Eleanor Cross Marquand papers 1905-1934.

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Eleanor Cross Marquand papers 1905-1934.

Collection documents Cross Marquand's avocational research into horticulture and landscape design.

1 box (5.5 lin. in.)

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Rankin, Walter Mead, 1857-1947

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Professor of biology at Princeton University; botanist, of Princeton, N.J. From the description of Some notes on Princeton trees, [ca. 1940]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70964877 Botanist and teacher, of Princeton, N.J. From the description of Notes on botany, 1882-1914. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70965730 ...

Svenson, Henry K.

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Henry Knute Svenson (1897-1986) (Harvard, Ph.D. 1929) was curator of Brooklyn Botanical Garden, N.Y., 1930-1946, and chief botanist for the Vincent Astor Expedition to the Galapagos Islands in 1930; curator in forestry and botany at American Museum of Natural History in N.Y., 1946- . Svenson also co-authored a guide to flora of Cape Cod (1979). From the description of Papers of Henry Knute Svenson, 1930-1983 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269373189 ...

New York Botanical Garden

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Marquand, Eleanor Cross, 1873-1950

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Eleanor Cross Marquand (1873-1950) is most noted for her research on the botanical symbolism of the Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was granted an honorary M.A. by Princeton in 1948. Cross Marquand was a student of horticulture and botany. She contributed to the Garden Club of America Bulletin and the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. She was born in New York in 1873 and died in Princeton, N.J. in 1950. She bequeathed her botanical and horticultural library to t...