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United States National Museum. Division of Cryptogams
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1946-1951
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 228
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence (1946-1951) that documents, in part, the history of the United States National Museum, Department of Botany, Division of Cryptogams, while George Albert Llano was an associate curator with the Division (1948-1951), as well as Llano's scientific activities and personal matters. Materi...
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1936-1965
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6.78 cu. ft. (13 document boxes) (14 microfilm reels)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 227
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Records include some correspondence belonging to Mary Agnes Chase, which was forwarded to Swallen; Ernest R. Sohn, associate curator of Botany, 1956; and Thomas R. Soderstrom, curator of Grasses, 1964-1965. Correspondents include U.S. and foreign botanists; agricultural experiment stations; field botanists; state geological surveys; fores...
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circa 1897, 1937-1964
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0.93 cu. ft. (1 document box) (1 12x17 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession T89024
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession contains information on Egbert H. Walker's Sumatran plants; Harley Harris Bartlett's Sumatran plants; Augustine Henry's Chinese plants; F.C. Straub's drawings of Liberian plants; and miscellaneous lists of plants.
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1918-1949
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5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 226
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the history of the United States National Museum, Division of Plants (1919-1947) and Department of Botany (1947-1949) while Ellsworth Paine Killip was an aid, assistant curator, associate curator, and curator of the Division and the Department, as well as personal correspondence between Killip and his colleagues document...
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Walker, Egbert H. (Egbert Hamilton), 1899-1991
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1938-1961
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8.08 cu. ft. (14 document boxes) (3 5x8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7270
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The papers of Egbert Hamilton Walker were transferred to the Smithsonian Archives from the Hunt Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1977. Subsequently, two additional transfers of papers were gifted by Egbert Walker in 1978 and 1979. In 1995, Walker's autobiographical notes were transferred from the Department of Botany, National Museum ...
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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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United States National Museum. Department of Zoology
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1901-1954
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1.5 cu. ft. (3 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 143
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The correspondence in this record unit contains only a portion of the correspondence of the two Departments. Other material relating to the Department of Biology can be found in the Frederick William True Papers, record unit 7181, and the Leonhard Stejneger Papers, record unit 7074.
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National Museum of Natural History. Department of Botany
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circa 1947-1990, with related records from 1926
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14 cu. ft. (14 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 428
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records primarily document the operation of the Department of Botany under Head Curators Ellsworth Paine Killip, 1947-1950, and Jason Richard Swallen, 1950-1964, and Chairmen William L. Stern, 1965-1967, Mason E. Hale, Jr., 1967-1970, Edward S. Ayensu, Dieter C. Wasshausen, Mark M. Littler, and Laurence E. Skog. Records created prior ...
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United States National Museum. Department of Zoology
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1943-1958
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9 cu. ft. (18 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 243
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists of records of the Department of Zoology under Head Curator Waldo LaSalle Schmitt and includes outgoing correspondence, 1946-1957; correspondence with the public, 1947-1957; and administrative records, 1943-1958. Also included are records of the Department of Biology, 1943-1947. For other records relating to the Depar...
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1894-1903
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2.08 cu. ft. (3 document boxes) (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 222
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
In 1971, the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, transferred its official records and collections of personal papers relating to the early history of the Department to the Hunt Botanical Library at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. The official correspondence files generated by Charles Louis Pollard during ...
