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ABRAMS, LEROY, 1874–1956.
Taxonomist.
Correspondence from W. L. Jepson, 1920–1954 and
two volumes of letters upon Abrams’ retirement.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 120.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

ADANSON, MICHEL, 1727–1806.

ALLEN, PAUL HAMILTON, 1911–1963.

ALLIONI, CARLO, 1728–1804.
Physician, taxonomist.
Selected Letters, ca.1753–ca.1810.
Location: 6 reels microfilm shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 88.
Originals are in the Academy of Science of Turin (Accademia delle Scienze di Torino).
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Collected correspondence with Albert de Haller (1708–1777): http://www.revues.org/calenda/articles/225.html

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STRATIGRAPHIC PALYNOLOGISTS.
Records 1967–present.
Location: 23 storage boxes, 5 smaller boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 213.
See group portraits, including: 365, 11th Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, October 1978; 366, 12th Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, 1979; 367, 13th Annual Meeting, Keystone, Colorado, 1980; 434, Founding Meeting, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 8 December 1967; 480, 4th Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, 1971; 481, 14th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 7–10 October 1984; 512, Participants in the Organic Maturation Symposium, 8th Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, 29 October l975; and 573, Third annual meeting, Park Plaza Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 14–17 October 1970. Contact the Archivist for a complete listing.

AMERICAN FERN SOCIETY.
Records, 1918–[1933–1958].
Location: 3 small green boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 147.
Correspondence of members William R. Maxon, curator of the Division of Plants, U.S. National Museum, and Conrad V. Morton, curator of the Division of Ferns at the U.S. National Museum.
See group portraits: 20, Field Trip to Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, 1957; 107, Field Trip, American Fern Society, Mistaire Laboratories, Milburn, New Jersey, 1953; 338 and 392, Field Trip to Mt. Johnson, Quebec, Canada, 1953.
See also:
American Fern Society Web site: http://www.amerfernsoc.org/
Maxon’s field books: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/colls/fldbooks.htmlm
Correspondence with F. G. Floyd: http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/gra00021frames.html
Morton correspondence is included in the collections of the Cinchona Project and of Albert C. Smith: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/colls/fldbooks.html

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLANT TAXONOMISTS AND
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA.
Discussion Transcript, 1970.
"The Role of the Systematist in the Population and Environmental Crisis"
Principal discussants: Warren H. Wagner, Francis Raymond Fosberg, Hugh H. Iltis, Theodore Mosquin and John H. Thomas.
Location: 1 volume shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 143.
ASPT Web site: http://www.sysbot.org/
BSA Web site: http://www.botany.org/

ANONYMOUS. Two Manuals of Gardening.
"Husbandry" ca.1650
Collection 222.
Location: 1 volume shelved on fifth floor.
"Soyle for an Orchard" ca.1675.
HI Archives collection no. 223.
Location: 1 volume shelved on fifth floor.
Two typed transcripts of the above privately published volumes, with penciled marginalia. Transcriptions from the originals by Emily Driscoll and Henrietta Hannah. Perhaps typed by E. A. Willmott.
Location: 2 volumes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 139.

ANONYMOUS.
"Plantes des Environs de Paris," 1775. Plant classification with drawing by "Martinet," 671 pp.
Location: 1 volume shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 169.

ANONYMOUS.
Lecture Notes and Drawings, n.d. (ca.1830). References made to William Cullen, David Abercrombie, Wilson Phillips, and Dr. Eccles.
Location: 1 volume shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 172.

ANONYMOUS.
Descriptions of plants with sixteenth-century woodcuts by Rembert Dodoens (1517–1585). French, n.d. (ca.1700s).
Location: 1 volume shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 173.

ANONYMOUS.
Manuscript extracts and plates from Dictionnaire ou Traité Universel des Drogues (Paris, 1698 or 1714) by Nicolas Lémery (1645–1715).
Location: 2 volumes shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 174.

ANONYMOUS.
"Livre et Traitté des Medicamments par Mr. de Tournefort," 1726.
An unknown author’s copy of Tournefort’s Traité de la Matière Médicale (Paris, 1717), 812 pp.
Location: 1 volume shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 177.

ANONYMOUS.
Extracts (ca.1700s) from Tournefort, Elémens de Botanique (Paris, 1694), in French, 185 pp., 13 pp. index.
Location: 1 volume shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 178.

ANONYMOUS COLLECTOR.
Miscellaneous items concerning Narcissus, 1864 and n.d.

ARBER, AGNES ROBERTSON, 1879–1960.
Morphologist, historian, philosopher.
Papers, 1886–1953. See description in "The Agnes Arber collection" (Huntia 1: 169–172, 1964).
Location: 9 boxes; 16 volmes; 6 card file boxes shelved; 1 item, oversized drawer 28.
HI Archives collection no. 53.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
Artworks are held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.

ARCHER, WILLIAM ANDREW, 1894–1973.

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BADIANUS MANUSCRIPT. See Trueblood, Emily Walcott Emmart.

BAILEY, LIBERTY HYDE, 1858–1954.

BALDWIN, WILLIAM, 1779–1819.
Botanist, physician.
Photocopied items, ca.1816–ca.1817.
Location: folder file box 4.
HI Archives collection no. 137.
Originals in Torrey Correspondence, Herbarium, Columbia University.
One image of this subject is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
New York Botanical Garden: http://www.nybg.org/bsci/libr/Baldwin.htm
Baldwin’s papers at Harvard University: http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/gra00007frames.html

BALFOUR, JOHN HUTTON, 1808–1884.
Professor, University of Glasgow and Edinburgh; Keeper, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.
Proofs of Class Book of Botany (Edinburgh, 1852–1854).
Location: 16 volumes shelved, folder file box 5.
HI Archives collection no. 165.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

BALL, CARLETON ROY, 1873–1958.
Agronomist, plant collector, taxonomist.
Papers, 1881–[1898–1957].
Location: 11 boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 56.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Letters at Harvard’s Gray Herbarium: http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/sb.htm

BALLY, PETER RENE OSCAR, 1895–1980.

BANISTER, JOHN, 1650–1692.
Explorer, collector.
Partial manuscript, "Collectio Insectorum" 1680, folios 2–4 and 92–109.
Location: 1 reel microfilm shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 194.
Originals in British Museum: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/

"Plantarus in Virginia,..." 1679.
Location: 1 reel microfilm shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 195.
Original at Bodleian Library, Oxford: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/
See also:
Virginia Natural History Society publishes Banisteria in his honor: http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/vnhs/info.htm

BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH, 1766–1815.
Naturalist, botanist, ethnographer.
Daniel Hardaway’s notes on a Benjamin Smith Barton Lecture, 1804.
Location: 1 volume shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 141.
See also:
James Thruston Hubard papers: http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj10.htm

BARTRAM, JOHN, 1699–1777 and BARTRAM, WILLIAM, 1739–1823.

