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William Codman Sturgis papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-058
Scope and Contents

The collection documents the myomycete collections and professional correspondence of William Codman Sturgis. It contains notebooks, watercolors and correspondence. The collection is arranged into two series.

Dates: 1896-1934; bulk 1904-1934

Norman Taylor papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-059
Scope and Contents The collection documents the professional career of Norman Taylor including his work as a horticulturalist, botanical explorer and author. Taylor traveled extensively and luxuriously. A significant amount of material has informational value related to his lifestyle. Other information contained in the collection concerns the workings of private, professional clubs--The Century Club, The Explorers Club and the Cosmos Club. It contains correspondence, manuscripts, bound volumes, journals,...
Dates: 1631; 1890-1969 ; Majority of material found within 1926-1967

Charles Thom papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-060
Scope and Contents The Charles Thom collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, research notes, an index card file of mycological literature, photographs, negatives, drawings, and personal papers. It covers his USDA career with the Bureau of Chemistry from 1913 to his retirement in 1942 and post-retirement years to 1953. The bulk of his correspondence falls during the period he was Head of the Division of Soil Microbiology from 1928 with a wide range of mycologists and microbiologists in academia,...
Dates: 1913-1955; Majority of material found within 1928-1953

Torrey Botanical Society records

 Collection
Identifier: RA-007
Abstract

Formats in the collection include copies of club publications, correspondence, ledgers, software, photographs, film, glass plate slides, and copper printing plates.

Dates: 1844-2013; Majority of material found within 1900-1999

John Torrey papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-061
Scope and Contents The collection largely consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence pertaining mostly to Torrey's work as a botanist and professor. Much of the scientific correspondence is in regard to identification of plants from the vast interior of the North American continent collected during government sponsored expeditions. Unrelated letters to and from other correspondents, some of which pre-date Torrey's birth, are also in the collection. It is unclear how Torrey came into possession of these...
Dates: 1768-1888; Majority of material found within 1806-1871

Carl A. Totemeier Jr. records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-07-03
Abstract

Collection consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, telephone logs, reports, budgets, memoranda, brochures, catalogs, surveys, studies, architectural renderings, meeting minutes, inventories, photographs, and newspaper clippings. All materials pertain to the administrative functions of the Department of Horticulture.

Dates: 1971-1993; Majority of material found within 1985-1991

Percy Train papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-063
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of notebooks, research papers, index cards, and photographic material pertaining to plant specimen collection for Percy Train’s ethnobotanical research on medicinal uses of plants in aboriginal cultures of Nevada.

Dates: 1926-1940; bulk 1938-1940

Lucien Marcus Underwood papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-064
Scope and Contents

The Lucien Marcus Underwood collection consists of correspondence, research papers, manuscripts, lecture notes, and artwork covering the latter part of his botanical career, including that with the NYBG. The research papers include specimen catalogues and lists, some of which relate to the Underwood collection of the NYBG herbarium. Underwood’s field notebooks are separated from the present collection and are located in the Collectors’ Field Notebook collection.

Dates: 1882-1907

Anna Murray Vail papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-065
Scope and Contents

The Anna Murray Vail Papers document the botanical career of Ms. Vail, especially as it pertained to her research in the Asclepiadaceae and Leguminosae families. The collection contains some correspondence, research papers, manuscripts and field notebooks. The papers are arranged in three series.

Dates: 1891-1899

Peter Jacobus Van Melle papers

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Identifier: PP-066
Abstract

Collection contains handwritten notes and correspondence related to a variety of horticulture issues.

Dates: 1932; 1941; undated

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Correspondence 28
Fund raising -- New York (State) -- New York 9
Photographs 8
Black-and-white photographs 7
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Annual reports 4
Botanical exploration -- Brazil 4
Manuscripts (documents) 4
Scrapbooks 4
World War, 1939-1945 4
Antibiotics -- Research. -- Research 3
Botanical gardens -- New York (State) 3
Flower shows -- New York (State) 3
Fungi -- North America 3
Horticulture -- Societies, etc. 3
Horticulture -- Study and teaching 3
Minutes (administrative records) 3
Plants -- New York (State) -- Long Island 3
Administrative reports 2
Arboretums -- New York (State) 2
Ascomycetes 2
Bayard Cutting Arboretum (Long Island, N.Y.) -- History 2
Botanical exploration -- Venezuela 2
Botanical exploration--Bolivia. 2
Botany -- New York (State) 2
Botany -- United States 2
Botany--Societies, etc. 2
Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934. Flora Borinquena. 2
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) 2
Budgets 2
Clippings 2
Forests and forestry -- South America. 2
Fungi -- Growth 2
Horticulture -- United States 2
Hypocreales. 2
Lauraceae 2
Metasequoia glyptostroboides 2
Mycologia. 2
Pacaraima (Brazil) 2
Paleobotanists 2
Pathogenic fungi 2
Personal papers 2
Plant collecting 2
Plant hormones 2
Plants -- Classification 2
Plants -- Cuba 2
Plants -- Identification 2
Plants -- Philippines 2
Plants -- Venezuela 2
Poliomyelitis -- Research 2
Psilocybe 2
Women botanists 2
Acanthaceae 1
Accessions registers 1
Achlya 1
Acrasiales 1
Acrocarpous mosses 1
Actinomycetales 1
Agaricaceae 1
Agaricaceae -- Florida 1
Agaricales 1
Agricultural inventions 1
Alaska -- Discovery and exploration -- Photographs 1
Albums (Books) 1
Algae -- Caribbean Area 1
Algae -- North America 1
Algae, Fossil 1
Algology -- North America 1
Amanita 1
Amanita muscaria -- Photographs 1
Amapa Expedition (1961). 1
Amenia (N.Y.) 1
American Horticulural Society. Lily Committee 1
American Philosophical Society -- History -- Sources. 1
Amorphophallus titanum -- Photographs -- Specimens 1
Andros Island (Bahamas) -- Maps 1
Angiospermae -- Classification 1
Angiospermae -- Evolution 1
Animal rights 1
Aquatic Plants 1
Arboretums -- New York (N.Y.) 1
Arboretums -- New York (State) -- Long Island 1
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea 1
Asclepiadaceae. 1
Aspergillus -- Cultures and culture media 1
Aspergillus -- Photographs 1
Aspergillus. 1
Astragalus 1
Audiocassettes 1
Austin, C. F. (Coe Finch), 1831-1880. Artificial key to genera of California hepaticae. 1
Austin, C. F. (Coe Finch), 1831-1880. Notes on Jungermannia crenuliformis. 1
Austin, C. F. (Coe Finch), 1831-1880. Ricciaceae of North America. 1
Bacteriologists. 1
Bacteriology -- Research 1
Bacteriophages 1
Bambusa 1
Basidiomycetes 1
Basidiomycetes -- Florida 1
Basidiomycetes--Anatomy. 1
Bibliographies 1
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Language
French 3
Spanish; Castilian 3
German 2
Dutch; Flemish 1
Portuguese 1
 
