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  • 41
    George Forrest Collection
    Correspondence between Forrest and RBGE pertaining to his employment
    1903
    Ref:GB 235 FRG/1/1/1/1903
    Location:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
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  • 42
    Correspondence between Henry John Elwes and Isaac Bayley Balfour
    1900 - 1922
    Ref:GB 235 TEMPELW
    Location:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
    Name of creator:
    Elwes Henry John,Balfour Sir Isaac Bayley.
    Extent:1 box, 40cm
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  • 43
    Copies of papers of the Bethune family of Balfour, Markinch.
    1298-ca. 1900
    Ref:GB 227 ms37860
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Bethune family of Balfour.
    Extent:3 reels of microfilm and 900 photocopies, odd original items. Film or copies
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  • 44
    George Don [Sr.] Collection
    Isaac Bayley Balfour's George Don Collection - George Don's correspondence.
    1799 - 1905
    Ref:GB 235 GDS/6
    Location:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
    Extent:3 folders
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  • 45
    George Don [Sr.] Collection
    Transcription of George Don's Day Book (1811-1815), including copy of page from the Day Book held at the University of Dundee Archives
    1811 - 1912
    Ref:GB 235 GDS/3
    Location:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
    Extent:1 folder
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  • 46
    George Don [Sr.] Collection
    typed transcription of letter from George Don to James Sowerby, 22.05.1799 regarding sending plants to be drawn.
    1799 - 1905
    Ref:GB 235 GDS/6/3
    Location:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
    Extent:1 folder
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  • 47
    George Don [Sr.] Collection
    Patrick Neill's copy of George Don's "A Catalogue of a few of the Rarest and Latest Introduced Plants, cultivated for sale at Don's Botanic Garden and Nursery, Forfar", 1813.
    1813
    Ref:GB 235 GDS/2
    Location:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
    Extent:1 item in a folder
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  • 48
    George Don [Sr.] Collection
    10 letters transcribed and typed onto 27 pages of letters from George Don to Nathaniel J. Winch, copied by the Linnaean Society of London
    1802 - 1905
    Ref:GB 235 GDS/6/2
    Location:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
    Extent:1 folder
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  • 49
    George Don [Sr.] Collection
    original letter from George Don, RBG Edinburgh to James Brodie of Brodie M.P. (1744-1824), with a transcription annotated by Isaac Bayley Balfour, 22.02.1805
    1805 - 1905
    Ref:GB 235 GDS/6/1
    Location:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
    Extent:1 folder
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  • 50
    Ms book of cookery and recipes, begun by Lady Nina Balfour and given to Victoria Alexandrine Montagu Scott, 1864, and continued over 80 years
    1864
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1741
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Balfour Nina Lady d 1916,Scott Victoria Alexandrine Montagu Lady Lothian.
    Extent:0.08 linear metres 1 x volume
    Language:English
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  • 51
    Papers of the Balfour-Melville family
    1817-1867; c 1910-1962
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1934
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Balfour-Melville Evan Whyte Melville 1887-1963 (Senior lecturer in history University of Edinburgh),Melville Mary Louisa Balfour- d 1930 (née Dundas)...
    Extent:19 Volumes
    Language:English
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  • 52
    Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
    Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour
    18 April 1871
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-74/11/8/6
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 53
    Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
    Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour
    27 June 1879
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-74/11/8/9
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 54
    Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
    Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour
    05 July 1879
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-74/11/8/10
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 55
    Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
    Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour
    14 July 1879
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-74/11/8/11
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 56
    Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
    Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour
    29 March 1873
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-74/11/8/7
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 57
    Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
    Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour
    30 March 1878
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-74/11/8/8
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 58
    George Forrest Collection
    1902 - ?
    Ref:GB 235 FRG
    Location:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
    Name of creator:
    Williams John Charles,Balfour Sir Isaac Bayley...
    Extent:7 metres - extensive Collection: Field Notes; Plant lists; Herbarium Samples; Books; Articles; News cuttings; Photographs; Prints; Expedition Correspondence; Professional Correspondence; Personal correspondence, ephemera & personal documents; Maps
    Language:Chinese English
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  • 59
    Papers of Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour
    circa 1870-1920
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-8
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Balfour Sir Isaac Bayley 1853-1922 (professor of botany University of Edinburgh and regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh).
    Extent:3 boxes
    Language:English
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  • 60
    Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
    Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour
    05 August 1873
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-74/11/8/12
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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