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Gray Herbarium institutional records

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00103
Scope and content:

Records and some published material documenting the history of the Gray Herbarium at Harvard University from circa 1805-2010. Records include some herbaria correspondence; budget, finance, and donation reports and receipts; building and equipment expenses; staff and library records; staff expedition expenses; visiting committee records; general history information; Harvard Botanical Club notes; publications; and plant records including accession records and exchanges.

Harvard Botanic Garden records

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00082
Scope and content:

This collection includes correspondence, financial records, policies, plant information, publications (mostly photocopies of newspaper articles), timelines, and plans related to the Harvard Botanic Garden. The materials are dated from 1784-1987 and only cover a small portion of the history of the Botanic Garden.

Harvard University Herbaria mounted specimen labels

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00099
Scope and content:

The collection consists of original mounted specimen labels from various collectors and projects and range from 1871-1978. Many of the labels are from the Farlow Herbarium and Arnold Arboretum. Collectors with the largest number of labels are: Leonard John Brass, Hsin-hsuan Chung, William Gilson Farlow, David Hunt Linder, Cyrus Guernsey Pringle, Arthur Bliss Seymour, Julian Alfred Steyermark, and Roland Thaxter.

Henry Griswold Jesup correspondence

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00035
Scope and Content:

This collection consists of two scrapbooks of letters to Jesup from botanists. The blue volume, dated 1859-1876, contains around 80 letters arranged in chronological order and includes an index. The red volume, dated 1873-1880, contains around 30 letters with no clear arrangement. Letters at the front of the volume appear to be in reverse chronological order with some letters arranged by correspondent.

Henry Knute Svenson papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00052
Scope and Content:

The Svenson papers contain professional and personal correspondence, research notes, original sketches, photographs, reprints, scrapbooks, and maps. Correspondence pertains to Svenson’s involvement in professional societies, his work at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, plant identifications, and plant collecting.

Henry Nicholas Bolander California Geological Survey field notes

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00014
Scope and Content:

The Bolander field notes contain field notes pertaining to plants he collected in California from around 1865 to 1867. The collection also includes identifications and descriptive notes by George Thurber.

Herbarium of Henry David Thoreau

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: Herbaria Special Collections Thoreau
Scope and Contents: This collection includes plant specimens collected by Henry David Thoreau starting in 1850. In addition to the main collection of plant specimens, there is also a bound volume which is titled Catalogue of Herbarium of Henry D. Thoreau, beqeathed to Boston Soc. of Nat. Hist., which consists of a hand-written listing of the specimens included in the herbarium.The collection is digitized and ...

Herbarium of William Francis Flint

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00076
Scope and Contents:

Four original botanical illustrations from the Herbarium of William Francis Flint. Title from herbarium label accompanying illustrations.

Herbert H. Smith field notes

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00022
Scope and Contents: The Smith collection consists of a file of notes bearing information for plants collected by Smith in Santa Marta, Colombia in 1898 to 1901. Information is written on small pieces of paper and arranged in numerical order like a card file. A few printed specimen labels for Santa Marta plants are interfiled with the notes. The collection also contains a letter from Benjamin Lincoln Robinson to Amelia Woolworth Smith dated March 21, 1922, regarding payment for her transcription of these...

Horace Mann, Jr. manuscripts

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00039
Scope and Content:

The Mann manuscripts consist primarily of drafts and notes pertaining to his partially published monograph, “Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.” There is an incomplete draft of the published section and drafts in varying degrees of completeness of unpublished sections.

Hunnewell herbarium watercolors

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00051
Scope and Contents:

This collection consists of six watercolors by Hunnewell painted from four specimens she collected in the Pyrenees in France. Four paintings have printed specimen labels from the attached. The printed labels originally read “F.W. Hunnewell, 2nd.” The “F.W.” has been crossed out and replaced with “M.P.”

Illustrations of Chinese plants on pith

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00077
Overview:

An album of botanical paintings on pith "from the library of Rev. Frederic W. Holland, Harvard ’1831. Brought from China probably as early as 1840.

Irving Widmer Bailey papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00008
Scope and Content:

The Bailey Papers consist of notebooks, correspondence, and reviews of his publications. The collection consists of a loose-leaf notebook containing U.S. Army specifications for wooden airplane parts; a collection of roughly 100 letters to Bailey, mostly 1966-1967, with a few drafts or copies of letters from him; a few letters to Bailey about his unification plan, plus a few reviews of his book of reprinted articles and some biographical notes.

