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United States National Museum. Division of Plants
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1899-1947
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15.12 cu. ft. (14 document boxes) (14 tall document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 223
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records, for the most part, document the history of the collection of the United States National Herbarium (USNH), United States National Museum, Division of Plants, while William Ralph Maxon was aid, assistant curator, associate curator, and curator of the USNH, Division of Plants (1899-1946). This material includes loose incoming ...
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United States National Museum. Division of Plants
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1889-1896, 1902
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 236
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of incoming correspondence to Ellen W. Cathcart, scientific assistant in the Division of Botany, United States Department of Agriculture, and concern the identification, determination, and exchange of cryptogams. Some of the correspondence was addressed to Frederick Vernon Coville, Curator of the United States National ...
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United States National Museum. Division of Plants
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1870-1893
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11 cu. ft. (21 document boxes) (25 microfilm reels)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 220
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Most of these records are the official files of George Vasey as botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture and curator of the United States National Herbarium from 1872 to 1893. They include incoming and occasional outgoing correspondence, mostly to Vasey, but sometimes to Jeremiah M. Rusk, secretary of Agriculture; Edwin Willits,...
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Website Records
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National Museum of Natural History
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2015-2016
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-191
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the "National Ethnobotanical Herbarium Online" website as it existed on March 7, 2016. The pilot website, launched in 2015 as a joint project of the Department of Botany and the Department of Anthropology, allows researchers to find botanical, cultural, and linguistic data for plants contained in the United States ...
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United States National Museum. Division of Plants
- Dates:
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1902-1922
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 224
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Material contains official outgoing letterpress correspondence from Paul Carpenter Standley, United States National Museum, Division of Plants, 1902-1922, regarding identification, examination, and reports of specimens sent to the Division; exchange and purchase of national collections; explorations and collecting expeditions; botanical s...
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United States National Museum. Division of Plants
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1886-1928 and undated
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22.74 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (40 document boxes) (3 tall document boxes) (1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 221
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers include official records that document the history of the USNH while Joseph Nelson Rose was assistant botanist at the United States Department of Agriculture (1888-1896), assistant and associate curator, USNH, United States National Museum (1896-1911), and the Division of Plants, USNM (1917-1928); also personal and official papers...
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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circa 1979-1987
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 93-048
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the role of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in the Paraguayan Biological Inventory Project. The goal of the project was the collection of basic information on the identification, distribution, natural history, and current status of the flora and fauna of Paraguay, which included the establishment ...
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National Museum of Natural History. Department of Botany
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1998-2010
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 11-134
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession includes a reference set of "The Plant Press" (New Series: Volumes 1-13), a quarterly newsletter issued by the Department of Botany and the United States National Herbarium. The newsletter includes articles about staff research and travel, visitors, new publications, and plant conservation.
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National Museum of Natural History. Department of Botany
- Dates:
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2011-2015
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-101
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of a reference set of "The Plant Press" (New Series: Volumes 14-18), a quarterly newsletter issued by the Department of Botany and the United States National Herbarium. The newsletter includes articles about staff research and travel, visitors, new publications, and plant conservation. Materials include serial publicati...
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Smithsonian Institution
- Dates:
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1847-1942
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58 cu. ft. (30 record storage boxes) (24 document boxes) (6 non- standard oversize boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 93
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records include ledgers, account books, bills, daybooks, journals, receipted vouchers, records of payment, requisitions, cash books, and other fiscal records documenting the Smithsonian's congressional appropriations. These records deal with the financial affairs of the following Smithsonian bureaus: United States National Museum, A...