Papers of George Lincoln Goodale, 1885-1921.

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Papers of George Lincoln Goodale, 1885-1921.

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Papers, 1894-1911, contain letters relating to the reorganization of the Visiting Committee to the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum into two separate committees, 1911; personal correspondence; professional correspondence; botanical notes; and correspondence, photographs, and a manuscript relating to the discovery by Erwin Barbour of Devil's Corkscrew fossils (daemonelix) in Nebraska. Diaries, 1910-1921 consist of eight printed diaries with manuscript entries by GLG. Entries document the weather, daily activities including travel, and health. Additional notes of a financial or medical nature, addresses, and clippings appear at the front and back of each volume. Volumes date from 1910, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1920, and 1921.

3 containers (1 folder and 2 boxes) of mss.

Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University Archives.

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