Society for Economic Botany Records


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Collectors: Society for Economic Botany
Title: Society for Economic Botany Records
Dates: 1950-2017
Quantity: 15 linear feet, 5 linear inches (13 boxes)
Call Phrase: SEB (RA)

Historical Note

The Society for Economic Botany (SEB) is a professional association of botanists, anthropologists, pharmacologists, and others interested in the scientific study of useful plants. Although the core group of founding members began meeting to share information and discuss issues pertinent to the still-developing field of economic botany in 1950, the SEB was not formally established and incorporated until 1959. The society seeks to develop and promote interdisciplinary channels of communication among individuals and groups concerned with past, present, and future uses of plants and their benefits for humanity. The organization publishes Economic Botany, a quarterly journal containing book reviews and annotated lists of collections and titles of publications related to the study of economic botany, and Plants and People, the semiannual newsletter.

Scope and Content

The Society for Economic Botany Records document the organizational history and activities of the leading American botanical association dedicated to the study of the uses of plants and plant products for humanity's benefit. These records encompass the period from the first informal meetings and discussions of founding scientists in 1950 up through the present. These records consist of annual meeting records and programs, council and other meeting minutes, correspondence of officers, membership lists, financial statements and reports, awards, publications, photographs, video and multimedia. The Society for Economic Botany Records is divided into 12 series. The bulk of the records are devoted to annual meetings and general correspondence, along with Economic Botany files, membership lists, financial statements.

Arrangement
The collection is organized into twelve series:
Series 1: Organization, 1959-2011. 6 lin. in., arranged alphabetically and then chronologically
Series 2: Membership, 1959-2007. 8 lin. in., arranged chronologically, then alphabetically
Series 3: Officers and committees, 1960-2007. 11 lin. in., arranged alphabetically, then chronologically
Series 4: Finances, 1973-2013. 5 lin. in., arranged alphabetically, then chronologically
Series 5: Economic Botany, 1959-2013. 10 lin. in., arranged alphabetically, then chronologically
Series 6: Plants and People, 1986-2014 (incomplete). 7 lin. in., arranged alphabetically, then chronologically
Series 7: Annual meetings, 1958-2017. 4 lin. ft., 5 lin. in., arranged chronologically, then alphabetically
Series 8: Correspondence, 1954-1998. 4 lin. ft., 1 lin. in., arranged chronologically
Series 9: Awards, 1969-2014. 4 lin. in., arranged alphabetically, then chronologically
Series 10: Scientific organizations, 1993-2013. 5 lin. in., arranged alphabetically
Series 11: Subject files, 1976-1994. 1 lin. in., arranged alphabetically
Series 12: Audiovisual, 1958-2017. 6 lin.in arranged by medium, then chronologically

Restrictions

Access restrictions

Restricted to SEB members only. Access to non-members with written permission from SEB president's Office.

Copyright

Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be submitted in writing to the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden.

Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Botany, Economic.
Botany--Societies, etc.
New York Botanical Garden Archives.
Organizations
Society for Economic Botany (U.S.)

Related Material

New York Botanical Garden

RG18--Records of the Institute for Economic Botany

PP--Llewelyn Williams Papers

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

SEB (RA), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden.

Acquisition Information

The records of the Society for Economic Botany (SEB) were transferred to the New York Botanical Garden Library (Archives) as its official archival repository. A signed agreement establishing the Garden as the official repository for the archives in the SEB files and well as in the files of the NYBG archivist. These records were transferred in several intervals, from 1982 to 2002. Records continue to add as they are received. Access is restricted to SEB members.

Processing Information

Processed by Sarah Dutton, archives volunteer, 2018; Natalie Brody, archives volunteer, June 2003. Converted to EAD in April 2018 by Lisa Studier.

Container List

 

Series 1. Organization.

Scope and Content:

Documents pertaining to the organization of the Society for Economic Botany. Includes versions of the constitution, bylaws, articles of incorporation, tax documents, information about international chapters, a documentation manual, and a scroll of papers mapping out mentor relationships. Also includes documents related to the archives agreement with NYBG.

Box Title Date
1 Archives agreement and correspondence (original signed document)
1 Articles of incorporation, tax-exempt status 1982
1 Articles of incorporation 2005-2006
1 Background and brochures
1 Bylaw amendments 2011
1 Bylaws, committees 1991
1 Bylaws 1992
1 Constitution 1959
1 Constitution 1960
1 Constitution 1964
1 Constitution and bylaws, correspondence 1972-1975
1 Constitution and bylaws (2 folders) 1974-1976
1 Constitution and bylaws 1977-1978
1 Constitution and bylaws 1981-1982
1 Constitution revised 1961
1 Constitution revisions 1974
1 Documentation Manual
1 International chapters
1 IRS statement
1 Scrolled papers mapping out mentor relationships
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Series 2. Membership.

