Wendell Holmes Camp Papers (PP)
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Collectors: |
Camp, W.H. (Wendell Holmes), 1904-1963. |
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Title: |
Wendell Holmes Camp Papers (PP) |
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Dates: |
1916-1978 |
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Dates: |
1932-1954 |
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Quantity: |
9.9 linear feet; 15 boxes |
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Call Phrase: |
Camp (PP) |
Wendell Holmes (Red) Camp, botanical explorer, taxonomist, nomenclature theorist, experimental botanist, educator, landscape
photographer was born Feb. 22, 1904 in Dayton, Ohio. He received his B.Sc. in geology from Otterbein College in 1925 and his
Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1932. He took his first field trip that year—following the snow melt at the timberline
in the far-western mountains from the Mexican Border into British Columbia. Along with collecting, he preserved his memories
with an extraordinary series of landscape photographs which he saved in two scrapbooks.
In 1936, following an extended collection and photography field trip through the Southern Appalachians (Virginia and Kentucky),
especially the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, he joined the staff of the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) as Assistant
Curator, a position he held until 1946, when after his war work with the Societé Haitiano Americain de Developpment Agricola
(1943) and the Mision de Cinchona in Ecuador (1944-1945), he was Associate Curator until 1949.
H. W. Rickett remembers Camp’s presence as a period of “pure intellectual ferment” that has ”been seldom equaled and never
surpassed.” While at the NYBG Camp was engaged in issues of taxonomy. His specialty was the Ericaceae, especially Vaccinium,
but Rickett states that “ he was always looking for the generalizations, the answers to the larger questions in relationship
and evolution”. During his time at NYBG Camp initiated and edited the Taxonomic Index (1939-1949) for members of the newly
formed American Society of Plant Taxonomists. His major theoretical work, “Structure and Origin of the Species”, written in
collaboration with C. L. Gilly, argued that there were many forms of species and many ways in which species developed. Eventually,
Camp would come to doubt the concept of species entirely, focusing on the unique elements of every specimen.
Camp bridged the worlds of botany and horticulture. As President of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (1949) and President
of the American Horticultural Council (1952), Camp took on the challenge of bringing horticultural nomenclature into line
with botanical nomenclature. While at NYBG he collaborated with H. W. Rickett and C. A. Weatherby to produce the “Brittonia
edition” of the International Rules which were enacted by the International Botanical Congress in Stockholm, 1950. He then
moderated the collaboration between the Stockholm Congress and the International Horticultural Congress in London, 1952 to
produce the “International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants.” His taxonomic work on the Vaccinium led him to extensive
experiments in blueberry hybridization. His taxonomic work on Fagus developed into a study on the treatment and prevention
of beech bark disease when he was at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
But it is for his field work that Camp is most renowned. Immediately upon his arrival at NYBG, Camp was sent on a collecting
expedition to Oaxaca with Thomas Baillie MacDougall (Winter 1936-1937). He took many photographs and purchased or exchanged
work with native photographers. Working with Carol Woodward, Camp secured a contract to write a popular book on his experiences
to be titled, “Winter in Oaxaca.” This was never completed. However, one of his final publications was a popular book published
by the National Geographic Society in 1957. Titled “The World in Your Garden”, it contains theories of plant migrations and
many anecdotes from his collecting expeditions.
Camp’s adventurous spirit and history joined in World War II. In 1942 he was given leave from the NYBG to work with the Societé
Haitiano Americain de Developpment Agricola , a joint venture between the U. S. and Haitian governments to produce cryptostegia
and vital drug crops for the war effort. Camp’s participation in this venture was short-lived. He resigned in a dispute over
the way land was being appropriated for the war crops.
Following this, he became an agent for the American Sponge and Chamois Company in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, charged
with purchasing loofahs which were being used by the Navy as oil filters. By 1944 the Foreign Economic Administration (F.
E. A.) had established the U. S. Commercial Co., as a purchasing agent of the U. S. Government. This agency engaged William
Steere of the NYBG to analyze Cinchona bark purchased from Ecuador for its Quinine content. Steere discovered that second
growth specimens were weaker that that of materials from forests that had never been harvested. It was determined that Camp
be engaged by the Misión de Cinchona de Ecuador in order to harvest Cinchona from the ‘cloud forests’ at higher altitudes.
After working with Steere during the Spring and Summer of 1944, Camp and his assistants Francisco Prieto, Manuel Giler and
Henning Jorgensen, set off on an expedition into the mountains which lasted about 9 months. Camp kept careful records of their
itinerary through previously unmapped areas controlled by Jivaro Indians. During the month of August, he was accompanied by
William Steere.
