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Geneva Sayre papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00051
Scope and Content:

The papers of Geneva Sayre, 1929-1994 comprise approximately fifteen linear feet and document Sayre's research in bryology. The collection contains primarily correspondence, notes, manuscripts, drafts, memorabilia, grants, notebooks, and collection lists.

George Albert Fisher diatom papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00013
Scope and Contents:

This collection consists of one bound volume containing correspondence to Fisher and 24 photographs. Letters are dated 1906-1933 and primarily pertain to diatoms and microscopy and to arrangements to sell, purchase, and exchange diatom samples. Major correspondents include Oliver Kendall, Jr., William Aldworth Poyser, William H. Pratt, and Joseph Parker Wintringham. Photographs are mostly images of diatoms.

George E. Francis fungi scrapbook and notebooks

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00029
Scope and content: This collection consists of a scrapbook labeled “American Fungi” containing illustrations and information on fungi, particularly mushrooms. There is some manuscript material but the scrapbook is predominantly illustrations. Some illustrations are full book plates while others are clippings from books adhered to loose paper with a handwritten citation. The scrapbook was on loose leaves in a binder, organized alphabetically by species, with a few exceptions. Original order has been...

George Edward Morris correspondence

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00016
Scope and Content:

The Morris collection consists of a bound volume of correspondence. There are around 200 letters from 22 correspondents. Major correspondents include Charles Horton Peck and Curtis Gates Lloyd. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by sender.

George Knox Merrill papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00023
Scope and Content: This collection consists primarily of correspondence. It also includes lists of specimens and plant identifications, newspaper clippings, manuscript material, receipts, maps, and a card file pertaining to Merrill’s botanical work. There are 8 published maps in this collection, including 1 duplicate, that have individual catalog records. There is one hand drawn map that does not have an individual catalog record.Nineteen picture postcards of Maine scenery were found in the Farlow...

Henry William Ravenel and Stephen Thayer Olney botanical correspondence

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00058
Scope and Content:

This collection contains 38 letters of botanical correspondence between Henry William Ravenel and Stephen Thayer Olney, 1848-1872. The collection also includes typed transcripts of the letters that were likely made by C.W. Dodge.

Hubert Bourdot and Paul Dumée correspondence

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: far00068
Scope and Content:

Correspondence is primarily about mycology. Approximately 25 letters between Hubert Bordout and Paul Dumée, dated 1923-1927. Includes some letter fragments. Also includes 1 letter from Ernest-Rene Peltereau; 1 letter and 1 postcard from Giacopo Bresadola; 3 letters from unknown authors.

[Icones Farlowianae : a sample of the color lithography]

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: Oversize F232izz
Scope and Contents: This is a collection of 16 color lithographs of one plate from Farlow, W., and Burt, E. (1929). Icones Farlowianae : Illustrations of the larger Fungi of eastern North America. Cambridge, Mass.: The Farlow Library and Herbarium of Harvard University. The lithographs are samples that resulted from several impressions, or strikings, of different colors super-imposed. Includes one page with handwritten note: Prof. W.G. Farlow compliments Heliotype Printing Co.,...

Icones Farlowianae watercolor illustrations

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00019
Scope and Content: This collection primarily consists of original watercolor illustrations of fungi by Joseph Bridgham and Louis Charles Christopher Krieger prepared for William Gilson Farlow and used in his posthumously published monograph, Icones Farlowianae: illustrations of the larger fungi of eastern North America. The illustrations are based on voucher specimens deposited in the Farlow Herbarium. There are over 300 illustrations by Bridgham, arranged...

Icones muscorum, or, : Figures and descriptions of most of those mosses peculiar to eastern North America by William S. Sullivant ; original drawings by A. Schrader

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: RARE BOOK S949i
Scope and Contents:

This collection contains August Schrader's original pencil drawings that were published in William S. Sullivant's, "Icones muscorum, or, Figures and descriptions of most of those mosses peculiar to eastern North America which have not been heretofore figured." The book was published in 1864. Drawings bound in one volume.

Icones muscorum, : or, Figures and descriptions of most of those mosses peculiar to North America which have not yet been figured, Supplement, by the late William S. Sullivant ; printers proofs and nineteen unpublished drawings

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: RARE BOOK S949i Suppl.
Scope and Contents: Bound volume of 68 printer's proofs from the published work "Icones muscorum, : Or Figures and descriptions of most of those mosses peculiar to North America which have not yet been figured, Supplement, by the late William S. Sullivant." Also includes 19 original drawings that do not appear in the published work. The monograph was published in 1874. August Schrader was the illustrator.Plate numbers 15, 21, 30, 41, 42, 58, 66, 67, 70, 72, 74, 78, and 81 are not included in this...

