William Wallace Denslow Botanical Manuscripts Collection, 1864-1868
1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 64
William Wallace Denslow Botanical Manuscripts Collection
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William Wallace Denslow Botanical Manuscripts Collection, 1864-1868
1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 64
Abstract:
A druggist who became interested in botany as a means of outdoor exercise to combat tuberculosis and collected a herbarium of 11,000-15,000 U.S. and European species. Collection consists of a single volume of manuscripts, chiefly letters, collected from significant botanists and other individuals, including William Henry Brewer, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Asa Gray, Isaac Hollister Hall, Thomas P. James, Horace Mann, Edward Sylvester Morse, Charles Horton Peck, George Edward Post, Frederick Ward Putnam, George Thurber, and John Torrey.
Terms of Access and Use: The collection is open for research. Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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