The project was termed complete by the F. E. A. in April, 1945. At that time the NYBG, at the urging of then Director William
J. Robbins, fowarded funds to Camp to collect “medicinal plants”. In all he collected 5,828 numbers (26,000 duplicates). John
J. Wurdack organized the distribution of specimens to authorities on each taxon. 3% of the material was designated as new
taxa. In his field book Camp recorded ethnobotanical data on 335 collections.
Shortly after his return to the U.S. Camp left the NYBG for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for a position
created for him, Curator of Experimental Botany and Horticulture. This position involved industrial contracts for research
on Vaccinium, Veratrum, Hedera and forest conditions in Quebec. He designed the Taylor Arboretum which opened in 1951. In
1953 he accepted the Chair of the Department of Botany at the University of Connecticut.
He returned to the NYBG in 1962 to receive its Distinguished Service Award. Some months later, on Feb. 4, 1963, he was dead.
Rickett summarized his influence as that of “a stimulant, a catalyst, a purveyor of ideas, a challenger of the established
order". He predicted that it would live for a long time.
In 1978, Elaine Joyal was curator of NYBG’s neotropical collections. She began sorting through his Ecuadorian collections
and was so impressed that she published two articles on his work, one of which reproduced his field collection notes in their
entirety-- including the ethnobotanical data. “Plant Collectors in Ecuador: Camp, Prieto, Jorgensen and Giler” (Brittonia
32 (4), 1980) details their itinerary. “Ethnobotanical Field Notes from Ecuador: Camp, Prieto, Jorgensen and Giler” (Economic
Botany 41(2), 1987) is the reproduction of his field notes.
The collection documents the research of Wendell Holmes Camp in the fields of taxonomy, horticulture, botanical exploration
and education. Documentation of Camp’s activities in South America on behalf of the U. S. Government’s economic botany programs
during World War II includes correspondence, reports, maps, determinations and analyses of Cinchona and other plants collected
by Camp. A manuscript transcription, produced in 1986, of Camp’s field notebook is also included. Camp’s noteworthy photographs--
landscapes, specimens and records of activities at the NYBG make up a significant portion of the material. The collection
contains correspondence, articles, reports, unpublished essays, photographs, negatives, glass slides and transparencies, collection
lists, maps, and drawings. Negatives, lantern slides and motion pictures have each been designated with separate series. The
collection is organized into eleven series.
Access restrictions
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Copyright
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Botanical Garden.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
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Persons |
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Camp, W.H. (Wendell Holmes), 1904-1963--Archives. |
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Joyal, Elaine. |
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MacDougall, Thomas Baillie, 1896-1973. |
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Subjects |
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American Society of Plant Taxonomists--History--Sources. |
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Amorphophallus titanum--Photographs. |
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Chinchona--Ecuador. |
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Cryptostegia--Culture. |
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Ericaceae. |
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Fagus--Diseases and pests. |
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Hedera. |
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International Committee on Horticultural Nomenclature and Registration. |
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Medicinal plants--Ecuador. |
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Mixtec Indians--Agriculture. |
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New York Botanical Garden Archives. |
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Plants, Cultivated--Nomenclature. |
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Plants--Appalachian Region, Southern. |
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Plants--Classification. |
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Plants--Ecuador. |
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Plants--Mexico--Oaxaca. |
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United States Foreign Economic Administration. |
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Vaccinium. |
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Veratrum--Culture. |
New York Botanical Garden
FNC--Field Collectors Notebook Series: Vols. 198, 212-215; 219-220, 258
RA--Records of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, 1938-1983
RG4--Henry A. Gleason Records
Harvard University, Gray Herbarium
Papers of Charles Alfred Weatherby
Stanford University, Dept. of Special Collections
Papers of Ira L. Wiggins
Wendell Holmes Camp Papers (PP), Archives, The New York
Botanical Garden.
This collection was transferred to the New York Botanical Garden Archives.
Originally processed by Laura Zelasnic, Project Archivist, April 1999, with grant funding from The National Endowment for
the Humanities. (NEH-PA 23141-98).Converted into EAD in June 2006 by Kathleene Konkle under a grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH-PA 50678-04).
Series 1. Biographical materials.
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Scope and Content:
Included in this series is Camp’s C.V. ca. 1950, his desk calendar from the years 1950-1951, a folder of miscellaneous visual
materials, a folder of Camp’s original poetry and humorous verse and a group of caricatures of Camp and other NYBG personnel
in the mid-1930’s by Margaret Sorenson. Photographs of Camp, his family and associates are located in Series 8: Photographs,
Subseries A and Series 9: Lantern Slides, Subseries A. Negatives are found in Series 10: Negatives, Subseries A.
