Consists of several items including handwritten notes on collecting trips, notes on various plants, and lists of herbarium specimens to study in Paris, the British Museum, and at the Linnean Society. A list of hay fever plants in New England gives common and Latin names and dates of pollination. Most of the items are undated. The only dated material are the first item, In the Summer of 1905; and List of Hay Fever Plants in New England, dated 1928. Also included are notes Fernald took on Coreopsis

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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