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Baki Kasapligil (1918–1992) papers

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0294
Content Description This collection holds 56 folders of materials, primarily correspondence spanning Kasapligil's career. Topics range from the personal to the professional, which a large portion of the collection being his correspondence with other botanists and individuals of scientific note. The collection was received from Dr. Rudolf Schmid of the University of California, Berkeley after Kasapligil's death. Prior to his passing Kasapligil had expressed interest in depositing his correspondence in a letter...
Dates: 1955–1986
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Thomas Henry Kearney (1874–1956) notebooks on cotton

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0226
Content Description

This collection consists of four typescript notebooks on cotton plants, which have been removed from their original housing and placed in folders. Topics include Gossypium hybridization experiments, planting plans and descriptions of species.

Dates: 1930–1942
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

David Daniels Keck (1903–1995) correspondence

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0203
Content Description This collection includes three letters (21 September 1928, n. d., and 27 April 1932) from Jones in Claremont, California. In the n.d. letter he discusses his willingness to “take a crack at any head that needed it” and refers to [Joseph Nelson] Rose (1862–1928), [Nathaniel Lord] Britton (1859–1934), [Per Axel] Rydberg (1860–1931), [Edward Lee] Greene (1843–1915), and [Merritt Lyndon] Fernald (1873–1950). The 1932 letter, written in reply to an eightieth-birthday greeting by Keck, briefly...
Dates: 1928–1932, n.d.
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Gustav Fischer (fl. ca. 1903–1938) papers

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0308
Scope and Contents The collection consists of:Five typed documents, including a letter written by Fischer in German and its English translation and a letter written by Keissler in German, a copy, and its English translation. Both letters are written to the botanist and anthropologist Harley Harris Bartlett (1886–1960), then head of the University of Michigan's Department of Botany. The letters represent an effort to find Fischer employment in the United States due to "the great political change...
Dates: 1938
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Leon Hugh Kelso (1907–1982) papers

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0207
Content Description This collection contains correspondence addressed to Kelso from M.L. Fernald (1873–1950), George A. Hardy (?), H.D. Harrington (1903–1981), A.S. Hitchcock (1865–1935), W.L. Jensen (?), Theodor Just (1904–1960), Paul E. Klopsteg (1889–1991), G.H.M. Lawrence (1910–1978), Bertil Lindquist (1904–1963), Otto C. McCreary (1879–1944), Robert P. McIntosh (1920–2017), J. Paul Miller (?), Wilfred H. Osgood (1875–1947), M. Walter Pesman (1887–1962), Reed C. Rollins (1911–1998), Ruth D. Sanderson (?),...
Dates: 1929–1974, n.d.
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Ellsworth Paine Killip (1890–1968) papers

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0083
Scope and Contents

This collection encompasses correspondence during Killip's time at the Smithsonian Institution from 1930–1936 as well as a customs declaration and an article reprint from the 1940s.

Dates: 1930–1946
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Robert Merrill King (1930–2007) papers

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0087
Dates: 1957–1993
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Knoche, Edward Louis Herman (1870–1945) botanical journals

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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
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Jean François de Galaup (Comte) de la Pérouse (1741–1788) letter

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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
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Ida Kaplan Langman (1904–1991) papers

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0179
Content Description

This collection spans Ida Kaplan Langman's life and career, containing a large variety of both personal and professional documents. Professional documents including teaching materials and grade transcripts, publication drafts, scientific society documents, and awards. Personal papers include holiday cards, legal documents, and health records. A large portion of the collection is professional correspondence, much of which concerns seeking information for publication of bibliographies.

Dates: 1919–1980
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

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