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[1.1] |
Curriculum Vitae |
ca. 1950 |
[1.2] |
Brunton Patent Pocket Transit Instruction Book |
1929 |
[1.3] |
Personal Items |
n.d. |
[1.4] |
Caricatures by Margaret Sorenson |
1936 |
[1.5] |
Verse |
1939-1942 |
[1.6] |
Desk Calendar |
1950-1951 |
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Series 2. Correspondence.
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Scope and Content:
This series consists of Camp’s professional correspondence. It contains the full range of Camp’s work from his collecting
through his projects in experimental botany and his work on international nomenclature committees. Many collection and determination
lists are found in this series filed under the individual correspondent. These include Camp’s determinations of Salix collected
in Oaxaca; specimens collected in Rio Piedras by L. R. Holdridge and L. E. Gregory; Plants of Martinique collected by Frank
Egler and Camp’s determinations of material collected by him in Shenandoah National Park transmitted to F. R. Fosberg as an
aid in preparation of his Flora. The manuscript for an article “Stablization of Plant Names”, 1952 is in the Frese folder.
Other correspondence is located in the series to which it pertains. Correspondence is found in Series 3: Field Trips and Expeditions;
Series 4: Systematic Botany, Subseries C, F, H, I, L, M, N, P; Series 5: Experimental Botany, Subseries B, D; Series 6: Nomenclature,
Subseries A, B, C and Series 7: Manuscripts, Subseries A, and C.
There is no folder list for this series. Contents are contained in Box 2.
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Series 3. Field Trips and Expeditions.
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Scope and Content:
This series contains materials preserved by Camp related to his field trips and expeditions to Virginia and Kentucky (1936),
Oaxaca (1936-1937), Haiti (1943) and Ecuador (1944-1945). Notable in this series is the Personal Diary written via correspondence
to an unknown recipient which records the impressions of Camp regarding the effect of the War on Central America as well as
his intimate philosophical speculations.
A complete record of the analyses of Cinchona samples that were the point of the expedition is here. Important maps of this,
at the time, uncharted area of Ecuador are found here. The manuscript of Elaine Joyal’s publication of Camp’s Field Notes
has been added here.
Photographs, except for those of botanical samples which would lose their context are found in Series 8: Photographs, Subseries
B. Oversize photographs from this series of Oaxahaca, Guatemala and Ecuador and analytical charts regarding Cinchona are found
in Box 13. The scrapbook of photographs of Western U.S. (1932) and mounted Landscapes from Virginia and Kentucky (1936), are
located in Box 5. Series 9: Lantern Slides contains 12 boxes of “Kodaslides” transparencies, some of which are dated during
the period of his expeditions but have not been identified. There are also four glass positives related to his field trips
and expeditions.
All negatives are found in Series 10 Subseries D, Boxes 8-10.
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[1.7] |
Western U.S./Appalachia, Label Count |
1932-1933 |
[1.8] |
Oaxaca Field Trip, Preparatory Notes |
n.d. |
[1.9] |
Oaxaca Field Trip, Correspondence |
1936-1939 |
[1.10] |
Oaxaca Field Trip, Personal Diary |
1937 |
[1.11] |
Oaxaca Field Trip, Mss., Mexico only Moreso, by Bill |
n.d. |
[1.12] |
Oaxaca Field Trip, Mss., Notes on Mixtec Indian Land & Farming Practices |
n.d. |
[1.13] |
Oaxaca Field Trip, Mss., Winter in Mexico, Book Outline |
1937 |
[1.14] |
Oaxaca Field Trip, Art Work |
[1.1937] |
[1.15] |
Haiti, Cryptostegia Plantation |
1942-1943 |
[1.16] |
Loofah Expedition, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala |
1943 |
[1.17] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Itinerary |
1944-1945 |
[1.18] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Maps with distributions |
n.d. |
[1.19] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Rubiceae collected by William Steere and W. H. Camp (Typescript of Field Notebook 358, pt.