Jacob Bigelow botanical illustrations

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00002
Overview:

The collection consists of 44 original botanical illustrations and printed plates. Also includes some additional notes. Materials mostly pertain to Bigelow's "American Medical Botany".

James Franklin Collins papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00017
Scope and Content:

The Collins papers are divided into three series: I. Correspondence; II. Photographic materials; and III. Notes and ephemera. Materials pertain primarily to his fieldwork.

James Watson Robbins papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00045
Scope and Content: The Robbins papers contain correspondence and manuscripts. There are approximately 145 letters from 34 correspondents, dated 1828-1880 (bulk 1863-1868). Content is primarily botanical and many bear notations indicating the content of Robbins’s replies. Correspondence has been arranged alphabetically by sender and then chronologically. Major correspondents are Thomas Conrad Porter (21 letters) and Edward Tuckerman (26 letters).Manuscript material consists of five small booklets....

Jane Boit Patten field notes

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00005
Scope and Content:

The Patten collection consists of two small field notebooks and three loose-leaf notebooks with holes for brads (two were tied with blue silk ribbon which was removed and retained). The field notebooks are formatted in columns with the following headings: number, date, place, formation (e.g. meadow, woods, on wall), soil etc., altitude, height, (Latin) name, and remarks. The loose-leaf notebooks contain identifications and descriptions for plants collected in Greece, arranged by family.

Jane Gray autograph collection

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00084
Scope and Contents: The autograph collection was initiated by Asa Gray during visits to Europe, beginning in 1839. Gray received many autographed letters from Adrien de Jussieu, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, and other prominent botanists. Many letters are from Gray's personal correspondence. In 1890 Isabella James donated her collection of autographs and portraits of early American botanists to the Gray Herbarium. The Gray and James collections were incorporated by Jane Loring Gray and biographical information...

Jane Grayson Gambrill pressed floral journal

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: Herbaria Special Collections Gambrill
Scope and content:

This journal contains 35 pages with pressed flowers arranged in patterns. Jane Grayson Gambrill collected the flowers while she traveled in Europe. Captions on the arrangements note when and where the flowers were collected. Also contains two packets of loose leaves.

Jane Loring Gray correspondence

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00029
Scope and Content:

The collection consists of letters to Jane Gray from her family and others and one letter from Jane to a relative. It also contains a small notebook of biographical sketches about Asa Gray.

Jean Louis Berlandier papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00013
Scope and Content:

The Berlandier papers consist of several journals and autobiographical accounts; a large, illustrated volume on plants of Mexico; several small botanical manuscripts, including two from Berlandier's time in Geneva; a list of Berlandier's plants prepared by Moïse Etienne Moricand and Alphonse de Candolle; and a manuscript about Berlandier's plants prepared by Asa Gray.

Jean-Marie Bachelot de la Pylaie Juncus manuscript

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00010
Scope and Content: This collection consists of a manuscript entitled “Joncs et Luzules observies 'a l'ile de Terre Neuve par M. De la Pylaie 1816 et 1819-1820.” It lists 18 Juncus and three Luzula species with brief descriptions of locations where each was found. This may be someone else's notes on Bachelot de la Pylaie's unpublished manuscript. The folder in which the manuscript was found was labeled "J. Gay," but the handwriting of the manuscript does not appear to match the handwriting of letters from...

John Lewis Russell drawings

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00047
Scope and Content:

This collection consists of loose drawings and notes pertaining to natural history. Materials are grouped by subject: Scenery, Botany, Entomology, and Conchology. Some drawings are copies of published illustrations, some are microscopic views.

Joseph Francis Charles Rock papers

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00068
Scope and Contents: The collection is mostly photocopies of materials that were transferred to the Arnold Arboretum in 2000. That material primarily consists of field notes for various botanical collections made by Rock. It also contains additional documents pertaining to his collections. There are handwritten notes made for his 1925-1927 collections, when he was collecting in China for the Arnold Arboretum. It also includes maps from his 1926 collecting trip.There is one original manuscript in the...

Josiah Hale plant descriptions

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: gra00044
Scope and Content: In 1852 the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal published an abridged version of the manuscript, entitled “Catalogus florae Ludovicianae.” An annotated copy of this article is held in the Gray Herbarium Library (call number: FL 73 R43 (3)). It bears a note in Sereno Watson’s handwriting: “The MSS. of ‘Plants of Louisiana,’ now in Herb. Gray, differs only in having the localities, with descriptions of the ‘new species,’ which with the accompanying figures or specimens are in place in the...
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