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Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0039
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a notebook, labeled as "Vol. II", containing handwritten notes for lectures on botany. There are also newspaper clippings and articles concerning various plants.
Dates:
1889–1895, n.d.
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0068
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the first and second drafts, mainly handwritten by Burt, of a manuscript written as a cryptogamic section for the seventh edition of Asa Gray’s New Manual of Botany (New York, American Book Company, 1908; Hi call no. DS20 G778M 908), but never published. It was eliminated from the edition at the last minute due to size and scope constraints.
Dates:
ca.1903
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0086
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence with three individuals. Handwritten correspondence from Thomas Baillie MacDougall (1895–1973) to Carlson and her life partner, Kate Staley, is dated 1949 to 1967. Most of these letters are one to two pages in length and were sent from New York, New York, or Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. This set of letters includes 34 letters and five postcards, sometimes signed “D. Tomás,” and one 3" × 5" printed paper advertising the Hotel Tehuantepec (Mexico). The...
Dates:
1949–1973
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0235
Content Description
This collection consists of:Chase's correspondence with Mildred Gilman Wohlforth (1896–1994), the Library of Congress Copyright Office, C.T. Millspaugh (1854–1923), James Francis McBride (1892–1976), Walter V. Brown (1913–1977), Erik Ekman (1883–1931), and Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994), along with some letters written by A.S. Hitchcock (1865–1935) to Ekman. Correspondence about Chase from Wohlforth with Florence van Esteline (?), John Reeder (1914–2009), Charlotte Goodding...
Dates:
1889–1964
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0066
Scope and Contents
Most letters in this collection are from fellow pteridologist Ralph Curtiss Benedict (1883–1965) and concern American Fern Society meetings, Cobb's own study of ferns, and his health. Included is a copy of one reply (11 August 1962) to Benedict from Cobb. Several references to Rolla Milton Tryon Jr. (1916–2001) are made in these letters.
Dates:
1954–1965
Collection
Identifier: HIBDLIB-CurtisBotMag
Scope and Contents
Our Library contains all of the volumes of The Botanical Magazine / Curtis's Botanical Magazine from 1(1), 1787 up to the latest series 25(4), 2008, with scattered holdings after that date. The loose wrappers that we received from Wheldon & Wesley are not a complete set, but they begin with volume 1, number 1 (published in 1787) and end with volume 12, number 146 (published in 1839). We have photographed all of the printed text on the 405 individual...
Dates:
1787–1839
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0123
Content Description
This collection contains a small amount of the correspondence (1945–1966) of Elmer Yale Dawson (1918–1966), consisting mainly of one letter each written to or from Egil Baardseth (1912-1991), Emmy Backeberg (Mrs. Curt), Jean Feldmann (1905–1978), Cornelis den Hartog (1931–2021), Kan-ichi Inagaki (1908–?), Carl Tore Christian Levring (1913–1982), Victor Wilhelm Lindauer (1888–1964), Florence Perrin (Mrs. G.E.) (?–1952), Toshio Segi, and J. Tokida.Also included here are:...
Dates:
1945–1966, n.d.
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0072
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence concerning the botanical work of Degener and his wife, Isa, especially on Flora Hawaiiensis, and includes references to other botanists and their work. The Flora (Honolulu, 1932–?; HI call no. DS495 D319F) was published at irregular intervals in loose-leaf fascicles. There is a small amount of professional correspondence, but much of it is personal. The correspondence relates to...
Dates:
1915–1985, n.d.
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0093
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0071
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the correspondence (four letters, 1946) of Esau and Gilbert M. Smith (1885–1959) of Stanford University, concerning a possible arrangement between them for a book on the morphology of angiosperms, based on Esau's revisions of Smith's notes. The book that did result was Esau's Plant Anatomy (New York, Wiley, 1953; HI call no. DK E74P 965). The collection also contains undated notes (6 typescript pages) on morphology.
Dates:
1946, n.d.