4) |
1944 |
[1.20] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Field Notebook, 215 Duplicates, (Loja Collections Nos. 1-270) |
1944 |
[1.21] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Field Notebook, 215 Duplicates (Loja Collections by F. Prieto and H. Jorgensen Nos. 1-60) |
1944 |
[1.22] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Field Notebook, 215, Pages (Collections by F. Prieto and H. Jorgensen) |
1944 |
[1.23] |
Cinchona Expeditions, "Ethnobotanical field notes from Ecuador…"by Elaine Joyal, mss |
1986 |
[1.24] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Curricula vitae of Prieto and Giler |
1944 |
[1.25] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Plants collected by Francisco Prieto |
1944 |
[1.26] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Correspondence, W. J. Robbins |
1944-1945 |
[1.27] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Correspondence, F. J. Seaver |
1944-1945 |
[1.28] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Correspondence, Determinations |
1944 |
[1.29] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Correspondence, Determinations |
1944 |
[1.30] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Correspondence, Personal Diary |
1944-1945 |
[1.31] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Correspondence, U. S. Government |
1945-1946 |
[1.32] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Report on Cascarilla by W. C. Steere |
1943 |
[1.33] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Reports & Memoranda by W. Steyermark |
1943 |
[1.34] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Cinchona Analysis Questionnaire and Responses, Correspondence |
1944-1946 |
[1.35] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Cinchona Analysis, Bark |
1943-1945 |
[1.36] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Cinchona Analysis, Bark |
1943-1945 |
[1.37] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Cinchona Analysis, Bark |
1943-1945 |
[1.38] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Cinchona Analysis, Bark, Notes |
1944 |
[1.39] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Cinchona Analysis, Charts |
n.d. |
[1.40] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Cinchona Analysis, Partial Mss. (p. 50-64) |
n.d. |
[1.41] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Cinchona Survey Reports |
1944 |
[1.42] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Notes on History of Ecuador Plant Exploration |
1945 |
[1.43] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Notes on the Vacciniaceae of Ecuador , mss. by A. C. Smith |
1950 |
[1.44] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Label Order |
1946 |
[1.45] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Expense Calculations |
n.d. |
[1.46] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Expense Invoices & Itineraries |
1944-1945 |
[1.47] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Export Documents |
1943-1945 |
[1.48] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador, Shipping Lists |
1950 |
[13.1] |
Cinchona, Analytical charts |
1945 |
[13.2] |
Cinchona, Elevation transsections |
1943-1945 |
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Series 4. Systematic Botany.
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Scope and Content:
This series contains research notes, line drawings, correspondence and manuscripts related to Camp’s taxonomic work, primarily
with Vaccinium. Camp’s experimental work on Vaccinium is found in Series 5: Experimental Botany.
Oversize illustrations for Subseries F Fagus and Subseries R Wolffia are located in Box 13. Illustration boards for the article
“On the Structure of Populations in the Genus Vaccinium” are found in Box 14. Subseries S Literature and Specimen File is
located in Box 15. Some specimen photographs are found in Series 4 in the files to which they pertain. Most are found in Series
8: Photographs and in Series 9: Lantern Slides. Negatives are located in Series 10: Negatives.
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Subseries A: Anthodendron
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Title |
Date |
[2.1] |
Anthodendron, Key |
n.d. |
Subseries B: Araceae
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Title |
Date |
[2.2] |
Araceae Descriptions |
n.d. |
Subseries C: Azalea
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[2.3] |
Azalea, Correspondence |
1937-1949 |
[2.4] |
Azalea, Correspondence, Henry Skinner |
1950-1951 |
[2.5] |
Azalea, Correspondence, Camp's Red Azalea (cumberlandense) |
1950-1952 |
[2.6] |
Azalea, Correspondence, Azalea Handbook |
1950-1952 |
Subseries D: Ericales
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[2.7] |
Ericaceae, Keys |
n.d. |
[2.8] |
A Miscellany of Ericales from Mexico & Central America, mss. |
[ca. 1936] |
[2.9] |
The Vascular Anatomy of Certain Ericaceous Flowers by Anna Jane Hancy |
1916 |
Subseries E: Eupatorium
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[2.10] |
Eupatorium, Correspondence |
1936 |
Subseries F: Fagus
