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Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0204
Scope and Contents
The Wilson Popenoe papers were given to the Archives of the Hunt Institute in 1976 by his son, Dr. Hugh Popenoe.The first section of the collection, Correspondence, includes not only letters to and from Wilson Popenoe during his lifetime but also other family correspondence. These letters cover nearly 100 years of Popenoe correspondence. The second section consists of Subject Files used by Popenoe for his own reference, which include letters, published and unpublished...
Dates:
1882–1975
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0064
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a letterbook belonging to French botanist Pedro Andrés Pourret (1754–1818). Where addresses appear, the letters were sent to Pourret or written by him in Paris, in Narbonne, and in Brienne, Champagne.
Dates:
1746–1820
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0031
Scope and Contents
This collection consists mainly of letters Prain received from 1922 to 1924 and miscellaneous related items, some concerning the 1922 death of Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853–1922). Also found here is a copy of a letter (27 February 1922) from Prain to Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859–1934), discussing the nomenclature of various plants. Among the correspondents are Agnes (Balloch) Bayley Balfour (1857–1940), Frederick O. Bower (1855–1948) and Arthur W. Hill (1875–1941).
Dates:
1922–1924
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0184
Content Description
This is a typescript letter (Bodnant Gardens, Colwyn Bay, 20 June 1974, mimeographed?) to members of the Society, explaining Puddle’s reasons for resigning from official duties connected with the group, including his disagreement over various matters with the Society’s president, E. G. Waterhouse (1881–1977).
Dates:
1974
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0048
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: HIBDARC-0033
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: HIBDARC-0034
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0376
Content Description
1071 watercolor orchid paintings and pencil sketches by Rafael Lucas Rodriguez Caballero.18 sheets of informal sketches and/or handwritten notes; 29 sheets of reference copies.74 handmade orchid identification notecards.10 sets of handwritten and illustrated/illuminated descriptions of orchid genera and/or families.1 typewritten manuscript with 1-page handwritten description.27 notebooks with class notes, orchid observation notes,...
Dates:
1935–1980
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0076
Scope and Contents
This collection contains items relating to various botanists and plant genera. The first group of items relates to Adrian Hardy Haworth (1767?–1833): Haworth’s letter (Chelsea, 19 December 1831) to the Rev. Henry Thomas Ellacombe* (1790–1885) at Bitton, near Bath (Gloucestershire), referring to Ajax albicans, double jonquils, Ganymedes nutams Nob., Iris biflora, ...
Dates:
1831–1834, 1931–1948
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0146
Content Description
This collection covers Velva Elaine Rudd's correspondence to and with a number of individuals. There are also letters between the botanist and director of the National Museum of Natural History and Arnold Arboretum, Albert Charles Smith (1906–1999), and various correspondents. Also included are lists of plants and determinations of collections identified by Rudd and other botanists in Mexico, Venezuela, Honduras, and the southwestern and southeastern United States.Correspondents...
Dates:
1933–1979