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•Card 1 - Material re Gilbert McNab contained in guard book filed under “McNab, Wm.” (brother) – individual box
•Card 2 - McNab, Gilbert W. (Jamaica) – 2 letters dated 7 Jun 1850 & 11 May 1851 respectively, filed in “Balfour, J.H.”, supplementary correspondence (boxes) under “McNab, Gilbert W.”
McNab, Gilbert
Druce, Geo. Claridge (Oxford) Letters dated 1903-1920 to Isaac Bayley Balfour
Druce, George Claridge
John Hutton Balfour- Plan of the course for the Botanical Class, 1850
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Correspondence to John Hutton Balfour on the subject of funding from the Treasury for the Palm House
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
1 box of draft copies and final papers for 'Anatomy of British Carices', including photographs and correspondence
Crawford, Francis Chalmers
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.
Evans, William
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Trail, Professor James William Helenus
•A revised copy of ‘The Scottish Naturalist: Revision of the Uredineae and of the Ustilagineae of Scotland’ (1899) submitted to the Scottish Cryptogamic Society,
• Some correspondence and information regarding a proposed memorial for him.
Trail, Professor James William Helenus
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Thurn, Sir Everard Francis Ferdinand Im
•Collecting book with list of plants and 6 photographs of pencil sketches by Thurn made during first ascent of Roraima - December 14th, 1884,
Thurn, Sir Everard Francis Ferdinand Im
