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June 20, 1949 Dr. L. Constance Herbarium Dear Dr. Constance: With regard to the set of photostatic copies of drawings of species of Nicotiana I hope to supply the Herbarium with copies of the page proof of my forthcoming monograph containing descriptions of the species involved which can be attached to the appropriate photostat. Sincerely, THG:T

… oker, J. D. - Genera Plantarum London: Lovell Reeve: 1862 - 1883 (repr. 1965) Usefull. Many people consider this an indispensible work, I don't. * Engler, A. & Prantl, K. - Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien (ed. 1)(4 vols in 24) Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann:1887 - 1914 If only one work of this kind is to be available, this should be it! Particularly valuable for the illustrations. Rendle, A. B. - The Classification of Flowering Plants (2 vols.) Cambridge: University Press: 1925, 1930 (repr. 1963) A good textbook, with a bias toward the British flora Hutchinson, J. - The Families of Flowering Plants (ed. 2) (2 vols.)

THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT SATURDAY JANUARY 5 1946 THORNDIKE, LYNN, and BENJAMIN, FRANCIS S. (Editors). The Herbal of Rutinus. Edited from the Unique Manuscript No. 67. London: University of Chicago Press. 275. 60. An edition of the Latin text of the late thirteenth century work of Rutinus on herbs, made from a rotograph of what seems to be the only manuscript extant, in the Biblioteca Medicea at Florence. The edition is for the herbal is that although it is largely a compilation, Rutinus's own additions to the work of his authorities make his descriptive botany for particular plants "more specific and discrim …

Die Anwendung des Holzschnittes zur Bildlichen Darstellung von Pflanzen. L.C. Treurnicus. Leipzig 1853 Buch der Natur. Augsburg 1482. First book with wood cuts? plants Conrad von Megenberg Brunfels. The first ed. of his Herbarum was exquisitely printed on better paper - more beautiful print than the manuscript p 10 Treurnicus considers that a number of the figures in Brunfels' first edition are much better than succeeding ones of the same subjects. Fuchs, Regis, Coda & even Dodonaeus e.g. Plantago, Symphoricarpos alba, Sulla biebellia. Others (automatically interlinewritten) p 63. Decline of woodengraving as a wa …

June 10, 1949 Dr. Lincoln Constance Herbarium Dear Dr. Constance: Confirming our recent conversation I am enclosing herewith, for inclusion in the Herbarium, photostatic copies of drawings of fifty-nine species and varieties of Nicotiana which will be published in my forthcoming monograph of the genus. Sincerely yours, THG:T

page 7 information for particular objects under study. (Dave) In order to allow us to proceed with some work that I want you all to do individually, I have to give you some basic thoughts and processes on herbarium materials. The col- lections of materials kept by botanists in pigeonholes in cases similar to this are the same thing as a zoologist calls museum specimens, or in our case we call them herbarium specimens. In the last few years or a matter of fact for a very long time, there has been a rather derogatory opinion of anyone who meddled around with scrappy little hunks of junk, squashed out flat, dried an …

TULANE UNIVERSITY College of Arts and Sciences NEW ORLEANS 18 Department of Botany 18 June 1957 Dr. George B. VanSchaack Missouri Botanical Garden St. Louis 10 Dear George: Since Dr. Morris is anxious to settle the information to be had from herbal sources, I'll take up the last letter first, and reply to your most helpful earlier one on ANNALS, etc., at a trifle later date. Incidentally, it is quite clear that we shall not be able to make Colorado late in July. Just now it looks like Destin, Florida, August 10-20th. Last week I had a good trip collecting in no. La. with another visit to the Singer Game Preserve; …

John Parkinson. b. London 1567. Apothecary to King James I, & botanist to Charles I Pulleyn: "Rupes VBlay wright:" "In Parkinson's works we also find the name of Mrs. Thomasin Tunstal, a lady whom he celebrates, not only for her taste in cultivating gardens which was well stored with exotic, but for her knowledge of English botany, & her discoveries of several curious vegetables found about Dingleborough Hill, in Lancashire; which was not known before to grow in England." Parkinson's herbal was the last of any importance in which woodcuts were used in England The first herbal with wooden cuts was probably The Boo …

… rate. Usually only the outlines are drawn, hardly any shading is used. Underneath the pictures there is first the Latin and German name of the plant in large, thick type, then, in a smaller type, a description of its healing powers, usually 9 lines of it on the front, while the rest is placed on the back of the leaf. As there are 150 plants, this main part fills 300 pages. Added to these are a further 40 pages, on which 96 laxatives, spices, roots, hairs, salts, minerals and animal products, which could be purchased at the apothecaries', are dealt with shortly and without illustrations. Though, owing to its Latin

… I shall prepare and publish somewhere a special Catalogue of the plants growing in this, the smallest county in the State, but great in the number of plants. If you should conclude to shut off my supply of botanical literature, I hope that you will at least allow me to keep up my botanical studies in my own time and way. Even if such an emergency does occur, I shall not then be without some resources. I have a few botanical friends, who do not scold, nor impose unreasonable obstructions to my pursuit of knowledge. As I write casting my eyes on my book cases, old Micheli in a good dress appears to smile upon. I se …

