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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
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

William Phillip Hiern (1839–1925) papers

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0351
Content Description

The collection is a handwritten document, which consists of a letter from the botanist William Hunt Painter (1835–1910) and including extensive reference notes to H.C. Andrews, The Botanists' Repository (London: T. Bensley, 1797–1814; HI call no. DQ2 A213B) and H.W. Schmidt, The Botanists' Chronicle (Chelsea, England: Frederick Bell, 1863–1865).

Dates: 1905
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Walter Henricks Hodge (1912–2013) papers

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0065
Dates: 1939–?
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Richard Alden Howard (1917–2003) papers

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0189
Content Description The collection consists of:“Harvard’s View of the Controversy over the Arnold Arboretum” (1954, 13 printed pages, two copies), a statement prepared by Dean McGeorge Bundy.“The Harvard Corporation and the Arnold Arboretum” (1957, 5 printed pages, two copies), a transcription of a talk by William L. Marbury.“A Memorandum About the Arnold Arboretum” (1957, 8 typescript pages [copy]), author unknown.Copy of the typed manuscript of the final...
Dates: 1954–1966
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

John Hutchinson (1884–1972) manuscripts

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: HIBDARC-0018
Dates: n.d.
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Baki Kasapligil (1918–1992) letters

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0160
Content Description This collection includes five letters (1970–1972) to Kasapligil from botanical author and illustrator John Hutchinson (1884–1972), who began his career on the herbarium staff at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1905) and became keeper of the Museum of Botany there (1936–1948). The letters refer to Hutchinson’s activities; to his wife and his daughter Joan; the success with which his Evolution and Phylogeny of Flowering Plants (London, New York, Academic Press, 1969;...
Dates: 1970–1973
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Kearney, Thomas Henry (1874–1956) notebooks on cotton

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0226
Content Description

This collection consists of four typescript notebooks on cotton plants, which have been removed from their original housing and placed in folders. Topics include Gossypium hybridization experiments, planting plans and descriptions of species.

Dates: 1930–1942
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

David Daniels Keck (1903–1995) correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0203
Content Description This collection includes three letters (21 September 1928, n. d., and 27 April 1932) from Jones in Claremont, California. In the n.d. letter he discusses his willingness to “take a crack at any head that needed it” and refers to [Joseph Nelson] Rose (1862–1928), [Nathaniel Lord] Britton (1859–1934), [Per Axel] Rydberg (1860–1931), [Edward Lee] Greene (1843–1915), and [Merritt Lyndon] Fernald (1873–1950). The 1932 letter, written in reply to an eightieth-birthday greeting by Keck, briefly...
Dates: 1928–1932, n.d.
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Gustav Fischer (fl. ca. 1903–1938) papers

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0308
Scope and Contents The collection consists of:Five typed documents, including a letter written by Fischer in German and its English translation and a letter written by Keissler in German, a copy, and its English translation. Both letters are written to the botanist and anthropologist Harley Harris Bartlett (1886–1960), then head of the University of Michigan's Department of Botany. The letters represent an effort to find Fischer employment in the United States due to "the great political change...
Dates: 1938
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Leon Hugh Kelso (1907–1982) papers

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0207
Content Description This collection contains correspondence addressed to Kelso from M.L. Fernald (1873–1950), George A. Hardy (?), H.D. Harrington (1903–1981), A.S. Hitchcock (1865–1935), W.L. Jensen (?), Theodor Just (1904–1960), Paul E. Klopsteg (1889–1991), G.H.M. Lawrence (1910–1978), Bertil Lindquist (1904–1963), Otto C. McCreary (1879–1944), Robert P. McIntosh (1920–2017), J. Paul Miller (?), Wilfred H. Osgood (1875–1947), M. Walter Pesman (1887–1962), Reed C. Rollins (1911–1998), Ruth D. Sanderson (?),...
Dates: 1929–1974, n.d.
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

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