Scope and Contents

This file also contains one undated newspaper clipping "Ar [1]", which contains the article "On a French Version of the Herbal of Leonard Fuchs" written by Agnes Arber.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection holds mostly material collected by Agnes Arber's daughter, Muriel Arber (1913–2004). It includes 31 of Agnes Arber's notebooks about herbals and plant morphology; atavism and the "law of loss," which she independently formulated from botanical evidence; the botany of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) and Guy de la Brosse (1586–1641); her first herbarium; drawings of plants; "botanical records and cuttings", which includes a letter from her friend...