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Reference code
GB 235 MCF
Title
MacFarlane, John Muirhead
Date(s)
- 1855 - 1943 (Creation)
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Minimal; ephemra, folder containing a notebook and some correspondence
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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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” Folder in “Mc.” Box in main index