Overview
Thirty-six color illustrations of New Zealand plants by unknown creator.
Dates
- Creation: undated
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
0.5 linear feet (1 flat box) : 36 unnumbered sheets and original binding ; 39 cmThirty-six color illustrations of New Zealand plants by an unknown creator. Drawings include scientific names, and some Maori and English common names.
Arrangement
Illustrations are individually foldered.
Scientific names, taken directly from each illustration, comprise the item title. Corrected scientific names may follow in square brackets. Common names in Maori and or English follow in parentheses when written on the illustration.
The illustrations were originally bound and under call number: Fol. 3 An7. Items have been disbound and are boxed with original binding.
Provenance
Francis Welles Hunnewell bequest, November 1964.
Digitization note
Harvard's Imaging Services department digitized this collection as part of the "Original botanical illustrations of the Botany Libraries" project.
- Title
- New Zealand Flora, undated: A Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University.
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- gra00075
Repository Details
Part of the Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University Repository
The Harvard University Herbaria houses five research libraries that are managed collectively as the Botany Libraries. The Gray Herbarium Library specializes in the identification and classification of New World plants with emphasis on North American plants. The Archives of the Gray Herbarium 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 Gray Herbarium.
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