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Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (ca.4-ca.70) De Re Rustica
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0265
Content Description
This manuscript is a 15th century copy of De Re Rustica (english: On Agriculture). De Re Rustica is originally a 12 book work, with the following contents:Book I: Discusses farm layout and staffing
Book II: Discusses soil, ploughing, and planting
Book III, IV, V: Discusses various species of trees and vines
Book VI, VII, VII: Discusses farm animals
Book IX: Discusses bees
Book X: Discusses gardening, written in...
Dates:
15th century
Orator Fuller Cook (1867–1949) correspondence from David Fairchild (1869–1954)
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0163
Content Description
This collection includes notes relating to the culture of and pests affecting Chinese cotton as well as American varieties, cotton manufacturing, and the progress of cotton grown in China (24 pieces). However, the bulk of the China notes concern plantings in Nanking, Shanghai, the Wuchang Experimental Station, and elsewhere (1919, ca.200 pieces). These notes were probably prepared for a publication, but this does not seem to have been completed. There are also notes on Florida cotton,...
Dates:
1891–1951, n.d.
Orator Fuller Cook (1867–1949) notes on cotton
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0183
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 4 folders of notes, both handwritten and typed, primarily concerning the planting and growth of cotton. The first folder contains notes from a 1919 trip to China, and contains materials that were evidently intended for a large publication on cotton growth in China, which was never completed. Besides the notes which comprise the bulk of the collection, there are also other sparse materials such as photographs and manuscript drafts.
Dates:
1912–1929
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.
Delzie Demaree (1889–1987) correspondence and lists of plants
File
Identifier: HIBDARC-0271
Content Description
This collection contains correspondence of Delzie Demaree, with a total of 90 letters and 7 postcards. Additionally there are lists of plants, many associated with particular letters and some included individually. This collection was received from Gary Tucker, a friend of Demaree, in 1988.
Dates:
1924–1969
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
Benjamin Minge Duggar (1872–1956) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0113
Content Description
This is an extensive collection of Benjamin Minge Duggar's correspondence, with the bulk of the collection representing personal correspondence between Duggar and his family members and close associates. Most folders in this series were summarized by Walter Fort, a previous Hunt Institute intern. Those descriptions are included in the notes of the individual folders. The first three folders contain materials created by and pertaining to Duggar's relatives, some dated before his birth. There...
Dates:
1862–[1889–1922]–1959