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Two copies of the Notes of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, comprising numbers XII, XIII and XIV, November 1904 and February 1905 containing George Claridge Druce's account of George Don's life and work.
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.
Photocopied letter from Bayley Balfour to Claridge Druce accepting his manuscript for publication in the Notes of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. 10/03/1903
Two photocopied letters between Claridge Druce and Bayley Balfour regarding Druce’s account of Don and the suggestion that it be published in the Notes of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Typed transcription – letter from David Booth to Sir James Edward Smith, London requesting assistance for Don’s family – from Smith correspondence, Linnaean Society, 24.01.1814
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