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Title |
Date |
[2.11] |
A Preliminary Study of the Genus Fagus,mss |
ca. [2.1940] |
[2.12] |
The Species Pattern and Distribution of Fagus, mss |
1940-1941 |
[2.13] |
The Species Problem in Fagus, mss. |
ca. [2.1940] |
[2.14] |
Fagus, Correspondence |
1941-1953 |
[2.15] |
Fagus, 1948 Collecting Trip, Expenses |
1948 |
[2.16] |
Fagus, American Philosophical Society Grant Materials |
1949-1950 |
[2.17] |
Fagus, Beech Bark Disease, Correspondence |
1950 |
[2.18] |
Fagaceae of Indiana and Correspondence by Charles Deam |
1950-1952 |
[2.19] |
Fagus, Quercus, Vaccinium--Types in British Museum & Linnaean Herbaria |
1951 |
[2.20] |
Paragenetic Studies in the Fagaceae, with Special Reference to
The Euro-Caucasan Beech Complex, Drafts, mss
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ca. [2.1952] |
[2.21] |
Fagus, Correspondence re Climatic Charts |
1953 |
[2.22] |
Key to the subspecies of Fagus Grandifolia in North America, mss |
1954 |
[2.23] |
Artificial Key to Fruiting Specimens of the Genus Fagus, Exclusive of Horticultural Forms
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n.d. |
[2.24] |
Fagus, Leaf-Miner locations by Annette F. Braun |
n.d. |
[13.3] |
The Species Pattern and Distribution of Fagus, ills. |
n.d. |
[13.4] |
The Species Pattern and Distribution of Fagus, distribution map |
n.d. |
[13.5] |
The Species Problem in Fagus, ills. |
n.d. |
Subseries G: Gaultheria
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[2.25] |
Gaultheria, Descriptions |
n.d. |
Subseries H: Gaylussacia
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[2.26] |
Gaylussacia, Correspondence |
1952 |
[2.27] |
Gaylussacia, Descriptions |
n.d. |
Subseries I: Pernettya
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[2.28] |
Pernettya, Descriptions and Correspondence |
1939 |
Subseries J: Pyrolaceae
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[2.29] |
Pyrolaceae Descriptions |
n.d. |
Subseries K: Quercus
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[2.30] |
Field Key to the Oaks of Northeastern North America by W. H. Camp, mss |
ca. 1930 |
[2.31] |
Possible Relationships between Species of Erythrobalanus by G. L. Stebbins, Jr. |
1946 |
[2.32] |
Quercus, Michaux Quercetum proposal for Morris Arboretum |
1953 |
Subseries L: Rhododendron
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[2.33] |
Rhododendron, Correspondence |
1950 |
[2.34] |
Rhododendron, Notes |
n.d. |
Subseries M: Themistoclesia
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[2.35] |
Themistoclesia, Anatomical Drawings |
1936 |
Subseries N: Thibaudieae
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[2.36] |
Thibaudieae, Panama Northward, ex. The American Species of Thibaudieae by A.C. Smith |
1932 |
Subseries O: Vaccinium
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[2.37] |
Vaccinium, Key to the Genus Vaccinium in North America North of Mexico |
[2.1926-1934] |
[2.38] |
Vaccinium, Phenology |
n.d. |
[2.39] |
Vaccinium, Type Descriptions (A) |
n.d. |
[2.40] |
Vaccinium, Type Descriptions (B-G) |
n.d. |
[2.41] |
Vaccinium, Type Descriptions (H-P) |
n.d. |
[2.42] |
Vaccinium, Type Descriptions (R-W) |
n.d. |
[2.43] |
Vaccinium, Miscellaneous Descriptions |
n.d. |
[2.44] |
Vacciniaceae Notes by C. B. Robinson & P.C. Standley |
1930-1936 |
[2.45] |
Vacciniaceae Notes by C. B. Robinson & P.C. Standley |
1930-1936 |
[2.46] |
Vacciniaceae Notes by C. B. Robinson & P.C. Standley |
1930-1936 |
[2.47] |
Vacciniaceae Correspondence of C. B. Robinson |
1912-1919 |
[2.48] |
Vacciniaceae , Key to the Vacciniaceae of the United States, bound mss |
n.d. |
[2.49] |
Vacciniaceae, Studies, The American Bilberries or True Vacciniums, |
n.d. |
[2.50] |
A Cuticular Ridging in the Lower Epidermis of Some Species of Vaccinium, by
Harold E. Fischer, mss
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[2.1941] |
[2.51] |
Vaccinium, Correspondence |
1933-1945 |
[2.52] |
Vaccinium, Correspondence |
1953-1956 |
[2.53] |
Vaccinium, Drawings from specimens |
1935 |
[2.54] |
Vaccinium, Drawings, anatomy and Late Tertiary distribution, Plates |
n.d. |
[2.55] |
Vaccinium, Drawings, Leaf Bases |
n.d. |
[2.56] |
Vaccinium, Flora of the Great Smoky Mountains, Notes |
1935-1940 |
[2.57] |
Vaccinium, Schedule of Aiton Types in British Museum |
1934 |
[2.58] |
Vaccinium, V. corymbosum, Hybridization mss |
n.d. |
[2.59] |
Vaccinium, Specimen Citations with notes |
n.d. |
[2.60] |
Vaccinium, Species Problems in Vaccinium, mss |
n.d. |
[14.1] |
Vaccinium, "On the Structure of Populations in the Genus Vaccinium", ills. |
1942 |
Subseries P: Tilia
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[2.61] |
Tilia, List of Stations for Requested Species Represented by Specimens in
NYBG
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1937 |
Subseries Q: Wolfia
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[2.62] |
Wolffia, Correspondence |
1931-1946 |
Subseries R: Miscellaneous Studies
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[2.63] |
Determinations of the Ora M. Clark Collection by C. A. Weatherby and W. H.
