Herbarium Curator (Robert Woodson) records, 1945-1967.

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Herbarium Curator (Robert Woodson) records, 1945-1967.

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The correspondence and loan file is concerned with outgoing loans, gifts, purchases, and exchanges with outside individuals and institutions. Most of the correspondence is with Robert Woodson, who was Curator from 1948-1955 and 1958-1963. Letters to George Van Schaack, Acting Curator from 1955-1958; and James Duke, Assistant Curator from 1960-1963, are common throughout. In addition to routine herbarium business, major subjects are the Missouri Botanical Garden, Robert Woodson, and other botanists. There are many letters on the distribution of butterfly weed, Asclepias tuberosa, which was Woodson's specialty. The file is in its original order, by country or state, and then by city, institution, or collector. Woodson's records, like Greenman's, are the details backing up very brief accession records. The correspondence and loan file is continued in three files now maintained by the herbarium workroom. They are cancelled loans, exchanges, and African records. Cancelled loans of Missouri Botanical Garden staff consist of loan forms and associated correspondence for incoming loans to Missouri Botanical Garden research staff and students. There are files on Edgar Anderson, Henry Andrews, Calaway H. Dodson, Robert Dressler, James A. Duke, Tseng-Chieng Huang, Gordon Hunter, Phung Trung Ngan, Howard Pfeifer, Fuad Safwat, George B. Schaack, and Frits Went. In the files of Dodson and Ngan, correspondence is extensive.

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Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H Raven Library

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Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H Raven Library

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Ngan, Phung Trung.

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Anderson, Edgar, 1897-1969

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The third director of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Plant geneticist and professor of botany at Washington University. From the description of Edgar Shannon Anderson papers, 1898-1972. (Missouri Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 61772589 ...

Went, F. W. (Frits Warmolt), 1903-

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Went (1903-1992) was a professor at CalTech, 1933-1958; director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1958-1963; and director of the Desert Research Institute at Reno, Nevada, 1965-; discovered the plant hormone auxin. From the description of Frits Warmolt Went papers, 1936-1990. (Missouri Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 61772668 ...

Missouri botanical garden

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Andrews, Henry N. (Henry Nathaniel), 1910-2002

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Duke, James A., 1929-....

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Van Schaack, George B.

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Safwat, Fuad M.

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Hunter, Gordon Eugene.

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Woodson, Robert Everard 1904-1963

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Curator of the herbarium at the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1948-1955 and 1958-1963; educated at Washington University; American systematic botanist specializing in the family Asclepidaceae. From the description of Robert Everard Woodson papers, 1927-1963. (Missouri Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 61772677 From the description of Herbarium Curator (Robert Woodson) records, 1945-1967. (Missouri Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 61773037 ...

Huang, Tseng-chieng

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Pfeifer, Howard William, 1928-

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Dressler, Robert L., 1927-

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Dodson, Calaway H. 1928-

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