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•Correspondence begins with letter from James Keenan to Ian Fellowes-Gordon dated 18 August 1960; in which Keenan asks for any information Fellowes-Gordon might have on North Burma that would be helpful to Keenan’s proposed plant collecting expedition. •Misc. handwritten & typed correspondence from 1960 – 1973 •Dust jacket of the American edition of “The Magic War; the battle for North Burma” by Ian Fellowes-Gordon; Pub. 1972 typed cover note to James Keenan dated 22 March 1972 Handrawn map of 'Collecting areas' Hpaungdaw, Heinde, Banchaung & Tenasserim Rivers.
Farmer, Prof. B. – Imperial College of Science & Technology. Papers and Correspondence re: Sphagnum Moss – Use as medical dressings (World War 1 & World War 2 references) - inc. W Wright Smith’s report to R.A.M.C. (War Dept.) dated 1916
Flora of Perthshire, July-August 1928, a book of dried plants or Hortus siccus compiled as part of teacher training (summer project) at Moray House College of education, Edinburgh
• Loose pages of typed, transcript translations (by Garnsay?) of 4 extracts from Goebel’s, “Experimental Morphology”; a comprehensive study of how plants can regenerate.
From the Register of Deaths in the District of Tulliallan in Kincardine an extract copy of the Death Certificate of Alexander Craig-Chrisite; Lecturer on Botany, died 30 June 1914, aged 71 years. Extract is addressed to Henry H Johnston Esq., Stromness, Orkney
Obituary: Reprinted form "The Scottish Naturalist ," November-December 1922 5 pages written by James Ritchie inc. portrait. List of published papers and notes (Chiefly on the Natural History of the Forth Area) by Wm. Evans 1875 - 1917.
•Scrapbook containing photographs and letters relating to the life and career of Ernest Frederick Gye, CGM, Foreign Office and diplomat, between 1903 and 1939. Photographs and letters.
