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Papers of the Committee for the Study of the Scottish Flora
7 boxes containing correspondence, reports, minutes, circulars and agendas produced by the CSSF (Committee for the Study of the Scottish Flora)
Committee for the Study of the Scottish Flora
Cryptogamic Society of Scotland (incorporated into the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in 1935)
1 box containing constitution, reports, field reports of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh Cryptogamic SectionCryptogamic Society of Scotland (1875 - 1935) (incorporated into the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in 1935).
1 box containing laws, lists of members, conference reports (1903-1937) and photographs
Cryptogamic Society of Scotland
5 boxes of slides, totalling around 400 slides, and an envelope "Botanic Garden Notes" (now in Box 1) of news clippings relating to the opening of the Glasshouses.
Corstorphine Trust
1 folder containing correspondence and papers regarding Tatsienlu, West China (1920-38)
Cunningham, Robert
Correspondence dated/ 1900 re: Socotra (Ogilvie-Grant, William Robert expedition) specimens filed with "Balfour, J.Bayley" papers under "Socotra"
Darbishire, O. V.
Dalziel, Dr. John McEwan; West African Notes
minimal:1 File, 49 loose leaf pages of hand written notes titled; "West African Notes of Dr. J. M. Dalziel, late of China, Gold Coast & Kew".
Dalziel, Dr. John McEwan
3 misc. items with references to: Charles Robert Darwin
Darwin, Charles Robert
2 typescripts:
1st script]"Dr. Dunsmure's M.S", Titled: "Evidently note of Prof R. Graham's lecture 'Plant Life'. 25 pages signed on page 24 as James Dunsmure.
2nd script] 29 pages - headed "Richard" on 'Vascular tissues'.
10 pages - headed "Darwin" - comparing plant anatomy to animal circulatory, vascular, glandular, muscular & nervous systems.
3 pages - headed "Mr. Knight" - on sap & buds.
2 pages - headed "Decadolle & Sprengel" - on cells and root.
2 pages -headed "Thomson" on sap.
2 pages - headed "Smith" on bark.
1 page - headed "Dutrochet" 1 paragraph in French referencing tissue permeability in plants.
3 pages referencing "Caesalpinus".
Dunsmure, Dr. James; Graham, Prof. R. (RK); [Dr. E Dunsmure?]
•2 letters dated 1861 & 1863 to Dr Thos. Anderson – item 86 & 87 in bound volume filed under “Anderson, Dr. Thos” – Box 2
•3 letters dated 1877 -1878 to I. Bayley Balfour filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” correspondence under “Decaisne, J”
Decaisne, Joseph
•Papers from 1893-1953 (including papers of Dr. Malcolm Wilson)
Wilson, Dr. Malcolm
