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TULANE UNIVERSITY The College of Arts and Sciences NEW ORLEANS 18 Department of Botany 13 January 1959 Dr. George B. VanSchaack Librarian, Missouri Botanical Garden St. Louis lo Dear George: This confirms the book order reserved for Howard-Tilton Memorial Library of this University. Incidentally, we have Meyer's Geschichte der Botanik, a most desirable item. Perhaps Lloyd Shinners may not have it? I shall not take time to alphabetize the following items but here are the University purchases: 1) Jacquin, Joseph Nicolaus Observationum botanicarum iconibus. (Vienna, 1764) parts I and II (of 4 parts). Fine. $75.00 Th …

… ry handsomely full bound in the finest dark red levant morocco, crushed and polished, tooled in the antique style, gold edges, FINE COPY, RARE, £18s. 1835, thick folio This is one of the most collected All Botanicals ever published, and really fine and perfect copies are becoming most difficult to procure. Moreover, the prices of such are rapidly advancing, now that their scarcity is generally known, and the time is not far distant when they will be much more expensive than they are now. The book is full of quaint and fancy descriptions and cumbrous observations. It is particularly famous for the account which it …

26 Sep 1965 RECEIVED SEP 29 1965 HUNT BOTANICAL LIBRARY My dear George, I had a look through Miss Greverson's botanical drawings yesterday - I gather you know all about her & have her photos & for us. They are superb. I selected as possible for the Hunt Library (i) Habenaria Epipactis + (2) Lathyrus odoratus. She wants 20 specimens each for these. If you only have funds for one, then I would recommend the Epipactis. If you would like either, or both, why not write to her direct at the New Herbarium. How all goes well with you, & with the Horse? I have had 12 unweaned foals in Calabria since I feel much the better …

Reference Botany Laboratory manual. Plantas de Yucatan - Cervantes (Mexico) Fort Quez. Descendants Tindal, Illustrative Dictionary of Botanical Terms Wray, Jose Luis. Index y sinonimia de las Plantas medicinales de Mexico (Inst N4 forma de estudio) Instit. Vasquez Catalogo de Plantas Medicinales copy ? ESE - UNAM Index Herbaris BP-14. Botanas Periodicum Hispanum More - Chromosome Numbers 1967-1971 Interventione Director of Botanics Jardins - Rep. Vag 28 Laborotory + Duke Manuel J Botany Manuel de Botanique Instructive - Afrique Propre Edelle Wax Plants English Names of Wax Flowers The Flora Kingdom Catalogo de lo …

6. Priority. I would propose that in the field of botanical illustration top priority should be given to the formation of material suitable for a series of temporary exhibitions, and to the photographic recording of the most important collections of botanical drawings. At the same time, a programme should be worked out for future articles in Huntia, and a volume or two in the Hunt Monograph Series, dealing with some form or other of botanical art; authors of these could then be engaged to prepare material. It must be appreciated by botanists that volumes such as Sertum Anglicum, though doubtless of great importan …

June 10, 1949 Dr. J. M. Greenman Missouri Botanical Garden 2315 Tower Grove Avenue St. Louis 10, Missouri Dear Dr. Greenman: In 1946 the Missouri Botanical Garden purchased a set of herbarium specimens of our collections of species of Nicotiana. I now have rather effective line drawings of fifty-nine species and varieties which will appear in my forthcoming monograph of the genus. It occurs to me that your Herbarium might care to have, as a gift, photo- static copies of these drawings, perhaps for inclusion in your collection of specimens of Nicotiana. If this is so please let me know. With best wishes Cordially …

… .S.A textbook of Grasses,1922,bd.976p.,111.$1.50 Standley.Flora District Columbia,1919,111.$4 Hooker's Icones plantarum New Series,vols.1-3/ or vols.5-7 of the entire work,1842-44,rare.$35 Companion to the Botanical Magazine,vols.1,2,1835-6,bd. col.pl.$10 Horsfield,T.H.J.Bennett,R.Brown.Plantae Javanicae Rariores,part.1,3,4 ed.with plain plates,1838-52/Folio.$8 Huber,J.Novitates florae amazonicae Mattas e madeiras amazonicas, 1910,E.$1.75 Jepson,W.L.Erythea,a journal of Botany West American and General vols.4-7,rare.$10 Illick,J.S.Pennsylvania trees,1915,231p.,111.$2 Kellogg & Greene.West American Oaks,1899,bd.4t …

