Collection: John Donnell Smith (1829–1928) papers | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Scope and Contents

This collection contains two autograph manuscripts of plant descriptions by Smith and photocopies of pages from Botanical Gazette and of plant labels.

Dates

Creation: 1886–1895

Biographical Note

Taxonomist John Donnell Smith (1829–1928) of Baltimore, Maryland, was a trustee of Peabody Institute in Baltimore (1888–1915) as well as a captain in the Confederate Army. In 1906 he donated his herbarium of more than 100,000 mounted specimens and his botanical library of over 1,600 volumes to the Smithsonian Institution. The herbarium is now kept as a historical collection in the U.S. National Herbarium.

Extent

.1 Linear Feet (1 file folder)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Additional collections and materials

The Hunt Institute Art Department also has 32 pencil drawings by Faxon, which are the originals for new species described by Smith in his series of 36 papers, “Undescribed plants from Guatemala,” for the American journal, Botanical Gazette (1887–1916, nos. 12–61). For additional Smith items, see HI Archives collection nos. 41, 42 and 370.