BEAN, WILLIAM JACKSON, 1863–1947.
Horticulturist.
Letters, 1920.
Location: folder file box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 67.
One image of this subject is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

BEBB, MICHAEL SCHUCK, 1833–1895.
Plant collector, taxonomist.
Items, 1878–1887 and n.d.
Location: folder file box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 59.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Bebb’s Papers at Harvard University: http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/archives/b.htm

BECHTEL, LOUISE SEAMAN, 1894–1985.
Compiler, children’s literature specialist.
Lawyer, amateur horticulturist.
Scrapbook, "The Pursuit of the Rose," 1947–1957. Speeches and articles by spouse Edwin DeTurck Bechtel (1880–1957).
Location: 1 volume shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 164.
One image of each of these subjects is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
University of Florida’s Louise Bechtel papers: http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/guides/bechtel.htm
University of Southern Mississippi’s Helen Masten papers: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/findaids/masten.htm
Note tipped in front says other scrapbooks are deposited at New York Botanical Garden, Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

BEER, RUDOLPH, 1873–1940.

BESSEY, CHARLES EDWIN, 1845–1915.

BLAINE, MAY MARGARET, 1889–1973.
Secretary to Head, Office of Plant Exploration & Introduction, Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S.D.A.
Letters, 1931–1964.
Location: 3 boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 61.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

BLACKMAN, GEOFFREY E., 1903–1980.
Plant physiologist
Oral history, one reel; 17–page transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Image of this subject is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

BLAKE, JOSEPH, 1814–1888.
Botanist, collector.
Typed copies of letters, 1858–1866 and n.d.
Location: folder file, box 4.
HI Archives collection no. 119.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

BLOS, MAYBELLE, 1906–1991.
Botanical artist.
Notebook of time spent on drawings for Paul C. Hutchison and Myron Kimnach, 1956–1965.
Location: 1 volume shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 186.
Artwork held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.

BOIVIN, BERNARD, 1916–1985.

BOONE, ARABELLA E. (Mrs. Thomas). See Roupell, Arabella Elizabeth.

BOOTT, FRANCIS, 1792–1863.
Physician, expert on Carex.
Three notebooks, 1814–1819 and n.d.
Location: 3 volumes in slipcase shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 94.
One image of this subject is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

BOR, NORMAN LOFTUS, 1893–1972.
Agrostologist, plant collector, taxonomist.
Oral history, one reel; no transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also Adventures of a Botanist’s Wife (New York, 1952) by Eleanor Bor.

BOTANICAL GARDEN OF PADUA.

BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA AND
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLANT TAXONOMISTS.
Discussion Transcript, 1970.
"The Role of the Systematist in the Population and Environmental Crisis"
Principal discussants: Warren H. Wagner, Francis Raymond Fosberg, Hugh H. Iltis, Theodore Mosquin, and John H. Thomas.
Location: 1 volume shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 143.

BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, PACIFIC SECTION.

BOWLES, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, 1865–1954.
Author, gardener at Myddleton House, Middlesex.
Annotated working copy of A Handbook of Narcissus (London, 1934), correspondence, photos, 1934–ca.1950.
Location: 1 custom-made box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 206.
Artwork held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Photo of Myddleton Gardens: http://www.leevalley-online.co.uk/leisure/gardens.htm

BRAUN, EMMA LUCY, 1889–1971.
Taxonomist, forest ecologist. Professor, University of Cincinnati.
Forestry research notes, ca.1919–[1931–ca.1944].
Location: 7 card files shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 181.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Officer of the Ecological Society of America: http://www.esapubs.org/esahistory/officers.htm
Papers at Cincinnati Historical Society, Cincinnati Museum Center: http://www.cincymuseum.org/

BRAY, FRANZ GABRIEL (GRAF) VON, 1765–1832.
Diplomat, naturalist.
Items, 1798–1831.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 62.
One image of this subject is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

BRONGNIART, ADOLPHE THÉODORE, 1801–1876.

BURGESS, EDWARD SANFORD, 1855–1928.
Botanist, botanical historian, taxonomist.
Botanical lecture notebook, 1889–1895 and n.d.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 39.
One image of this subject is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

BURKART, ARTURO ERHARDO, 1906–1975.
Taxonomist, plant geographer. Director, Instituto de Botanica Darwinion, San Isidro, Argentina.
Oral history, 1 reel; 14-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

BURT, EDWARD ANGUS, 1859–1939.
Mycologist.
Cryptogamae manuscript, n.d. (ca.1903s) unpublished.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 68.
One group photo includes E. A. Burt. See 374, Missouri Botanical Garden 25th Anniversary, St. Louis, October 1914.
See also:
New York Botanical Garden: http://nybg.garden.museum/bsci/libr/Burtwb3.htm

BUXBAUM, FRANZ, 1955–1963.
Morphologist, phylogenist.
Correspondence with Paul Clifford Hutchison, b. 1924, Taxonomist of Cacti, Senior Botanist, Botanical Garden, University of California, Berkeley.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 185.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

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CAMERER, JOACHIM, 1534–1598.

CANDOLLE, ALPHONSE LOUIS P. P. DE, 1806–1893.
Taxonomist, phytogeographer, ethnobotanist.
Photocopies of handwritten bibliographic notes, n.d.
Location: folder file, box 4.
HI Archives collection no. 134.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

CARD, FRED WALLACE, 1863–1941.
Horticulturist, teacher.
Copy of diary, 1890–1902.
Location: 1 box; 1 reel microfilm.
HI Archives collection no. 145.

CARLETON, REGINALD MILTON, 1899–n.d.
Horticultural writer.
Undated manuscript of Your Garden Soil (Princeton, 1961).
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 69.

CARLSON, MARGERY CLAIRE, 1892–1985.
Botanist, conservationist.
Selected correspondence, primarily from nurseryman Thomas MacDougall (1895–1973).
Location: folder file, box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 86.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

CASPARI, CLAUS, 1911–1980.
Botanical artist.
Oral history, 1 reel; 16-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

CLELAND, RALPH E., 1892–1971.
Cytologist, plant geneticist.
Oral history, 1 reel; 18-pp. transcript.
Location: Oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Correspondence of William Jacob Robbins (1890–1978): http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/browser/r.htm
Correspondence of Ernst Mayr (1904–): http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/browser/m.htm

CLIFFORD, HAROLD TREVOR, 1927–.

