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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This collection consists of an unpublished manuscript (138 pages), "Explication de Quelques Termes de Botanique," concerning botanical terminology and classification and the historical development of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
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
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.
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.
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
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-0033
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0034
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0076
Dates:
1831–1834, 1931–1948