Norman Taylor papers, 1631-1967.

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Norman Taylor papers, 1631-1967.

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Collection documents Taylor's research into medicinal botany, especially psychotropic plants; his career as director of the Cinchona Products Institute; his work as a popular writer on gardening subjects and his expeditions and recreational travels. A holographic letter probably from the Condesa de Chinchon dated 1631 is found in the Cinchona Products Institute series.

38 boxes (21.33 lin. ft.)

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Kravchenko, Victor, 1905-1966

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Cinchona Products Institute.

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Taylor, Norman, 1883-1967

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Norman Taylor (1883-1967) was a popular author on gardening subjects and medicinal botany. He is best known for Taylor's Garden Encyclopedia. He was born in Hereford, England and emigrated to Yonkers, N.Y. in 1889. After two years at Cornell University, he began work in the Forestry Dept. of the New York Zoological Park. He was hired by Nathaniel Lord Britton as a museum assistant at the New York Botanical Garden. He worked with Britton and G.V. Nash as a collector on expeditions to Cuba, Haiti,...