Elmer Drew Merrill records 1876-1956.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Elmer Drew Merrill records 1876-1956.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42283677

Collection documents Merrill's tenure as Director and Secretary of the Board of Managers of the New York Botanical Garden.

5 boxes (2 linear ft.)

New York Botanical Garden, The LuEsther T. Mertz Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7447436

New York Botanical Garden, The LuEsther T. Mertz Library

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

New York Botanical Garden

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63b9w9d (corporateBody)

Clemens, Joseph, 1862-1936.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vd83qd (person)

Loureiro, João ˜deœ 1710-1791

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cr7gns (person)

Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q2429d (person)

Elmer Drew Merrill was born in East Auburn, Maine in 1876 and died in 1956. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Maine in 1898 and his master's in 1904. In 1902 he went to the Philippines where he remained for 21 years as professor of botany at the University of the Philippines and director of the Bureau of Science at Manila. He was a director of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard and administrator of the botanical collections there. Before coming to Harvard in 1935 he served as...

Clemens, Mary Strong, 1873-1968.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bp0t0r (person)

Mary Strong Clemens (1873-1968) was a botanical explorer who collected in remote areas of the South Pacific. She transmitted valuable material to George B. Cummins, Edwin Bingham Copeland, R. E. Holttum, Elmer Drew Merrill and C. G. G. J. van Steenis, all of whom relied extensively upon her collections for their studies. She was born Mary Knapp Strong in New York in 1873. She married Joseph Clemens, a Methodist Episcopal clergyman in 1894. She collected as she moved from post to post with him. T...

Pacaraima-Venezuela Expedition, Inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k41nq4 (corporateBody)

Archbold Expedition to New Guinea

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x11m62 (corporateBody)

Ling nan da xue (Guangzhou, China)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kd632n (corporateBody)

Lingnan University, located in Canton, China, was formerly known as Canton Christian College. It received its charter from the New York Board of Regents in 1893. American involvement with the University ended in 1949 following the Communist takeover of Canton. The Trustees of Lingnan University supported other institutions and programs after 1949, including Chung Chi College, Lingnan College and the Lingnan Institute of Business Administration, all in Hong Kong. From the description ...