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New York Botanical Garden Archives.

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

Gustav L. Wittrock records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-04-34
Scope and Contents

The collection documents Wittrock’s research on the food, dye and medicinal plants of the American Indian. The collection contains correspondence, and research and lecture notes. The collection is arranged in two series.

Dates: 1937-1945

Richard D. Wood papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-071
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the collection is devoted to data related to Wood’s exhaustive Characeae research. One of three typescripts of the Index Nominarum Characearum: An Index to All Known Published Names of Extant Members of the Characeae (1953), the Monograph of the Characeae (1965) and Kozo Imahori’s drawings are included in the collection.

Dates: 1946-1976

Truman G. Yuncker papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-072
Scope and Contents The Truman G. Yuncker Papers (1919-1989) documents Dr. Yuncker's taxonomic studies on Cuscuta and Piperaceae, especially his work on William Trelease's Piperaceae of Northern South America and his life as an educator at DePauw University. One series contains materials from Brittonia 41(3), 1989, a volume dedicated to him as a festschrift. Material from many locations was photocopied for this volume and remains here with the papers. The Ethel Burnett Claflin Yuncker Papers, photocopies of a...
Dates: 1914-1989; Majority of material found within 1919-1964