Scope and Content: Original plates prepared for publication in Thaxter's Contributions towards a Monograph of the Laboulbeniaceae, 5 volumes, 1896-1931. The volumes and plate numbers correspond to their counterparts in the published volumes.In volume 1, plate 26 has a leaf attached to it with sketches.There is no plate no. 27 in volume 1 or 2 in the original illustrations or the published works. Exact dates of production are unknown. The plates were likely...

Scope and Contents:

The Thaxter papers contain correspondence, notebooks, lists and photographs of specimens, photographs and paper ephemera from Thaxter’s travels, receipts, a commemorative album, manuscript proofs, research materials, and original drawings and plates for publication. Materials primarily relate to Thaxter's work as a cryptogamic botanist and instructor at Harvard.

Scope and Contents:

Contains miscellaneous collection of Roland Thaxter's original drawings, with brief notes.