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    Papers of Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776)
    1747-1758
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-180
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:3 volumes
    Language:English
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  • 2
    George Don [Sr.] Collection
    Typed transcription - 3 pages - Notes for a sketch of the Botanists George [Jr.] and David Don of the Dove Hillock, Forfar, includes an extract of David Don's birth in the Forfar Parish register, author - Alex. P. Stevenson, Dundee
    1900 - 1910
    Ref:GB 235 GDS/7/06
    Location:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
    Extent:1 file
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  • 3
    Papers of Francis Hamilton Buchanan (1762-1829)
    1795-1801
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-312
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:9 volumes, 1 letter
    Language:English, and Latin
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  • 4
    Papers of Professor Robert Brown
    20th century
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-648
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:4 boxes, 6 volumes books, 5 volumes research degrees (1 linear metre)
    Language:English
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  • 5
    Drawings of a Collection of East Indian Plants
    19th century
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-478
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:2 folders drawings
    Language:Latin English, Latin
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  • 6
    Papers of Professor Peter Hadland Davis
    20th century
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-645
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 box (unsorted and likely to be re-boxed)
    Language:English
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  • 7
    Papers of Charles Alston (1685-1760)
    1733-1765
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-278
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Alston Charles Lightfoot James Blegborough Henry.
    Extent:9 volumes, 1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 8
    Lectures and Papers of Professor Daniel Rutherford (1749-1819), and Diary of Mrs. Harriet Rutherford
    1788-1808
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-261
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Rutherford Daniel Fuge J H.
    Extent:4 volumes, 1 part volume
    Language:English
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  • 9
    Papers of Robert Kaye Greville (1794-1866)
    1825-1841
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-350
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:16 letters
    Language:English
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  • 10
    Correspondence of Robert Dick
    1800-1866
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-195
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:100 letters (approx) in folder
    Language:English
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  • 11
    George Don [Sr.] Collection
    1799 - 1917
    Ref:GB 235 GDS
    Location:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
    Name of creator:
    Balfour Isaac Bayley (1853-1922).
    Extent:Two boxes (0.2m)
    Language:English
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  • 12
    Papers of Professor John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884)
    1838-1879
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-293
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:4 volumes, 11 letters
    Language:English
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  • 13
    Material relating to John Lowe
    1856-1898
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1502
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Lowe John Dr 1830-1902 (physician natural historian and botanist).
    Extent:1 volume
    Language:English
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  • 14
    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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  • 15
    Treatise of the Materia Medica
    1745-1747
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1127
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 bound MS volume
    Language:English
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  • 16
    Medals and Honours awarded to Sir George Taylor
    1911-1984
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1257
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Taylor George Sir 1904-1993 (botanist and plant taxonomist),Whitson Annie J fl 1911-1913 (Heriot-Watt College student).
    Extent:1 box containing 14 pieces, and 1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 17
    Collector's box and teaching cabinet of Catherine Mary Stirling
    1847
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1893
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Stirling Catherine Mary 1819-1879 (Collector).
    Extent:0.5 linear metre
    Language:English
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