Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium

Scope and content: This collection, circa 1895-1995, predominantly includes the personal and official correspondence of curators and staff of the Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium. Major correspondents include Oakes Ames, Charles Schweinfurth, Richard Evans Schultes, Herman Sweet, and Leslie Garay. They exchanged letters with the leading orchid collectors, propagators, and researchers of their eras.The collection also contains the manuscripts, lecture notes, and correspondence of Oakes Ames and his...