Lincoln Ware Riddle and Gertrude Hollister Riddle papers
Scope and Content
This collection consists of correspondence between Lincoln Ware Riddle and his wife, Gertrude Hollister Riddle (née Paine), and various botanists. It also contains collecting and identification lists of lichen specimens.
Dates
- Creation: 1902-1939
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is available by appointment for research. Researchers must register and provide valid photo identification. Please contact botref@oeb.harvard.edu for additional information.
Extent
1 collection (1 box, 1 volume, 1 oversize folder)Biography
Lincoln Ware Riddle was born on October 17, 1880 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to Charles Wisner and Mary Brastow Riddle (née Ware). He became interested in botany while attending Roxbury Latin School. Riddle graduated from Harvard in 1902, going on to earn A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard in 1904 and 1906.
In June 1906, Riddle married Gertrude Hollister Paine. That fall he was appointed instructor in botany at Wellesley College, filling in for Clara E. Cummings while she was on leave. After her death the following spring Riddle remained at Wellesley, taking over management of her lichen herbarium and eventually becoming full professor in 1917.
Riddle was appointed assistant professor of cryptogamic botany at Harvard in 1919, a position he held only one year before becoming ill. Riddle died on January 16, 1921, in Cambridge. Gertrude died in 1976.
Sources
Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2014.
Fink B. 1921. Lincoln Ware Riddle, Lichenologist. Bryologist. 24(3):33-36.
Thaxter R. 1921. Lincoln Ware Riddle. Rhodora. 23(272):181-184.
Series Description
The Riddle papers is arranged into three series.
Series I. Lincoln Ware Riddle correspondence.
Series II. Gertrude Hollister Riddle correspondence.
Series III. Botanical Papers. This series contains collecting and identification lists of lichen specimens.
Provenance
The Riddle Correspondence was given to the Farlow Herbarium by Riddle’s widow, Gertrude H. Riddle. In May 2013 the "Miscellaneous Notes on Lichens" volume was transferred from the Botany Farlow Library to this collection.
Creator
- Title
- Riddle, Lincoln W. (Lincoln Ware), 1880-1921. Lincoln Ware Riddle and Gertrude Hollister Riddle papers, 1902-1939: A Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University.
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- far00010
Repository Details
Part of the Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University Repository
The Harvard University Herbaria houses five research libraries that are managed collectively as the Botany Libraries. The Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany specializes in organisms that reproduce by spores, without flowers or seeds. The Archives of the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany houses unique resources including personal papers, institutional records, field notes and plant lists, expedition records, photographs, original artwork, and objects from faculty, curators, staff, and affiliates of the Farlow Herbarium.
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