Scope and Content:

Membership lists, statistics and pertinent correspondence.
Box Title Date
1 1959 members and correspondence
1 1963 list
1 1964 list
1 1965 list
1 1966 list
1 1967 list and correspondence
1 1968 list
1 Forms, 1969-1970 (3 folders)
1 1970
1 1971
1 1972
1 1973 (2 folders)
1 1973-1976
1 1974
1 1974-1976
1 1975
1 1977-1978 (2 folders)
1 1978 list and correspondence
1 Membership emeritus, 1978
1 1978-1979
1 1979
1 1980
1 1981 correspondence
1 1983
1 1984 correspondence
1 1984-1985
1 Membership committee correspondence, 1986-1987
1 1986-1989
1 1987
1 Membership directory, 1987
1 1989 list
1 1992
1 Membership statistics, 1995
1 Membership, 1997
1 Membership directory, 2001
1 2003-2004 correspondence
1 2004-2005 membership rates
1 Membership statistics, 2006
1 Membership directory, 2007
1 Membership statistics, 2007
1 New members welcome letter
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Series 3. Officers and committees.

Scope and Content:

Officer lists, correspondence, committees, and elections. Also includes materials relevant to specific officers and committees, such as documents for the next president, a protocol notebook, and lists of the duties of certain committees and officers.

Box Title Date
1 Committee appointments 1987-1988
1 Committee appointments 1989
1 Committees list 1991-1992
1 Correspondence 1961-1983
1 Correspondence 1972-1978
2 Correspondence 1988-1990
2 Documents for the next president
2 Duties of officers
2 Duties of publicity committee
2 Duties of the Secretary 1981
2 Election process
2 Elections 1960
2 Elections 1974
2 Elections 1979
2 Elections 1980
2 Elections 1982
2 Elections 1983
2 Elections 1984
2 Elections 1985
2 Elections 1986
2 Elections 1987
2 Elections 1989
2 Elections 1991-1992
2 Elections 1996
2 Elections 2003
2 Elections 2004
2 Elections 2005
2 Ethics committee guidelines
2 Ethics committee 1992-1994
2 History of officers 1959-1988
2 Lists 1960-1988
2 Lists 1960-1991
2 Lists (scattered) 1973-1986
2 Lists 1990-2000
2 Nominating committee correspondence 1977
2 Nominating committee correspondence 1987
2 Nominating committee 1986-1988
2 Nominations and awards committee report 2013
2 Nominations 1966
2 Nominations 1971
2 Nominations 1978
2 Nominations 1979
2 Nominations 1980
2 Nominations 1984-1985, 1994
2 Officers and committee members list 1977-1978
2 Officers and committee members list 1978-1979
2 Officers and committee members list 1979-1980
2 Officers and committee members list 1980-1981
2 Officers and committee members list 1981-1982
2 Officers and committee members list 1983-1984
2 Officers and committee members list 1984
2 Officers and committee members list 1986-1987
2 Officers and committee members list 1989-1990
2 Officers and committee members list 1990-1991
2 Officers and committee members list 1991-1992
2 Officers 1979
2 Patrons committee 1977-1978
2 President's Report 1991
2 Protocol committee annual reports 1989-1999
2 Protocol committee correspondence 1988
2 Protocol notebook 1993
2 Publicity committee 1975
2 Publicity committee 1977-1978
2 Secretary's Report 2006-2007
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Series 4. Finances.

Scope and Content:

Includes budgets, correspondence and reports, as well as documents pertaining to taxes, the costs of mailing in bulk, grant funding, applying for credit, and communications with Allen Press.

Box Title Date
2 Allen Press
2 Annual dues 1977
2 Application for credit
2 Budget 1997-2004
2 Budget 2003-2005
2 Budget 2004-2006
2 Correspondence 1973-1976
2 Correspondence 1978
2 Correspondence 1987-1988
2 Correspondence 1988-1991
2 Correspondence 1996
2 Correspondence 2002-2003
2 Correspondence 2005
2 Correspondence 2006
2 Correspondence 2013
2 Expenses 1983-1984
2 Grant funding 2007
2 Letters of Intent 2006-2007
2 Mailing in bulk
2 Net assets 1990-2007
2 Reports 1959-1966, 1968
2 Reports 1971-1973
2 Reports, Treasurer 1977-1978
2 Reports 1979
2 Reports 1979-1997
2 Reports 1980
2 Reports 1981
2 Reports 1982
2 Reports 1983
2 Reports 1984
2 Reports 1985
2 Reports 1989
2 Reports 1991-1994, 2000-2002
2 Reports 1992-1993
2 Reports 1994-1995
2 Reports 1996-1997
2 Second quarter report 2007
2 Tax audit 1999
2 Treasurer's report to the council 2013
2 Treasury problems 1986-1987
2 U.K. chapter report 1996-1997
2 WCMA II account
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Series 5. Economic Botany.