Camp
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[ca. 1936] |
[2.64] |
Taxonomy Notes |
[ca. 1929] |
[2.65] |
Epidermal Hairs of Grass Leaves, drawings by E. D. Stirm |
1931 |
[2.66] |
Cleomes, notes |
n.d. |
[2.67] |
Cross-sections of Iris Leaves drawn by D. L. Fernholz |
n.d. |
[13.6] |
Plates for Wolffia Article |
n.d. |
Subseries S: Literature and Specimen File
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[15.1] |
Literature and Specimen File
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Series 5. Experimental Botany.
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Scope and Content:
This series contains correspondence, reports, manuscript and like material related to Camp’s experimental and theoretical
studies, especially the work he accomplished as Curator of Experimental Botany and Horticulture at the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia. Summaries of this work are found in the Annual Reports folder. Also found here are correspondence
and reports covering the work he did for industrial clients such as Riker Labs.
Material related to the Peony Test Garden in found in Box 14. His dissertation on hemp and other material from his student
days is in this series. Photographs of the Taylor Arboretum are located in Series 8: Photographs. Negatives are located in
Series 10: Negatives.
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Subseries A: Student Work
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[3.1] |
Cyclic Metabolism During Reproduction, Notes |
1926 |
[3.2] |
Arisaema Triphyllum, Studies and Notes |
[ca. 1929] |
[3.3] |
Hemp, Notes on Growth |
1927-1931 |
[3.4] |
Hemp, A Floral Anatomy of Hemp, PhD Thesis |
1932 |
Subseries B: Vaccinium
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[3.5] |
Vaccinium, Notes on U. S. D. A. Plantings at North Sedgewick, ME |
1941-1942 |
[3.6] |
Vaccinium, "A Tetraploid Blueberry from a Cross of Diploid and Hexaploid Species" by G. M. Darrow, mss |
1948-1949 |
[3.7] |
Vaccinium, Cultivated Blueberries, Correspondence |
1949-1952 |
Subseries C: Industrial Work
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[3.8] |
Annual Reports, Experimental Botany, Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia
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1949-1953 |
[3.9] |
Veratrum, Annual Reports to Riker Laboratories |
1951-1953 |
[3.10] |
Veratrum, Correspondence with Riker Laboratories |
1952 |
[3.11] |
Veratrum, "The Floral Morphology and Anatomy of Veratrum Viride Ait.",
Thesis by Estelle Levine Star
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1951 |
[3.12] |
Hedera, "A Hardy Hedera", mss |
[ca. 1953] |
[3.13] |
Hedera, Correspondence |
1948-1952 |
[3.14] |
"Forest Conditions in Parts of the Province of Quebec and Their Relation to Certain Pulping Practices in the Area", Sponsored
by General Electric Co.
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1952 |
[3.15] |
"The Occurrence of Steroid Compounds in Plants", compiled by Jean F. Funk, Sponsored by CIBA Pharmaceutical Products |
1953 |
[3.16] |
An Experiment in Cold Frames |
[ca. 1954] |
[14.2] |
Peony Test Garden |
1950-1954 |
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Series 6. Nomenclature.
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Scope and Content:
Found in this series are materials related to Camp’s work with the American Horticultural Council and its Commission on Nomenclature,
Camp’s collaboration with Gilly on species structure and origin, and published and unpublished manuscripts by Camp on nomenclature
issues.
Oversize materials related to the Joint Sessions of the Committees on Nomenclature of the International Botanical Congress
and International Horticultural Conference, 1951 and a follow up questionnaire are in Box 14.
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Subseries A: American Horticultural Council
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[3.17] |
American Horticultural Council, Certification of Incorporation |
1952 |
[3.18] |
American Horticultural Council, General Correspondence |
1951-1952 |
[3.19] |
American Horticultural Council, Corresp., National Garden Bureau |
1950-1951 |
Subseries B: American Horticultural Council, Commission on Nomenclature and Registration
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[3.20] |
Correspondence |
1950-1954 |
[3.21] |
Correspondence, Hemerocallis Society |
1952-1954 |
[3.22] |
Correspondence, Registrars |
1952-1954 |
[3.23] |
Correspondence, Organization & Membership |
1953 |
[3.24] |
Correspondence, Responses to Questionnaire |
1953 |
Subseries C: Joint session of Committees on Nomenclature of International Botanical Congress and International Horticultural
Conference
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[3.25] |
Correspondence |
1951-1952 |
[14.3] |
Code for Cultivated Plants |
1951-1952 |
[14.4] |
International Congress on Botanical Nomenclature, Opinions on
Conservation
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1953 |
Subseries D: Literature
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[3.26] |
A Suggested Integration of Taxonomic Methods and Nomenclature Categories by
W. H. Camp and C. L. Gilly, Chart
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1941 |
[3.27] |
Systematics and the Species by W. H. Camp & C. L. Gilly, mss |
1942 |
[3.28] |
Systematics and the Species by W. H. Camp & C. L. Gilly, charts |
1942 |
[3.29] |
Systematics and the Species by W. H. Camp & C. L. Gilly, excluderae |
n.d. |
[3.30] |
Structure and Origin of the Species by W. H. Camp & C. L. Gilly,
Correspondence
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1942 |
[3.31] |
Structure and Origin of the Species by W. H. Camp & C. L. Gilly, Gift Book
Plates
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1943 |
[3.32] |
Structure and Origin of the Species by W. H. Camp & C. L. Gilly, Post Notes |
1943 |
[3.33] |
On Stability in Nomenclature, mss |
1950 |
[3.34] |
Types and Nomenclature Stabilization, mss |
1953 |
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Series 7. Literature.