CONARD, HENRY SHOEMAKER, 1874–1971.
Bryologist, plant anatomist.
Oral history, 1 reel; 31-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

COBB, BOUGHTON, 1894–1974
Pteridologist.
Letters, 1954, 1962–1965.
Location: folder file, box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 66.
One image of this subject is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

CONSERVATOIRE BOTANIQUE DE GENEVE.
Photocopies: Observations made by Charles Lousi L’Heritier de Brutelle while examining Kew collections, 1789; letters, short manuscripts, notes by Michel Adanson, __ Aubrey, August Jean Marie Bachelot de la Pylaie, Robert Buser, Antonio Jose Cavanilles, __ Dela Croix, Johan Frederik Gronovius, C. L. L’Heritier de Brutelle.
Location: 1 reel microfilm "Manuscripts of the Conservatoire Botanique" shelved, photocopies in folder file, box 6.
HI Archives collection no. 198.
Originals in Geneva: http://wwwcjb.unige.ch/

COOK, ORATOR FULLER, 1867–1949.
Taxonomist, plant explorer, bionomist.
Letters from David Fairchild (1869–1954), maize manuscript, plant lore, and notes, 1891–1949.
Location: 1 small green box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 163.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

Photos and notes on Cotton 1912–1929, manuscript, "Cotton (Chinese)," 1919.
Location: 1 small green box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 183.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Smithsonian field books: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/colls/fldbooks.htmlCali

COOKE, EDWARD WILLIAM, 1811–1880.
Landscape gardener.
Photocopy of letter to Mr. Berkeley, 22 October [18]70.
Location: folder file, box 5.
HI Archives collection no. 155.
Case Western has letter to Cooke: http://www.cwru.edu/UL/SpecColl/Garber/letters.htm

CUTBUSH, E.
Draft concerning the Metropolitan Society, intending to "collect specimens of the various vegetables and mineral products" of the U.S. for cultivation and dissemination (early 1800s).
Location: 1 item; oversized drawer 29.
HI Archives collection no. 188.

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DAWSON, ELMER YALE, 1918–1966.
Marine botanist, explorer.
Items, 1945–1966.
Location: folder file, box 4.
HI Archives collection no. 123.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

DEGENER, OTTO, 1899–1988.
Systematic botanist, conservationist.
Manuscripts, correspondence, papers, [1926–1939]–1979.
Location: 20 small green boxes, 4 large storage boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 72. Partially restricted.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
Artworks are held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.
See also holdings at the New York Botanical Garden: http://www.nybg.org/bsci/libr/Degener3.htm

DODOENS, REMBERT, 1517–1585.
Physician, botanist.
Anonymous descriptions of plants with 16th-century woodcuts by Rembert Dodoens (1517–1585). French, (1700s).
Location: 1 volume shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 173.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

DUGGAR, BENJAMIN MINGE, 1872–1956.
Botanist, mycologist, plant physiologist and pathologist, microbiologist.
Papers, 1862–[1889–1922]–1959.
Location: 25 boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 113.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, HENRI LOUIS, 1700–1781.
Agronomist, forester, botanist
Manuscript, n.d., with artwork.
Location: shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 93.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

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ENGELMANN, GEORGE THEODOR, 1809–1884.
Botanist, physician, plant collector, taxonomist.
Items, 1873–1874, 1880. Letters to Joseph Basil Girard from Asa Gray (1810–1888), George Engelmann (1809–1884).
Location: folder file, box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 55.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

ESAU, KATHERINE, 1898–1997.
Plant anatomist, economic botanist.
Items, 1946 and n.d.
Location: folder file, box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 71.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
Plant specimens at University of California at Santa Barbara: http://lifesci.ucsb.edu/mseweb/cheadle_esau/contact.html

EVANS, PATRICIA HEALEY, 1920–n.d.
Author.
A Modern Herbal (San Francisco, 1961) annotated dummy and author’s copy, 1961 and n.d.
Location: 2 portfolios on shelf.
HI Archives collection no. 124.
Linoleum cuts are held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.

EWAN, JOSEPH ANDORFER, 1909–1999.
Bibliographer, botanist, natural historian.
Oral history, 1 reel; discussing work on John Banister and (with G. H. M. Lawrence and G. Buchheim) a symposium to be given at the 1969 Botanical Congress. No transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Papers at the Missouri Botanical Garden: http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/molib/collections.shtml

EXELL, ARTHUR WALLIS, 1901–1993.
Taxonomist, collector.
Letters, 1951–1978, Gulf of Guinea diary.
Location: folder file, box 4.
HI Archives collection no. 110.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

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FAIRCHILD, DAVID GRANDISON, 1869–1954.

FARRER, REGINALD JOHN, 1880–1920.
Horticulturist, plant collector, author.
Notes on trip to Kansu, China, 1914.
Location: 1 slipcase.
HI Archives collection no. 168.
One image of this subject is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Specimens are at Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh: http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/mss/rbge.htm

FIELDING, HENRY BARRON, 1805–1851.
Botanist, plant subscriber.
Selected letters, 1835–1843 and n.d.
Location: folder file, box 5.
HI Archives collection no. 180.

FISHER, PAUL, 1891–1982.
Botanical artist.
Oral history, 1 reel; 20-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

FITZPATRICK, THOMAS JEFFERSON, 1868–1952.
Plant collector, ecologist, botanical historian.
Field notebook from near Colorado Springs, 1921, map.
Location: folder file, box 4; map in oversized drawer 29.
HI Archives collection no. 114.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

FOGG, JOHN MILTON, JR., 1898–1982.
Phytogeographer, taxonomist. Director, Morris Arboretum; Director, The Barnes Foundation.
Correspondence, 1923–1962.
Location: 6 small green boxes, 1 storage box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 131.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
Papers relating to the Morris Arboretum should be at University of Pennsylvania.

FORSSMAN, CYTHNA LINDENERG LETTY, 1895–1985.
Botanical artist.
Letters from Alain White, 1934–1945 and n.d.
Location: folder file, box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 73.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection under Letty.
Artworks are held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.

FRIESNER, RAY CLARENCE, 1894–1952.
Taxonomist, ecologist. Professor, Butler University.
Papers and correspondence, 1929, 1937–1948.
Location: 3 boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 135.

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GAMBLE, JAMES SYKES, 1847–1925.
Conservator, Indian Forestry Service.
Two letters: 9 June 1900 Beddome to Gamble, 23 January 1875 Fuchs to Gamble.
Location: folder file, box 5.
HI Archives collection no. 157.

GESELLSCHAFT DEUTSCHER NATURFORSCHER UND AERZTE.

GIER, LELAND JACOB, 1904–1983.
Botanist, taxonomist.
Papers, ca.1934–ca.1965.
Location: 2 boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 70.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

GILMOUR, JOHN SCOTT LENNOX, 1906–1986.
Horticulturist, nomenclaturist. Director, University Botanic Garden, Cambridge England.
Correspondence, 1828–1950. Oral history, 1 reel, 18-pp. transcript.
Location: folder file, box 2, oral history cabinet.
HI Archives collection no. 57.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Papers at Lilly Library: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/gilmour.html

GIRARD, JOSEPH BASIL, 1846–1918.
Army surgeon, plant collector.
Items, 1873–1874, 1880. Letters to Joseph Basil Girard from Asa Gray (1810–1888), George Engelmann (1809–1884).
Location: folder file, box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 55.

