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Charles Wright papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00058
Scope and Content: The Wright papers consist primarily of papers pertaining to collections he made while on the U.S. Commission in Santo Domingo.The North Pacific papers include Wright's journal of the expedition and descriptive notes on plants collected in Madeira, St. Jago, Cape of Good Hope, Sydney, Hong Kong, Loo Choo and Bonin Islands, Japan, Bering Straits, and California. There are also notes on plants collected by Wright in Nicaragua. Notes appear to be plant identification records; some...

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann drawings of plants collected at Cape Town

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00074
Scope and Contents: The collection is comprised of 52 original botanical illustrations of plants collected in Cape Town, South Africa in 1817. The artist is Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann. Includes a letter dated 22 March 1820 from J. May[?], informing Professor [William Dandridge] Peck that plants were being shipped to Boston, Mass.Also contains a "List of seeds and bulbs" collected by Wehdemann, in his own hand. Numbered drawings correspond to this list. Includes 7 drawings not listed in the seed and...

Collection of William Henry Jackson photographs

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00100
Scope and content: There are 19 large William Henry Jackson photographs in the archives. Seven of these are of the Grays, Hooker, et al. camped in La Veta Pass, Colorado, July 1877; there are two different views, with two prints of one and five of the other; several prints are mounted on the printing backings of the US Geological Survey of the Territories. Ten photographs are of Yellowstone and the surrounding area; all of these are on the US Geological Survey of the Territories backings. ...

Cyrus Guernsey Pringle Arizona and Sonora, Mexico photographs

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00094
Scope and content: Collection includes 12 mounted landscape photographs by Cyrus G. Pringle taken in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. They feature mostly plant specimens, including cacti, agave, yucca, and pine trees, as well as views of the Santa Rita Mountains. There are some of Pringle and his team, including Frank Stephens, while they were on their 1884 expedition in the Southwest. Two of the photographs have what appear to be exhibition labels and were most likely exhibited at some point. Detailed information...

Dandridge-Thorndike annotated Manasseh Cutler article

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00065
Scope and Content: This collection consists of an extensively annotated printed copy of Manasseh Cutler's "Account.” The handwritten title page bears the name “Dandridge” in ink in the upper right corner and the title “Dom. M - Cutleri Flora Massachusettensis.” Lines have been drawn through Dandridge and the name “I Thorndike [2nd]” written underneath in pencil. A note, “Species 364” is written in pencil below the title.A handwritten index to plant names precedes the article. A list of errata is...

David LeRoy Topping notebook

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00055
Scope and Content: This collection consists of one bound notebook containing correspondence, collecting lists and plant identification records, a diary, clippings, and pressed plant material. A letter from Elmer Drew Merrill to Charles Alfred Weatherby dated 1940 November 1 is inserted at the beginning of the notebook. Collecting lists and clippings are inserted and pasted into the notebook, pages 1-99. The diary is of a trip to Kina Balu, British North Borneo (now Sabah, Federated States of Malaysia), made...

Drawings for the United States Naval Expedition to Japan and United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00080
Scope and Contents: The collection consists of 64 black and white drawings created by Isaac Sprague depicting new species of Japanese plants. Asa Gray hired Sprague to create the drawings with the intention of publishing them; however, they were never published. Most of the drawings measure 28 x 37 cm with the exception of two drawings that measure 38 x 55 cm.Asa Gray identified 29 of the drawings by scientific name in pencil on the front. He also wrote “paid” in pencil on the reverse of some...

Edith Henry Scamman papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00048
Scope and content: This collection contains correspondence; diaries; notebooks; loose notes; blank and typed specimen labels; card files; color slides; black-and-white and color photographs and one tintype (print); manuscript material; and additional paper ephemera pertaining to Scamman’s family, botanical interests, and work for the Gray Herbarium. The collection also includes materials related to Scamman's death, including funeral arrangements, letters of sympathy, and papers regarding the disposition of her...

Edward Lothrop Rand correspondence and Champlain Society reports

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00043
Scope and Content:

The Rand collection consist of correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, diaries, plant lists, and notes pertaining to Rand’s botanical interests and involvement with the Champlain Society.

Edward Palmer plant lists

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00071
Scope and content:

This collection consists of collecting lists and field notes, primarily from Palmer’s time in Mexico. Lists pertain to collections made from 1880-1897. Field notes are mostly from Acapulco in 1894-1895 and Durango in 1896.

