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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
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
Michael Schuck Bebb (1833–1895) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0059
Scope and Contents
There are 12 handwritten pages of drawings and notes concerning willows and, according to a notation by Carleton R. Ball, the manuscript of an account published, with descriptions of new species, in part in Charles F. Wheeler and Erwin F. Smith’s Catalogue of the Phaenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of Michigan… (Lansing, W. S. George, 1881; HI call no. DS70 MI W562C). Also found here are three letters from Bebb in Rockford, Illinois, to Townshend S. Brandegee (13 February 1878) and...
Dates:
1878–1887, n.d.
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.
May Margaret Blaine (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
Maybelle Blos (1906–1991) time book
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0186
Content Description
This collection holds the contents of one notebook, with lists of Maybelle Blos' drawings of South American Cactaceae, done for Paul Clifford Huchison (1924–1997) and Myron Kimnach(1992–2018). Some notes are written by Blos herself, while others are records kept by her employer. There is also a letter written by Leonard Machlis (1915–1976), chairman of the University of California, Berkely botany department, to Thomas Harper Goodsped regarding research...
Dates:
1956–1965
Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt (1901–1987) correspondence
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: HIBDARC-0392
Content Description
The collection includes:Letters and postcards exchanged between Blunt and George H.M. Lawrence (1910–1978), Rachel Hunt (1882–1963), John Brindle (1911–1991), J.S.L. Gilmour (1906–1986), J.S. Maas (1928–1997), Katherine MacLean (?), Leonard Duke (1890–1971), Ian Rogerson (?),
Edward "Teddy" Croft-Murray (1907–1980), Henry R. Broughton (1900–1973), John C. Warner (1897–1989), Richard Louis Ormond
(1939– ), Jean Chirichigno (?), H. Guyford Stever (1916–2010), Phyllis M....
Dates:
1959–1987, n.d.