GB 0120 MSS.2867-2932 and 7961, WMS/Amer.145-148
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1876-1930
Notes and extracts on vegetable materia medica, botany, etc. (with the exception of MS.2882, which deals with British insects, and MS.7961 which consists of general correspondence). The plants discussed include species from Africa, Asia and the Americas. Many of the pieces are drafts of lectures (to bodies such as the Royal Botanic Society) or of papers later published in journals such as the Pharmaceutical Journal, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, etc. Some items include inserted correspondence.
Holmes , Edward Morell , 1843-1940 , botanist and lecturer in materia medica Batters , Edward Arthur Lionel , 1860-1907 , botanist