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This series contains approximately 350 numbered negatives that feature people and places. One photograph on metal is thought to be of Merritt Lyndon Fernald and Kennedy.

It also includes two portrait albums belonging to Deane featuring images of botanists and their families. The albums have been disbound and the photographs are individually sleeved.

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Lists of species grouped by order, starting with Ranunculaceae and continuing through Cyperaceae, with brief notes on where specimens were collected and where other specimens are located. Note by Harold St. John describes this as a checklist of the published volume, Phanerogamia I; species listed, however, do not exactly correspond to the published version and go beyond those of Volume I.

Scope and Contents: Possibly incomplete manuscript in French with signatures stitched together but not formally bound; title note in Sereno Watson's handwriting. First section begins on July 4, 1845, continues for five pages without further reference to date. Second section begins November 1849, entitled "Chap. Prison, notification, escorte jusquala capitale de l’etat; attentats du gouverneur [DN] Jesus Cardenas: Confiance de ce fonctionnaire dans ses actes inconstitutionnels: Nullite de la comission permanente...

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The Kennedy papers contain correspondence, invitations, picture postcards, daybooks, field notes, manuscripts, photographs, sketches, visiting cards, receipts, certificates, circulars, reports, invoices, clippings, specimens, and printed ephemera related to Kennedy’s work as an amateur botanist.

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The Tozier collection consists of 576 glass lantern slides, circa late 1920s-1950s. The slides are mostly labeled and are primarily color images of living plants. A few slides indicate the locality of the plant. There are also a few black-and-white images, line drawings, and dead plant matter.

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Correspondence, Paul Allen, W.W. Ashe.

Scope and Contents: José Mariano Moziño (1757-1820?) sought refuge in Montpellier for political reasons and brought with him around 300 original drawings by the Mexican painter, Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy. The drawings were entrusted to de Candolle in Geneva, who worked on the descriptions of the plants. Before de Candolle could make much progress, Moziño wanted to reclaim the drawings and move on. Not wanting to lose the knowledge to science, de Candolle appealed to the ladies of Geneva to copy them. More...

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Records and some published material documenting the history of the Gray Herbarium at Harvard University from circa 1805-2010. Records include some herbaria correspondence; budget, finance, and donation reports and receipts; building and equipment expenses; staff and library records; staff expedition expenses; visiting committee records; general history information; Harvard Botanical Club notes; publications; and plant records including accession records and exchanges.

Scope and Contents: This collection is comprised of four collections of autographs and biographies of botanists. The materials are circa the 19th century.The collections are Mary A. Day’s biographies, Materials about the Jane Gray autograph collection, Miscellaneous autograph collection, and Jane Gray’s and Isabella James’s biographies of botanists. The collections contain correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and note fragments.Mary A. Day’s biographies include approximately...

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Harvard College publication by W.D. Peck. Includes catalog printout of Hollis record for book. Annotated and interleaved by Asa Gray and others.

Scope and Content: The Bailey collection pertains to his work on the genus Carex. The materials are all loosely bound together within one cover, with the exception of several loose inserts. The cover reads: "Studies in the Types of the various species of the Genus Carex. L.H. Bailey. May 25, 1889. also A preliminary synopsis of North American Carices including those of Mexico, Central America and Greenland with the American Bibliogogy [sic] of the Genus. L.H. Bailey. April 14, 1886." This appears to be in...

Scope and Contents: José Mariano Moziño (1757-1820?) sought refuge in Montpellier for political reasons and brought with him around 300 original drawings by the Mexican painter, Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy. The drawings were entrusted to de Candolle in Geneva, who worked on the descriptions of the plants. Before de Candolle could make much progress, Moziño wanted to reclaim the drawings and move on. Not wanting to lose the knowledge to science, de Candolle appealed to the ladies of Geneva to copy them. More...

Scope and Contents: This series includes 3 document boxes and one oversize folder of letters and autographs from almost 600 people, primarily amateur and professional botanists. Many of the letters were originally addressed to Walter Deane, but a large number were obtained from other sources. The autograph collection of M.S. Bebb was included in this collection, and Deane also obtained letters from Thomas Morong (including letters to J.W. Robbins), Lester F. Ward, C.G. Lloyd, Benjamin Pickman Mann, J.M....

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The Kennedy papers contain correspondence, invitations, picture postcards, daybooks, field notes, manuscripts, photographs, sketches, visiting cards, receipts, certificates, circulars, reports, invoices, clippings, specimens, and printed ephemera related to Kennedy’s work as an amateur botanist.

Scope and Contents: José Mariano Moziño (1757-1820?) sought refuge in Montpellier for political reasons and brought with him around 300 original drawings by the Mexican painter, Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy. The drawings were entrusted to de Candolle in Geneva, who worked on the descriptions of the plants. Before de Candolle could make much progress, Moziño wanted to reclaim the drawings and move on. Not wanting to lose the knowledge to science, de Candolle appealed to the ladies of Geneva to copy them. More...

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Contains 2 incomplete, corrected typescripts.

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This collection consists of a manuscript plant list entitled "A list of plants observed at or in the vicinity of Permansion in the Island of Dominica." The manuscript is 24 pages stitched in two separate signatures. Each page is divided into three columns: Botanical Names, English or Provincial Names, and Places of Growth. Plants are listed alphabetically by Latin binomial.

Scope and Content: The Fernald papers contain field notes, plant identification records and notes, manuscript material, proofs, notes, illustrations for publications, certificates of membership, maps, photographs, and correspondence pertaining to Fernald’s botanical work. The bulk of his correspondence is filed separately with the Administrative correspondence of the Gray Herbarium and Harvard University Herbaria. Published maps are described on the finding aid and also have individual catalog...

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Contains watercolors originally stored in Binder 26.

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Includes draft of cover letter to Charles Reid Barnes, dated 1896 January 26.

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Inscription on label on reverse. Naef number 110, page 55.

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Labeled on reverse: "Old plan of Botanic Garden found among papers of W.D. Peck. Given to the Gray Herbarium by Samuel Henshaw. June 8, 1914"

Scope and Contents: "Carex Notes from the British Museum” reprint pasted between pages 72 and 73. “New Californian Carices" manuscript pasted between pages 88 and 89. "The Carices of the Upper Half of the Keweenaw Peninsula" reprint pasted between pages 106 and 107. "Notes on certain Plants of our Eastern Flora" by Thomas Conrad Porter reprint pasted between pages 118 and 119. "Carex Umbellata, Schkuhr." pasted between pages 118 and 119. Pressed plants between pages 136 and 137, 144 and 145 (some removed and...

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The Davenport papers contain correspondence, manuscripts, herbarium sheets, photographs, etchings, a family tree, and paper ephemera. The bulk of the Davenport papers consists of correspondence dated 1872-1907, primarily pertaining to Davenport’s botanical interests.

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Additional title page note: "This key, drawn up very hurriedly and merely as an aid to further study, has in most of its distinctions been superseded by far more carefully drawn keys in my revisions of Stevias of Argent., Paraguay, N. Am., Colombia, Venez., Ecuad., Peru + Boliv. It should not be published under any circumstances. B.L. Robinson 12 Oct. 1934", 34 typed pages with pencil annotations, bound.