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    Collection of Charles Alston
    Materia Medica Vol 12 by Charles Alston
    c1740
    Ref:GB 585 DEP-ACH/3/12
    Location:Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Library & Archives
    Extent:1 volume
    Language:English
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  • 2
    Notes of lectures given by Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, taken down by James R. Watson
    1890
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1953
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Watson James R fl 1890s (Edinburgh University student).
    Extent:1 volume
    Language:English
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  • 3
    Manuscript on Chinese botany entitled "Synonymie d'histoire naturelle Chinoise" by Joseph-Marie Callery
    1840s
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1999
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Callery Joseph-Marie 1810-1862 (missionary Sinologist and botanist).
    Extent:1 manuscript
    Language:Multiple languages
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  • 4
    Flora Buchan Murray's notebook / lecture notes
    1928 - 1932
    Ref:GB 235 MFB
    Location:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
    Name of creator:
    Murray Flora Buchan.
    Extent:1 notebook with 4 inserts 170x110mm, 1.5cm wide
    Language:English
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  • 5
    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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  • 6
    George Don [Sr.] Collection
    Isaac Bayley Balfour's George Don Collection - items relating to Jane Taylor Ewen of Mill Bank, Forfar. Including postcards and photographs showing views of Forfar.
    1900 - 1917
    Ref:GB 235 GDS/5
    Location:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
    Extent:1 folder
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  • 7
    Collection of Charles Alston
    [Lectures on Materia Medica]
    1736
    Ref:GB 585 DEP-ACH/1
    Location:Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Library & Archives
    Extent:1 volume
    Language:English
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  • 8
    Collection of Charles Alston
    Pharmacologia or an Introduction to the Materia Medica being excerpts from the lectures of Dr Charles Alstone
    1738
    Ref:GB 585 DEP-ACH/2
    Location:Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Library & Archives
    Extent:1 volume
    Language:English
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  • 9
    Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
    Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from William Carruthers
    29 August 1866
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-203/1 folio(s) 527
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 10
    Ms lecture notes on the 'Plant and its Food' by Stevenson Macadam (1829-1901), Lecturer Professor of Chemistry, Edinburgh
    1855-1859
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1669
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Macadam Stevenson 1829-1901 chemist.
    Extent:1 boarded folder
    Language:English
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  • 11
    Notes of botany lectures given by Daniel Rutherford, taken down by person unknown
    May 1790
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1929
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 volume
    Language:English
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  • 12
    Dunkeld Community Archive: collected papers on education and schooling
    Bound volume with pressed wild flowers by Agnes Carling
    5 July 1929
    Ref:GB 619 DUN/ED/EA/2002.0077
    Location:The Chapter House Museum Trust & Dunkeld Community Archive
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  • 13
    Papers of John Hardie Wilson
    1818-2001
    Ref:GB 227 ms37783-4; ms37788-37808; ms38491-2; ms38513-4; 38524-5
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Wilson John Hardie.
    Extent:ca. 4 metres
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  • 14
    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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  • 15
    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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  • 16
    Ellis Crapper photographic collection
    1845-1973
    Ref:GB 227 phEC, ms37835-37852
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Crapper Ellis.
    Extent:19 loose leaf photographic albums, 28pp to 32pp., 35 notebooks, 48pp to 104pp. and 242 glass plate negatives, 7x2.5cm
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  • 17
    Kinnear Collection
    Illustrations of Scottish Flora, chiefly of Forfarshire and Fifeshire'
    1912-1913
    Ref:GB 254 MS 103/3/3
    Location:University of Dundee Archive Services
    Extent:1 book
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  • 18
    John Hardie Wilson photographic collection
    [ca. 1879]-1919
    Ref:GB 227 JHW
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Wilson John Hardie.
    Extent:194+ca. 5000 lantern slides, 4 inch format, stored in 57 boxes
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  • 19
    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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  • 20
    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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