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Typed transcription – Notice of George Don’s life by Patrick Neill contributed to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 15.05.1851 and published in the North British Agriculturist and Henfrey’s Botanical Gazette, 1851
Typed transcription – 3 pages – Notes for a sketch of the Botanists George [Jr.] and David Don of the Dove Hillock, Forfar, includes an extract of David Don’s birth in the Forfar Parish register, author – Alex. P. Stevenson, Dundee
Typed transcription – 2 pages from Patrick Neill to Conductor of the Farmer’s Magazine with account of George Don and a request for help for his family left impoverished after his death, 20.05.1814
Patrick Neill’s copy of George Don’s “A Catalogue of a few of the Rarest and Latest Introduced Plants, cultivated for sale at Don’s Botanic Garden and Nursery, Forfar”, 1813.
original letter from George Don, RBG Edinburgh to James Brodie of Brodie M.P. (1744-1824), with a transcription annotated by Isaac Bayley Balfour, 22.02.1805
Notice and Review of publication of Claridge Druce’s “Life and Work of George Don” in the Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh reprinted from the Journal of Botany, February 1906.