Illustrations of champignons collected by Paul Maury in the Patouillard Herbarium

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: RARE BOOK P313q
Overview:

The collection contains pencil sketches, some with watercolors, by Paul Maury of fungi collected in Mexico from May, 1890 through February of 1891. Collection numbers in red ink, and localities, and dates in Maury's hand. Plate numbers, descriptions, determinations, and plate numbers added by N. Patouillard.

Job Bicknell Ellis letters

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00065
Scope and Content:

This collection contains correspondence addressed to Job Bicknell Ellis. There are nine letters from Auguste B. Langlois dated 1885-1889. There are also letters from Frederick W. Anderson, Joseph Blake, Mordecai C. Cooke, Francis W. Cragin, William G. Farlow, Asa Gray and three indecipherable signatures, S.J. Harkness, John Macoun, Charles Peck, a postcard from Pier A. Saccardo, and a postcard from William C Stevenson, Jr. The letters from Cooke include a specimen list.

Joseph Bridgham papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00037
Overview:

This collection contains correspondence sent to Joseph Bridgham requesting commissions of scientific illustrations relating to botany, entomology, and natural history.

Joseph Horace Faull papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00004
Scope and Content:

The collection contains correspondence, teaching materials, photographs, glass plate negatives, glass lantern slides, drawings, laboratory and field notes, and manuscript materials for articles and monographs, primarily pertaining to Faull’s botanical work.

Letters to Moses Ashley Curtis

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00035
Scope and Contents:

This collection contains letters to Moses Ashley Curtis dated 1859-1868. Correspondents are Elliot Calvin Howe, Ezra Michener, and Henry William Ravenel.

Levi Lincoln Thaxter papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00027
Scope and content:

The Thaxter collection consists of three diaries written by Thaxter chronicling trips with his sons John and Roland between 1860 and 1875.

Lincoln Ware Riddle and Gertrude Hollister Riddle papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00010
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.

Lizzie Churchill Allen watercolors of fungi

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00007
Scope and Contents: This collection contains watercolors, photographs, notes, correspondence, and reprints pertaining to Allen’s interest in mycology. The collection spans 1902-1925. There are eight boxes of original watercolor illustrations of fungi, an index of the watercolors, a box of notes describing fungi, primarily the genera Lactarius and Russula, photographs of fungi, reprints of articles about Russula, and one letter from Edward Thompson Harper. Watercolors are stamped with a unique...

Louis Charles Christopher Krieger glass plate negatives

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00020
Scope and Content:: This collection consists of glass plate negatives used by Krieger while illustrating “Icones Farlowianae.” Some negatives are clearly labeled with the photographer’s name. Some labels are unclear and may indicate the collector of the specimen rather than the photographer. Negatives are numbered; however, it is unknown if the numbers indicate a series of negatives or samples or correspond to plates in the finished work. The collection also contains related correspondence....

Maggie Rogers fungi stamp collection

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00047
Scope and Contents: The collection contains fungi-themed stamps amassed by Mary Margaret Rogers, a well-known and long-time member of the Oregon Mycological Society as well as the North American Mycological Association. Fellow NAMA member, Steve Trudell, organized the collection, and sent it in two shipments. Shipment one consisted of approximately 1,293 items—individual stamps, stamp blocks, souvenir sheets, first-day covers, and miscellaneous other items such as postcards and envelopes. Most of the stamps are...

Martha Sherwood papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00066
Scope and Content:

Paste-ups of 5 articles published in Mycotaxon in 1976-1977, includes original illustrations and transparencies.

Mary A. Robinson seaweed album

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: Herbaria Special Collections Algae R665

Mexican mosses collected by C.H. Berendt in 1865

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: RARE BOOK S949me
Scope and Contents:

Bound manuscript containing original pencil drawings and notes of Mexican mosses collected by C.H. Berendt in 1865. Compiled by William S. Sullivant and illustrated by August Scrader. Includes list of determinations compiled from 1974-1976 by F. Bowers, L. Spessard, A.J. Sharp, and D.H. Smith.

Moselio Schaechter fungi stamp collection

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00049
Scope and Content:

Moselio Schaechter’s collection of mushroom stamps was assembled over the course of three and a half decades beginning in the 1970s. The collection includes more than 2,000 fungi-themed stamps, postcards, and envelopes from over 160 countries and territories.

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