16 April 1982 Mr. Wilfrid Blunt The Watts Gallery Compton, Guildford Surrey, England Dear Mr. Blunt: I have requested and been sent a review copy of Martyn Rix's The art of the plant world: The great botanical illustrators and their work, published in the United States by The Overlook Press, no date. Unfortunately, my review will not be totally favorable. Doubtless you have seen a copy. The art of botanical illustration seems to be the basis for parts of Rix's text. I note similarities, for example, in your own description of the Codex vindobonensis on page 10 (your second edition) and Rix's on page 12, your acco …

June 10, 1949 Dr. W. J. Robbins Director, New York Botanical Garden New York City, N. Y. Dear Dr. Robbins: In 1946 the New York Botanical Garden purchased a set of herbarium specimens of our collections of species of Nicotiana. I now have rather effective line drawings of fifty-nine species and varieties which will appear in my forthcoming monograph of the genus. It occurs to me that your Herbarium might care to have, as a gift, photo-static copies of these drawings, perhaps for inclusion in your collection of specimens of Nicotiana. If this is so please let me know. With best wishes Cordially yours, THG:T

… nstance certain species, not from Syria but from other Mediterranean regions or from S.W. Arabia, which were then cultivated in Theban gardens. This view is disappointing as it reduces the interest of the "botanical chamber", but it appears that it must be accepted, since it is borne out by the fact that the only six plants which are definitely recognisable in the reliefs are not now native to Syria: Nymphaea coerulea Sav.; Punica gran- atum L.; Arum italicum L.; Dracunculus vulgaris Schott; Kalanchoe sp.; Iris sp. THEOPHRASTUS, though he lived more than a thousand years after the botanical chamber of THUTMOSIS I …

1839 BOTANICAL WORKS. NOW PUBLISHING MONTHLY. LARGE 15, 6d. SMALL 10, 6d. THE BOTANIST; E. MAUND, F.L.S., edited by R. HAMMOND, M.A., F.R.S., late Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. Comprising botanical expositions and engraved plates of the most admired Plants, cultivated in the Greenhouses, Stoves, and Open Gardens. The drawings are mostly coloured from nature, of the full size of the flowers. General descriptions of the plants, with their history, properties, habits, culture, and geographical distribution. Each volume will contain a Botanical Dictionary, written by Professor Hammond, il …

Missouri Botanical Garden 2315 Tower Grove Avenue St. Louis 10, Missouri PROSPECT 5567 July 11, 1949 Dr. T. H. Goodspeed Department of Botany University of California Berkeley, California Dear Dr. Goodspeed: I am very happy to acknowledge receipt of the sketches of Nocotiana which you sent us recently as a gift. We will be glad to incorporate these in the herbarium. I have recently accessioned the specimens of your fourth expedition to the Andes, and must tell you how much I admire these specimens. With best regards, Robert E. Woodson, Jr. Curator of the Herbarium

… re considering now contains in 435 chapters almost the complete arsenal of medicines known at that time. 382 chapters deal with plants, and of these only 14 are not illustrated; the remaining 53 chapters, in which animal and mineral remedies are treated, only show 11 illustrations. It is noteworthy, that none of the wood-blocks have been taken over from the Herbarius, but they have all been produced anew. Whereas the earlier pictures had an average height of 95 mm, the new ones were cut 155 - 170 mm high (in some cases only 130 mm) and between 70 and 115 mm broad. Apart from a few exotic herbs, which seem to have

June 27, 1949 Dr. Robert E. Woodson, Jr. Curator of the Herbarium Missouri Botanical Garden 2315 Tower Grove Avenue St. Louis 10, Missouri Dear Dr. Woodson: The set of photostatic copies of drawings of species and varieties of Nicotiana referred to in my letter of June 10th was forwarded to you a few days ago. I am glad that you feel that they will be useful in your Herbarium. No data other than names accompany the illustrations. However, I hope to supply you with copies of page proof of my forthcoming monograph containing descriptions of the species involved which can be attached to the appropriate photostat. Wi …