[68] Link, H. F. 1821-22. Enumeratio plantarum hortii regii botanici berolinensis altera. 2 vol. Berolini. Little, E. L., Jr. 1953. Check list of native and naturalized trees of the United States (including Alaska). 472 pp. [U.S. Dep't. Agr., Agriculture Handbook #41] Washington. __________. 1959. In Phytologia 6: 506. 1959. Lundell, C. L. 1937. Studies of Mexican and Central American plants I. In his Vegetation of Petén. ix + 244 pp, 39 pl. (incl. map). [Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. #78.] Washington. __________. 1940. In Cont. Univ. Mich. Her. 4: 7-8. Ann Arbor. Martens, N. and Galeotti, H. G. 1843. In Acad. Sci. B …

Herbarum ovae exornes Otto Brunfels 1530 (Onomasticon medicinae Otto Brunfels 1534 Argyranthes, Joannem Schettan, found it at the end? Large wood blocks my beautiful naturalist Dracunculum majus p131 in comparison with Bryonia . Prunilla p25 . Herb Beaner (lax) p24 Beautiful full page drawings I see only Hellebore, but there are columns or no good depictions The actual prints is often very poor - The lines somewhat See [illegible] strongly never actually broken, the charming could hardly be improved Very little shading used, but then is chiefly like the In the 3rd vol (1536) the cuts are inferior to the previous …

C. The professional botanist who wishes to know more about this particular, and possibly rather unfamiliar, field of botany - Botanical Illustration. D. Artists and art students in general, especially those with an interest in the graphic arts or design. E. Uninformed amateur botanists and horticulturists. F. The casual and wholly uninformed visitor who is drawn to visit the collection through a mild interest in "Art," or "Flowers," or even through idle curiosity. These are listed in order of descending importance, but I feel that all categories deserve in some measure to be catered for. Seminars. What would obvi …

C. The professional botanist who wishes to know more about this particular, and possibly rather unfamiliar, field of botany - Botanical Illustration. D. Artists and art students in general, especially those with an interest in the graphic arts or design. E. Uninformed amateur botanists and horticulturists. F. The casual and wholly uninformed visitor who is drawn to visit the collection through a mild interest in "Art," or "Flowers," or even through idle curiosity. These are listed in order of descending importance, but I feel that all categories deserve in some measure to be catered for. Seminars. What would obvi …

… Harvard University--the combined Gray Herbarium and Arnold Arboretum Herbarium. Each of these three major institutions has about three million specimens. There are other institutions, many others. Missouri Botanical Garden has about one and a half million, and the Chicago Museum has about two million specimens. Philadelphia has about one million, and many universities, with the exception of Harvard which stands well above all the others, have large and very important herbaria. Altogether then in the major herbaria of the country, there are about 14 million specimens on record that would be of interest to work of …

without text, only with their Latin and German names and arranged so that there was a separate page for each of the 516 plant-pictures. But Fuchs had to give vent to his rage and put in a preface, from which I quote, with some abbreviations, the following sentences: "Two years ago I published in print a new herbal. But as this herbal, because of its size, can only be used at home, I have produced this handbook

… . It is clear that we have here one of the little volume which can strictly be called an herbal, but there still remain about a hundred recipes, mostly medical recipes, beginning with plague remedies. Such botanical interest as the herbal pos- sesses, lies chiefly in the descriptions of the plants employed in medicine. However, are often curiously sketchy. Cow Parsley (Poissil), for instance, receives no description beyond the statement that in the month of May the places where it grows are almost entirely white with its flowers; this, though true enough, is not very helpful for purposes of identification. But oc …

… 2,000 12,000 30,000 Fungi 0 10,000 10,000 Algae 0 5,000 5,000 Myxomycetes 0 300 300 Total 54,000 144,300 222,300 Important Collections in the Herbarium Phanerogam, Fern, and Vascular Cryptogam Collections Early Colorado collections (unicates) of Alice Eastwood, circa 1890. Early historic collections of Colorado plants from the herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Francis Ramaley Herbarium Abbé Letacq Herbarium Delphinium Herbarium of Joseph A. Ewan (monographer of the genus) William A. Weber Herbarium, 1936-68 (including special collections in Compositae) Exsiccati Plantes Pyreneennes (Z …

… ine at Leyden from 1582 till his death. Henry Lyte. Born in Somersetshire 1529. Studied at Oxford, travelled in foreign countries, & having met a number grave plants, on his return founded one of the first botanical gardens in England. d. 1607. Pulleney's Progress of botany in Engle: Dodoens Collected works were published in 1583. He divided plants into: 1. A number of Diosmila plants in alphabetical order 2. Flower garden plants; the umbelliferous tribe 3. Medicinal root: purgative plant: climbing parasmo plants: ferns, mosses, fungi 4. Grain: pulse: grains: water-smack plants 5. Edible plant: solid plant: escul …

… d. But to pile up Hawaiian specimens in the main herbaria of the world as I have done since 1922 hardly advances the Science of Botany. The material should be made available as soon as possible in print to botanical institutions in the Islands and elsewhere, and to local schools. So that interested workers should not be obliged to wait many decades before a complete Flora Hawaiensis becomes available, I publish fascicles of various lengths at irregular intervals, distributing 100 sets to them. The remaining copies are stored until a sufficient series accumulate for binding in book form. The first fascicle appeare …