Records, 1924-1975.

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Records, 1924-1975.

Included are administrative records, 1924-1972; illustrated lecture notes, slide catalogs, and correspondence; general correspondence, 1965-1975; subject files; newsletters; and ephemera. A little more than half of the collection consists of photographic prints and acetate and glass plate negatives.

17 linear ft.

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Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.)

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The Society was founded in Washington, D.C. by Percy L. Ricker and Edgar T. Wherry among others. Sponsorship of the Society passed to the New York Botanical Garden in l965. In 1974 it was dissolved. From the description of Records, 1924-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155462246 ...

New York Botanical Garden

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Wherry, Edgar Theodore, 1885-

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"Edgar Theodore Wherry was born on September 10, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After graduating from the Friends Central School in 1902, he received a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry in 1906 and a Ph.D. in Geology-Mineralogy in 1909. "He taught for five years as an assistant professor in the Geological Department of Lehigh University. In 1913, he became the assistant curator of mineralogy at the U.S. ...

Ricker, Percy Leroy, 1878-

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