Scope and Contents This is a collection of records related to the Academy's Botany department. Materials include general files and departmental correspondence dating from the 1970s and 1980s from the offices of James Mears, Alfred E. Schuyler, Joan Apfelbaum, Helen Greenwood, and others. The collection includes earlier correspondence of Alexander MacElwee, Walter Benner, C.D. Fretz, and others, related to the acquisition and identification of specimens (1877-1920). Notebooks and catalogs of the Botany...

Scope and Contents The Ida Kaplan Langman Papers consist primarily of incoming correspondence Langman received regarding botanical collecting in Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s and related bibliographic projects. Botanists Langman corresponded with and represented in the collection include Helia Bravo Hollis, Margery C. Carlson, Joseph Ewan, Maximino Martínez, Faustino Miranda González, Helen O’Gorman, and Jerzy Rzedowski Rotter. Also included is correspondence from other researchers active in Mexico in the...