GOODSPEED, THOMAS HARPER, 1887–1966.
Economic botanist, plant explorer, taxonomist.
Papers, 1923–1963.
Location: 3 large boxes, 1 small green box, 14 films shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 182.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Papers of George E. Hale: http://www.aip.org/history/ead/caltech_hale/19990010.html

GRAY, ASA, 1810–1884.
Botanist, physician, taxonomist.
Items, 1873–1874, 1880. Letters to Joseph Basil Girard from Asa Gray (1810–1888), George Engelmann (1809–1884).
Location: folder file, box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 55.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

GREEN, MARY LETITIA, 1886–1978.
(Mrs. Thomas A. Sprague)
Botanical artist.
Standard-Species of Nomina Conservanda, (Kew, 1926). Annotated corrected copy, June 1926. Oral history, 1 reel; 20-pp. transcript.
Location: 1 volume shelved, oral history cabinet.
HI Archives collection no. 126.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection. See also group portraits 267 and 268: Dinner in Honor of Mary Letitia Green, 1970.

GREENE, EDWARD LEE, 1843–1915.

GROLLE, RICLEF HANS HEINRICH, 1934–n.d.
Taxonomist0.
Manuscript, n.d., (ca.1966).
Location: folder file, box 5.
HI Archives collection no. 151.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

GUERIN, JULES-RENÉ, 1801–ca.1881.
Letter, probably to botanist Francois Victor Merat (1780–1851), asking about natural classification, 21 June 1830, 4 pp. with 2-page chart.
Location: 1 item, oversized drawer 29.
HI Archives collection no. 192.

GUINEA LOPEZ, EMILIO, 1907–1985.
Collector, botanical artist.
Artwork and papers, ca.1928–ca.1959.
Location: 2 slipcases, 2 portfolios shelved; folder file, box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 80.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
Artworks are held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.

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HAAS, THEODOR, 1892–1977.
Taxonomist, morphologist, pharmacist.
Visa, war ration book, notebooks, photos, lecture notes, letters.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 212.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

HACKEL, EDUARD, 1850–1926, agrostologist
and STUCKERT, TEODORO JUAN VICENTE, 1852–1932, botanist.
Letters from Stuckert, 1903–1908.
Location: folder file, box 4.
HI Archives collection no. 109.
Images of each of these subjects are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

HARDAWAY, DANIEL, 1748–1807.
Notes on a lecture by Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815), 1804.
Location: 1 volume shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 141.

HARDING, ALICE HOWARD, ca.1846–1938.
Horticulturist.
Correspondence with nurseryman Emile Lemoine (1862–1943) concerning peonies.
Location: 1 small green box, 2 folders shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 161.

HENDERSON, LOUIS FORNIQUET, 1853–1942.
Botanist, specialist on flora of Northwest.
Letter and notes, 1896 and n.d.
Location: folder file, box 5.
HI Archives collection no. 153.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Correspondence with Lilla Leach: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/mss/women/science.html
Personal Herbarium in Corvallis, Oregon: http://www.orst.edu/dept/botany/herbarium/info.html

HERMANN, FREDERICK JOSEPH, 1906–1987.

HODGE, WALTER HENRICKS, 1912–.
Photographer, botanist, explorer.
Papers, 1939–1942.
Location: 8 storage boxes, 5 small boxes of photos, shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 65.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

HOLTTUM, RICHARD ERIC, 1895–1990.
Orchidologist. Director, Singapore Botanic Gardens, professor.
Oral history, 1 reel; 14-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

HOOKER, JOSEPH DALTON, 1817–1911, phylogenist, plant explorer, taxonomist
and JACKSON, BENJAMIN DAYDON, 1846–1927, bibliographer, botanical historian.
Index Kewensis, (Oxford, 1893–1895) proofs and notes, 1891–1895.
Location: 4 boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 133.
Images of these subjects are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

HUNT BOTANICAL LIBRARY.
Oberly Memorial Award citations, 1963.

HUTCHINSON, JOHN, 1884–1972.

HUTCHISON, PAUL CLIFFORD, 1924–1997.
Taxonomist. Senior Botanist, Botanical Garden, University of California, Berkeley.
Correspondence 1955–1963 with morphologist and phylogenist Franz Buxbaum (1900–1979).
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 185.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

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ILTIS, HUGO, 1882–1952.

INTERNATIONAL BOTANICAL CONGRESS (11th), SEATTLE (1969).

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JACKSON, BENJAMIN DAYDON, 1846–1927, bibliographer, botanical historian
and HOOKER, JOSEPH DALTON, 1817–1911, phylogenist, plant explorer, taxonomist.
Index Kewensis (Oxford, 1893–1895) proofs and notes, 1891–1895.
Location: 4 boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 133.
Images of these subjects are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

JACQUIN, NICOLAUS JOSEPH VON, 1727–1817.

JEKYLL, GERTRUDE, 1843–1935.
Gardener, artist, author.
Proofs of Flower Decoration in the House (London, 1907); Children and Gardens (London, New York, 1908); Annuals and Biennials (London, New York, 1916).
Location: ca.20 pcs., oversized drawer 29, 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 148.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

JONES, MARCUS EUGENE, 1852–1934.
Plant collector, specialist in western flora, mining consultant.
Papers, 1871–1930.
Location: 4 boxes shelved
HI Archives collection no. 167.

Letters to David Daniels Keck, 1903–1995.
Location: folder file, box 6.
HI Archives collection no. 203.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
Field notebook at Smithsonian: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/colls/fldbooks.htmlJahn

JUSSIEU, ANTOINE LAURENT DE, 1748–1836.
French botanist, professor.
Photocopies of letters, 1784–1803.
Location: 1 parcel shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 132.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

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KASAPLIGIL, BAKI, 1918–1992.
Taxonomist, plant morphologist. Professor, Mills College, Oakland, California.
John Hutchinson letters, 1970–1973.
Location: folder file, box 5.
HI Archives collection no. 160.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

KECK, DAVID DANIELS, 1903–1995.
Taxonomist, cytologist.
Letters from Marcus E. Jones, 1928–1932.
Location: folder file, box 6.
HI Archives collection no. 203.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Keck papers at New York Botanical Garden: http://www.nybg.org/bsci/libr/Keck.htm

KELSO, LEON HUGH, 1907–1982.
Zoologist, botanist.
Correspondence, papers.
Location: folder file, box 6.
HI Archives collection no. 207.
See also:
Botanical Electronic News: http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/ben/ben266.html

KING, ROBERT MERRILL, 1930–.
Taxonomist.
Letters, 1962–1971.
Location: 3 boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 87.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

KNOCHE, EDWARD LOUIS HERMAN, 1870–1945.
Phytogeographer, taxonomist.
Journals/manuscripts: Spain Notes and Canary Islands 1915–1920.
Location: 2 volumes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 96.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

KUNZ, JACK Jakob, 1919–n.d.
Botanical artist.
Oral history, 2 reels; 23-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

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LA PEROUSE, JEAN FRANÇOIS DE GALAUP (COMTE) DE, 1741–1788.

