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box containing progress reports of the Scottish Seaweed Research Association based at the Institute of Seaweed Research in Musselburgh. There are also Newsletters, and correspondence with William Wright Smith, all arranged chronologically.
B.L. Burtt’s Obituary, Edinburgh Evening News, p.14, (7th of June 2008)
Two boxes of B.L Burtt’s notebooks
Three boxes containing reprints and annotated working copies of various journals and articles
in 2019 a folder of biographical information, including 3 photographs, compiled by Henry Noltie was added to the collection. It includes the obituaries and biographical articles Henry wrote, plus other obituaries, articles about Bill, and memories by him and about him.
Seven samples of wood displayed at the International Forestry Exhibition held in Edinburgh in 1884 - all are labelled with "Sierra Leone, Edinburgh Forestry Exhibition, 1884" - additional markings are as follows:
No 5, Gree-Gree, Greegree, 1884.83.31
Beck, 1884.83.32
Koronko, Coronko, Kronko, 1884.83.39
Oak, [Teak scored out], 1884.83.41
Conta-Cobang, Contabang, Cotan Cobang, 1884.83.43
Koondee, Cundee, 1884.83.46
White Brimstone, 1884.83.47 The Exhibition Catalogue indicates that the Government of Sierra Leone had a stand at the exhibition where they displayed "Specimens of the Woods of the Colony, native, polished 1865, redone 1884" - it is assumed that these may have been part of this display.
7 boxes containing - •Photographic notes (1965-1966) •Trek diaries •Field notes •correspondence •Immigration papers and trekking permits •Notes on living plants and herbarium material sent to Royal Botanic Garden Kew (1965-1966) •List of publications and papers •Folders of articles •Bowl made from leaves •2 ceremonial Ghurkha knives (handle with extreme caution - scabbard has split)
• Invitation to Royal Dinner – 400th Anniversary of the Union of the Crowns • Invitation to the tercentenary celebration of the birth of Carl Linnaeas • Notes written on the train to London, 4th Feb 2008 as an outline of contents for ‘Gardening the Earth’.
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
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
