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Caroline Kathryn Allen papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-002
Scope and Contents

The collection documents Dr. Allen's studies before her association with the New York Botanical Garden, including her studies at Missouri Botanical Garden and her early career at the Arnold Arboretum. It contains correspondence, curricula vitae, bibliographies, reprints and drawings with specimens attached. The collection is arranged into five series.

Dates: 1926 - 1957; Majority of material found within 1932-1948

Caroline Kathryn Allen records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-04-01
Abstract

Collection consists of correspondence, notes, clippings, printed matter, manuscripts, specimens, lists, grant proposals and reports, photographs, field notes, field drawings and memorabilia.

Dates: 1830 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1971

Timothy Field Allen papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-003
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises materials on Characeae including correspondence, drawings, and parts of Allen's publication, Characeae Americanae.

Dates: 1870-1900

Records of the American Fern Society

 Collection
Identifier: RA-001
Scope and Contents

Records consist of constitutions, annual reports, minutes, incoming and outgoing correspondence of officers, general correspondence, membership lists, and financial records. Specific items include Treasurer's reports for numerous years, budget details, administrative decisions made on Council Orders, Curator's reports, lists of library reference questions, and billing and production issues concerning The American Fern Journal.

Dates: 1893-1990

Records of the American Iris Society

 Collection
Identifier: RA-002
Scope and Contents

This collection consists primarily of the correspondence files of Robert Swan Sturtevant, the first Secretary of the American Iris Society. Principal correspondents include John C. Wister and Harry H. Everett. Also included are minutes, bulletins, a scrapbook, and photographs of various members and specific Society events. There are loose seed catalogs devoted entirely to the Iris as well as an index of seed catalog pages created by a member of the AIS.

Dates: 1913-1934

Marjorie Anchel records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-05-01
Scope and Contents

The Anchel Collection covers her career as a Chemist at The New York Botanical Garden. No other material on her life or career is included.

The collection consists of six series. The records contain primarily correspondence and laboratory notebooks. Other series help to complete the picture of her research career.

Dates: 1931 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1975

Alexander Pierce Anderson records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-05-02
Scope and Contents The bulk of the records are a collection of laboratory notebooks in which Anderson meticulously recorded each of his experiments as well as the equipment and instruments he used during the experiments. The collection also includes several hundred patents from the U.S. Patent office, both of his own inventions and those of other inventors. The records also contain a few pieces of correspondence relating to his invention of the "puffing process" as well as a few articles written by Anderson...
Dates: 1899 - 1931

Gladys Pomeroy Anderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-004
Scope and Contents The Gladys Pomeroy Anderson collection documents Anderson's curatorship of the Lichen collection of the Sullivant Moss Society. It includes papers of Dr. C.C. Plitt and E.B. Chamberlain. Also documented is Anderson's botanical research and her career as an educator. The collection contains correspondence, notes, lists, index cards, lantern slides, and photographs. There is one tintype. The photographs appear to be divided between family photographs and photographs of sites and specimens. One...
Dates: circa 1860-1992; Majority of material found within 1934-1938

Igor Nicholas Asheshov records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-05-03
Scope and Contents

The Igor Nicholas Asheshov collection consists of correspondence, research and laboratory records, typescripts, photography, and progress reports of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, covering the years of his association and research with the NYBG.

Dates: 1942 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1953

William Whitman Bailey papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-005
Scope and Contents

Collection of correspondence covering the period 1876- 1904, when Bailey was teaching botany at Brown University. A bound notebook, titled A Diary of a Journey in California and Nevada covering the period 1867-1868 when W. W. Bailey was Botanist of the United States Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel has been removed from the collection and is cataloged as MSS 001.

