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1888-1936 and undated
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3 cu. ft. (6 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7272
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers of Frederick Vernon Coville were part of a group of Smithsonian Department of Botany records which were originally deposited in 1971 at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. In December 1977, the records were returned to the Smithsonian for maintenance in the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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1884, 1888, 1899-1965
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13.84 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes) (1 half document box) (13 12x17 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 229
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers document the history of the agrostology section of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture (1901-1939), and the Section of Grasses, United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1912-1963) at the time Albert Spear Hitchcock and Mary Agnes Chase worked for the USDA and the USNH, ...
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1946-1971
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2 cu. ft. (4 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7096
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection contains papers documenting the professional and personal life of Ernst, especially during his tenure at the Smithsonian Institution. Included are field notebooks, 1956-1961 and 1964-1966, documenting his collecting activities in California, Baja California, Dominica, Mexico, and his researches in Europe in 1964; correspondence...
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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
- Repository:
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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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1949-1961
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5 cu. ft. (10 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7285
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist primarily of correspondence, 1949-1961, which documents Wilson's activities in the IWCS, the growth of his collection, and his range of contacts with botanists, foresters, and other wood collectors around the world. Topics include collecting trips, specimens, and identifications, as well as IWCS business. Of special i...
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Kirkbride, Joseph H.
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1967-1968, 1972, 1976-1986, 1989-2015, undated
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-239
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of field notes and diaries of Joseph H. Kirkbride, botanist. Kirkbride was an Associate Curator in the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, 1976-1979, but spent the majority of his career with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Following his reti...
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1895-1914
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7278
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist of correspondence from colleagues and friends concerning the importation of cultivated plants to use for forage in the United States, botanizing in Alabama, receiving publications, and personal matters.
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2011
- Collection ID:
- Accession 11-234
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the Department of Botany website as it existed on July 11, 2011. The website includes information on research projects, collections, staff, and awards presented by the department; bibliographies and online versions of staff publications; botanical photographs and illustrations; the monthly "Biological Conservation ...
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Nicolson, Dan H. (Dan Henry), 1933-2016
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1959-1991, with some materials dating 2016
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6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 92-067
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists primarily of the professional correspondence of Dan H. Nicolson, botanist, U.S. National Herbarium, National Museum of Natural History. Materials also include picture postcards, serials, black-and-white photographs, and brochures.
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Schmitt, Waldo L. (Waldo Lasalle), 1887-1977
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circa 1873-1963
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2.69 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 16x20 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession T90099
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Waldo L. Schmitt's career as a botanist, but chiefly as an invertebrate zoologist, began in 1907 at the U. S. Department of Agriculture. He then worked at the United States National Museum (USNM), 1910-1957.Over the course of his career Schmitt came into the possession of correspondence, research notes, and papers of other naturalists who...