… al is burned, performed famous experiment of growing weighed tree in weighed soil to determine source of 'food'; Edme Mariotte (c 1620-1684),studied ascent of sap in plants in relation to grafts between wild and cultivated pears. Figures in botanical exploration: Hans Sloane (1660-1753), brought to England and described a collection of plants from Jamaica (worked by Ray); James Cunningham investigated flora of China and described tea plant; Rumphius (Georg Eberhard Rumpf, 1668-1702), worked on flora of Moluccas (Ambolina) in Herbarium Amboinense (1741-1755), the famous Dutch East India Co. manuscript, unpublished

Earl of Arundel and to Sir Philip Sidney was only one of a number of treasures which were the consequence of a new investigation of the Goodyer papers. Of special interest is a very early copy of the Last Poem of Sir Walter Raleigh, beginning "Even such is time," penned in the margin of a letter, dated November 7, 1618, and therefore written within 10 days of his execution. At that time the study of flowers and poetry were never far apart, and so our searching for plant-records of the period have frequently led us into the domain of literary notes on the broad margins of old herbal books, as in the case of the ma …

… . vol. 6. Kuntze, C. 1891-96. Revisio generum plantarum. 3 vols. Lugnac, M. 1816. Plenichum plantarum, quae in horto regio botanico patritensi celebantur...... 6 + 6 + 35 pp. Leavenworth, S. C. 1834. In Silliman, B. American Journal of science and art. vol. 2. Linnaeus, C. 1735. Species plantarum. 2 vols. Holmiae. [Facsimile ed. by Ray Society, London, 1952.] Mimosa, pp. 216-23. 1766-67. Ioid., ed. 2. Holmiae. 1759. Systema naturae, ed. 10. Holmiae. 1806. Species plantarum, Ed. 4 by C. L. Willdenow. Vol. 4, part 2. Acadia, pp. 10-9-92. Serolini. Lindley, J. 1830. Acacia nila. In Edward's botanical register 12: t.

… n by W. H. Davies, pp. ix, 184, [2], original boards, 8vo, cloth, London, Hakluyt Press, 1930 £4 10s (311) Scarce. Edition limited to 500 copies. 1822 Northcote (R.) The Book of Herbs, pp. xi, 212, with 18 illustrations, 8vo, cloth, 1903 15s ($2) Handbooks of Practical Gardening XII 1823 Oudeman (C. A. J. A.) Aanteekeningen, het systematisch en pharmacognostisch botanische gedeelte der Pharmacopoea Neerlandica, pp. xii, 111, xxvii, 661, 31, with 37 anatomical plates, 8vo, boards, Rotterdam, 1854-56 £7 10s (318) 1824 Pharmacopoeia Internationalis, published by the World Health Organisation, 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, Ge …

… Park in 1929. He has built up one of the largest private collections of Hawaiian plants in existence, numbering between 40,000 and 50,000 specimens. Two years ago he took his specimens back to the New York Botanical Garden, (which contains one of the finest herbaria, especially of Pacific Island plants, in the world,) and made an intensive study of Hawaiian species. Recently he returned to Hawaii. At his last expedition he has employed and developed several collectors and student artists, who have assisted him in collecting plants and making drawings of them. In 1930 he published an excellent "Illustrated Guide t …

TULANE UNIVERSITY The College of Arts and Sciences NEW ORLEANS 18 Copy Department of Botany 13 January 1959 Dr. George B. VanSchaack Librarian, Missouri Botanical Garden St. Louis 10 Dear George: This confirms the book order reserved for Howard-Tilton Memorial Library of this University. Incidentally, we have Meyer's Geschichte der Botanik, a most desirable item. Perhaps Lloyd Shinners may not have it? I shall not take time to alphabetize the following items but here are the University purchases: 1) Jacquin, Joseph Nicolaus Observationum botanicorum iconibus. (Vienne, 1764) parts I and II (of 4 parts). Fine. $75. …