Papers of Edith Scamman, 1896-1966 (inclusive), 1936-1966 (bulk).

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Papers of Edith Scamman, 1896-1966 (inclusive), 1936-1966 (bulk).

Includes small amount of correspondence; course notes; 11 botanical notebooks; notebooks on Alaskan and Canadian plants and ferns of Costa Rica and New Hampshire; photographs of Costa Rica and Alaska; and biographical material.

ca. 3.5 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6932944

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Harvard University. Board of Overseers

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The Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting was established in the spring of 1977 to recognize and encourage book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. It is sponsored by the Members of the Board of Overseer's Committee to Visit the Harvard University Library. From the description of General information about the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting. 1977- (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228511952 The Board of Overseers i...

Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Scamman, Edith Henry, 1882-1967.

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Scamman (Wellesley College, B.A. 1907; Radcliffe, M.A. 1909) later studied botany with M. L. Fernald and made several collecting trips to Alaska to study plant distributions in unglaciated areas; as a result, some 5000 specimens were given to the Gray Herbarium. In 1947 her work on ferns in New Hampshire was published; she then studied the ferns of Costa Rica, which resulted in four articles. Between 1942 and 1967 Scammon was associated with Gray Herbarium as a member of the Visiting Committee a...