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James Franklin Collins materials related to Gaspé Peninsula plant collecting trips, 1892-1942, bulk 1906-1924

by: Collins, J. Franklin (James Franklin), 1863-1940, author, correspondent

Publication date: 1892-1942

Topics: Botanists, Collins, J. Franklin (James Franklin), 1863-1940 -- Correspondence, Botanists -- Correspondence, Collins, J. Franklin (James Franklin), 1863-1940, Plants -- Québec (Province) -- Gaspé Peninsula, Gaspé Peninsula (Québec)

Collection: biodiversity; harvardbotanylibraries; Harvard_University

Contributor: Harvard University Botany Libraries

Language: English

Gaspe Peninsula Collecting Trips project

Electronic finding aid available

New England botanists, Merritt Lyndon Fernald of Harvard University and James Franklin Collins, of Brown University, often made short summer trips to the Gaspe area beginning in 1904 and continuing through 1923. Other noted botanists joined them on these trips which yielded new and interesting plant material. The Gaspe Peninsula Collecting Papers collecting trips project is a composite of materials from several archival collections and consist of field notes, maps, photographs, correspondence, and other items. The material provides insights into the challenges of early 20th century plant collecting, documents the flora of the region, and is frequently consulted by researchers interested in the Gaspe region

James Franklin Collins papers, 1883-1942. gra00017. Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University

In: James Franklin Collins papers, 1883-1942

Abstract: Consists primarily of correspondence from Collins to Merritt Lyndon Fernald and Benjamin Lincoln Robinson. Includes a few letters each to Jesse More Greenman, Mary A. Day, and Charles Alfred Weatherby, and a few letters from Elmer D. Merrill and Kenneth Tanner. Contains an account of Collins's trip to Mt. Albert in 1905, a few plant lists, a contour map of the Mt. Logan area, and correspondence and additional items related to Collins's death and the execution of his will.

Addeddate: 2018-10-17 18:39:52

Associated-names: Bent, Arthur, correspondent; Dodge, Carroll William, 1895-1988, correspondent; Fernald, Merritt Lyndon, 1873-1950, correspondent; Griscom, Ludlow, 1890-1959, correspondent; Pease, Arthur Stanley, 1881-1964 correspondent; Smith, Lyman B., correspondent