Scope and Content:

Reports, correspondence and finances for the journal Economic Botany, published by SEB since 1959.

Box Title Date
3 Ballot 1980-1981
3 Correspondence 1963
3 Correspondence 1971-1972
3 Correspondence 1973
3 Correspondence 1974
3 Correspondence 1975
3 Correspondence 1976
3 Correspondence (and manuscript) 1977
3 Correspondence 1978
3 Correspondence 1979
3 Correspondence 1980
3 Correspondence 1981
3 Correspondence 1982
3 Correspondence 1983
3 Correspondence 1984
3 Correspondence 1985
3 Correspondence 1986
3 Correspondence 1986-1987
3 Correspondence 1987
3 Correspondence 1988
3 Correspondence 1988-1989
3 Correspondence 1989
3 Correspondence 1990
3 Correspondence 1991
3 Correspondence 1992
3 Correspondence 1993
3 Correspondence 1994
3 Correspondence 1995
3 Correspondence 1996
3 Correspondence 1997, 1998
3 Correspondence 1999
3 Correspondence 2005-2007
3 Economic Botany section of BSA
3 Editor reports 1995
3 Editor reports 1997
3 Financial projections 2006-2010
3 Financial statements 1979-1997
3 New York Botanical Garden financial reports 2005-2006
3 Policies and procedures 1978
3 Publishing agreement with NYBG 1959
3 Publishing agreement with NYBG, reevaluation
3 Publishing Report 2008
3 Reports to the council 1999
3 Reports to the council 2004
3 Reports to the council 2013
3 Subscriber list 1986
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Series 6. Plants and People.

Scope and Content:

Copies of the SEB biannual newsletter and correspondence.
Box Title Date
4 Correspondence 1987
4 Proposals
4 U.K. chapter 1999
4 1986-1999 (incomplete)
4 1988-1999 (incomplete)
4 1988-2006 (incomplete)
4 1993-1999 (incomplete)
4 2000-2014 (incomplete)
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Series 7. Annual meetings.

Scope and Content:

This series, which documents SEB annual meetings from 1958-2017, includes agendas for the general sessions, program materials, and correspondence; agenda and minutes of the business meetings; and minutes from council and executive meetings held during the year.

Box Title Date
4 List of symposia 1965-1975
4 Symposia summaries 1972-1990
4 Call for conference papers (2 folders) 1950-1968
4 1958 New York Botanical Garden (photographs only)
4 1960 Purdue University
4 1961 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 1962 Washington, D.C.
4 1963 University of Wisconsin-Madison
4 1964 University of North Carolina
4 1965 University of Rhode Island
4 1966 University of California-Berkeley
4 1967 University of Miami
4 1968 Ohio State University
4 1969 Longwood Gardens
4 1970 Texas A&M
4 1971 Field Museum, Chicago
4 1972 University of Mississippi
4 1973 Cornell University
4 1974 Michigan State University
4 1975 University of Maryland (2 folders)
5 1976 University of Illinois (3 folders)
5 1976 University of Illinois, publicity committee
5 1977 University of Miami (2 folders)
5 1977 University of Miami, publicity committee
5 1978 Missouri Botanical Garden (3 folders)
5 1979 North Carolina State University (2 folders)
5 1980 Indiana University (2 folders)
5 1981 Boston University (2 folders)
5 Annual council meeting 1981
5 Annual business meeting 1981
5 1982 University of Alabama
5 1983 Miami University
5 Annual council meeting 1983
5 1984 Texas A&M
6 1985 University of Florida (2 folders)
6 1986 New York Botanical Garden (2 folders)
6 1987 University of Illinois-Chicago (2 folders)
6 Annual council/business meeting 1987
6 1988 University of California-Davis (2 folders)
6 1989 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
6 1990 University of Wisconsin-Madison (2 folders)
6 Annual council/business meeting 1990
6 1991 Rancho Santa Ana, Claremont, CA (2 folders)
6 Annual council/business meeting 1991
6 1992 Honolulu
6 Annual council meeting 1992
6 1992 Honolulu, publicity committee
6 1993 Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami
6 Annual council meeting 1993
6 1994 Mexico City
6 Annual council meeting, 1994
7 1995 Cornell University
7 Annual council meeting 1995
7 1996 London
7 1997 St. Louis
7 Annual general meeting UK chapter 1997
7 1998 Aarhus, Denmark
7 Annual council meeting 1998
7 Annual council meeting 1999
7 2000 University of South Carolina
7 2000 University of South Carolina, advertisements
7 Annual council/business meeting 2000
7 2001 Honolulu
7 2001 Honolulu, advertisements
7 Annual council/business meeting 2001
7 2002 New York Botanical Garden
7 Annual council meeting 2002
7 2003 Tucson, Arizona
7 Annual council/business meeting 2003
7 Annual council/business meeting 2005
7 2006 Chiang Mai, Thailand
7 Annual business meeting 2006
7 2007 Chicago, Illinois
7 Annual business meeting 2007
7 Annual council meeting 2007
7 Mid-year council meeting 2007
7 2008 Durham, North Carolina
7 Annual business meeting 2008
7 2009 Charleston, South Carolina
7 Annual council meeting 2009
7 2010 Veracruz, Mexico
7 Annual council meeting 2010
7 Annual council meeting 2011
7 2012 Frostburg State University
7 Annual council meeting 2012
7 2013 Plymouth, England
7 Annual council meeting 2013
7 2014 Cherokee, North Carolina
7 2015 Clanwilliam, South Africa
7 2016 Harlan County, Kentucky
7 2017 Braganca, Portugal
7 Personnel for annual meetings
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Series 8. Correspondence.

