Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Content Description

This collection contains a letter (2 November 1896, 3 pages) from Louis F. Henderson (1853–1942) in Moscow, Idaho, to Frederick V. Coville (1867–1937), sending some notes and questions on Henderson’s Idaho collections, listed by specimen number. There are eight additional pages of “Notes on Idaho Plants” (undated); it is uncertain whether these notes originally accompanied the letter.

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This collection consists mainly of letters from Charles C. Deam (1865–1953), an expert on the trees, ferns and flowering plants of Indiana; he was for many years the state forester there. The letters concern Deam’s work on Juncus Linnaeus, his Flora of Indiana (Indianapolis, 1940), and other topics. There is at least one copy of a letter from Hermann, some lists of Hermann’s plants (determined by Deam?) and related items.

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The collection is a handwritten document, which consists of a letter from the botanist William Hunt Painter (1835–1910) and including extensive reference notes to H.C. Andrews, The Botanists' Repository (London: T. Bensley, 1797–1814; HI call no. DQ2 A213B) and H.W. Schmidt, The Botanists' Chronicle (Chelsea, England: Frederick Bell, 1863–1865).

Content Description The collection consists of:“Harvard’s View of the Controversy over the Arnold Arboretum” (1954, 13 printed pages, two copies), a statement prepared by Dean McGeorge Bundy.“The Harvard Corporation and the Arnold Arboretum” (1957, 5 printed pages, two copies), a transcription of a talk by William L. Marbury.“A Memorandum About the Arnold Arboretum” (1957, 8 typescript pages [copy]), author unknown.Copy of the typed manuscript of the final...

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This collection consists of 168 hand-colored glass lantern slides, numbered 001-171 (slides 42, 50 and 116 are not included in this collection). Also included in this collection is the typed copy of the lecture written by Rachel Hunt describing the slides’ contents. The slides depict gardens and are labelled with owners and often locations.

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This collection consists primarily of correspondence between Paul Clifford Hutchison and Franz Buxbaum on a number of topics of shared interest, especially the family

Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection is a series of letters sent to and by Marcus Eugene Jones regarding both his professional and personal life. His professional letters cover both his work as a botanist and his work as a mine manager in Salt Lake City. Additionally, both facets of his professional life are represented in documents and handwritten notes. Another large portion of the collection contains autobiographical material he dictated late in his life, detailing memories of his childhood and...

Content Description This collection includes five letters (1970–1972) to Kasapligil from botanical author and illustrator John Hutchinson (1884–1972), who began his career on the herbarium staff at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1905) and became keeper of the Museum of Botany there (1936–1948). The letters refer to Hutchinson’s activities; to his wife and his daughter Joan; the success with which his Evolution and Phylogeny of Flowering Plants (London, New York, Academic Press, 1969;...