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Reginald John Farrer (1880–1920) notes
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
Henry Barron Fielding (1805–1851) correspondence
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.
Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick (1868–1952) papers
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
Macer Floridus, Pseud. [Odo de Meung / Odo Magdunensis], De viribus herbarium manuscript fragments
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
John Milton Fogg Jr. (1898–1982) papers
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
James Sykes Gamble (1847–1925) annotated List of the Trees, Shrubs, and Large Climbers Found in the Darjeeling District, Bengal and correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0157
Content Description
This collection holds a copy of List of the Trees, Shrubs, and Large Climbers Found in the Darjeeling District, Bengal (1878) which has been annotated. Additionally, there are notes both tipped in and loosely between pages, as well as some pieces of correspondence that have been left between the pages.
Dates:
1878
General Autograph Collection (GAC)
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0370
Scope and Contents
This collection contains over 1,700 handwritten letters from mostly American and European botanists. The letters' dates range from the 17th to the 20th century.
Dates:
1685 - 1993
John Scott Lennox Gilmour (1906–1986) correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0057
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Gilmour’s correspondence concerning such topics as possible positions at Kew (1929); his acceptance of the post of assistant director there (1931); and an article (1932–1933) on the Cambridge herbarium, which he hoped to have published in the Journal of Botany and which was eventually published by Cambridge University Press. Other correspondence relates to the publication of descriptive notes to accompany sets of exsiccata (Schedae)...
Dates:
1928–1950