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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession 09-287

National Museum of Natural History. Department of Botany

Departmental Records, 1918-1998

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:National Museum of Natural History. Department of Botany
Title:Departmental Records
Dates:1918-1998
Quantity:1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
Collection:Accession 09-287
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

These records document the activities of the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany. Materials include correspondence, clippings, research notes, photographs, obituaries, and one 35mm film. Most of the records were created or maintained by Francis Raymond Fosberg and Richard H. Eyde. Materials predating 1947 document the activities of the United States National Museum, Division of Plants.

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These records document the activities of the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany. Materials include correspondence, clippings, research notes, photographs, obituaries, and one 35mm film. Most of the records were created or maintained by Francis Raymond Fosberg and Richard H. Eyde. Materials predating 1947 document the activities of the United States National Museum, Division of Plants.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 09-287, National Museum of Natural History. Department of Botany, Departmental Records

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Container List

Box 1

Honorary Doctorate of Jacks in the Pulpit, 1964

Box 1 of 2

Photography Lab - Office of Printing and Photographic Services (OPPS), 1990-1991

Box 1 of 2

1950 Botany Congress (Stockholm)

Box 1 of 2

Botany Department September 1965, 1965-1993

Box 1 of 2

Staff Photo, Darwin Award, Notes, and Correspondence (Fosberg), 1988-1994

Box 1 of 2

Peter Green Correspondence, 1990-1991 (Fosberg)

Box 1 of 2

Foster Text - Format, Introduction, 1992

Box 1 of 2

Negatives and Contact Prints of Forster Collection at Gottingers 1986 (Fosberg), 1986-1994

Box 1 of 2

St. Petersburg / Leningrad Film, Forster Specimens, 1998

Box 1 of 2

Salsedo, Carl (Fosberg), 1970-1990

Box 1 of 2

Browning Award Administration Photographs, 1997

Box 1 of 2

Economic Botany (Fosberg), 1983-1990

Box 1 of 2

Miscellaneous Correspondence (Fosberg and Others), 1988-1989

Box 1 of 2

Classification (Fosberg), 1973-1974

Box 1 of 2

Phanerogam (Spermatophyta) Committee (Fosberg), 1960-1969

Box 1 of 2

Correspondence (Nicolson) and Eyde Paper, 1990

Box 1 of 2

3409D Marsha Cox

Box 1 of 2

E. Yale Dawson (1918-1966)

Box 1 of 2

Botany Move 1965 Castle to Natural History

Box 1 of 2

S. Dillon Ripley, March 1980

Box 1 of 2

1977 Botany Compression Publicity

Box 1 of 2

Eyde Correspondence, Photographs, 1965-1990

Box 1 of 2

Larry Morse, Flora North America (FNA), 1968

Box 1 of 2

Eyde, 1988

Box 1 of 2

Botany Clippings, 1966-1978

Box 1 of 2

Ripley and Smithsonian Clippings (1965-1977)

Box 1 of 2

Stanwyn Shetler Photographs, 1993

Box 1 of 2

Obituary of Dr. Richard H. Eyde, 1990

Box 1 of 2

Eyde Memorial Program, 1990

Box 1 of 2

Non-Staff Botanists, 1993

Box 1 of 2

Correspondence (Eyde), 1980-1990

Box 1 of 2

Anatomy Sectioning, 1990

Box 1 of 2

1965 Botany Move Castle to Natural History

Box 1 of 2

Staff Obituaries, 1966-1967

Box 1 of 2

Miscellaneous Forster Related (Published - Needs to be checked with card file), 1965-1982

Box 1 of 2

December 12, 1990 Photo

Box 1 of 2

Department of Botany Picnic Photos (October 1973), Epithets List, and Miscellaneous, 1963- 1990

Box 1 of 2

Staff Photos, 1960s

Box 1 of 2

1965 Armando Dugand Award

Box 1 of 2

Natural History Clippings, 1925-1971

Box 1 of 2

Hymenophyllum

Box 1 of 2

Forster Ferns Tentatively Finished (Fosberg), 1988

Box 1 of 2

Need References, Etc., 1993

Box 1 of 2

Selagracae

Box 1 of 2

Schuyaea

Box 1 of 2

Schizaea

Box 1 of 2

Marathraceae

Box 1 of 2

Cyatheaceae

Box 1 of 2

Dichromeneae (?)

Box 1 of 2

Fosberg Ferns, 1993

Box 1 of 2

Forster Items - Gymnosperms

Box 1 of 2

Fosberg Notes, Forster Preliminary Paper, 1986-1988

Box 1 of 2

In the rain at Mount Kinabalu Photo, 1991-1993

Box 1 of 2

Forster Paper - Allertonia, 1992

Box 1 of 2

Forster Collection Items - Liverpool

Box 1 of 2

Forster Introduction

Box 1 of 2

Lycopodium, 1993

Box 1 of 2

Pteridophyta

Box 1 of 2

Glichenia

Box 1 of 2

Need more work, 1993

Box 1 of 2

Forster Notes

Box 1 of 2

Forster Comments and Correspondence, 1989-1992

Box 1 of 2

Forster Notes and Correspondence, 1987

Box 1 of 2

Early Pacific Exploration, Including Cook Flandars, Etc., 1978

Box 1 of 2

Miscellaneous, 1962

Box 1 of 2

Forster List by M.H.S with Annotations by her and Z.G.Z.

Box 1 of 2

Herbaria and Acknowledgements for Forster

Box 1 of 2

Forster Min, 1963

Box 1 of 2

Miscellaneous, 1993-1996

Box 1 of 2

Forster Gamopeteae Text

Box 1 of 2

Forster Related Correspondence, 1986-1991

Box 1 of 2

Forster Monocot Text Data

Box 1 of 2

Poaceae

Box 1 of 2

Forster Apetalae Text Data

Box 1 of 2

Forster Polypetalae Text Data

Box 1 of 2

Box 2

Film Canister from folder "St. Petersburg / Leningrad Film, Forster Specimens 1998" in box 1.

Box 2 of 2

Photograph Identifications of Group Pictures

Box 2 of 2

Plantis Esculentis by Forster and Bibliographic Notes

Box 2 of 2