Records, 1894-1933.

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Records, 1894-1933.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155462252

Records consist primarily of Elizabeth G.K. Britton's correspondence with local wild flower preservation groups in the U.S., 1894-1933. Prominent correspondents include Alice Owen Anderson, Margaret E. Allen, Edward Fuller Bigelow, Emma Lucy Braun, Thornton Waldo Burgess, Henry Chandler Cowles, Fanny Day Farwell, Harvey Wicker Felter, Albert August Hansen, John William Harshberger, Charles Frederick Millspaugh, Percy L. Ricker, and Edgar T. Wherry.

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Farwell, Fanny Day.

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Hansen, Albert August.

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Ricker, Percy Leroy, 1878-

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Braun, E. Lucy (Emma Lucy), 1889-1971

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Wild Flower Preservation Society of America

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This Society was founded in 1902 primarily by Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton. After 1924 it restricted its scope to New York State, and it was dissolved in 1933. From the description of Records, 1894-1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155462252 ...

Felter, Harvey Wicker.

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Anderson, Alice E.

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Harshberger, John W. (John William), 1869-1929

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Botanist, naturalist, educator and author; B.S. and Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, (1892 and 1893); faculty, botany and biology, U. of Pennsylvania (1889-1929); officer and director of numerous professional societies; author of works on plant geography of North America; noted for research on various determining factors of plant distribution in North America. From the description of Papers, 1894-1929. (University of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122492365 Philadelphia-born b...

Cowles, Henry Chandler

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Millspaugh, Charles Frederick, 1854-1923

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Allen, Margaret E. Caffrey

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Pollard, Charles O.

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Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo), 1874-1965

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Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude

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Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton (1857-1934) was a bryologist, educator and one of the founders of the New York Botanical Garden. She served as Honorary Curator of Mosses from 1912-1929. she was born Elizabeth Gertrude Knight in New York City on January 9, 1857. After graduating from Normal School (Hunter College) in 1875, she taught Natural Science there until her marriage to Nathaniel Lord Britton in 1885. She was active in the Torrey Botanical Club as Curator of Mosses (1884-1885) and editor...

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. ...

Bigelow, Edward Fuller.

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