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LeRoy Abrams (1874–1956) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0120
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains one folder of letters to Abrams from Willis Linn Jepson (1867–1946), professor of botany at University of California at Berkeley, and copies of Abrams’ letters (1920–1943) to Jepson. The correspondence relates mainly to Jepson’s work on Erigoneae, intended for the second volume of Abrams’ Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States, and Jepson’s eventual inability to finish it in time for the volume’s publication in 1937. There is also a...
Dates:
1920–1954
Dorothy Osdieck Allen (1911–1973) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0259
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four undated Christmas cards that include botanical illustrations from Allen's own work. All four cards have handwritten messages from Allen. Three are unaddressed and one is addressed to "Sis" and "Lou."
Dates:
ca. 1965, n.d.
Paul Hamilton Allen (1911–1963) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0001
Scope and Contents
This collection consists mainly of correspondence related to Allen’s career and other positions he held. None of this correspondence was written during the UFC banana-collecting expedition to Southeast Asia, but letters of the previous and following periods make briefly references to it. Included are references to Allen’s collection of Central American orchids, palms and other plants; his work on orchids for publications; the botanical art of his wife, Dorothy Osdieck Allen (1911–1973);...
Dates:
1937–1963
Anonymous Collector, miscellaneous items concerning Narcissus Linnaeus
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0002
Content Description
Miscellaneous items concerning Narcissus, 1864 and n.d.
Dates:
1864 and n.d.
Anonymous, "Plantes des Environs de Paris"
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0169
Content Description
This collection contains a manuscript (in French, 1775, 671 pages) of “Plantes des Environs de Paris.” A note in the front of the volume indicates that the contents are “quelques plantes qui sont le plus généralement cultivées dans nos jardins pour l’ornement de nos parterres, quoique étrangeres a notre sol. Ces plantes sont rangées suivant une nouvelle méthode" (in English, "Some plants that are most commonly cultivated in our gardens for the ornamentation of our flowerbeds, although...
Dates:
1775
Agnes Robertson Arber (1879–1960) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0053
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1886–1985
William Andrew Archer (1894–1973) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0003
Scope and Contents
The William Andrew Archer papers (ca.1906–[1929–1964]–1972), HI Archives collection no. 3, consists of seventeen boxes of materials and four bound volumes. The majority of the collection includes reports, printed and mimeographed items, certificates and correspondence. Archer's publications and the published materials of fellow botanists, such as a listing of botanical paintings and drawings by Helen Joslin, are also available throughout the collection.Much of the collection...
Dates:
1929–1964
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954) manuscript fragment
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0004
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains four handwritten noncontiguous pages (including a title page) of the manuscript of Bailey's The Garden of Bellflowers in North America, with Decorations (New York, MacMillan, 1953).
Dates:
before 1953
Peter René Oscar Bally (1895–1980) correspondence with Gilbert W. Reynolds (1895–1967), 1950–1967
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0005
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters between Peter René Oscar Bally and Gilbert W. Reynolds (1895–1967), an optician in Johannesburg, and later of Swaziland. Reynolds was a collector of and authority on the genus Aloe Linnaeus. The correspondence concerns Reynolds’ Aloes of South Africa (1950), as well as the travel and collecting of Aloe specimens done by both men, including Reynolds’ work for ...
Dates:
1950–1967