Scope and Content:

General correspondence for the society.
Box Title Date
8 1954-1973 (35 folders)
9 1973-1979 (29 folders)
10 1980-1993 (35 folders)
11 1994-2004 (16 folders)
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Series 9. Awards.

Scope and Content:

Materials relating to awards given by the SEB, including those for distinguished economist, Fulling, Schultes and Browning.
Box Title Date
11 Crop Champion award
11 Distinguished Economic Botanist 1977-1979
11 Distinguished Economic Botanist 1984
11 Distinguished Economic Botanist 1985
11 Distinguished Economic Botanist 1986-1990
11 Distinguished Economic Botanist 1988
11 Distinguished Economic Botanist 1992
11 Distinguished Economic Botanist 1993-1994
11 Distinguished Economic Botanist 2004
11 Distinguished Economic Botanist 2013
11 Distinguished Economic Botanist 2014
11 Distinguished Economic Botanist selection
11 Edmund H. Fulling Award
11 Edward W. Browning Award
11 Mary W. Klinger Book Award 2012-2013
11 Miscellaneous
11 Past Economic Botany Presidents Awards 1970
11 Protocol committee awards
11 Richard Evans Schultes Award 1977-1978
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Series 10. Scientific organizations.

Scope and Content:

Organizations with relations with the SEB.
Box Title Date
12 American Association for the Advancement of Science (5 folders)
12 American Association for the Advancement of Science 1993
12 American Association for the Advancement of Science, correspondence 2003
12 American Association for the Advancement of Science 2013
12 American Institute of Biological Sciences
12 American Society of Agronomy
12 Assembly of Life Sciences
12 Association of Engineering Geologists
12 Botanical Society of America
12 Hawaiian Botanical Garden
12 National Academy of Sciences
12 New York Botanical Garden, archives
12 New York Botanical Garden Mycologia contract 1999
12 State University College biology department
12 UNESCO
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Series 11. Subject files.

Scope and Content:

Contains information pertaining to careers in economic botany, the U. K. chapter, and miscellaneous documents.
Box Title Date
12 Careers in economic botany
12 Miscellaneous
12 U. K. chapter 1993-1994
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Series 12. Audiovisual.

Scope and Content:

These materials include photographs, videotapes, flash drives, CDs, and floppy disks.
Box Title Date
12 Photographs 1958-1997
13 Videotapes--Annual meeting Mexico City (2 copies) 1994
13 Videotapes--Annual meeting Cornell U. 1995
13 Videotapes--Annual meeting, London, England 1996
13 Videotapes--Annual meeting, St. Louis 1997
13 Videotapes 2000
13 Videotapes--Annual meeting, Hawaii 2001
13 Videotapes--Annual meeting, New York 2002
13 CD--annual meetings 2002-2004
13 Floppy disks--annual meeting 2001
13 Flash drive--annual meeting 2017
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