Merritt Lyndon Fernald correspondence

Related Titles

Contained In: Merritt Lyndon Fernald papers, 1887-1951, bulk 1887-1934
Series: Gaspe Peninsula Collecting Trips project
Series: Global Plants Initiative Field Notes Collections

External Resources

Collection guide: Merritt Lyndon Fernald papers. Harvard University Botany Libraries

By

Fernald, Merritt Lyndon, 1873-1950
Blake, S. F. (Sidney Fay), 1892-1959
Allen, John A. (John Alpheus), 1863-1916
Bissell, Charles Humphrey, 1857-1925
Bragg, Laura M.,
Briggs, Le Baron Russell, 1855-1934
Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934
Frothingham, Louis A.,
Gaskin, Helen C.,
Gilmore, Melvin R. (Melvin Randolph), 1868-1940
Goodale, George L. (George Lincoln), 1839-1923
Gould, John Mead, 1839-1930
Graves, Arthur Harmount, 1879-1962
Greene, Jerome D. (Jerome Davis), 1874-1955
Haliburton, John P.,
Holm, Theodor (Herman Theodor), 1854-1932
Houghton, George M.,
Jones, Vincent S.,
Kennedy, George G. (George Golding), 1841-1918
Knowlton, Clarence Hinckley, 1876-1956
Latham, Harold Strong, 1887-1969
Lewis, Eleanor Ashton,
Linder, David H. (David Hunt), 1899-1946
Lindsay, Eugene,
Livingston, Burton E. (Burton Edward), 1875-1948
Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943
Macoun, James Melville, 1862-1920
Mercer, James W.,
Moore, George T. (George Thomas), 1871-1956
Noyes, George Rapall, 1873-1952
O'Mara, May A.,
Osborn, Henry Leslie, 1857-1940,
Pease, Arthur Stanley, 1881-1964
Piccott, Archibald W., 1869-1926
Porsild, Morten P. (Morten Pedersen), 1872-1956
Pray, James Sturgis, 1871-
Rackemann, Francis M. (Francis Minot), 1887-1973
Rand, Benjamin, 1856-1934
Rich, William Penn, 1849-1930
Riddell, John M.,
Robertson, I C
Rollins, Reed C. (Reed Clark), 1911-1998
Rose, A. McKinley,
Rose, Albert S.,
St. John, Harold, 1892-1991
Tanner, Kenneth J.,
Taylor, John Lewis,
Transeau, Edgar Nelson, 1875-1960
Twenhofel, William H. (William Henry), 1875-1957
Watson, Sereno, 1826-1892
Weatherby, Charles Alfred, 1875-1949
Whalen, Elizabeth,
Williams, Emile Francis, 1858-1929

Type

Collection

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[1890-1951]

Notes

Consists of Fernald's incoming and outgoing correspondence. Also included are documents related to Fernald's travels and research, including receipts, research proposals, telegrams, and a fishing license. Much of the correspondence is related to Gaspé Peninsula collecting trips. Correspondents are: Charles Humphrey Bissell, Sidney Fay Blake, Laura M. Bragg, LeBaron Russell Briggs, Richard Field, Helen C. Gaskin, Melvin R. Gilmore, George Lincoln Goodale, John M. Gould, Jerome Davis Greene, John P. Haliburton, Herman Theodor Holm, George M. Houghton, Vincent S. Jones, Clarence H. Knowlton, H.S. Latham, Eleanor Ashton Lewis, David Hunt Linder, Eugene Lindsay (The Lawrence Newfoundland Co., Ltd.), Burton E. Livingston, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, James Melville Macoun, James W. Mercer (Newfoundland Game & Inland Fisheries Board), George T. Moore, George R. Noyes, Henry L. Osborn, Arthur Stanley Pease, A.W. Piccott (Newfoundland Game & Inland Fisheries Board), Morten Pedersen Porsild, James Sturgis Pray, Francis M. Rackemann, Benjamin Rand, William Penn Rich, J.M. Riddell, I.C. Robertson, Reed C. Rollins, A. McKinley Rose, Albert S. Rose, Harold St. John, J.L. Taylor, Edgar N. Transeau, William Henry Twenhofel, Sereno Watson, and Mrs. John Whalen.

The majority of M.L. Fernald's post-1930 correspondence is in the Administrative Correspondence of the Gray Herbarium and Harvard University Herbaria collection (call number gra00079).

New England botanists, Merritt Lyndon Fernald of Harvard University and James Franklin Collins, of Brown University, often made short summer trips to the Gaspe area beginning in 1904 and continuing through 1923. Other noted botanists joined them on these trips which yielded new and interesting plant material. The Gaspe Peninsula Collecting Trips Project is a composite of materials from several archival collections and consists of field notes, maps, photographs, correspondence, and other items. The material provides insights into the challenges of early 20th century plant collecting, documents the flora of the region, and is frequently consulted by researchers interested in the Gaspe region.

Subjects

1873-1950 , Application forms , Botanists , Correspondence , Fernald, Merritt Lyndon, , Gaspé Peninsula , Plant collecting , Plants , Québec (Province) , Receipts (financial records) , Telegrams

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 932102162