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Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
•Box of ‘Fungi References’, reports, descriptions and field notes
•Folder containing his thesis ‘Fungal Succession Found on Bird Pellets and its comparison with the Dung Sequence’ (Jun – Oct 1959)
•Four folders of papers
•Two boxes of material for a biography of James Bolton (1735-1799) and his collecting sites and lecture notes on the same. (Slides are kept in the slide collection)
Watling, Prof. Roy
•5 boxes including papers regarding the bequest of the herbarium, British plants field notes and India and Malaya field notes.
Sinclair, James (1913-1968)
•6 notebooks of sketches (South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland) donated to D. Henderson and RBGE.
Turner, Alexander (Alick) J.
Hand coloured multi block wood engravings featuring Reginald Farrer
2 limited edition hand coloured multi block wood engravings showing the plantsman Reginald Farrer created in 2015 by artist Abigail Rorer of the Lone Oak Press. There is also accompanying correspondence detailing the donation.
Rorer, Abigail
•Seller’s ‘Syllabus of Examinations on Medical Subjects’
Seller, Dr.
•Collection of signatures (originals), including Carl v Linné, Archibald Menzies and initials (received with papers of Isaac Bayley Balfour).
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
•Paper titled ‘Lectures on the Valuation of Woodlands and the Disposal of their Produce, with its Transport, Conversion, Qualities and Uses’.
Slater, Andrew
Mathieson, Wilfrid / Robert Mackechnie
•Refs. To botanical exchanges filed under “Mackechnie, Robert”
Mathieson, Wilfrid
Murie, John/ I. B. Balfour
•Correspondence filed under “Linnean Society”
Murie, John
•File containing 2 notebooks, titled ‘Flora Scotica’ and ‘Local Flora – Mainly West Cornwall’
Penson, Jim
