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Photocopy of Obituary from Bot. Soc. Trans. 31 to Wiiliam Grant Craib, Regius Professor of Botany at Aberdeen, who died on 1st Sept. 1933 at Kew

2 boxes containing archives of St Helena, including letters from George Benjamin, notebooks, pictures and correspondence

1 folder with Photocopy of personal journal of E.H.M. Cox 31st January - 29th December 1919. Covering the Burma Expedition with Reginald John Farrer (17 February 1880 – 17 October 1920)
Remarkable account of 2 people, written between 1919 and 1920 and occasionally containing language and attitudes that would be considered offensive today; E.H.M. Cox, photographer, botanist, hunter, writer, and Reginald Farrer: botanist, painter and writer. Sail to Rangoon from Liverpool. Train and boat to Myitkyina and make base; from there they make expeditions into Kachin country with a large train of coolies, Gurkhas and Indian staff. Routine [as far as possible] seems to be gathering specimens, plants and seeds, taking photos, both glass plate and roll film, drying and pressing plants. Travelling from place to place and camping for as long as they need. Long treks in the north-east highlands climbing to 10,000 ft. and more. The diary is very closely observed and personal .The writer finds he has to do much more than the above accomplishments due to non-appearance of cooks, coolies etc. The weather plays an important part in the diary due to its erratic behaviour. Interesting that they receive pretty regular mail and both write a lot in return. British District Officers play a [generally] useful part in their plant searches. [description by SM]

5 maps: Baghdad, Resht, Teheran, Tabriz and India and the adjacent countries.
1 box of personal and miscellaneous papers

• includes paper on 'A Survey of the Anatomy of the Rhododendron Leaf in relation to the Taxonomy of the Genus' by S.F. Hayes, J. Keenan and J.M. Cowan : for publication in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 21 (1), 1–34.
• 'The Rhododendrons of India' by J.M. Cowan

3 Oak survey notebooks relating to oak specimens collected by J.Cousens in the 1960s which are now in the Herbarium

Article on ‘British Alpine Gardens’ Gardeners’ Chronicle (July 9, 1910) by H. Correvon, Floraire, Geneva
– refers to RBGE, I.B.B. and R. Farrer

Data Sheets, Lists and Guidance used in the 1989 Nature Conservancy Council Fresh Water Lochs Survey / South Argyll Lochan Survey.

2 labels for identifying part of the process of India Rubber / Gutta Percha production and 7 book plates on note paper forming a small collection.
Book plates: Churchill Babington, John Hutton Balfour, Henry Collins, Daniel Cresswell, Sir Compton Domvile, William Watson and 1 unidentified.
Accrual: Article: 'India Rubber' by James Collins, formerly Government Economic Botanist and Librarian, Straits Settlement, etc. as published in 'The Cottager and Artisan', September 1897, pp.107-108, published by the Religious Tract Society, London. Also, a card with a poem on it: 'The Twins' by J. Rushton, on the back of which is a Note about the opening hours of the India Office Museum.

Printed text of the Lecture on ‘The Scope and Tendency of Botanical Study; An Inaugural Address delivered before the Liverpool Royal Infirmary School of Medicine’ (May 3, 1858)