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Two boxes of card indices - one card per plant appearing in the B.S.B.I. vascular plant survey of the Midlothian Vice County V.C.83, listing the historic literature relating to each plant.

GB 235 ANT/1 - photo album including photographs of John Anthony and his family, Edinburgh views and photos relating to World War One, including the Edinburgh University Officers Training Corps at Peebles in 1915 showing Cadets Brown, Purves, Mills, Anthony, Smith, Hatton and Wallinck; Anthony with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in Oswestry and Llangollen (Anthony, Evans, Edwards, Gavin, Richards and Mitford) and Capt J Anthony M.C. and Capt J.H. Dick M.C. on the Somme in 1916.
GB 235 ANT/2 - Transcripts of 'The Identification of British Trees, Shrubs and Under Shrubs by means of the Microscopic Structure of their Wood', including photographs - 2 copies, loose sheets.
GB 235 ANT/3 - Original Manuscript for Flora of Sutherland, c.1970 - comparison with the published version shows the extent of J.B. Kenworthy's editing, as described in his introduction (right click, open link in new tab): http://www.botanical-society-scotland.org.uk/John_Anthonys_Flora_of_Sutherland

List produced on RBGE embossed paper, bound together to form a book; beginning with Ranunculaceae, there are 330 pages of plants growing in the Garden in 1883 (though the 3 could also be interpreted as a 5); the book has an index at the back.

7 boxes containing correspondence, reports, minutes, circulars and agendas produced by the CSSF (Committee for the Study of the Scottish Flora)

• Frank Kingdon Ward, 'Burma's Icy Mountains', reprint from the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, January 1948, pp.9-17
• Frank Kingdon Ward, 'Tibet as a Grazing Land', reprint from the Royal Geographical Journal, vol. CX, January 1948, pp.60-75
• 2 Airgraph letters from William Wright Smith to George Sherriff found inserted here, 4 Sep 1943 and 4 Feb 1944, moved to correspondence folder and filed alongside other similar Airgraph letters
• Sir Robert Reid, 'India's North-East Frontier', reprint from the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, 1944, pp.165-174
• Sir Robert Reid, 'The Excluded Areas of Assam', reprint from The Geographical Journal, Vol. 103, No. 1/2 (Jan. - Feb., 1944), pp.18-29 - with photos
• Frank Kingdon Ward, 'Botanical and Geographical Exploration in the Assam Himalaya', reprint from the Geographical Journal, v. XCVI, No.1, July 1940, pp.1-13
• J. Hanson-Lowe, 'A Journey along the Chinese-Tibetan border', reprint from the Royal Geographic Society Journal, May 1940, pp.357-367 - with photos
• H.W. Tilman, 'Peaks of the Assam Himalaya', reprint from Royal Geographic Society Journal, November 1939, pp.402-404
• F. Kingdon Ward, 'The Irrawaddy Plateau', reprint from the Royal Geographic Society, October 1939, pp.293-308 - with photos
• F. Kingdon Ward, 'The Distribution of Primulas from the Himalaya to China, with Descriptions of some New Species', reprint from Annals of Botany, v.XLIV, No.CLXXIII, January 1930, pp.111-125, annotated by George Sherriff
• Ronald Kaulback, 'A Journey in the Salween and Tsangpo Basins, South-Eastern Tibet', reprint from The Geographical Journal, v.XCI, No.2, pp.97-122 - with photos
• Patrick Fitzgerald, 'The Yunnan-Burma Road', reprint from The Geographical Society Journal, v.XCV, No.3, March 1940, pp.161-174 - with photos
• Swami Pranavananda, 'The Sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus, Sutlej and Karnali: with notes on Manasarowar and Rakas Tal', reprint from Journal of the Royal Geographic Society, February 1939, pp.126-135 - with photos
• H.W. Tilman, 'The Mount Everest Expedition of 1938', reprint from the Geographical Journal, v.XCII, No.6, December 1938, pp.481-498 - with photos
• C.B.M. Warren, 'Mountain-Sickness and the Physiological Problems of High Altitude Mountaineering', reprint from the Alpine Journal, November 1939, pp.271-283 - with photos
• Col. R. Meinertzhagen, 'On the Birds of Northern Afghanistan', reprint from Ibis, 1938, pp.480-520
• C.P. Fitgerald, 'The Tiger's Leap', reprint from The Geographical Journal, v.98, no.3, September 1941, pp.147-153 - with photos