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Scope and Content:
Manuscripts in this series are those not related to specific genera or sponsored researches. Here is located Camp’s files
from Taxonomic Index which he inititiated in 1939 and edited until 1948. Manuscripts related to specific genera are found
in Series 4: Systematic Botany and Series 5: Experimental Botany. Manuscripts related to nomenclature are found in Series
6: Nomenclature. Also in this series are manuscripts from other authors sent to Camp for comments and work by Camp’s students.
Illustrations from manuscripts are located with the manuscripts and in Series 8: Subseries D Illustrations. Negatives are
kept in Series 10: Negatives—Subseries G: Systematic and Economic Botany and Subseries H: Miscellaneous.
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Subseries A: Taxonomic Index
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[3.35] |
Symbols and Abbreviations in Taxonomic Botanical Literature by Cornelius H.
Muller, Vol. 2, Extra Supplement
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1939 |
[3.36] |
Correspondence |
1940-1948 |
Subseries B: Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern States and Canada
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[3.37] |
Proposal for Third Edition |
1936 |
[13.7] |
Unidentified article, plates |
1938 |
Subseries C: Continental Tilt
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[3.38] |
Correspondence |
1947 |
Subseries D: Essays
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[3.39] |
Professor C. Conzatti: An Appreciation |
1937 |
[3.40] |
Introduction to "Genetics and the Origin of the Species" by Theodosius Dobzhansky |
1947 |
[3.41] |
On the Aims and Objectives of Plant Exploration |
1946 |
[3.42] |
Role of Hybridization and Genetic Introgression in Evolution, mss |
1943/1949 |
[3.43] |
Early American Traditions & the Future of American Gardens |
1951 |
[3.44] |
Intra-specific Genetic Diversity in Nature, mss. |
1952 |
[3.45] |
Origin and Composition of the Nearctic Biota |
1952 |
[3.46] |
'New' Plant Invading Tinicum Marsh |
1953 |
[3.47] |
Problems in the Correlation of the Systematics of Tertiary and Modern Flowering Plants, mss. and correspondence
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1953 |
[3.48] |
Pattern of Variability & Evolution in Plants |
[1953] |
[3.49] |
World in Your Garden, mss |
1957 |
[3.50] |
Greenhouse Horticulture, notes |
n.d. |
Subseries E: Essays from others
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[3.51] |
Ferry, James F., "The Morphology and Anatomy of the Floral Organs of
Ricinus Communis", Dissertation
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1935 |
[3.52] |
Gilly, C. L. "Interglacial and Interstadial Forest Floras of Michigan" |
1953 |
[3.53] |
Gilly, C. L., "Floristic Relationships of Malaysia, Mexico and Appalachia-An
Hypothesis" |
1953-1955 |
[3.54] |
Mason and Davidson, "Plant Taxonomy", Correspondence |
1951 |
[13.8] |
Unidentified article, plates |
1938 |
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Series 8. Photographs.
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Scope and Content:
In this series are photographs that have been separated from subject files and Camp’s landscape work. Included in this series
is Camp’s Western U. S. Scrapbook and documentation of the flowering of A. Titanum, Becc. at the NYBG in 1937. Negatives are
located in Series 10: Negatives. Photographic works in other media are found in Series 9: Lantern Slides and Series 11: Motion
Pictures.
