyria by Charles Edward Britton, (1872-1944)
Three boxes of Schoenus Ferrugineus research by Brian S. Brookes Box 1 contains 2 photos of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, future King of Bhutan inspecting Schoenus ferrugineus with George Sherriff. Collection seems to focus around a plantation of Schoenus ferrugineus that was growing on the banks of Loch Tummel that was lost by a hydro scheme in the 1940s/1950s? and Brookes's attempts to replant a new population at Loch Tummel in the 1970s.
Folder 1 of 2; 21 typescript leaves with 1 mounted plant sample, 200 x 260mm; manuscript: 'The Life history of Astragalus Hypoglottis’ The Purple Milk Vetch together with 7 hand coloured microscopic enlargements [see below]; Submission for Dobby Smith Gold Medal for Botany Folder 2 of 2; 7 original drawings in coloured inks of enlarged plant mounted on board with tracing paper overlays, various sizes from 150 x 250mm to 250 x 320mm; Figure drawings for The Life History of Astragalus Hypoglottis ’The Life History of Astragalus Hypoglottis’ with figure drawing by A. Ninian Bruce 2 dried specimens. Entered in competition for The Dobbie Smith Gold Medal in Botany, Glasgow University 1881-1882 Calender
Minute Books, Transactions and boxes containing exchange lists, correspondence regarding transactions, invoices and cheque books. BSS/1 - Society Laws, Annual Reports and Lists of Members BSS/2 - Botanical Society Minute Books BSS/3 - Council Minutes inc. Agendas, Annual Reports, etc. BSS/4 - Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh BSS/5 - Transactions Administration / Exchange Lists BSS/6 - Secretary's Papers inc. questionnaire results and name change referenda BSS/7 - Treasurer's Papers BSS/8 - Programme Correspondence inc. Symposia and Projects BSS/9 - Publications BSS/10 - Botanical Society Club BSS/11 - Centenary / Celebrations BSS/12 - Ephemera
4 manuscript notebooks entitled Flora of Japan; 3 of flowering plants, 1 of mosses and hepaticae, relating to his plant collections and herbaria, Japan, 1866-1886.