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Leiberg, John Bernhard (1853–1913) notes on Oregon specimens

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0011
Content Description This collection consists of one handwritten notebook. The notebook contains a numbered list of plant and tree specimens Leiberg collected in Oregon, with notes as to date (month only given, June–September), locations and altitudes. Although no year is given, it is likely that the notes were compiled during the summer of either 1895 or 1896, when Leiberg worked in Oregon for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). This list is a duplicate of one first believed lost in the mail...
Dates: n.d. (ca. 1895–1896)

Letty, Cythna Lindenberg (1895–1985) letters from Alain White

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0073
Scope and Contents These letters from taxonomist Alain White (1880–1951) refer to Letty’s illustrations in the journal Flowering Plants of South Africa, the use of her drawings of Stapelia Linnaeus from that journal in White and Boyd L. Sloane’s The Stapelieae (Pasadena, Abbey San Encino Press, 1937, 3 vols.), and the preparation and publication of the book, in which she is listed as a collaborator. White's letters also...
Dates: 1934–1945, n.d.

Áskell Löve (1916–1994) papers

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0319
Scope and Contents Note The papers of Áskell Löve consist of drafts of articles, correspondence and notes on both professional and personal subjects. The bulk of the materials date from the 1970s and 1980s. Most of the correspondence is dated and chronicles discussions on professional topics. The series descriptions represent the record-keeping system of Löve, and items were processed to maintain this original order. The papers also include Löve's account of the unusual incidents leading to his forced retirement...
Dates: 1950–1987

Albert Edgar Lownes (1899–1978) papers

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Identifier: HIBDARC-209
Content Description This collection includes:A typed draft of an article, "Notes On the Roots of Some New England Orchids", dated March 26, 1942. Drawn images depicting the roots of various orchid species. Two drafts of the first page of "Notes On the Roots of Some New England Orchids", one of which has handwritten corrections, both dated April 1932. Handwritten notes titled "New England Orchids."An undated handwritten draft of "Notes On the Roots of...
Dates: 1932–1942, n.d.

William Lucas (1800–1877) correspondence

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0117
Content Description This collection consists of five letters (1855, photocopies) representing the correspondence of Lucas, Hall Town, Jefferson County, Virginia (later West Virginia), and William R. Prince (1795–1869) of the William R. Prince and Co. nursery, Flushing, Long Island. The first four letters are from Prince, concerning Lucas’s purchase of an order which “comprises so many rare species and varieties that it will require our personal attention throughout” (1 February 1855). In a letter of 12...
Dates: 1855

Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721–1794) "Explication de Quelques Termes de Botanique" manuscript concerning botanical classification

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0175
Scope and Contents Note This collection consists of an unpublished manuscript (138 pages), "Explication de Quelques Termes de Botanique," concerning botanical terminology and classification and the historical development of botany. Pages 1–88 concern pre-Linnaean classification, particularly the work of Andrea Cesalpino (1519–1603), Robert Morison (1620–1683) John Ray (1627–1705) and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708). Pages 88–138 comprise a detailed discussion of the system of Carolus Linnaeus...
Dates: ca.1746–1752

Mildred Esther Mathias (1906–1995) papers

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0026
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of correspondence (including photocopies of her outgoing letters) concerning her activities and those of her correspondents, particularly activities relating to her determination of specimens of Apiaceae alt. Umbelliferae and her work on the family for a proposed North American flora under the editorship of Elmer D. Merrill and Henry A. Gleason of the New York Botanical Garden.

Dates: 1927–1952

Franz Carl Mertens (1764–1831) papers

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0054
Scope and Contents This collection includes a letterbook consisting of 263 letters from other scientists to Mertens with copies of many of Mertens' replies handwritten onto the original letters. The letters are tipped into a bound volume. This includes letters from Carl Adolphe Agardh (1785–1859), J. B. G. M. Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778–1846), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1806–1893), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838), Louis August Deschamps (1765–1842), Rene Louiche Defontaines (1750–1833), Ambrose M. F. J....
Dates: 1797–1829 and n.d.

Benjamin Yoe Morrison (1891–1966) papers

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0027
Scope and Contents The papers in this collection deal mostly with Morrison's activities after retirement (1951) when he lived and had his nursery in Pass Christian, Mississippi. The correspondence (1924–[1945–1965], boxes 1–2) concerns plant breeding and the exchange or sale of seeds and bulbs, as well as information about his work and that of fellow horticulturists, publication of his National Horticultural Magazine and business of the American Horticultural Society.There...
Dates: 1915–1965, n.d.