Merritt Lyndon Fernald papers

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One bound volume entitled Notes on Distribution of Vascular Plants in Newfoundland, Labrador, and Adjacent Quebec. Originally dated 1910, with notes added in 1911 and 1914. Includes a color chart, several loose plant lists found at the back of the volume, as well as one letter to Fernald from Harold St. John.

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Estimated date of production from Fernald, M.L. Botanizing on the Gaspé Peninsula, Rhodora, volume 53, January 1951.

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One bound volume entitled Notes on the Flora of Nova Scotia. Contents are typed and handwritten. Loose material found at the front of the volume includes plant lists, a photograph, and a used Canadian National Railways ticket.

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One bound volume entitled Notes on the Flora of Newfoundland. Contents are typed and handwritten. Includes several loose plant lists found at the front of the volume, one is dated 1929.

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One bound volume containing field notes from Fernald's trip to Canada during the summer of 1904 and a plant list entitled Plants of Alpine and Subalpine Regions, Mt. Albert from 1905 and 1906.

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One bound volume containing handwritten plant lists from several localities on the Gaspé Peninsula. Contains list of plants arranged by regions labeled For sets 1906, probably by M.L. Fernald. Also includes Distribution on Table-topped Mt., which is a list of plant names and a chart comparing Mount Albert and Table Top Mountain.

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Handwritten list of plants from the Gaspe Peninsula and adjacent Quebec and New Brunswick. Some lists are inserted at the beginning of the volume, including a published and later annotated list of specimen sets for sale entitled Rare Plants of Eastern Quebec.

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Bound list of Gaspé Peninsula plants, in typescript with handwritten annotations. Handwritten lists and notes are inserted at the beginning.

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Fernald's copy of Edward L. Rand's Flora of Mount Desert Island published in 1894. Includes only pages 75-190 and is interleaved and heavily annotated. Date of annotations is unknown; possible date taken from verso of the cover.

Scope and Contents Consists of several items including handwritten notes on a 1905 trip to the Gaspé Peninsula with J. Franklin Collins, notes on various plants including Notes on some eastern Species of Osmorhiza, and lists of herbarium specimens to study in Paris, the British Museum, and at the Linnean Society. A list of hay fever plants in New England gives common and Latin names and dates of pollination. Most of the items are undated. The only dated material are...

Scope and Contents Consists of Fernald's incoming and outgoing correspondence. Also included are documents related to Fernald's travels and research, including receipts, research proposals, telegrams, and a fishing license. Much of the correspondence is related to Gaspé Peninsula collecting trips.Contains correspondence with Charles Humphrey Bissell, Sidney Fay Blake, Laura M. Bragg, LeBaron Russell Briggs, Richard Field, Helen C. Gaskin, Melvin R. Gilmore, George Lincoln Goodale, John M. Gould,...