Palmyre de Chateaudun Mitchell papers 1925-1931.

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Palmyre de Chateaudun Mitchell papers 1925-1931.

Collection documents Mitchell's career as Associate Curator at the New York Botanical Garden; primarily her work on the Eugene P. Bicknell herbarium.

1 enclosure .05 lin. in.

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New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium

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Begun in 1896 with the transfer of the Columbia University Herbarium, the Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden has grown to become one of the world's largest and most active. Encompassing the collections of many renowned botanists and plant explorers, the Garden has led over 800 expeditions to botanically unknown areas since its founding. Geographical emphasis has always been on the flora and mycota of the New World. From the description of Records of the Herbarium Office, 1909...

Bicknell, Eugene Pintard, 1859-1925.

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New York Botanical Garden

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Mitchell, Palmyre de Chateaudun, d. 1968.

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Palmyre de Chateaudun Mitchell began her career at the New York Botanical Garden as a Museum Aide, working in the herbarium sorting and filing specimens. An amateur botanist and linguist, she was promoted to Associate Curator in 1925. She left in 1932. In 1968 she died at her daughter's home in Memphis, TN. From the description of Palmyre de Chateaudun Mitchell papers 1925-1931. (New York Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 44146086 ...

Denslow, Herbert McKenzie, 1852-1944.

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