Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium correspondence files

Related Titles

Contained In: Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium records, circa 1895-1995

Series: Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium Central American Correspondence Files Digitization Project

External Resources

Collection guide: Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium records, c.1895-1995. Harvard University Botany Libraries

By

Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium , author

Ames, Oakes, 1874-1950 , correspondent
Schweinfurth, Charles, 1890-1970 , correspondent
Schultes, Richard Evans, 1915-2001 , correspondent
Sweet, Herman R , correspondent
Garay, Leslie A. , correspondent

Type

Collection

Material

Archival material

Publication info

Notes

This collection is Series 1 of the Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium records and predominantly includes the personal and official correspondence of curators and staff of the Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium. Major correspondents include Oakes Ames, Charles Schweinfurth, Richard Evans Schultes, Herman Sweet, and Leslie Garay. They exchanged letters with the leading orchid collectors, propagators, and researchers of their eras. The letters are dated 1909-1962.

The Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium and Library was formed by Oakes Ames and donated to the Botanical Museum of Harvard University on December 14, 1938.

Subjects

1872-1925 , 1874-1950 , 1884-1963 , Ames, Oakes, , Botanists , Correspondence , Garay, Leslie A , Nomenclature , Orchids , Schlechter, Rudolf, , Schultes, Richard Evans , Standley, Paul Carpenter, , Terminology

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 884401920