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1 box of general correspondence and minutes (c.1862) 1 box of R. Brown letters and lists (c.1862) 1 box of shareholders’ letters (c.1862) 1 box of financial papers (c.1862)
France (Museum of Natural History, Botany, Paris) Correspondence dated 1912 – 1913 on Primula filed with subject material under “Primula” (Box 1) in Main index
Botany Dept, Museum of Natural History, Paris, France
Minute Books, Transactions and boxes containing exchange lists, correspondence regarding transactions, invoices and cheque books. BSS/1 - Society Laws, Annual Reports and Lists of Members BSS/2 - Botanical Society Minute Books BSS/3 - Council Minutes inc. Agendas, Annual Reports, etc. BSS/4 - Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh BSS/5 - Transactions Administration / Exchange Lists BSS/6 - Secretary's Papers inc. questionnaire results and name change referenda BSS/7 - Treasurer's Papers BSS/8 - Programme Correspondence inc. Symposia and Projects BSS/9 - Publications BSS/10 - Botanical Society Club BSS/11 - Centenary / Celebrations BSS/12 - Ephemera
1 letter, dated 8th November 1830, regarding the donation of a chest of dried plants, the herbarium collection of Dr. Francis Buchanan Hamilton, to the University of Edinburgh, a duplicate set having been given to the East India Company, written by William Blacklock, directed by Hamilton's Trustees, to Prof. Robert Graham.
Bertha Chandler's thesis, 1913, "The Theory and Practice of Vegetative Propagation in the Flowering Plants", illustrated by Bertha's drawings and photographs, and photographs by Robert Moyes Adam.
4 notebooks; Botany, May 1905 - Bertha's University of Edinburgh lecture notes; Practical Botany sketch book, Winter 1907-08, drawings and notes; Hardy Shrubs, drawings, notes and literature references, plus numerous enclosure, including partial notes for a talk on plant luminescence; and 'Where is it?' - an indexed book containing an alphabetical list of plants experimented with for Callus formation and Propagation with numerical list at end of book.
Reprint - Utricularia emarginata by Chandler, Annals of Botany, vol. XXIV, No., XCV, July 1910, owned by Chandler.
7 copies of Chandler's biography for the RBGE Guild journal.
•Various copies of Isaac Bayley Balfour’s Family Tree •Copy of the Balfour family photo album •1 box of miscellaneous papers regarding the Balfour family tree