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John Donnell Smith (1829–1928) correspondence

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0041
Scope and Contents This collection contains seven letters to Smith about the identification of plants, particularly relating to Lobeliaceae, Agave Linnaeus and Annonaceae, from Ignatius Urban (1848–1931), Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1864–1935), Charles Baron Clarke (1832–1906), Casimir de Candolle (1836–1918), William Trelease (1857–1945) and William Edwin Safford (1859–1926). There is also a commentary, which originally may have been included with the Candolle letter, from Robert Buser...
Dates: 1892–1911, n.d.

John Donnell Smith (1829–1928) items

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0042
Scope and Contents

This collection contains Smith’s partial catalog of 32 volumes of reprints of botanical publications; 2 letters (possibly copies) from Smith to William A. Kellerman (1850–1908) and Joseph N. Rose (1862–1928); and 4 letters to Smith from Nathaniel L. Britton (1859–1934), Jesse M. Greenman (1867–1951), Harlan P. Kelsey (1872–1959) and Andrew P. Morgan (1836–1907) about the collection, exchange and identification of plants.

Dates: 1880–1909

John Donnell Smith (1829–1928) papers

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0092
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: 1886–1895

Jack Werner Stauffacher (1920–2017) correspondence

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0085
Scope and Contents This collection contains two letters from the botanical historian and plant morphologist Agnes Arber (1879–1960) to Jack Stauffacher (1920–2017) of the Greenwood Press, San Francisco. There is also a postcard from botanist R. D. Gray to Arber. All items are from Cambridge, 1950.Item 1: Letter, January 1950, Arber to Stauffacher Apparently relates to Stauffacher’s expressed interest in the study of botany and mentions Arber’s book The Natural Philosophy of Plant...
Dates: 1950

Teodoro Juan Vicente Stuckert (1852–1932) correspondence

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0109
Scope and Contents

This collection contains approximately 43 letters, all in German, from Teodoro Juan Vicente Stuckert (1852–1932), Córdoba, Argentina, to Eduard Hackel (1850–1926). Four botanical photographs are also included.

Dates: 1903–1908

William Randolph Taylor (1895–1990) papers

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0078
Dates: ca.1928–ca.1960

Ray Ethan Torrey (1887–1956) class notes

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0313
Content Description

The collection consists of 35 pages of handwritten class notes with visual sketches taken by Torrey for a class on mycology taught at Harvard University by the mycologist and entomologist Roland Thaxter (1858–1932).

Dates: 1917

William Trelease (1857–1945) papers

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0043
Scope and Contents The letters in this collection relate mainly to Trelease’s determinations of Piperaceae, particularly Piper Linnaeus and Peperomia Ruiz & Pavon, and occasionally of Loranthaceae; a few relate to specimens of Cuscuta, sent to Yuncker through Trelease. There is also a group of letters (ca.1929) relating to a biographical memoir of John Merle Coulter, a book Trelease was writing for the...
Dates: 1893–1944