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Announcements of Seminars, 1964-1972

 File — Box: 1

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

Arranged in broad categories by the years of the administration of the Head Curators and then alphabetically by subject.

These files include routine office files such as the business records and subject files regarding the overall operations; on the care and maintenance of the herbarium cases, samples of mounting paper for herbarium specimens, fumigation procedures, formulas for glues used to mount herbarium specimens; general correspondence on the operation of the herbarium; minutes of general staff meetings (including a bound notebook of weekly staff meetings called "Weekly botanical conventions"; internal staff memorandum; finance records; policies of the herbarium, ", as well as the files on and important correspondence between herbarium administrators and botanists in the field. The files encompass the work of various head curators and herbarium administrators such as Fred Seaver, Bassett Maguire, Howard Irwin, David Keck, Ghillian Prance, Patricia Holmgren, and the business and finance officers such as R.F. Kolkebeck Roger Biringer, William Mooney and William Beals.

General arrangement is chronological by the years covering the administration of the head curator or administrator. Files are arranged alphabetically by subject within the term of the administration. This series contains 6 boxes.

Dates

  • 1964-1972

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research with permission from Mertz Library staff, with the exception of Series 4: Personnel records (Staff and graduate students). 1959-1973.

Extent

From the Collection: 30 Linear Feet (24 boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the The Archives of the New York Botanical Garden Repository

Contact:
New York Botanical Garden, Mertz Library
2900 Southern Boulevard
Bronx NY 10458 United States