LANGE, H. DE, AND SONS.
Florists.
Broadside Plant Catalog, 1839.
Location: oversized drawer 29.
HI Archives collection no. 156.

LANGMAN, IDA KAPLAN, 1904–1991.
Botanist, specialist in flora of Mexico, bibliographer, translator, teacher.
Correspondence, papers, photographs, degrees, lecture notes.
Location: 2 big boxes, 4 small shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 179.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

LAWRENCE, GEORGE HILL MATHEWSON, 1910–1978.

LEE, JAMES, 1715–1795.
Nurseryman. Gardener at Syon and Whitton.
"An Alphabetical List of All the Plants at Mr. Lee’s Vineyard London," ca.1770, 206 pp. Note says "made out for Mrs. A. Blackburne."
Location: 1 volume shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 170.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

LEIBERG, JOHN BERNHARD, 1853–1913.

LÉMERY, NICOLAS, 1645–1715.
Physician, chemist.
Anonymous.
Manuscript extracts and plates n.d. from Dictionnaire ou Traité Universel des Drogues (Paris, 1698) by Nicolas Lémery (1645–1715).
Location: 2 volumes shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 174.
One image of this subject is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

LEMOINE, EMIL 1862–1943.
Horticulturist.
Correspondence with floriculturist Alice Howard Harding (ca.1846–1938) concerning peonies.
Location: 1 box, 2 folders shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 161.

LETTY FORSSMAN, CYTHNA LINDENERG, 1895–1985.
Botanical artist.
Letters from Alain White, 1934–1945 and n.d.
Location: folder file, box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 73.
Artworks are held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

LEWTON, FREDERICK LEWIS, 1874–1959.
Ethnobotanist, Gossypium specialist, assistant botanist, U.S. National Museum.
Correspondence, research notes, field notes, drawings.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 187.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Papers at University of South Florida: http://www.lib.usf.edu/spccoll/index2.html?f=13512

LEYEL, HILDA WINIFRED WAUTON, 1890–1957.
Herbalist.
Annotated copy of Herbal Delights, (New York, 1938) and notes.
Location: folder file, box 4.
HI Archives collection no. 130.

LLANO, GEORGE ALBERT, 1911–n.d.
Bryologist, lichenologist.
Papers, 1947–1951.
Location: folder file, box 3.
HI Archives collection no. 103.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

LOWNES, ALBERT EDGAR, 1899–1978.
Botanical artist, textile executive, science book collector.
"Notes on the roots of some New England orchids." Notes for a talk.
Location: folder file, box 6.
HI Archives collection no. 209.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
Artwork held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.
See also:
Library of the Gray Herbarium: http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/sl.htm

LUCAS, WILLIAM, 1800–1877.
Lawyer, U.S. Congressman, horticulturist.
Photocopies of 1855 correspondence between Lucas and nurseryman William R. Prince.
Location: folder file, box 4.
HI Archives collection no. 117.

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MALESHERBES, CHRÉTIEN GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE, 1721–1794.
French magistrate, botanist, agriculturist.
Manuscript concerning botanical classification, n.d. [late 1700s], 138 pp.
Location: 1 volume shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 175.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Papers of George Washington: http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/indexes/confederation/mlist.html
His diary at American Philosophical Society: http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/browser/m.htm
Malesherbes’ home: http://www.coeur-de-france.com/malesher.html

MARGADANT, WILLEM DANIEL, 1916–1997.

MARTIN, ROBERT FRANKLIN, 1910–n.d.
Correspondence and botanist Thomas Walter (1740–1780) biographical items, 1938–1939 and n.d.
Location: 1 slipcase shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 144.

MATHIAS, MILDRED ESTHER, 1906–1995.

MAXON, WILLIAM R., 1877–1948, pteridologist. Curator, Division of Plants, U.S. National Museum.
and AMERICAN FERN SOCIETY.
Records, 1918–1958. Correspondence of members Maxon, and Conrad V. Morton (1905–1972), Curator, Division of Ferns at the U. S. National Museum.
Location: 3 small green boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 147.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Maxon’s Smithsonian field books: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/colls/fldbooks.htmlm
Correspondence with F. G. Floyd: http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/gra00021frames.html

MCCLURE, FLOYD ALONZO, 1897–1970.
Plant collector, taxonomist.
Oral history, 1 reel. No transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

MERTENS, FRANZ CARL, 1764–1831.

MEYER [FRANK NICHOLAS] MEDAL.
Photocopies of correspondence regarding medal, 1920, 1923, 1965–1966, n.d.
Location: folder file, box 5.
HI Archives collection no. 158.
See also group portraits: 131 Presentation of the First Frank N. Meyer Medal to Barbour Lathrop, U.S.D.A., Washington, DC, 1920; 212 and 213 American Genetic Association's Presentation of F. N. Meyer Medal, U.S.D.A., Glenn Dale, Maryland, June 1936.

MILLER, PHILIP, 1691–1771.

MIROV, NICHOLAS TIHO, 1893–1980.
Oral history, 1 reel; 17-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
The Forestry interviews: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/forest.html

MORRISON, BENJAMIN YOE, 1891–1966.

MORTON, CONRAD V., 1905–1972, curator of the Division of Ferns at the U.S. National Museum
and AMERICAN FERN SOCIETY.
Records, 1918–1958. Correspondence of members William R. Maxon (1877–1948), Curator of the Division of Plants, U.S. National Museum, and Morton.
Location: 3 boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 147.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Morton correspondence with Albert Smith and on Cinchona mission at Smithsonian: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/colls/fldbooks.html

MUSÉE NATIONAL D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE.
Selected items, including William Sherard (1659–1729) correspondence, Royal Society of London; miscellaneous letters, Academy of Sciences, Paris; phanerogamic letters from Cavanilles.
Location: 4 reels microfilm shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 196.
Originals at Musée National: http://www.mnhn.fr/

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NELSON, NELSON LAWRENCE T., 1862–1932.
Bryologist, mycologist, taxonomist.
Letter, 10 March 1915, 3 pp.
Location: folder file, box 5.
HI Archives collection no. 154.
One image of this subject is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

NODDER, FREDERICK POLYDORE, fl. 1777–1800, botanical artist
and SHAW, GEORGE, 1751–1813, naturalist.
"Alphabetical Index to Dr. Shaw’s Naturalist Miscellany," 1789–1813, 16 pp.
Location: folder file, box 1.
HI Archives collection no. 37.
Images of Shaw are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
One Nodder artwork held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.

