Approximately 315 items

Consists of Fernald's incoming and outgoing corresondence. Also included are documents related to Fernald's travels and research, including receipts, research proposals, telegrams, and a fishing license. Correspondents are: Charles Humphrey Bissell, Sidney Fay Blake, Laura M. Bragg, LeBaron Russell Briggs, Richard Field, Helen C. Gaskin, Melvin R. Gilmore, George Lincoln Goodale, John M. Gould, Jerome Davis Greene, John P. Haliburton, Herman Theodor Holm, George M. Houghton, Vincent S. Jones, Clarence H. Knowlton, H.S. Latham, Eleanor Ashton Lewis, David Hunt Linder, Eugene Lindsay (The Lawrence Newfoundland Co., Ltd.), Burton E. Livingston, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, James Melville Macoun, James W. Mercer (Newfoundland Game and Inland Fisheries Board), George T. Moore, George R. Noyes, Henry L. Osborn, Arthur Stanley Pease, A.W. Piccott (Newfoundland Game and Inland Fisheries Board), Morten Pedersen Porsild, James Sturgis Pray, Francis M. Rackemann, Benjamin Rand, William Penn Rich, J.M. Riddell, I.C. Robertson, Reed C. Rollins, A. McKinley Rose, Albert S. Rose, Harold St. John, J.L. Taylor, Edgar N. Transeau, William Henry Twenhofel, Sereno Watson, and Mrs. John Whalen

Gaspe Peninsula Collecting Trips project

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Consists of Fernald's incoming and outgoing correspondence. Also included are documents related to Fernald's travels and research, including receipts, research proposals, telegrams, and a fishing license. Much of the correspondence is related to Gaspé Peninsula collecting trips. Correspondents are: Charles Humphrey Bissell, Sidney Fay Blake, Laura M. Bragg, LeBaron Russell Briggs, Richard Field, Helen C. Gaskin, Melvin R. Gilmore, George Lincoln Goodale, John M. Gould, Jerome Davis Greene, John P. Haliburton, Herman Theodor Holm, George M. Houghton, Vincent S. Jones, Clarence H. Knowlton, H.S. Latham, Eleanor Ashton Lewis, David Hunt Linder, Eugene Lindsay (The Lawrence Newfoundland Co., Ltd.), Burton E. Livingston, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, James Melville Macoun, James W. Mercer (Newfoundland Game & Inland Fisheries Board), George T. Moore, George R. Noyes, Henry L. Osborn, Arthur Stanley Pease, A.W. Piccott (Newfoundland Game & Inland Fisheries Board), Morten Pedersen Porsild, James Sturgis Pray, Francis M. Rackemann, Benjamin Rand, William Penn Rich, J.M. Riddell, I.C. Robertson, Reed C. Rollins, A. McKinley Rose, Albert S. Rose, Harold St. John, J.L. Taylor, Edgar N. Transeau, William Henry Twenhofel, Sereno Watson, and Mrs. John Whalen

The majority of M.L. Fernald's post-1930 correspondence is in the Administrative Correspondence of the Gray Herbarium and Harvard University Herbaria collection (call number gra00079)

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 Trips Project is a composite of materials from several archival collections and consists 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

Merritt Lyndon Fernald papers, 1887-1951, bulk 1887-1934. gra00023. Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University

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