Degener, Isa

Scope and Contents The Otto Degener records consist entirely of correspondence ranging from his student years at the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts at Amherst) in the late 1910's up to the time of his death in January 1988. There are no Degener field notebooks in the collections of the NYBG. In 1968, Dr. Degener began to deposit his papers with the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, beginning with his earliest correspondence from 1915. From 1973 on he began to...