Percy Wilson records 1908-1940.
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Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934
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Nathaniel Britton worked on plant varieties from Central and South America. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_170_pid_EACP167 Nathaniel Lord Britton (1857-1934) was a leading founder and first Director of the New York Botanical Garden. He was born at New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y. He received his Ph.D. in Geology from Columbia College in 1881 where he studied with John Strong Newberry. In 1886 he was named Professor of Geology and...
Wilson, Percy, 1879-1944.
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Percy Wilson (1879-1944) was an author and personal assistant to Nathaniel Lord Britton, founder of the New York Botanical Garden, from 1905-1929. He was named Associate Curator in 1914. Soon after the garden's founding, Britton dispatched Wilson, then a museum aide, to the East Indies on the " Total Eclipse Expedition" where he established official ties with botanic gardens in Asia. In 1902 he accompanied the Brittons on their first botanical exploration of Puerto Rico. Wilson wrote "The Vegeta...
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973
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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Robert Cushman Murphy and his wife, Grace Emiline Barstow Murphy. From the description of Letters, 1964-1971, n.d., to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155873220 Naturalist, scientist and environmentalist. From the description of Papers, [ca.1895-1965], ca.1895-ca.1965 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 156794758 Robert Cushman Murphy was a zoologist, ornithologist, and ocean...
Horne, Frances Worth, 1873-1967.
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Frances Worth Horne (1873-1967) was a botanical illustrator of the flowering plants of Puerto Rico. She was born in Watkins Glen, N.Y. After obtaining a B.A. from Ohio State University, she studied languages at Cornell University, receiving an M.A. . She taught classical languages at Westminster College in Colorado. She married Charles E. Horne in 1915. In 1918 they relocated to Puerto Rico. She remained there until Mr. Horne's death in 1963. In 1922, Mrs. Horne wrote to Nathaniel Lord Britton o...