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PADUA, BOTANICAL GARDEN OF.
See Botanical Garden of Padua.

PAUL, WILLIAM, 1822–1905.
Horticulturist, rosarian, founder, Royal Nurseries at Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, England.
Certificate presented by Jury du Concours des Roses Nouvelles de Bagatelle, 1908.
Location: 1 item; oversized drawer 29.
HI Archives collection no. 191.
One page.

PAYNE, JOSEPH FRANK, 1840–1910.
Librarian, Royal College of Physicians.
Typescript manuscript of speech "On the ‘Herbarius’ and ‘Hortus Sanitatis,’"
ca.1901. Bound with W. L. Schreiber translation.
Location: Part of one volume shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 142.

PERSOON, CHRISTIAN HENDRIK, 1761–1836.

POCOCK, MARY AGARD, 1886–n.d.
Plant explorer.
Oral history, 1 reel; 25-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

POLUNIN, NICHOLAS, 1909–1997.
Phytogeographer.
Oral history, 1 reel; 6-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
One image of this subject is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also the papers of T. G. O. Osborne at the University of Adelaide: http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/ual/special/osborn.html

POPENOE FAMILY PAPERS.
Correspondence of Wilson Popenoe, Escuela Agricola Panamericana papers, family albums, manuscripts, photos.
Full description in "Wilson Popenoe, American horticulturist, educator and explorer" (Huntia 5(1): 17–22, 1983).
Location: 40 boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 204.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
Artwork of Popenoe’s first wife, Dorothy Kate Hughes Popenoe, held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.
See also:
Popenoe genealogy: http://www.popenoe.com/JP/i0000274.htmi274
1947 speech to the California Avocado Society: http://www.west.net/~lsrose/cas/Logo.html
"Botanists’ Art" exhibit: http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/HIBD/Exhibitions/BotanistsArt/BotanistsArt.shtml

PRAIN, DAVID, 1857–1944.

PRINCE FAMILY PAPERS.
Nurserymen.
Correspondence, deeds, receipts, and other documents of William Prince (1725–1802), William Prince, (1766–1842), John and Benjamin Prince (no dates; brothers of the younger William), William Robert (1795–1869), and Charlotte G. Collins (no dates, wife of W. R. Prince).
Location: oversized drawer 29, 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 211.

PRINCE, WILLIAM, 1725–1802.
Nurseryman. Proprietor, Prince Nursery, Flushing, Long Island, New York.
Photocopies of 1855 correspondence between Prince and William Lucas (1800–1877).
Location: folder file, box 4.
HI Archives collection no. 117.

Papers.
Location: 4 reels microfilm shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 193.
Originals at the National Agricultural Library, Prince Manuscript Collection.
See also:
Seed Catalogues at National Agricultural Library: http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/collect/nursery.html
Queens Historical Society: http://www.lihistory.com/3/hs329a.htm

PRINCE, WILLIAM ROBERT, 1795–1869.
Nurseryman. Fourth proprietor of Prince nursery.
Papers, correspondence (photocopies), 1849–1854.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 208.
Permission to cite must be obtained by Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

PRING, GEORGE H., 1885–1974.
Head horticulturist, Missouri Botanical Garden.
Oral history, 8 reels. Four folders of transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

PUDDLE, CHARLES EDWIN, 1917–
Horticulturist, superintendent, Bodnant Gardens, North Wales.
Letter of resignation from International Camellia Society, 20–VI–1974.
Location: folder file, box 6.
HI Archives collection no. 184.
One image of this subject is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
One page.

PURRET, (L’ABBÉ) PIERRE-ANDRÉ, 1754–1818.
Letterbook, 1746–1820.
Location: shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 64.

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RAFINESQUE, CONSTANTINE SAMUEL, 1783–1840.
Naturalist, plant collector, taxonomist.
Photocopy of a letter to John Christoph Muller asking about the Harmony Society, 1818.
Location: oversized portfolio shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 32.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

REDOUTÉ, PIERRE-JOSEPH, 1759–1840.
Botanical Artist.
Papers.
Location: 1 box shelved in library, east wall; 1 item oversized drawer 28.
HI Archives collection no. 33.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
Artworks are held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.

RICHARDSON, RICHARD, 1663–1741.
Physician, Yorkshire botanist.
Manuscripts "Index Horti Bierleinesis," 1737, 210 pp.
See Hunt Botanical Catalogue II: 169–170.
Location: shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 210.
One image of this subject is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

ROBBINS, WILLIAM JACOB, 1890–1978.
Botanist, plant physiologist. Director, New York Botanical Garden.
Oral history, 1 reel; 16-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
See also:
Papers at New York Botanical Garden: http://www.nybg.org/bsci/libr/Robwb2.htm

ROCK, JOSEPH FRANCIS CHARLES, 1884–1962.

RODRIGUEZ-CABALLERO, RAFAEL LUCAS, 1915–1981.
Botanical artist, taxonomist. Director, Department of Biology, University of Costa Rica.
Oral history; 30-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

ROUPELL, ARABELLA ELIZABETH, 1817–1914.
(Mrs. Thomas Boone)
Botanical artist.
Photocopied items, 1846–1851 and n.d.
Location: folder file 4.
HI Archives collection no. 127.

ROWLEY, GORDON DOUGLAS, 1921–, Collector.
Succulent specialist, historian, taxonomist.
Adrian Hardy Haworth, David Prain, Alfred James Willmott, and other letters, 1831–1834, 1931–1948.
Some are photocopies.
Location: folder file, box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 76.
One image of Rowley is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

RUDD, VELVA ELAINE, 1910–1999.

RUSSELL, NORMAN HUDSON 1921–.

RYERSON, KNOWLES A., 1892–1990.
Horticulturist, plant collector. Director, University Farm, University of California, Davis.
Oral history, 1 reel.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Papers at University of California, Davis: http://libweb2.ucdavis.edu/specol/html/plant.html

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SABEC, KATHY ANN, 1953–n.d.
Printmaker.
Unicorn Tapestries Project Items, 1974–1976. Catalogue of trees and shrubs in "The Hunt of the Unicorn" tapestry series at the Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Location: 1 volume shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 205.

SAFFORD, WILLIAM EDWIN, 1859–1926.

SCHREIBER, WILHELM LUDWIG, 1855–1932.
"The Herbals of the XVth and XVIth Centuries," n.d.
Location: Part of one volume shelved. Bound with manuscript by Joseph Frank Payne (1840–1910).
HI Archives collection no. 142.

SCOTT, ARTHUR MORELAND, 1888–1963.

