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Velva Elaine Rudd (1910–1999) papers
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
Arthur Moreland Scott (1888–1963) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0035
Scope and Contents
This collection concerns his work with desmids, especially relating to his publications and including drafts and drawings; exchange and identification of specimens; the work and activities of fellow desmidologists; and personal affairs.Correspondents include Pierre Bourrelly (1910–1995), Hannah Croasdale (1905–1999), Franz Eckert, Kurt Förster (1918–1983), Rolf Grönblad (1895–1962), Willi Krieger (1886–1954), John Walter Guerrier Lund (1912–2015), Gunnar Nygaard (1903–2003),...
Dates:
1953–1963
George Shaw and Frederick Polydore Nodder papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0037
Scope and Contents
This is a 16-page handwritten pamphlet, “Alphabetical Index to Dr. Shaw’s Naturalist Miscellany, to be filled up Annually as the Vols. are completed.” Entries are made for 23 volumes.
Dates:
1789–1813
Sibthorp family papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0038
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, accounts and related miscellany. The persons involved include Col. Humphrey Waldo Sibthorp; Richard Waldo Sibthorp; Henry Sibthorp; Henry’s uncle, M. E. Sewell; Henry’s unnamed brother; Gervaise Tottenham Waldo Sibthorp; Charles Waldo Sibthorp; and Mrs. Juliet Hawkins, addressed as “sister” by Richard Waldo Sibthorp. Also found here are documents, including Humphrey Sibthorp’s commission (1794) as colonel in the army, signed by King George III of...
Dates:
1781–1871
George Lewis Slate (1899–1976) papers on Arnold Arboretum
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: HIBDARC-0040
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with some handwritten notes on letters.A booklet titled "A Review of the Arnold Arboretum Controversy", dated April 1955, along with a copy of an excerpt and a table of contents. An article titled "A Denial of Justice and A Matter of Principle" dated March 15, 1956.A copy of the booklet, Ivan M. Johnston, A Correspondence between A Professor At Harvard and The President of the University (Jamaica...
Dates:
1949–1967, n.d.
John Donnell Smith (1829–1928) correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0041
Scope and Contents
This collection contains seven letters to Smith about the identification of plants, particularly relating to Lobeliaceae, Agave Linnaeus and Annonaceae, from Ignatius Urban (1848–1931), Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1864–1935), Charles Baron Clarke (1832–1906), Casimir de Candolle (1836–1918), William Trelease (1857–1945) and William Edwin Safford (1859–1926). There is also a commentary, which originally may have been included with the Candolle letter, from Robert Buser...
Dates:
1892–1911, n.d.
John Donnell Smith (1829–1928) items
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0042
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Smith’s partial catalog of 32 volumes of reprints of botanical publications; 2 letters (possibly copies) from Smith to William A. Kellerman (1850–1908) and Joseph N. Rose (1862–1928); and 4 letters to Smith from Nathaniel L. Britton (1859–1934), Jesse M. Greenman (1867–1951), Harlan P. Kelsey (1872–1959) and Andrew P. Morgan (1836–1907) about the collection, exchange and identification of plants.
Dates:
1880–1909
John Donnell Smith (1829–1928) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0092
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two autograph manuscripts of plant descriptions by Smith and photocopies of pages from Botanical Gazette and of plant labels.
Dates:
1886–1895
M. S. Sprague and Thomas Archibald Sprague (1877-1958) notes on Bock, Historia Stirpium
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0081
Dates:
n.d.
Paul Carpenter Standley (1884–1963) and Louis Otho Williams (1908-1991) Flora of Guatemala manuscript samples
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0077
Dates:
ca.1940–1969