| 2 | Creator: | Blake, S. F., (Sidney Fay), 1892-1959 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | S. F. (Sidney Fay) Blake correspondence, ca. 1920s- 1950s
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1920-1950 | | | | Abstract: | This is professional correspondence concerned primarily with botanical nomenclature. Some of the letters touch on personal matters, and there is also a series with the Texas Research Foundation relative to the disposition of Blake's herbarium. The most substantial correspondence is with Liberty Hyde Bailey, Nathaniel Lord Britton, and Waldo Lee McAtee. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B582 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bailey, L.H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954 | Blake, S. F., (Sidney Fay), 1892-1959 | Botany -- Nomenclature. | Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 | Herbaria -- United States. | McAtee, W. L.(Waldo Lee),1883-1962. | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Plants -- Type specimens. | Texas Research Foundation. | |
| 3 | Creator: | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Asa Gray papers, 1838-1887
| | | | Dates: | 1838-1887 | | | | Abstract: | The largest portion of correspondence is with Charles Edwin Bessy on botanical matters, including botanical publications in the United States and Europe, and plants and shell specimens. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.G78 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bessey, Charles E., (Charles Edwin), 1845-1915 | Botanical gardens. | Botany. | Cleaveland, Parker, 1780-1858 | Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 | Education -- United States. | Educational Material | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | James, Thomas Potts, 1803-1882 | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Ridgely, Charles Goodwin, 1784-1848 | Rothrock, Joseph T., 1839-1922 | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Shells. | Torrey, John, 1796-1873 | Vrolik, W., (Willem), 1801-1863 | Ward, Henry Augustus, 1834-1906 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Henslow, J. S. (John Stevens), 1796-1861 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | J. S. (John Stevens) Henslow papers, 1825-1867
| | | | Dates: | 1825-1867 | | | | Abstract: | This is a miscellaneous collection of letters, and a few documents, concerning botany, gardening, agriculture, Darwin and evolution, and the herbarium at the University of Edinburgh. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H382 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture | Beyond Early America | Botany. | Bowerbank, James Scott, 1797-1877 | Evolution. | Gardening -- England -- 19th century. | Graham, Robert, 1786-1845 | Henslow, Ann | Henslow, J. S. (John Stevens), 1796-1861 | Herbaria -- Scotland -- 19th century. | Jardine, William, Sir, 1800-1874 | Mechi, John Joseph, 1802-1880 | Nihill, Daniel, 1791-1867 | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Shaw-Lefevre, John George, Sir, 1797-1879 | University of Edinburgh. | Wedgwood, Hensleigh, 1803-1891 | |
| 5 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sir William Jackson Hooker letters, 1819-1863
| | | | Dates: | 1819-1863 | | | | Abstract: | These letters refer to the exchange of various plants, to botany in general, and to the operation of Kew. There is mention as well of the plants of Halifax, Nova Scotia. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H7652 | | | | Extent: | 39.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Botanical gardens -- England. | Botany -- England. | Botany -- Nova Scotia. | Bowring, John, Sir, 1792-1872 | Braun, Alexander | Eyton, Thomas Campbell, 1809-1880 | Henslow, J. S. (John Stevens), 1796-1861 | Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865 | Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. | Royle, J. Forbes, (John Forbes), 1799?-1858 | Washington, John, 1800-1863 | |
| 6 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Bartram correspondence, 1735-1775
| | | | Dates: | 1735-1775 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence compiled by Edward E. Wildman and Francis D. West, chiefly from original letters in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and other depositories, 1956. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B28.w | | | | Extent: | 719.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Botanists. | Botany. | Breintnall, Joseph, d. 1746 | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Colony and State Specific History | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | General Correspondence | Horticulture. | Horticulturists. | Linne, Carl von, 1707-1778 | Natural History | Natural history. | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Plant collectors. | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Scientific Correspondence | Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753 | Wildman, Edward, (Edward Embree), 1874-1956 | Witt, Christopher, 1675-1765 | |
