Thurber-Woolson Botanical Collection, 1803-1918
4 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 65
Thurber-Woolson Botanical Collection
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Thurber-Woolson Botanical Collection, 1803-1918
4 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 65
Abstract:
Letters, photographs, engravings, and clippings compiled by George Thurber, agrostologist, horticultural writer, and editor of American Agriculturist from 1863 to 1885, and augmented by George Clark Woolson, father of Harry Thurber Woolson. Bulk of the collection is the nearly 1,000 letters written by 336 correspondents, primarily botanists and other scientists, including Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, John Torrey, Frederick Law Olmsted, John James Audubon, Henry Ward Beecher, Jefferson Davis, Edward Payson Roe, Donald G. Mitchell, and George Brown Goode.
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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