Alice Eastwood papers. 1859-1981 (bulk 1958-1953).

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Alice Eastwood papers. 1859-1981 (bulk 1958-1953).

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Includes papers and materials relating to Alice Eastwood's life, primarily during her time as curator for the California Academy of Sciences. The collection includes memoirs, diaries, correspondence and field notes as well as materials relating to her collecting expeditions. Numerous personal objects and photographs are also housed in the collection as are publication written by and about Alice Eastwood. Series 1. Biographical Materials -- Series 2. Alice Eastwood Writings -- Series 3. Correspondence -- Series 4. Alice Eastwood Biographies -- Series 5. Herbarium and Hall of Botany -- Series 6. Commemorative Materials and Awards -- Series 7. News clippings and Articles about Alice Eastwood -- Series 8. Eastwoodiana Scrapbooks -- Series 9. Ephemera -- Series 10. Photographic Material.

80 boxes (19 manuscript boxes, 40 clamshell boxes, 4 extra large manuscript boxes, 4 half-width manuscript boxes, 3 flat oversized archives boxes, 1 photo album box, and 9 index boxes) (23.09 Cubic feet)

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California Academy of Sciences

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Scientific expeditions

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Eastwood, Alice, 1859-1953

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Eastwood was curator and later head of the Department of Botany at the California Academy of Sciences, 1849-1949. She was responsible for saving the Academy's type collection after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. While at the Academy, she carried out much collecting to build up the collection, published over 300 articles, and started a journal, Leaflets of Western botany. Her main botanical interests were west American Liliaceae and the genera Lupinus, Arctostaphylos and Castilleja. ...

California academy of sciences

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San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.

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