Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Scope and Contents Note The field notebooks in this collection are a record of the work Braun did that ultimately led to her publication of Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America. They are divided into two sets: her "Deciduous Forest Notebooks," which cover her explorations throughout the region, and her "Kentucky Notebooks." The field notebooks are full of details regarding dates and locations of Braun's excursions, the routes she took, the plants she...

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This collection consists of a notebook, labeled as "Vol. II", containing handwritten notes for lectures on botany. There are also newspaper clippings and articles concerning various plants.

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This collection contains the first and second drafts, mainly handwritten by Burt, of a manuscript written as a cryptogamic section for the seventh edition of Asa Gray’s New Manual of Botany (New York, American Book Company, 1908), but never published. It was eliminated from the edition at the last minute due to size and scope constraints.

Scope and Contents Our Library contains all of the volumes of The Botanical Magazine / Curtis's Botanical Magazine from 1(1), 1787 up to the latest series 25(4), 2008, with scattered holdings after that date. The loose wrappers that we received from Wheldon & Wesley are not a complete set, but they begin with volume 1, number 1 (published in 1787) and end with volume 12, number 146 (published in 1839). We have photographed all of the printed text on the 405 individual...

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This collection includes the correspondence (four letters, 1946) of Esau and Gilbert M. Smith (1885–1959) of Stanford University, concerning a possible arrangement between them for a book on the morphology of angiosperms, based on Esau's revisions of Smith's notes. The book that did result was Esau's Plant Anatomy (New York, Wiley, 1953). The collection also contains undated notes (6 typescript pages) on morphology.

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This collection consists mainly of correspondence between Fairchild and Barbour Lathrop (1847–1927), as well as one letter to Fairchild’s wife, Marian Hubbard Graham Bell (1880–1962), from Lathrop. Included with the letters are pages of typed and handwritten transcript of these letters and two others not in this collection.

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This collection includes two cropped, handwritten leaves from De Viribus Herbarum, estimated to be from the mid-12th century, making these the oldest items in the Hunt Institute's collection. The pages contain information on the healing properties of sage and wild thyme as well as fragments of the descriptions of other plants.

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This collection contains over 1,700 handwritten letters from mostly American and European botanists. The letters' dates range from the 17th to the 20th century.

Scope and Contents This collection of original materials consists mainly of notebooks and loose pages of drawings in various media with related notes; the topics include apples, Biscutella, “Fichas de Macromicetos,” and “Trabajos Botánicos Originales Sifónogamas II (1928–1929).” There is also a notebook of appreciations (mainly handwritten) from his students (1956–1957), copies of various of his publications, and miscellaneous items including a typescript list (1959) of his works and publications. All items...