SETCHELL, WILLAM ALBERT, 1864–1943.
Geobotanist, phycologist. Professor, University of California at Berkeley.
Class Outline, 1930.
Location: folder file, box 4.
HI Archives collection no. 128.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BOTANISTS.
Photocopies of miscellaneous letters and manuscripts, 1703–1826.
Includes writing by: Adanson, Michel; Aubéry, __; Bachelot de la Pulaie, A. J. M; Boerhaave, Hermann; Cavanilles, Antonio José; de la Croix, __; Cross, W.; Danty D’Isnard, A. T.; Gronovius, Johan Frederik; Haller, Albrecht von; L’Heritier de Brutelle, C. L.; Jussieu, Antoine de; Jussieu, Bernard de; St. Perier. Tissandier (notary public) to L’Heritier; Tournefort, J. P. de; Vaillant, Sébastien.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 136.

SHARP, AARON JOHN, 1904–1997.
Botanist, bryologist, educator.
Correspondence, field books and photocopies.
Location: 27 boxes shelved, folder file, box 6.
HI Archives collection no. 201.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

SHAW, GEORGE, 1751–1813, naturalist,
and NODDER, FREDERICK POLYDORE, fl. 1777–1800, botanical artist.
"Alphabetical Index to Dr. Shaw’s Naturalist Miscellany," 1789–1813, 16 pp.
Location: folder file, box 1.
HI Archives collection no. 37.
One Nodder artwork held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.
Images of Shaw are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

SHIRAI, MITSUTARO (Kotaro), 1863–1932.
Plant pathologist.
English translation of Nippon hakubutsu nenpo, (chronological tables of Japanese studies of natural history) revised and enlarged, 1943.
Translated by Take Sugiyama.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 214.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

SIBTHORP FAMILY.
Papers, 1782 –1870.
Location: Portfolio, oversize drawer 28
HI Archives collection no. 38.

SIBTHORP, JOHN, 1758–1796.
Botanist, plant collector, explorer.
Photocopied papers, ca.1789 –1923.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 74.
Originals in the British Museum: http://www.british-museum.ac.uk/
One image of this subject is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

SLATE, GEORGE LEWIS, 1899–1976.
Bibliographer, horticulturist, plant breeder, pomologist.
Arnold Arboretum Papers, [ca.1954–1957]–1967.
Location: 4 boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 40.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

SLOANE, HANS, 1660–1753, collector
and SLOANE, WILLIAM, 1658– n.d.
Property indenture between Sloanes and Montagu North, 4 October 1706.
Location: Oversized drawer.
HI Archives collection no. 121.
Images of Hans Sloane are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Sloane’s plant specimens: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/botany/databases/sloane/index.htm
One page.

SMALL, JOHN KUNKEL, 1869–1938.
Plant explorer, taxonomist. Curator and Head Curator of the Museum, New York Botanical Garden.
Photocopies of letters to Mrs. Henry M. Allen, 1932.
Location: folder file, box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 46.

Annotated Flora of the Florida Keys, correspondence [1914–1921]–1927.
Location: volume on shelf, folder file, box 5.
HI Archives collection no. 152.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

SMITH, CLAUDE EARLE JR., 1922–1987, Compiler.
Taxonomist.
Microfilms of taxonomists’ letters.
Location: 1 box microfilm (15 rolls) shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 75.
Originals at Gray Herbarium and Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
Images of Smith are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

SMITH, JOHN DONNELL, 1829–1928.
Taxonomist.
Letters, 1892–1911.
Location: folder file, box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 41.

Items, 1880–1909.
Location: folder file, box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 42.

Two manuscripts describing Pinus Donnell-Smithii and Passiflora porphyresica.
Location: folder file, box 3.
HI Archives collection no. 92.
Pencil drawings of new species described by Smith, drawn by Faxon, are in Art Department.

Letters, 1893–1927.
Location: 1 reel microfilm.
HI Archives collection no. 118.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
Permission of Archivist of the Smithsonian needed for reproduction or publication beyond "recognized fair use."
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

SNELLING, LILIAN, 1879–1972.
Botanical artist.
Oral history, 1 reel; 17-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
An example of her work: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/hort/women.htm

SONNERAT, PIERRE, 1749–1814.
Explorer, collector.
Papers, ca.1782–1816.
Location: 1 box shelved; 2 reels microfilm shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 44.
One image of this subject is available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

SPRAGUE, MARY LETITIA (Mrs. Thomas A. Sprague). See Green, Mary Letitia

SPRAGUE, M. S., n.d. (sister to Thomas A. Sprague)
and THOMAS ARCHIBALD SPRAGUE, 1877–1958.
Notes based on her studies of Hieronymus Bock, Historia Stirpium, n.d.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 81.

STAFLEU, FRANS A., 1921–1997.
Taxonomist, botanical bibliographer.
Oral history, 1 reel; 23-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

STANDLEY, PAUL CARPENTER, 1884–1963, plant collector, taxonomist
and WILLIAMS, LOUIS OTHO, 1908–1991, plant collector, taxonomist.
Flora of Guatemala manuscript samples with handwritten edits, ca.1940–1969.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 77.
Images of both subjects are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
Artworks are held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.

STAUFFACHER, JACK WERNER, 1920–.
Printmaker, book designer.
Two letters from Agnes Arber and a postcard to Arber from Asa Gray, January–June 1950.
Location: folder file, box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 85.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

STEARN, WILLIAM T., 1911–2001.
Botanist, nomenclaturist.
Oral history, 1 reel.
Location: oral history cabinet.

Letter to George H. M. Lawrence and proceedings of the Thirteenth International Horticultural Congress, 1952.
Location: folder file, box 2.
HI Archives collection no. 45.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

STEBBINS, GEORGE LEDYARD, 1906–2000.
Plant geneticist.
Oral history, 1 reel; 14-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

STERN, WILLIAM L., 1926–.
Plant anatomist, wood, orchids, taxonomist.
Oral history, 1 reel; 19-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.

Miscellaneous correspondence 1959–1975.
Folder file, box 6.
HI Archives collection no. 200.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

STUCKERT, TEODORO JUAN VICENTE 1852–1932, botanist
and HACKEL, EDUARD, 1850–1926, agrostologist.
Letters from Stuckert, 1903–1908.
Location: folder file, box 4.
HI Archives collection no. 109.
Images of both subjects are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

SVENSON, HENRY KNUTE, 1897–1986.
Botanist, taxonomist.
Oral history, 1 reel; 25-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Gray Herbarium Archives: http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/ss.htm

SWALLEN, JASON RICHARD, 1903–1991.
Taxonomist, agrostologist.
Papers, 1936–1965.
Location: 14 rolls microfilm shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 112.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

SWINGLE, CHARLES FLETCHER, 1899–1978.

SWINGLE, MAUDE KELLERMAN, 1888–1992.
Agricultural librarian.
Oral history, 2 casettes on self, husband W. T. Swingle, and father W. A. Kellerman; 1 cassette talking with R. W. Nixon about date palm importation.
Location: oral history cabinet.