| 7 | Creator: | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Peter Collinson papers, 1560-1811 (inclusive), 1713-1811 (bulk)
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1713-1811 | | | | Abstract: | This microfilm contains letters and drafts of replies, memoranda, lists of plants and shrubs, observations on natural history, diary notes, extracts from reading, and recipes. There is a "Catalogue of Books given to [Friends] Publick School of Philadelphia" by Collinson dated 1749. There is a copy by Collinson of a May 16, 1560 note by Elizabeth I of a gift of old clothes to her maids of honor. A 1811 letter is from C. S. Collinson to Aylmer Bourke Lambert. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.629 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Botany. | Breintnall, Joseph, d. 1746 | Bull, William, 1710-1791 | Collinson, C. S. | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Dobbs, Arthur, 1689-1765 | Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 | Fothergill, John, 1712-1780 | Garden, Alexander, 1686-1756 | Gmelin, Johann Georg, 1709-1755 | Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761 | Hollyday, Henry, 1870- | Kearsley, John | Lambert, Aylmer Bourke, 1761-1842 | Linne, Carl von, 1707-1778 | Microfilm Collection | Morris, Robert Hunter, 1713-1764 | Natural history. | Pemberton, Israel | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Rainsford, Giles | Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Wager, Charles, Sir, 1666-1743 | Wright, Edward | |
| 8 | Creator: | Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau papers, 1716-1789
| | | | Dates: | 1716-1789 | | | | Abstract: | Principally covering botany and agriculture, this collection includes many manuscripts on trees, shrubs, and plants of different species, copies of botanical essays by others, essays on fruit trees, etc., by Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy (1732-89), notes and drafts for the latter's revision of Duhamel's Traité des Arbres et Arbustres. Also miscellaneous essays, sketches, and memoranda on bones of birds and animals, electricity, poisons, steam engines, ventilation, temperature and air pressure, mathmatics, paleontology ("Observations sur les os d'éléphants fossiles"), chemistry, metallurgy, entomology, architecture, taxidermy ("Méthode pour empailler les oiseaux"); lists of plants; notes on England, Canada, Mexico, China; notes of reading in Pliny, John Evelyn, Alexander Russell, William Derham, and others. Also a translation of Jethro Tull's Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, with additions and revisions by Duhamel du Monceau. Also an alphabetical catalogue of Duhamel's gardens, prepared by Fougeroux de Bondaroy. Also correspondence (ca. 170 pieces) with, among others, Duc d'Aven, Duc de Noailles, Louis J. M. Daubenton, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Jean François Gauthier, Comte de La Galissonière, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Emerich Vattel. The collection has been described in part by Gilbert Chinard, "Recently Acquired Botanical Documents," APS Proc. 101 (1957): 508: and by Joseph Ewan, "Fougeroux de Bondaroy (1732-1789) and his Projected Revision of Duhamel du Monceau's Traité (1755) on Trees and Shrubs. I. An Analytical Guide to Persons, Gardens, and Works mentioned in the Manuscripts," APS Proc. 103 (1959): 807. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D87,580.D881 | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture | Architecture | Bones. | Botany. | Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques, 1723-1806 | Chemistry | Daubenton, M., (Louis-Jean-Marie), 1716-1799 | Derham, W., (William), 1657-1735 | Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782 | Electricity -- Early works to 1850. | Entomology. | Essays. | Evelyn, John, 1620-1706 | Fruit trees. | Gardens -- France. | Gauthier, Jean Francois | La Gallissonnière, Augustin-Félix-Elisabeth Barrin, -- comte de, -- 1742-1828. | Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de,1721-1794. | Mathematics. | Metallurgy. | Microfilm Collection | Noailles, Louis, duc de, 1713-1793 | Paleontology. | Plant collectors -- France. | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Pliny, -- the Younger. | Poisons. | Russell, Alexander, 1715?-1768 | Sketches. | Steam-engines -- Early works to 1850. | Taxidermy. | Temperature. | Vattel, Emer de, 1714-1767 | Ventilation. | |
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