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Collection
Identifier: HIBDLIB-Adanson
Content Description
The Michel Adanson Library at Hunt Institute includes the botanical portion of Adanson's personal library, along with correspondence, manuscripts, and a large number of plant illustrations clipped from published sources. The collection contains 127 book titles, 117 letters, 146 manuscripts and thousands of plant images clipped from published works, many of them annotated by him. (copied from https://www.huntbotanical.org/library/show.php?1)
Dates:
1724–1848; Majority of material found within 1764-1804
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0275
Content Description
This collection consists of two folders, both containing correspondence with specific botanists. The first is correspondence with Richard Evans Schultes (1915–2001), an ethnobotanist who studied indigenous peoples of the Americas and their use of plants. The second is correspondence with Lyman Bradford Smith (1904–1997), a botanical researcher and curator at the United States National Herbarium in various roles from 1947–1974.
Dates:
1955–1988
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.
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
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: HIBDARC-0400
Scope and Contents
The collection holds digitized images of Anderson’s drawings, paintings, and scratchboard art, as well as printed postcards and posters, photographs, and photographic slides. The papers in the collection include correspondence, receipts, publications, and papers related to nature catalogues, awards, and exhibitions.
Dates:
1987–2022
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0002
Content Description
Miscellaneous items concerning Narcissus, 1864 and n.d.
Dates:
1864 and n.d.
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0172
Scope and Contents
The middle portion of this hand-bound volume consists of handwritten lectures (116 pp.) on pathology, apparently by a professor of medicine, covering the symptoms, anatomical characterisitcs, and treatment of various diseases. References are made to the practices of [William] Cullen, [David] Abercrombie, Willson Phillips, and especially to a Dr. Eccles. The front portion of the volume contains 73 hand-drawn plates of medicinal plants, 62 of which are in color. At the end of the volume are...
Dates:
circa 1830s, after 1837
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
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
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