Dates: 1865-1943; Majority of material found within 1876-1904

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World War, 1939-1945 3
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Bayard Cutting Arboretum (Long Island, N.Y.) -- History 2
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Botanical gardens -- Administration -- New York (State) -- New York 2
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Paleobotanists 2
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Women botanists 2
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New York Botanical Garden 15
Robbins, William Jacob, 1890-1978 6
Steere, William Campbell, 1907-1989 4
Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 3
Brown, Addison, 1830-1913 3
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Harding, Charles B. 3
Lorillard Snuff Mill (New York, N.Y.) 3
Maguire, Bassett, 1904-1991 3
Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956 3
Montagne, Henry de la, 1888-1982 3
Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 3
New York (N.Y.). Department of Parks and Recreation 3
New York Botanical Garden. Charles B. Harding Laboratory 3
New York Botanical Garden. Library 3
Sullivant Moss Society 3
Allen, Caroline Kathryn, 1904-1975 2
Becker, Herman F. (Herman Frederick), 1907-1985 2
Columbia University 2
Durand, Elias, 1794-1873 2
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 2
Hollick, Charles Arthur, 1857-1933 2
MacDougal, Daniel Trembly, 1865-1958 2
Rose, J. N. (Joseph Nelson), 1862-1928 2
Saffel, Mildred 2
Allen, Timothy Field, 1837-1902 1
American Fern Society 1
American Horticultural Council. Commission on Nomenclature and Registration 1
American Institute of Biological Sciences 1
American Iris Society 1
American Society of Plant Taxonomists 1
Anchel, Marjorie 1
Anderson, A. P. (Alexander Pierce) 1
Anderson, Gladys P. (Gladys Pomeroy), 1888- 1
Andrews, Albert Le Roy, 1878-1964 1
Asheshov, Igor Nicholas, 1891- 1
Bailey, Jacob Whitman, 1811-1857 1
Bailey, William Whitman, 1843-1914 1
Baldwin, William, 1779-1819 1
Barksdale, Alma Whiffen, 1916-1981 1
Barneby, Rupert C. 1
Beals, A. Tennyson (1870-1955) 1
Bechtel, Edwin DeTurck, 1880-1957 1
Bechtel, Louise Seaman, 1894-1985 1
Best, G. N. (George Newton), 1846-1926 1
Bigelow, Howard E. (Howard Elson), 1923-1987 1
Blake, S. F. (Sidney Fay), 1892-1959 1
Borin, John G., 1905-1993 1
Brewer, William Henry, 1828-1910 1
Brinley, John R. (John Rowlett), 1861-1946 1
Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude, 1858-1934 1
Bu'Lock, J. D. (John Desmond) 1
Buckley, S. B. (Samuel Botsford), 1809-1884 1
Burrage, Albert C. (Albert Cameron), 1859-1931 1
Burt, E. A. (Edward Angus), 1859-1939 1
Cardot, Jules, 1860-1934 1
Cary Arboretum 1
Chamberlain, Edward B. (Edward Blanchard), 1878-1925 1
Clarke, Gilmore D., 1892-1982 1
Clokey, Ira W. (Ira Waddell), 1878-1950 1
Cutting, Olivia Murray, 1855-1949 1
Cutting, William Bayard, 1850-1912 1
Darlington, William, 1782-1863 1
Davis, P. H. (Peter Hadland) 1
Dewey, Chester, 1784-1867 1
Dodge, W. E. (William Earl), 1832-1903 1
Eastwood, Alice, 1859-1953 1
Eaton, Amos, 1776-1842 1
Emory, William H. (William Hemsley), 1811-1887 1
Engelmann, George, 1809-1884 1
Evans, Alexander W. (Alexander William), 1868-1959 1
Everett, Harry H. (Harry Harding), 1875-1949 1
Fawcett, William, 1851-1926 1
Feely, Muriel Bolte, 1920-2011 1
Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 1
Gleason, Henry A. (Henry Allan), 1882-1975 1
Greene, B. D. (Benjamin Daniel), 1793-1862 1
Greville, Robert Kaye, 1794-1866 1
Grimes, James W., 1953- 1
Harper, J. Henry, Mrs. 1
Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 1
Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 1
Holton, Isaac F. (Isaac Farwell) 1
Holzinger, J. M. (John Michael), 1853-1929 1
Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865 1
Horticultural Society of New York 1
Howe, Marshall A. (Marshall Avery), 1867-1936 1
Howell, John Thomas, 1903-1994 1
Hunt, Rachel McMasters Miller, 1882-1963 1
Irwin, Howard S. 1
Isely, Duane, 1918-2000 1
James, Olivia Bayard, 1892-1963 1
Joyal, Elaine 1
Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 1
Kearney, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1874-1956 1
Knieskern, Peter D., 1798-1871 1
Lee, Frederic S. (Frederic Schiller), 1859-1939 1
Leiberg, John B. (John Bernhard), 1853-1913 1
Lellinger, David B. 1
Lewis, Clarence McK. (Clarence McKenzie), 1876-1959 1
Lewis, G. P. 1
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