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Collectors: | Wood, Richard Dawson, 1918- | |
Title: | Richard D. Wood Papers (PP) | |
Dates: | 1949-1976 | |
Quantity: | 1.33 linear feet (and ART collection) | |
Call Phrase: | Wood (PP) |
Richard. Dawson Wood, freshwater phycologist and professor of botany, was born in Toledo, Ohio, on April 28, 1918. He received B.A. and B.S. degrees from Ohio State University in 1940 and a Ph.D. in 1947 from Northwestern University. From 1947 he served on the faculty of the botany department at the University of Rhode Island. Wood was a specialist in the taxonomy and distribution of the Characeae. He was responsible for reorganizing the Characeae classification and publishing Monograph of the Characeae (1965) with illustrations by Kozo Imahori. He belonged to numerous professional organizations, was a Fulbright Research scholar in Australia and won the Darbaker prize in phycology in 1966. Wood died in 1977.
The bulk of the collection is devoted to data related to Wood’s exhaustive Characeae research. One of three typescripts of the Index Nominarum Characearum: An Index to All Known Published Names of Extant Members of the Characeae (1953), the Monograph of the Characeae (1965) and Kozo Imahori’s drawings are included in the collection.
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The collection is organized into six series: | ||
Series 1: Writings | ||
Series 2: Correspondence. 1963-1972. | ||
Series 3: Collection notes. | ||
Series 4: Determinations. | ||
Series 5: Subject files. | ||
Series 6: Drawings. |
This collection is open for research with permission from Mertz Library staff.
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.
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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. | ||
Subjects | ||
Wood, Richard Dawson, 1918- -- Archives. | ||
Characeae. | ||
New York Botanical Garden Archives. |
Series 6: Drawings have been removed to the Art and Illustration Collection - #64
Richard D. Wood Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden.
This collection was donated to the New York Botanical Archives in 1980.
Originally processed by an archives volunteer in November 2000. Converted to EAD in July 2006 by Kathleene Konkle under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH-PA 50678-04).
Series 2. Correspondence. |
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Scope and Content: Correspondence arranged chronologically. |
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Folder | Title | Date | |
1.4 | Correspondence | 1963-1972 | |
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