Papers of Franklin Post Metcalf (1930-1946)

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Papers of Franklin Post Metcalf (1930-1946)

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This collection consists of manuscript papers dealing with the flora of China. There are a large number of copies of letters from Franklin P. Metcalf to Dr. F.A. McClure from 1939-1940. In addition there are items of memorabilia including a small photograph of F.P. Metcalf, his business cards, photographs and a curiculum vitae of his son John E. Metcalf, an economist, and extracts from the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum mentioning F.P. Metcalf. The collection also includes cardboard folders of containing typed and handwritten notes on Chinese flora. The folders are labelled with a family name and general description. Many folders contain small maps of the Fukien province with plant information filled in on the reverse side. Also included are some reprints, and carbon copies of correspondence both to and from Metcalf regarding specific flora.

33 linear in.

Harvard University, Botany Libraries

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Harvard University, Botany Libraries

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Arnold Arboretum

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The planning for the Arnold Arboretum Centennial celebration began in 1967 when Dr. Richard A. Howard, Arboretum Director from 1954-1978, appointed committees of supporters and visiting-committee members to raise funds for the upcoming event. The week-long celebration (May 21-28, 1972) opened with a banquet in a downtown Boston hotel that featured an address by William T. Stearn, famous taxonomist and botanist from the British Museum of Natural History. Events included a daylong symposium on "Po...

Metcalf, Franklin P. (Franklin Post), 1892-

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Franklin Post Metcalf was born on June 10, 1892, in Oberlin, Ohio. He was an assistant ornithologist at Oberlin College from 1912-1913 and received his A.B. from the school in 1913. He was a botanist at Cornell University from 1913-1916. During the summers of those years he was a tutor at Kamp Kiamesha in Vermont (1913), an assistant instructor at Cornell (1914), and an assistant instructor for Professor Lynd Jones' field course (1915). He was an instructor at Cornell during the 1916-1917 academ...