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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
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
Arber, Agnes Robertson (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
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
William Jackson Bean (1863–1947) correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0067
Scope and Contents
The three letters in this collection were written by Bean to British ornithologist Heatley Noble (1862–1922) and mainly concern the genus Magnolia Linnaeus, which Bean was determining for him. The species mentioned are Magnolia conspicua (Magnolia denudata Desroussaux), Magnolia lennei (Magnolia hybrid), ...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920
Rudolph Beer (1873–1940) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0006
Scope and Contents Note
This collection was received from William T. Stearn on May 1962. It consists of nine file folders. The first eight folders each contain one article reprint and the original handwritten manuscript of the article. File folder 9 contains the handwritten manuscript for the article without the reprint.
Dates:
1905–1913
Charles Edwin Bessey (1845–1915) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0036
Scope and Contents
This collection consists mainly of Charles Edwin Bessey’s handwritten notes and drafts, including a “list of flowers analyzed” (1867, 22 pp.), a freshman botany lecture (1878, 16 pp.); notes on the importance of enthusiasm in teaching botany (1914, 4 pages); and notes to his friend and renowned botanist Asa Gray (2 pp.). In addition the collection includes papers on the topics “the Phyla, Classes, and Orders of Plants” (12 pp.); “Robert W. Furman’s Work on Forestry” (9 pp.); and Filices,...
Dates:
1867–1914, n.d.
Blaine, May Margaret (1889–1973) correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0061
Scope and Contents
This collection consists mainly of personal letters to Blaine and some copies of her replies, discussing the correspondents' work, travel and families and the dolls they purchased for her throughout the world. Correspondents include William Andrew Archer (1894–1973), Harley H. Bartlett (1886–1960), Alan Beetle (1913–2003), Heber Loran Blood (1900–1948), Nina Floy Bracelin (also Mrs. H. P. Bracelin, 1890–1973), Thakur Rup Chand (1902–1994), Winifred Chapin, Carl O. Erlanson (1901–1975), David...
Dates:
1929–1964