Fungi -- North America -- Classification.

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.

The Fred Jay Seaver Collection consists of correspondence, research and personal papers, manuscripts and typescripts, artwork, exhibit material, and photographic material including prints, negatives, lantern slides, and Kodachrome slides. It covers the entirety of his mycological career at the NYBG (1908-1948) as curator and editor of Mycologia.