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Obituary of Robert Smith; text of paper and slides of talk given in 1997 about Smith; atlas and Ordnance Survey maps coloured and annotated by Smith. The collection also includes a map possibly compiled by Marcel Hardy, lecturer in the Department of Botany. The Ordnance Survey maps may be regarded as working drafts for the proposed publications of the Botanical Survey of Scotland. In one of his many articles, Smith writes "excellent maps on which scientific observations may be recorded are furnished by Ordnance Surveys". The botanical features depicted in the Botanical Survey of Scotland Midlothian sheet (published by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in June to August 1900, just before Smith's death) correlate closely with those detailed in Ordnance Survey maps in this collection.