Names
New York Botanical Garden 35
Robbins, William Jacob, 1890-1978 9
Irwin, Howard S. 7
Maguire, Bassett, 1904-1991 6
Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956 6
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Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 5
Eaton, Mary E. 5
New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium 5
New York Botanical Garden. Library 5
Steere, William Campbell, 1907-1989 5
Montagne, Henry de la, 1888-1982 4
New York Botanical Garden. Charles B. Harding Laboratory 4
Prance, Ghillean T., 1937- 4
Barneby, Rupert C. 3
Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude, 1858-1934 3
Brown, Addison, 1830-1913 3
Cary Arboretum 3
Gleason, Henry A. (Henry Allan), 1882-1975 3
Harding, Charles B. 3
Hollick, Charles Arthur, 1857-1933 3
Howe, Marshall A. (Marshall Avery), 1867-1936 3
Institute of Economic Botany (New York Botanical Garden) 3
Lorillard Snuff Mill (New York, N.Y.) 3
MacDougal, Daniel Trembly, 1865-1958 3
Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 3
New York (N.Y.). Department of Parks and Recreation 3
Samuels, Gary J. 3
Seaver, Fred Jay, 1877-1970 3
Sullivant Moss Society 3
Torrey Botanical Club 3
Allen, Caroline Kathryn, 1904-1975 2
Anderson, A. P. (Alexander Pierce) 2
Becker, Herman F. (Herman Frederick), 1907-1985 2
Brown, Dennis Albert, 1926-1978 2
Clemens, Mary Strong, 1873-1968 2
Columbia University 2
Dodge, Bernard O. (Bernard Ogilvie), 1872-1960 2
Durand, Elias, 1794-1873 2
Everett, Thomas H. 2
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 2
Harper, R.A. (Robert Almer), 1862-1946 2
Holmgren, Patricia K. 2
Horne, Frances Worth, 1873-1967 2
Horticultural Society of New York 2
Hubbard, Thomas J. (Thomas Johnson), 1924-2017 2
Keck, David D. (David Daniels), 1903-1995 2
Lederberg, Joshua 2
Lees, Carlton B. 2
Lewis, Clarence McK. (Clarence McKenzie), 1876-1959 2
Lowe, Josiah L. (Josiah Lincoln), 1905- 2
Maxon, William R. (William Ralph), 1877-1948 2
Mitten, William, 1819-1906 2
Olive, Lindsay S. 2
Raper, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Bryan), 1908-, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Bryan), 1908- 2
Rose, J. N. (Joseph Nelson), 1862-1928 2
Saffel, Mildred 2
Small, John Kunkel, 1869-1938 2
Smith, Alexander Hanchett, 1904- 2
Steere, William Campbell, 1907-1989. 2
Torrey Botanical Society 2
Torrey, John, 1796-1873 2
United States. Department of Agriculture 2
Wasson, R. Gordon (Robert Gordon), 1898- 2
Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) 2
Wood, Richard Dawson, 1918- 2
Abess, Leonard, 1948- 1
Allen, Timothy Field, 1837-1902 1
American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta 1
American Fern Society 1
American Horticultural Council. Commission on Nomenclature and Registration 1
American Horticulture Society. 1
American Institute of Biological Sciences 1
American Iris Society 1
American Society of Plant Taxonomists 1
Anchel, Marjorie 1
Anderson, Edgar, 1897- 1
Anderson, Gladys P. (Gladys Pomeroy), 1888- 1
Anderson, Jean F. (Jean Ferris), 1915-2009 1
Andrews, Albert Le Roy, 1878-1964 1
Arnold Arboretum 1
Asheshov, Igor Nicholas, 1891- 1
Austin, C. F. (Coe Finch), 1831-1880. 1
Bailey, Jacob Whitman, 1811-1857 1
Bailey, William Whitman, 1843-1914 1
Baldwin, Henry DeForest, 1931-1997 1
Baldwin, William, 1779-1819 1
Barksdale, Alma Whiffen, 1916-1981 1
Barnhart, John Hendley, 1871-1949. 1
Barr, Margaret E. 1
Bartram, Edwin B. (Edwin Bunting), 1878-1964. 1
Bass, Edward P., 1945- 1
Beadle, George Wells, 1903-1989 1
Beals, A. Tennyson (1870-1955) 1
Bechtel, Edwin DeTurck, 1880-1957 1
Bechtel, Louise Seaman, 1894-1985 1
Bennett, Bradley C., 1956- 1
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 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
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