Elsie Louise Shaw Wild Flowers of Eastern North America illustrations

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00025
Scope and Contents:

The collection consists of 458 original illustrations of eastern North American wildflowers, arranged by plant family. Many of the illustrations are based on material collected by Harvard Professor Merritt Lyndon Fernald. Additional collectors who provided material for Shaw’s illustrations include Charles Duell Lippincott and Arthur Herbert Norton.

Each illustration is numbered and labeled. Some leaves contain illustrations of multiple wildflowers.

Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00108
Scope and content: The Barghoorn papers contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, manuscripts, and photographs related to Frederick Oliver Thompson’s work as an amateur fossil collector. The collection also contains manuscripts, drafts, journals, travel diaries, field notes, a scrapbook, and 35mm color slides pertaining to Barghoorn’s travels and research. The collection is divided into 4 series. The first series is Frederick Oliver Thompson materials; the other three series are Barghoorn...

Emily W. Wood photographs of Harvard University Herbaria

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00088
Scope and content:

This collection contains 267 photographs documenting the career of Emily Wood while employed at the Harvard University Herbaria (HUH) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Most photographs were taken between 1985 and 2008. Wood and various colleagues at HUH are pictured together during working hours, HUH social events, and international travel.

Ferns of Huntington, Long Island, collected and printed by Ella J. C. Hurd

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00081
Scope and Contents:

46 cyanotypes of ferns printed by Ella Hurd, circa 1890-1900. Most of the ferns were collected by Ella Hurd from Huntington, Long Island. Some of the ferns were collected in West Palm Beach, Florida. Also includes cyanotypes of European ferns that were printed but not collected by Mrs. Hurd. Specimens identified on back of prints.

Field notes and plant identification records

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00085
Scope and Contents: Contains field notes that represent the works of collectors employed by the Gray Herbarium. The plant lists date from 1850 to 1953 and represent the work of Harvard botanists, collectors employed by the Gray Herbarium, and other collectors. The accession books begin in 1879 and document sources of specimens, descriptions and numbers received by the Gray Herbarium. Over time field notes and plant lists from the Arnold Arboretum Library (Cambridge), Economic Botany Library of Oakes Ames,...

Florence N. Andrews Neal pressed ferns collected on the island of Maui

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: Herbaria Special Collections Neal
Scope and Contents: This collection includes sixty-four pressed ferns that were collected on the island of Maui, Hawaii, by Florence N. Andrews Neal in 1875. The ferns were exhibited at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 and were awarded a bronze medal. The ferns are mounted on individual sheets and include typed labels with family, genus, and species names. The specimens were collected under her maiden name, Florence N. Andrews.In 1925 determinations were made by an unknown...

Francis Boott manuscript

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00004
Scope and Content:

This collection consists of an eight-page manuscript containing descriptions of the genus Vaccinium with annotations by Boott. The descriptions were copied by Boott from a manuscript at the British Museum. It is dated September 25, 1843, and is directed to Asa Gray.

Frank Conkling Seymour list of Martha's Vineyard plants

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00050
Scope and Content:

This collection consists of a loose leaf notebook of approximately 150 typed pages, comprising an annotated list of Martha’s Vineyard and Block Island plants, and a letter to Seymour from Merritt Lyndon Fernald dated 1943 August 19.

Frederick Gillan Floyd autograph collection

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection — drawer: P1.3Identifier: gra00021
Scope and Content::

This collection contains letters to Floyd and others from about 60 correspondents. Most correspondents are represented by only one letter. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically and mostly dates from the late 19th to early 20th centuries.

Frederick Pursh plant list

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00042
Scope and Content:

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.

Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt plant descriptions

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00038
Scope and Content:

The Klatt collection contains notebooks, loose notes, and manuscript material, primarily consisting of plant descriptions in Latin.

George Edward Davenport papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00067
Scope and Content:

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.

George Golding Kennedy papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00036
Scope and Content:

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.

George Peirce plant list

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00041
Scope and Content:

This collection consists of a small booklet containing a list of plants. Information is arranged in five columns and includes Latin plant names, two different numbers, and two abbreviations. Nineteen pages have been written on. A note by Reed Clark Rollins at the back of the booklet provides provenance. It is possible the list is an inventory of Peirce’s herbarium.

George Thurber and William Munro Gramineae papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00054
Scope and Content: This collection consists of a bound volume of manuscript material by George Thurber and William Munro with annotations by Sereno Watson. Two letters from Munro to Thurber, dated 1858 and 1859, are taped in at the front of the volume; the Munro manuscript contains notes on Thurber's grasses (leaves 1-11), the Thurber manuscript contains notes on Gramineae of the U.S.-Mexican boundary survey (leaves 12-136). The collection also contains a bound copy of the contents of this volume with an added...
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