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One Field diary produced by the Wild Flower Society in which wild flowers are listed. Judith Basden has filled in dates and locations for ones she has found giving us a botanical record for the area mainly around Bonnyrigg.
• Two boxes of papers and correspondence • Box of original manuscripts in English of ‘First Step in Botany’, published in Bengali (1876) • Box containing three books of correspondence • Box of notes on Botany in Manipur • Box of books and correspondence on Gossypium • Box containing his diary from 1878, a notebook of P. Neill Fraser’s and a text book with specimens inside it. • Box containing notebooks and plant lists • Three boxes of cotton papers and correspondence • Box containing papers on commercial products of India • Box containing correspondence regarding commercial products of India • Folder containing two of the same photograph, one mounted, one not, of Abies Smithiana, Noghanda-Bagi Forrest, Sisula • Numerous boxes of glass plate negatives
•Letter to Watson from Henry Trimen (16 Jan 1876) •Letter to Watson from Henry Roscoe (1 May 1872) •Copy of a letter to the Linnaean Society from Watson (23 Dec 1863)
•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)
•Box containing filed notes and lists •Box containing photographs from China and Tibet (1911) •Box of correspondence and lists (1919-1925) •Box of correspondence (1926-1930) •Box of correspondence, list and expedition information (1930-1956)