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Subseries A: Biographical Materials
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[3.55] |
Portraits |
n.d. |
[3.56] |
Friend/ Family Portraits |
n.d. |
[3.57] |
Ohio State University |
1927-1935 |
[3.58] |
Ohio State University |
ca. 1930 |
Subseries B: Field Trips & Expeditions
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[3.59] |
Virginia and Kentucky |
1936 |
[3.60] |
Virginia and Kentucky |
1936 |
[3.61] |
Virginia and Kentucky |
1936 |
[3.62] |
Oaxaca Field Trip |
1936-1937 |
[3.63] |
Oaxaca Field Trip |
1936-1937 |
[3.64] |
Oaxaca Field Trip |
1936-1937 |
[3.65] |
Oaxaca Field Trip |
1936-1937 |
[3.66] |
Oaxaca Field Trip |
1936-1937 |
[3.67] |
Oaxaca Field Trip, Photos for Garden Journal Article |
1937 |
[4.1] |
Loofah Expedition, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala |
1943 |
[4.2] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Ecuador |
1944-1945 |
[4.3] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Photo logbook |
n.d. |
[4.4] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Landscapes and Portraits |
n.d. |
[4.5] |
Cinchona Expeditions, Specimens |
n.d. |
[5.1] |
Western U. S. Scrapbook |
1932 |
[5.2] |
Virginia and Kentucky, Mounted |
1936 |
[13.9] |
Guatemala, Postcards of Native Dress |
ca. 1943 |
[13.10] |
Oaxahaca, Photos for Garden Journal Article, mounted |
1937 |
[13.11] |
Oaxahaca, Postcards, "Paricuti in Action" |
1936 |
[13.12] |
Cinchona, Landscapes and Portraits, mounted |
1945 |
Subseries C: Systematic and Economic Botany
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[4.6] |
Hemp |
1932 |
[4.7] |
Ericales |
n.d. |
[4.8] |
Ericaceae |
n.d. |
[4.9] |
Rhododendrons |
ca. 1950 |
[4.10] |
Horticultural Plants |
1936-1946 |
[4.11] |
Trillium, Aberant Flowers |
1936 |
[4.12] |
Amorphophallus Titanum Blooming |
1937 |
[4.13] |
Amorphophallus Titanum Blooming |
1937 |
[4.14] |
Vaccinium, V. corymbosum , type specimen |
1939 |
[4.15] |
Vaccinium, V. Lepidum, type specimen |
1939 |
[4.16] |
Vaccinium, V. torreyanum Camp, The Influence of Polyploidy |
n.d. |
[4.17] |
Vaccinium, U.S. D. A. Plantings, N. Sedgewick, Me. |
1941-1942 |
[4.18] |
Veratrum, S. Hadley Experimental Garden |
ca. 1950 |
[4.19] |
Fagus, Disease Photos |
[ca. 1951] |
[4.20] |
Hedera |
1948-1950 |
[4.21] |
Hedera, Baltic Ivy |
1948-1950 |
Subseries D: Illustrations
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[4.22] |
Illustration of rainfall |
1939 |
[4.23] |
Musaceae Family |
n.d. |
[4.24] |
Taylor Arboretum |
1951 |
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Series 9. Lantern Slides.
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Scope and Content:
This series contains glass plate positives of family portraits, and photographic and line illustrations from lectures. Also
in this series is a 35mm mounted color slide portrait of Camp and a collection of unmounted 35mm color transparencies dating
between 1941-1953.
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Subseries A: Glass Slides
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[6.1] |
Belle's Family (8 slides) |
n.d. |
[6.2] |
Line Drawings (5 slides) |
n.d. |
[6.3] |
Systematic and Experimental Botany (3 slides) |
n.d. |
[6.4] |
Field Trips and Expeditions (4 slides) |
n.d. |
Subseries B: Transparencies
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[6.5] |
Seated portrait, mounted |
n.d. |
[6.6] |
12 boxes, unidentified "Kodaslides" |
1941-1953 |
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Series 10. Negatives.
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Scope and Content:
Found in this series are all available negatives for Camp’s photographs.
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Subseries A: Biographical Materials
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[7.1] |
Portrait Negatives |
1919-1932 |
[7.2] |
Friend/Family Portrait Negatives |
n.d. |
[7.3] |
Ohio State University Negatives |
n.d. |
Subseries B: Systematic and Economic Botany
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[7.4] |
Specimen No.'s 1-50 |
n.d. |
[7.5] |
Floral Anatomy of Hemp |
1931 |
[10.1] |
Ericaceae |
n.d. |
[10.2] |
Hedera |
n.d. |
[10.3] |
Veratrum |
n.d. |
[11.1] |
Amorphophallus Titanum |
n.d. |
[11.2] |
Pleuriscosporae |
n.d. |
[11.3] |
Tepuia |
n.d. |
Subseries C: Line Drawings, Tables and Figures
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[7.6] |
Line Drawings, Tables and Figures |
n.d. |
[11.4] |
Continental Tilt |
n.d. |
Subseries D: Field Trips and Expeditions
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[8.1] |
Virginia and Kentucky |
1936 |
[8.2] |
Oaxaca, Expedition |
1936-1937 |
[9] |
Western U. S. Scrapbook |
1932 |
[10.4] |
Cinchona Expedition |
n.d. |
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Series 11. Motion Pictures.
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Scope and Content:
This series contains 12 magazines of 16mm Kodachrome motion pictures.
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
[12] |
12 Magazines 16mm Kodachrome |
1950 |
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