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Botany

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

B.F. Hartzell (1880-1957) Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2040
Overview

Two letters giving information about B.F. Hartzell, a resident of Shepherdstown and a noted botanist.

Dates: 1953 Jan 25; 1957 April 29
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Earl L. Core (1902-1984) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1730
Scope and Contents Original Accession; 1756-1985; boxes 1-21 and two oversize folders Records of Earl L. Core, botanist, writer, editor, historian, and West Virginia University professor and Biology Department Head. Includes the correspondence, collected research materials, and writings of Dr. Core. The earliest correspondence, 1951-1960, deals mostly with his role as a botanist and West Virginia University Botany Department chair, and includes letters both to and from Dr. Core. Later...
Dates: 1756-1985
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Earl L. Core (1902-1984) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1556
Scope and Contents Office files and correspondence of Dr. Core, head of the Biology Department, editor of Castanea, and well-known biologist. Collection includes multiple addenda, all of which have been interfiled except for the addendum of 1978/01/17.Includes personal and business correspondence from the time Dr. Core served as Chairman of the WVU Department of Biology (ca. 1951-1969). Some correspondence (1967-1969) pertains to the Morgantown Public...
Dates: 1928, 1948-1978
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Earl L. Core (1902-1985) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1197
Scope and Contents The office files of Dr. Core, Head, Department of Biology, contain personal and professional correspondence. The papers deal with his work in the field of botany: as Curator of the Herbarium; as organizer of the Appalachian Botanical Club and editor of its journal, Castanea; and in various phases of botanical research. Some of the correspondence deals with academic duties and activities, and also reflects his interests in religious,...
Dates: 1920-1951 and undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Fred W. Gray Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1573
Overview

Correspondence and notes of a Philippi botanist, who worked in the field of cryptograms, particularly the study of lichens and cladoniae.

Dates: 1922-1940
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Harrison and Doddridge Counties, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1015
Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings, mainly from Doddridge and Harrison county, concerning marriages, deaths, family histories, letters from World War I service men, nurses, and from former residents who had moved, or gone to other states to teach, including a series of letters from L.P. Willis from the Phillippine Islands and Japan. Mr.Willis was employed as a teacher and Head Of the Bureau of Education in Japan, and the Phillipines for twenty years. Also, included in the collection are tax and school...
Dates: 1778-1955
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John E. Reed, Plant Encyclopedic Scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4560
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 153 handmade scrapbooks in which John E. Reed gathered and pasted newspaper and magazine articles, pamphlets, pictures, definitions, and handwritten notes about different plants. These scrapbooks are alphabetized by the botanical/scientific names of each plant, and the collection also includes four index books for reference. It also includes copies of two pages of correspondence between John Reed and William H. Witte with background about the scrapbooks (Box 1).

Dates: circa 1910s-1950s
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Joseph E. Harned (1870-1931) Manuscripts

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1543
Overview

Correspondence of an Oakland, Maryland, pharmacist and original manuscript of his WILD FLOWERS OF THE ALLEGHENIES (1931).

Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lawrence William Nuttall (1857-1933) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2174
Scope and Contents One letter from J. Haynes Miller to Dr. Earl. L. Core, n.d, concerning Howard B. Tully, Sr. and Jr. and explanation of his source for the enclosed material on John Nuttall; one letter from Howard B. Tully, Jr. to Mr. Miller regarding the Nuttall material. A one page copy of a typescript, "Approximate General Statement as to holdings of John Nuttall Estate", describing the coal and timber lands in Fayette and Nicholas counties, income from, taxes on, and branch railroads owned by...
Dates: 1971; N.D.
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lawrence William Nuttall Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0889
Scope and Contents

Correspondence containing genealogical information on Lawrence William Nuttall, a West Virginia botanist, and his family. Also included are two articles; one from the West Virginia Agriculturist entitled: "Former Student Gives Work to University," and the other from a Fayette County Newspaper, "How John Nuttal Developed the Keeney's Creek Section."

Dates: 1929; 1946-1952
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center