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•Correspondence from Rupert Smith 1941 – 1942 to Prof. R Dennis, filed under “Smith, Rupert”

•Biographical note and correspondence.

•Obituaries, rhododendron descriptions and memos

•Duplicate copy of his thesis: ‘Perennial Cultivation of Cotton with Special Reference to the cultivation of Ratoons in Egypt’ (1927).

•Collecting book with list of plants and 6 photographs of pencil sketches by Thurn made during first ascent of Roraima - December 14th, 1884,

•List of seeds and plants imported from America in 1760 and sold by Mrs Drummond, Seed Merchant, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh
•List of fruit required for Mortonhall, 1722 and an abstract from J.W. Hely-Hutchison’s letter regarding the list.

•Three folders containing three prints of Flora of Western China collected by E.H. Wilson
•Folder containing list of E.H.Wilson's Seeds from China - list compiled from information found in the Plant Incoming Register: "Outdoor Department 1-02 to 10-12", seed sent to Edinburgh by John Stirling Maxwell in 1907

(Index p.74)
•Correspondence from Rupert Smith 1941 – 1942, filed under “Smith, Rupert”

1 folder containing correspondence and papers regarding Tatsienlu, West China (1920-38)

•22 page, bound article written by Hamish Johnston adding new information about the Dickson nurserymen families to an article written by Priscilla Minay for the Old Edinburgh Club Vol. 1 1991. Accompanied by 2 pages of corrections to the Dickson entries in Ray Desmond’s Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists. 6 pages of email correspondence with Archive Librarian at RBGE (Feb.2011)