Torrey Botanical Club -- History -- Sources.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of one item. This is a manuscript list of plants in Clarke's herbarium, which are not included in Britton and Brown's Illustrated Flora.

Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection is visual materials. These are in the forms of photographs, clippings of photographic plates and lithographic prints of figures from published works, and mono prints taken from leaves of contemporary trees and grasses. Other materials are correspondence, reprints, manuscripts, and index cards. The bulk of the materials concerns Dr. Hollick’s paleobotanic investigations and documentation of new species. Material in the Staten Island series relates to Dr. Hollick’s...

Scope and Contents

Collection consist primarily of correspondence with colleagues during his tenure as Editor of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. Prominent correspondents include Asa Gray, George Clinton, William Denslow, George Thurber, and John Williamson. Subjects include the exchange and determination of specimens, the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, and the death of John Torrey. Research notes on Lechea, Compositae, and plants growing in New York.