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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.
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
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
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
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0168
Content Description
This collection consists of a slipcase containing notes handwritten in pencil on loose leaf notebook paper (41 items in total). The spine of the slipcase erroneously indicates that these are field notes. Instead, the notes accompanied seeds sent to George Redman, head gardener at the Craven Nursery, which was founded in Clapham by Farrer. They describe the location and appearance of the plants, and in some cases give care instructions. There is also a letter to Mr. Redman which indicates the...
Dates:
1914
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0180
Content Description
This collection includes 18 letters to Fielding. In most of the letters the writers refer to plants they are sending Fielding, either collected themselves or by others.
Correspondents include:* Bentham, George (1800–1884)
Vienna, 18 April 1837, one page, 26.2 × 22.1 cm
Forwards plants from Parreyss from Sieber’s collection, along with Arabian plants he collected for Fielding. 2 Queen Sq. Pl., London, 16 March 1842, 4 pages, 17.6 × 11.1 cm
Relates to...
Dates:
1835–1843, n.d.
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0114
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the following items: One postcard (postmarked 2 March 1895) written by Fitzpatrick from Iowa City, Iowa requesting a copy of Bulletin No. 16 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Division of Botany.Notebook, 1921: “Field notes and sketches of region near Colorado Springs–Austin Bluffs–Gravel Slides at or near Minnehaha Alpine Lab”.Labeled photographs (11) of plant life in the area and related U.S. Geological Survey...
Dates:
1895–1923
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0267
Scope and Contents Note
This collection includes two cropped, handwritten leaves from De Viribus Herbarum, estimated to be from the mid-12th century, making these the oldest items in the Hunt Institute's collection. The pages contain information on the healing properties of sage and wild thyme as well as fragments of the descriptions of other plants.
Dates:
circa 1150
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0131
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 6 boxes of John Milton Fogg Jr.’s correspondence with scientific colleagues and organizations across the entire span of his career. The collection started in 1973 with a donation from Fogg of his correspondence with Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1873–1950), and grew over a series of donations into 1974 as Fogg continued to find and select series of correspondence with prominent botanists. The collection would grow further starting in 1985, when correspondence began...
Dates:
1923–1981