Philcox

These files contain personal correspondence from Dr. Irwin’s career at the NYBG. Important correspondants include: B. L. Turner of the University of Texas Department of Botany, William Steere, Bassett Maguire and Rupert Barneby, all of the NYBG. It should be noted that a large part of the correspondence of Dr. Irwin can also be found within the Administrative Records of the NYBG as well as the Records of the Herbarium. Alston correspondence concerns Cassia as does that of Barneby. Rogers is concerned with Manihot and the early use of computers in taxonomy. Steere is concerned mostly with financial and administrative planning. Belem is interested in Strychnos. Cowan contains Maguire’s Guianan determination lists. Tillett contains an account of the 1961 Jari River Expedition in which Walter A. Engler met his death as well as an account of the fire which ravaged Dr. Irwin’s home in New York; lists of wood samples collected in British Guiana by Stephen Tillett and a list of the drug samples collected for Ely Lilly Company.