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TARGIONI-TOZZETTI, GIOVANNI, 1712–1783.
Botanist, physician. Director, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy.
Biography of Pier Antonio Micheli (1679–1737), n.d., 329 pp.
Location: 1 volume shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 176.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
See also:
Biblioteca Nazionale: http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/multi/luoghi/firenze/bibliote/inazion.html
Regione Toscana, Ufficio biblioteche: http://www.cultura.toscana.it/bibl/collane.htm

TAYLOR, WILLIAM RANDOLPH, 1895–1974.
Papers, ca.1928–ca.1960.
Location: 2 boxes, 7 volumes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 78.
Artworks are held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
University of Michigan Press has copyright on some items.

THOMAS, JOHN HUNTER, 1928–2000.
Taxonomist.
Proofs and other items ca.1969 concerning Botanical Explorations in Washington, Oregon,
California, and Adjacent Regions (Pittsburgh, 1979).
Location: folder on shelf.
HI Archives collection no. 47.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

TORREY, RAY ETHAN, 1887–1956.
Plant pathologist.
Typed manuscript fragment.
Location: folder file, box 5.
HI Archives collection no. 150.
Torrey artwork held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.
See also papers at University of Massachusetts at Amherst: http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/torrey.shtml

TOURNAY, RONALD LOUIS JULES ALFRED, 1925–1972.
Botanist, specialist in Monocotyledons, Orchidaceae, and bibliographer.
Manuscript "Orchidaceae africanae, I, Les Orchidées congolaises," 1954.
Location: folder file box 5.
HI Archives collection no. 159.

TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH PITTON DE, 1656–1708.
Anonymous.
"Livre et Traitté des Medicamments par Mr. de Tournefort," 1726.
An unknown author’s copy of Tournefort’s Traité de la Matière Médicale (Paris, 1717), 812 pp.
Location: 1 volume shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 177.

Extracts (ca.1700s) from Tournefort, Elémens de Botanique, (Paris, 1694), in French, 185 pp., 13 pp. index.
Location: 1 volume shelved in library.
HI Archives collection no. 178.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

TRELEASE, WILLIAM, 1857–1945.
Plant morphologist, taxonomist.
Letters, 1893–1944.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 43.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

TRUEBLOOD, EMILY WALCOTT EMMART, 1898–1984.
Cytologist, botanical historian.
Documents regarding donation of copies of images from Badianus Aztec Herbal Manuscript, 1552, painted in 1933 by Marie Theresa Vuillemin-Missioner, niece of Cardinal Tisserant. Manuscript catalogued in Hunt Institute Library; plant images catalogued in Art Department.
Location: folder file, box 3.
HI Archives collection no. 102.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

TUKEY, HAROLD B., 1896–1971.
Horticulturist.
Oral history, 1 reel; 6-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

TWENTIETH CENTURY BOTANISTS.
Papers, 1873–1970.
Location: 6 boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 48.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY.
Records, ca.1914–[1937–1941]–1963. Includes correspondence of botanists Rogers McVaugh, C. O. Erlanson, Gabriel Edwin, Walter T. Swingle, and B. Y. Morrison.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 60.

URBAN, IGNATIUS, 1848–1931.
Horticulturist, plant explorer, taxonomist.
Manuscript notes.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 49.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

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VAN SCHAACK, GEORGE B., 1903–1983.
Agrostologist, bibliographer, taxonomist.
Family and professional correspondence and papers.
Location: 15 boxes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 116.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

VAUGHAN, JOHN F., 1775–1802.
Physician.
Medical Diary No. 3, 1797– ca.1802.
Location: 1 reel microfilm shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 197.
Original diary in Joseph Downs Collection, Winterthur Museum: http://www.winterthur.org/

VERDOORN, FRANS, 1906–1984.
Taxonomist, biohistorian.
Items, 1961, 1971.
Location: folder file, box 4.
HI Archives collection no. 125.
See also:
The papers of Raoul Weston La Barre: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fa/labarre.htm
And University of Florida: http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/MsLetter/msletter.htm
Papers of Henry Ives Baldwin: http://www.izaak.unh.edu/text/baldwin.htm

VILMORIN, ROGER DE, 1905–1980.
Taxonomist, nomenclaturist, ecologist.
Oral history, 1 reel; 3-pp. transcript.
Location: oral history cabinet.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

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WALKER, EGBERT HAMILTON, 1899–1991.
Botanical bibliographer, taxonomist.
Selected correspondence (1958–1976). Oral history, 1 reel; 19-pp. transcript.
Location: 1 box shelved, oral history cabinet.
HI Archives collection no. 50.
Artworks are held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

WALPOLE, FREDERICK ANDREWS, 1861–1904.
Botanical artist.
Diaries, 1882–1903.
Location: Originals and preservation photocopies shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 95.
Artworks are held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

WALTER, THOMAS, 1740–1789.
Botanist, plant collector.
Biographical Items, 1938–1939 and n.d. Collected by Robert F. Martin.
Location: 1 slipcase shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 144.

WARNER, MARJORIE FLEMING, ca.1871–1960.
Librarian, Bureau of Plant Industry.
Items, 1920–1959 and n.d.
Location: 1 slipcase on shelf; folder file, box 4.
HI Archives collection no. 122

WENT, FRITS WARMOLT, 1903–1990.
Photocopies of journal, 1950–1967. Oral history, 1 reel; 22-pp. transcript.
Location: 1 box shelved, oral history cabinet.
HI Archives collection no. 79.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

WHITLEY AND OSBORN, NURSERYMEN.
Photocopy of "Catalog of Hardy Trees and Shrubs," (Fulham, Near London, 1840), 3 pp.
Location: oversized drawer 29.
HI Archives collection no. 140.

WIGHT, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, 1874–1954.
Economic botanist, taxonomist, pomologist. Botanist, Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture.
Flora of Alaska handwritten manuscript, n.d.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 149.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

WILLIAMS, LOUIS OTHO, 1908–1991
and STANDLEY, PAUL CARPENTER, 1884–1963.
Flora of Guatemala manuscript samples with handwritten edits, ca.1940–1969.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 77.
Images of both subjects are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.
Artworks are held by Hunt Institute’s Art Department.

WILLIAMS, LOUIS OTHO, 1908–1991.
Taxonomist, economic botanist, plant collector.
Items, 1936–[1946–1954]–1973.
Location: 1 box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 97.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.

WILLMOTT, ELLEN ANN, 1860–1934.
Gardener, horticulturist, first woman member of the Linnaean Society (1904).
List of plants, ca.1770. Note from Gertrude Jekyll tipped into front.
Location: 2 volumes shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 171.
Tea rose developed by Archer, 1936, named after Willmott: http://www.rosegathering.com/wilmott.html


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YUNCKER, TRUMAN GEORGE, 1891–1964.
Letters, 1833, ca.1880–[1915–1955].
Location: 1 large green box shelved.
HI Archives collection no. 51.
Images of this subject are available from the Hunt Institute portrait collection.


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