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Frederick Joseph Hermann (1906–1987) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0016
Scope and Contents
This collection consists mainly of letters from Charles C. Deam (1865–1953), an expert on the trees, ferns and flowering plants of Indiana; he was for many years the state forester there. The letters concern Deam’s work on Juncus Linnaeus, his Flora of Indiana (Indianapolis, 1940), and other topics. There is at least one copy of a letter from Hermann, some lists of Hermann’s plants (determined by Deam?) and related items.
Dates:
1934–1951
Jean François de Galaup (Comte) de la Pérouse (1741–1788) letter
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0025
Dates:
1783
Leiberg, John Bernhard (1853–1913) notes on Oregon specimens
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0011
Content Description
This collection consists of one handwritten notebook. The notebook contains a numbered list of plant and tree specimens Leiberg collected in Oregon, with notes as to date (month only given, June–September), locations and altitudes. Although no year is given, it is likely that the notes were compiled during the summer of either 1895 or 1896, when Leiberg worked in Oregon for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). This list is a duplicate of one first believed lost in the mail...
Dates:
n.d. (ca. 1895–1896)
Letty, Cythna Lindenberg (1895–1985) letters from Alain White
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0073
Dates:
1934–1945, n.d.
Áskell Löve (1916–1994) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0319
Scope and Contents Note
The papers of Áskell Löve consist of drafts of articles, correspondence and notes on both professional and personal subjects. The bulk of the materials date from the 1970s and 1980s. Most of the correspondence is dated and chronicles discussions on professional topics. The series descriptions represent the record-keeping system of Löve, and items were processed to maintain this original order. The papers also include Löve's account of the unusual incidents leading to his forced retirement...
Dates:
1950–1987
Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721–1794) "Explication de Quelques Termes de Botanique" manuscript concerning botanical classification
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0175
Scope and Contents Note
This collection consists of an unpublished manuscript (138 pages), "Explication de Quelques Termes de Botanique," concerning botanical terminology and classification and the historical development of botany. Pages 1–88 concern pre-Linnaean classification, particularly the work of Andrea Cesalpino (1519–1603), Robert Morison (1620–1683) John Ray (1627–1705) and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708). Pages 88–138 comprise a detailed discussion of the system of Carolus Linnaeus...
Dates:
ca.1746–1752
Mildred Esther Mathias (1906–1995) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0026
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence (including photocopies of her outgoing letters) concerning her activities and those of her correspondents, particularly activities relating to her determination of specimens of Apiaceae alt. Umbelliferae and her work on the family for a proposed North American flora under the editorship of Elmer D. Merrill and Henry A. Gleason of the New York Botanical Garden.
Dates:
1927–1952
Franz Carl Mertens (1764–1831) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0054
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a letterbook consisting of 263 letters from other scientists to Mertens with copies of many of Mertens' replies handwritten onto the original letters. The letters are tipped into a bound volume. This includes letters from Carl Adolphe Agardh (1785–1859), J. B. G. M. Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778–1846), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1806–1893), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838), Louis August Deschamps (1765–1842), Rene Louiche Defontaines (1750–1833), Ambrose M. F. J....
Dates:
1797–1829 and n.d.
Benjamin Yoe Morrison (1891–1966) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0027
Scope and Contents
The papers in this collection deal mostly with Morrison's activities after retirement (1951) when he lived and had his nursery in Pass Christian, Mississippi. The correspondence (1924–[1945–1965], boxes 1–2) concerns plant breeding and the exchange or sale of seeds and bulbs, as well as information about his work and that of fellow horticulturists, publication of his National Horticultural Magazine and business of the American Horticultural...
Dates:
1915–1965, n.d.