New York Botanical Garden--History--Sources.
Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Marshall Avery Howe records
Collection
Identifier: RG-04-15
Scope and Contents
The Marshall Avery Howe Records documents career with the New York Botanical Garden, especially his research on Algae, Hepatics and the cultivation of Dahlias. It contains correspondence, research notes and administrative memoranda and specimen identifications, exchanges and loans, photographic prints and lantern slides. The collection is arranged into three series.
Bracketed numbers indicate unofficial Box and Folder numbers.
Dates:
1890-1936; Majority of material found within 1901-1934
Howard S. Irwin records
Collection
Identifier: RG-04-16
Scope and Contents
The Howard S. Irwin Records cover the entire period of his employment at the NYBG. There are also papers from the late 1950’s concerning the NYBG Brazilian expedition specimens, from which he helped to identify while in graduate school as well as a file called parting thoughts written to Board member Thomas Hubbard, which Dr. Irwin wished to have included with this collection. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence. Included herein are also maps, manuscripts, field notebooks,...
Dates:
1944-1980; Majority of material found within 1957-1979