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Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0006
Scope and Contents Note
This collection was received from William T. Stearn on May 1962. It consists of nine file folders. The first eight folders each contain one article reprint and the original handwritten manuscript of the article. File folder 9 contains the handwritten manuscript for the article without the reprint.
Dates:
1905–1913
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0036
Scope and Contents
This collection consists mainly of Charles Edwin Bessey’s handwritten notes and drafts, including a “list of flowers analyzed” (1867, 22 pp.), a freshman botany lecture (1878, 16 pp.); notes on the importance of enthusiasm in teaching botany (1914, 4 pages); and notes to his friend and renowned botanist Asa Gray (2 pp.). In addition the collection includes papers on the topics “the Phyla, Classes, and Orders of Plants” (12 pp.); “Robert W. Furman’s Work on Forestry” (9 pp.); and Filices,...
Dates:
1867–1914, n.d.
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0061
Scope and Contents
This collection consists mainly of personal letters to Blaine and some copies of her replies, discussing the correspondents' work, travel and families and the dolls they purchased for her throughout the world. Correspondents include William Andrew Archer (1894–1973), Harley H. Bartlett (1886–1960), Alan Beetle (1913–2003), Heber Loran Blood (1900–1948), Nina Floy Bracelin (also Mrs. H. P. Bracelin, 1890–1973), Thakur Rup Chand (1902–1994), Winifred Chapin, Carl O. Erlanson (1901–1975), David...
Dates:
1929–1964
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0094
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0007
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0181
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...
Dates:
ca.1919–[1931–ca.1955]
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0039
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1889–1895, n.d.
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0068
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
ca.1903
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0086
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0066