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Botany -- Study and teaching.

 Subject
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Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Albert M. Johnson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-3506
Scope and content

Notebooks from Civil Engineering courses, including typescript notes on sanitary engineering by Estevan Fuertes and notes on geodesy by C.L. Crandall. Also botany notes, published lecture on foundations, analytical geometry syllabus, transit book, and letter with designs from Tiffany & Co. about a civil engineering pin. Also silver "Cornell 93" stamp holder from "Bernstein The Tailor, 74 East State Street, Ithaca, NY." (MU-1250)

Dates: 1892-1895.

Andre Jagendorf papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-52-4263
Scope and content

Biographical material, photographs, newspapers clippings, and certificates relating to his career in plant biology at Cornell and bound copies of his publications (1951-1990).



Dates: 1948-2017

Anna Eliza Jenkins papers

 Collection
Identifier: 37-5-928
Abstract

Anna Eliza Jenkins was an American Mycologist who specialized in phytopathology. The Anna Eliza Jenkins papers (1908-1962) contain class materials, botanical drawings, Jenkin's 1912 thesis, correspondence, reunion materials, certificates and awards, society materials, and photographs.

Dates: 1908 - 1962

Clement Gray Bowers papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4098
Scope and content

Collection includes class notes; annotated volume of RHODODENDRONS AND AZALEAS, 1936; and plates for that volume; certificate of Pi Alpha Xi membership, 1923; and a Gold Medal Citation and tape recording from the American Rhododendron Society, 1963.



Dates: 1923-1972.

Cornelius Stephens Thacher scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064944733]
Identifier: 37-5-755
Scope and content

Lecture admittance cards, printed examination questions, programs, lecture notes, newspaper clippings, mainly on botanical subjects and related memorabilia.

Dates: 1872-1878.

Edward O'Garro student notebooks

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065233631]
Identifier: 37-5-1601
Scope and content

Notebooks from courses at Cornell University in botany, taught by A. N. Prentiss; French, taught by William Channing Russell; political economy; moral philosophy, taught by William D. Wilson; and history, taught by Goldwin Smith and William Channing Russell. Also, a notebook on various subjects from lectures given outside Cornell University by Henry Ward Beecher, Leonard M. Bacon, William H. Seward, and Anna Dickinson.

Dates: 1868-1871.

Harold E. Moore Jr. papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 34-1-3097
Scope and content

Correspondence, slides, and publications concerning Harold E. Moore's career and his research on tropical plants and the classification of palms.

Dates: 1948-1980.

Irving Porter Church papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065187613]
Identifier: 37-5-837
Scope and content

Student notes from courses in mechanics, physics, geometry, botany, and Spanish at Cornell University. Also, "Advance Pages from the Revised Edition of Mechanics of Engineering," by Church,1908. A volume of manuscript notes on mechanics is cataloged separately (37-5-837 Bd. Ms. 1).

Dates: 1870-1913.

Karl McKay Wiegand papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-17-1233
Scope and content

Includes botany department correspondence and memoranda, ca.1921-1941; list of species in Cayuga marshes, August 4, 1893; two slides of a botanical expedition, 1924; photographs of former members of the Cornell University Botany (now Plant Biology) Department faculty; and other papers of Karl McKay Wiegand, 1906-1932.

Dates: 1893-1941.

Laboratory work in botany

 Collection — Box 2: [Barcode: 31924112432590]
Identifier: 37-5-3665
Scope and content

Botany laboratory notebook, "Laboratory Work in Botany by O.E. Pearce 1883-1884 Cornell University Ithaca N.Y."

Dates: 1883-1884.