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Francis Boott (1792–1863) notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0094
Scope and Contents

This collection includes three volumes of journals and notes. The first two volumes cover travel and specimen notes and inventories. The third volume is lecture notes, many of which may have been written by individuals other than Boott, namely the Harvard University botanist and medical doctor Jacob Bigelow (1787–1879).

Dates: 1814–1819

Botanical Society of America records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: HIBDARC-0007

Botany Prize Examination, University of Aberdeen (1883) paper

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0307
Content Description

The collection is a one-page document titled "First Prize Examination" for the Botany class at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, listing six questions related to botany.

Dates: 1883

E. Lucy Braun (1889–1971) field notebooks and other materials

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0181
Scope and Contents Note The field notebooks in this collection are a record of the work Braun did that ultimately led to her publication of Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America. They are divided into two sets: her "Deciduous Forest Notebooks," which cover her explorations throughout the region, and her "Kentucky Notebooks." The field notebooks are full of details regarding dates and locations of Braun's excursions, the routes she took, the plants she...
Dates: 1919–1955

Edward Sandford Burgess (1855–1928) papers

 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.

Edward Angus Burt (1859–1939) manuscript

 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

Margery Claire Carlson (1892–1985) correspondence

 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

Mary Agnes Merrill Chase (1869–1963) papers and misc. items

 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

Frederic Edward Clements (1874–1945) autographed copy of The Genera of Fungi (Minneapolis: H.W. Wilson Co., 1909, 227pp.) and other materials

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0241
Content Description This collection consists primarily of a 1909 copy of The Genera of Fungi by Frederic Edward Clements (1875–1945). The volume was adressed by Clements to Dr. Shear (1865–1956), and contains Dr. Shear's bookplate inside the front cover. The volume is heavily annotated by Dr. Shear, containing corrections and notes intended for his second edition of the publication. It is accompanied by a folder containing notes removed from the volume, handwritten by Cornelius...
Dates: 1909–1942

Boughton Cobb (1894–1974) correspondence

 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