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Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0309
Content Description
This collection includes letters from the U.S. Department of Agriculture plant explorer Wilson Popenoe (1892–1975) had been held by Malo. Popenoe's correspondents in this collection include Ernesto Cásseres Hastings (1918–2019), Francis B. Lincoln (?), Art Schroeder (1913–2001), and Ralph Sharpe (?).
Dates:
1948–1974
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0144
Content Description
This collection contains Robert F. Martin’s handwritten notes (3 pieces) about the life of Thomas Walter (1740–1789) and his Flora Caroliniana (London, J. Fraser, 1788; HI call no. DS30 W234F); on “Walter names in Small” (9 pieces); and on modern names for Walter’s species in the Flora, with indications of which of Walter’s names were new genera and species (ca.100 pieces). Also found here are letters (6 items, some photocopies,...
Dates:
1938–1939, n.d.
Collection
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
Collection
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.
Collection
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.
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0234
Content Description
This collection consists of a correspondence including:Letters and notes to and from Neal with Heinrich Leonhards Skuja (1892–1972), Frances Grace Smith (1871–1948), C.E. Snow (?), P.E. Spalding (?), Harold St. John (1892–1991), and Leonard D. Tuthill (1911–1988). An undated handwritten note from an unknown correspondent, Vlad (?).A handwritten letter dated June 17, 1957 from a correspondent known only as "Mary."An undated handwritten letter to...
Dates:
1931–1960, n.d.
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0154
Content Description
This letter (Gainesville, Florida, 10 March 1915) was written by Nelson Lawrence T. Nelson (1862–1932) to “Effie,” his late wife’s sister. It concerns personal affairs including religious activities and acquaintances; some mention is made of his teaching and botanizing.
Dates:
1915
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0261
Content Description
The collection consists of Nordine's correspondence, either with the botanist and forester Charles Clemon Deam (1865–1953) or addressing matters involving Deam after his death with various correspondents. Inventories of specimens sent by Deam to Nordine and the Morton Arboretum are also included with several letters.
Dates:
1945–1974, n.d.
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0238
Content Description
This collection includes:Postcards with prints of O'Gorman's illustrations of flowers, including two addressed from Ella Wallace Turok, an editor in Mexico City who worked on O'Gorman's book Mexican Flowering Trees and Plants, to the botanist Ida Kaplan Langman (1904–1991) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.A letter dated February 9, 1962 handwritten by O'Gorman and addressed to Langman.A typed list of corrections without a date for ...
Dates:
1953–1962, n.d.
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0142
Content Description
The first portion of this volume contains the manuscript of a talk given by Harveian librarian Joseph Frank Payne (1840–1910) to the Royal College of Physicians. The purpose of the speech (ca.75 typescript pages), given 21 January 1901, was to “describe the earliest printed books in European literature devoted to the illustration of Natural History; to fix the date and order of the several works known by the names of ‘Herbarius’ and ‘Hortus Sanitatis’; to show their connection with one...
Dates:
21 January 1901