Fungi -- North America

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The Franklin Sumner Earle records consist of correspondence during the period of his work at the NYBG and immediately after (1901-1907). Watercolor illustrations of Caribbean fungi composed by Esther J. Skehan Earle (F. S. Earle’s wife) are part of the William A. Murrill collection (Series 6: Artwork) and are housed in the NYBG Art & Illustration collection. Field notebooks are located in the Collectors’ Field Notebook collection.

Scope and Contents The Job Bicknell Ellis collection consists of correspondence, research papers, catalogues, a hand-sewn pouch of loose notes, and artwork which includes two volumes of watercolor illustrations as well as pen and ink and pencil sketches entitled Figures of North American Fungi, in slip-cased covers. Most of the material relates to the later part of his career (from c. 1880) of collecting and identifying fungi, with representative correspondence from a broad range of mycologists and botanists...

Scope and Contents The Lewis David von Schweinitz collection consists of manuscripts of synoptic lists, catalogues, journal records, and indices of flowering plants, mosses, ferns, fungi, and lichens from 1800 to 1833 with emphasis the years Schweinitz lived in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (after 1821). The records also include information on the collections and herbaria of plant collectors other than Schweinitz. There is one item of correspondence. There is also a (test) microfilm record of part of the contents of...