- GB 235 NEL
- Dossier
- 1951
•File containing a number of reviews of Nelson’s book ‘Medical Botany’, E&S Livingstone , Ltd. Edinburgh, Published in 1951
•Mailing list to receive copies of “Medical Botany” & 18 letters of thanks & misc articles
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•File containing a number of reviews of Nelson’s book ‘Medical Botany’, E&S Livingstone , Ltd. Edinburgh, Published in 1951
•Mailing list to receive copies of “Medical Botany” & 18 letters of thanks & misc articles
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Smythe, (Francis “Frank”) Sydney
•Correspondence; newspaper clippings relating to his expeditions to Garwhal and Sikkim (1937-1938)
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Dr. Jean D. Doyle (nee Garven)
•2 Pharmacognosy notebooks from the University of Glasgow, Pharmacy degree (1946-48)
•1 First Class degree certificate of merit in Botany (1946-47)
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The undernoted papers, which are filed under “Trotter, Capt. H.” are those referred to in the appended extract from Mrs. J.W. Hely-Hutchison’s letter of 26th Feb. 1947:
[1] List of seeds and plants imported from America 1760 and sold by Mrs. Drummond, Seed Merchant, Lawn Market, Edinburgh
[2] List of fruit trees required for Mortonhall (Mortoun Hall), 1772
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•11 copies of his obituary: Extracted from “Proceedings of The Linnean Society of London, Session 157, 1944-1945, Pt.2, 23 May 1946. Photograph: Lt-Col Andrew Thomas Gage, C.I.E. & pages105-109.
•Correspondence dated 1912-1913 on Primula filed with subject material under “Primula” (Box 1) in main index.
•Letter from D. Prain (Kew) dated 11 Dec 1909 to Major Gage re: max Sterculia filed under “Prain, D” in general index.
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•Some correspondence is filed with Sir William Wright Smith papers under “Smith, Sir William W.” “ Rhododendron Correspondence,” material boxed alphabetically in these boxes
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Completed and incomplete draft accounts for projected new students – Polygonum, Fagopyrum and Oxyria
56 mss pages in ink and pencil in brown paper folder, 200 x 320mm comprising Part complete and incomplete drafts for projected “New Students’ Flora” – Polygonum, Fagopyrum and Oxyria by Charles Edward Britton, (1872-1944)
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•Folder containing a covering letter dated 26 June 1933 from Logan Turner to W. W. Smith requesting the preservation of an autograph notebook belonging to John M. McFarlane in the library of the Dept. of Botany, Edinburgh. The notebook contains ‘Remarks on the Fossil flora of Edinburgh and Neighbourhood, by John M. McFarlane, session 1877 and a pencilled copy of transcript of Foster & Balfour’s “Embryology”
•McFarlane, John M. (Edinburgh & USA) correspondence dated 1888 – 1905, filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under, “McFarlane, John M.”
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•File containing photocopies of Potter’s correspondence with Charles McIntosh (typescript copies filed under Mary Noble)
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Lord Headfort - Taylour, Geoffrey Thomas (4th Marquess of Headfort)
•Some correspondence is filed with Sir. Wm. Wright Smith papers under “Smith, Sir Wm. W.”, “Rhododendron Correspondence”, material boxed alphabetically in these boxes
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