Collectanea orchidacea

Title Variants

Alternative: AD

By

Kraenzlin, Fritz, 1847-1934

Type

Collection

Material

Archival material

Publication info

Notes

At time of cataloging in 2006: Notebooks 1-2 half-bound in dark green bead-grain cloth and black leather; marbled edges and endpapers. Leaves of Notebook 3 interleaved with brown paper dividers with alphabetical index tabs, bundled together with brown paper strip, and bound with white thread sewn through two holes punched in left margin; in bright blue 3-flap cloth portfolio, with matching slipcase; gold-stamped black leather spine label has title "Collectanea orchidacea by Kränzlin." Notebook 4 bound in speckled paper boards, typical of student composition notebooks, with green cloth spine; paper label with ms. title" Collectan. orchid. IV". Notebook 5 in black paper boards, with tan cloth spine; paper label with ms. title "Collectanea orchidacea V"; dated 1908 Mar. 3-1918 Mar. 14 on front pastedown. Parts 1-2 of Notebook 6, previously bound in same fashion as Notebook 3, are now disbound; items--29 in mylar sleeves--now individually foldered in 142 manila folders, and arranged in 3 gray Hollinger boxes. Items in Part 3 are interleaved with sheets of white paper, bundled together with white cord, and placed in Hollinger box. Notebooks 8-9 are standard student composition notebooks, in soft black paper covers, with blue-lined leaves, and red edges; dated Jan. 3, 1928 and July 1, 1929, respectively.

Illinois State Library grant funding to digitize in 2015, no.1 & no.2 notebooks; no.3 tied pamphlet; nos. 4-5 in one box; no.6a file folders w/ 160 sheets; no.6b file folders w/ 150 sheets; no.6c 250 sheets; no. 8-9 1 box, black notebooks. Digitally imaged by the NEDCC Imaging Lab in compliance with FADGI specifications.

CBG copy: Kranzlin's illustrated bookplates on v. 1-2; ownership stamps on v. 3-5, and 8.

CBG copy: Part of the estate gift of Albert Cameron Burrage (1859-1931) to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in August 1941.

Mass. Horticultural Society. Dict. cat., | vol. 2, p. 397

Eight ms. notebooks compiled by Dr. Fritz Kränzlin in Berlin, Wolfenbüttel, and Gross-Lichterfelde, Germany, between 1892 and 1929, containing more than 2000 orchid diagnoses, notes, pencil sketches of new orchid species, clippings and transcriptions of articles from numerous botanical journals, and correspondence from other orchidologists and orchid hunters and growers around the world. | The notebooks, numbered 1-6, 8-9, (number 7 lacking) contain the orchid diagnoses and research notes that Kränzlin used to write his Orchidacearum genera et species, only the first 2 v. of which were ever published. (Vol. 1, and v. 2, pt. 1 published in Berlin by Meyer & Muller in 1901 and 1904, respectively.) Although the notebooks refer to works published as early as the 1840s, Kränzlin probably began assembling them around 1890 [?], and continued to work on them through 1929. He read and corresponded with orchidologists throughout the world, including Australia, South Africa, German New Guinea, Japan, England, America, Colombia, and Chile. Some of the authors whose work appears in the notebooks include Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich Müller, George Bentham, Joseph Hooker, Glaudio Gay, Henry Ogg Forbes, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, Rudolf Schlechter, L[ilian] S[uzette] Gibbs, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Robert Rolfe, Adolf Engler, John Lindley, and Robert Knuds Friedrich Pilger. The notebooks also contain articles clipped from journals such as Botanische Zeitung (Berlin), Gardener's chronicle, Curtis's botanical magazine, Botanical gazette (Chicago, Ill.), Botanical register (London, Eng.), Edward's botanical register, Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Victorian naturalist, Calcutta journal of natural history, Garden & forest, Queensland agricultural journal, Tokyo botanical magazine, Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France, Bulletin de l'herbier boissier, and Bulletin of the New York Botanic Garden.

In Latin, German, English, and French.

Subjects

1890-1929 , Classification , Correspondence , Germany , Journals (notebooks) , Kränzlin, F , Nomenclature , Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc , Orchids , Varieties

Call Number

QK495.O64K73

Language

Latin

Identifiers

OCLC: 73295545