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Croasdale, Hannah Thompson (1905–1999) correspondence and drawings of Rolf Leo Grönblad (1895-1962) and Arthur Moreland Scott (1888-1963)
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0230
Content Description
This collection consists of correspondence, drawings, drafts and other materials related to various publications by Hannah Thompson Croasdale (1905–1999), Rolf Leo Grönblad (1895–1962), and Arthur Moreland Scott (1888–1963). The materials are primarly created by the latter two, although one folder contains correspondence between Grönblad and Croasdale, and another holds correspondence between Scott and William Randolph Taylor. The non-correspondence materials are primarily arranged by the...
Dates:
1947–1962
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine wrappers
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
Elmer Yale Dawson (1918–1966) papers
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.
Otto Degener (1899–1988) papers
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:
1915–1986, n.d.
Anonymous descriptions of plants with woodcuts by Dodoens
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0173
Scope and Contents
This manuscript consists of 712 numbered pages containing woodcuts trimmed from two works by Rembert Dodoens (1517–1585), accompanied by handwritten botanical and medical notes in French. The woodcuts come from Trium Priorum de Stirpium Historia Commentariorum Imagines (1553) and Posteriorum Trium de Stirpum historia Commentariorum Imagines (1554), which both consist of illustrations and brief notes from Dodoens' earlier work...
Dates:
circa 1700s
Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700–1782) manuscript
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0093
Dates:
n.d.
Katherine Esau (1898–1997) papers
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.
Escuela Agrícola Panamericana records
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0269
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 30 folders of administrative papers (including financial and legal documents, contracts, policies and by-laws, etc.), studies, and correspondence, three minute books (one intact book, two folders with book contents), and the contents of two binders of letters received by Dr. Wilson Popenoe upon his retirement from the EAP. The bulk of the collection (minus the binders) was donated by the Board of Trustees of the EAP on 25 August 1986, and spans the years...
Dates:
1941–1985
Arthur Wallis Exell (1901–1993) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0110
Content Description
This collection consists of correspondence and miscellaneous materials belonging to taxonomist and collector Arthur Wallis Exell (1901–1993).Letters (all handwritten and signed):1. Exell to Le Testu, n.p., n.d. (ca.1951). French, 2 pagesExell discusses Georges Le Testu’s (1877–1967) offer to leave his herbarium to the British Museum; remarks that he is working on the Conspectus Florae Angolensis (Lisboa, Portugal, 1937) with Francisco...
Dates:
1884–1971
David Grandison Fairchild (1869–1954) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0012
Scope and Contents
This collection consists mainly of correspondence between Fairchild and Barbour Lathrop (1847–1927), as well as one letter to Fairchild’s wife, Marian Hubbard Graham Bell (1880–1962), from Lathrop. Included with the letters are pages of typed and handwritten transcript of these letters and two others not in this collection.
Dates:
1901–1925