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Knoche, Edward Louis Herman (1870–1945) botanical journals
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0096
Content Description
This collection consists of typescript journals of Knoche’s botanizing in the Canary Islands (November 1915–June 1916; one bound volume, 273 pages) and in Spain (July 1915–June 1916, January–February 1917, August–September 1920; one bound volume, 177 pages). Both volumes include many remarks on the countryside, towns, and natives, as well as notations concerning the flora of the region. Each volume also contains numerous photographs, and the Canary Islands journal contains hand-drawn...
Dates:
1915–1920
Jean François de Galaup (Comte) de la Pérouse (1741–1788) letter
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0025
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one letter dated 3 July 1783, written in French by La Pérouse to an unknown person. The letter claims that a greater sum is owed to La Pérouse for bringing passengers home in the frigates L’Astree and L’Engageante after his Hudson Bay Expedition of 1782.
Dates:
1783
Lee, James (1715–1795) list of plants
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0170
Content Description
This list is titled “An Alphabetical List of all the Plants at Mr. Lee’s Vineyard London” and consists of the Latin and common names of these plants, together with a two-letter coded description, the key to which is in the front of the volume. A note in an unknown hand at the front of the volume reads, “Plants in Mr. Lee’s collection at Hammersmith made out for[?] Mrs. A. Blackburne abt. 1770.”
Dates:
ca.1770
John Bernhard Leiberg (1853–1913) notes on Oregon specimens
Collection
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)
Cythna Lindenberg Letty (1895–1985) letters from Alain White
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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