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- 1845 (Creation)
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3 volumes
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The author was Professor of Botany at Glasgow University in 1841, and at Edinburgh in 1845.
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GB 0120 MSS.1043-1045 1845 Collection (fonds) 3 volumes Balfour , John Hutton , 1808-1884 , botanist
The author was Professor of Botany at Glasgow University in 1841, and at Edinburgh in 1845.
Purchased 1913.
Botanical lectures. Author's holograph MSS. Inside the upper cover of Volume III is a pasted-in visiting card, inscribed 'Professor Balfour/Royal Botanic Garden/Edinburgh'. Produced in Edinburgh.
In 3 volumes
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Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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3 vols. 8vo. 20 x 13 cm. Original half-calf binding. With the writer's book-plate, which is also used, pasted on the spines, as a cover-title.
Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
Entry copied from Wellcome online catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Aug 2008 Balfour , John Hutton , 1808-1884 , botanist Botany Teaching methods Lectures (teaching method)
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Purchased 1913.
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Botanical lectures. Author's holograph MSS. Inside the upper cover of Volume III is a pasted-in visiting card, inscribed 'Professor Balfour/Royal Botanic Garden/Edinburgh'. Produced in Edinburgh.
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In 3 volumes
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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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- English
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- Latin
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Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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- English