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Papers relating to Colonel F.R.S. Balfour of Dawyck, including Correspondence, papers relating to the Rhododendron Conference due to be held in 1939, and papers related to the Landowners' Co-operative Forestry Society Ltd.
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F.R.S. Balfour Collection: Rhododendron Conference Papers, 1939
Parte de F.R.S. Balfour Collection
FRS/2/2/001-102: Rhododendron Conference 1939 – folders containing Conference Committee papers and correspondence between F.R.S. Balfour and fellow attendees including Robert Moyes Adam, George Rutherford, George Campbell, Fred J. Chittenden, K.L. Kenneth, Bruce A. Jackson, Herbert Ihrig, John MacQueen Cowan, etc and F.R.S. Balfour’s paper “Rhododendrons in the Western Highlands”
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Papers connected to the Landowners’ Co-operative Forestry Society, Ltd.
Parte de F.R.S. Balfour Collection
Papers connected to the Landowners’ Co-operative Forestry Society, Ltd.
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F.R.S. Balfour correspondence, 1930-1935
Parte de F.R.S. Balfour Collection
FRS/1/2/001-129: 129 letters mainly between F.R.S. Balfour and William Wright Smith, but alsp Gertrude Balfour, John Macqueen Cowan, Foister, William Gibson and John Andrew, dating to between 1930 and 1935.
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F.R.S. Balfour Collection: Rhododendron Conference Papers, 1940
Parte de F.R.S. Balfour Collection
FRS/2/3/01-09: correspondence relating to the cancelled 1939 Rhododendron Conference, dating to 1940
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Parte de F.R.S. Balfour Collection
copy letters between Samuel Crosse, F.R.S. Balfour and the Curator at Kew Gardens, 1920, regarding the sale of David Douglas’s telescope, originals filed under ‘Douglas’.
F.R.S. Balfour Collection: Correspondence
Parte de F.R.S. Balfour Collection
Correspondence, mainly between F.R.S. Balfour and William Wright Smith
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F.R.S. Balfour Collection: Rhododendron Conference Papers
Parte de F.R.S. Balfour Collection
Rhododendron Conference Papers for the Conference planned for 1939
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F.R.S. Balfour Collection: Rhododendron Conference Papers, 1938
Parte de F.R.S. Balfour Collection
FRS/2/1/01-43: Rhododendron Conference (1939), papers dating to 1938 including : programme, agenda, correspondence with Fred J. Chittenden, Campbell, Robert Moyes Adam, John MacQueen Cowan, William J. Blackwood, Euan Cox, John Finnie, Donald Wyman, Lionel de Rothschild, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, etc regarding research for paper to be presented by F.R.S. Balfour at the conference – there’s a lot of weather data being passed around. Also copies of the paper “Rhododendron Species in a Cold Situation”
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Parte de F.R.S. Balfour Collection
Papers connected to the Landowners’ Co-operative Forestry Society, Ltd.: List No.1 – F.R.S. Balfour’s surplus plant list from nurseries at Dawyck, 1928.
