Scope and Contents A pharmacist and botanist of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Rau became an authority on mosses and fungi, assembling large collections which mostly went to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Elected a correspondent of this Academy in 1883, he bequeathed a collection of books to it (mostly from L. D. von Schweinitz library) and an herbarium of flowering plants. He published jointly with A. B. Hervey, a Catalogue of North American Musci, 1880. Formerly in the keeping of...

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Philadelphia botanist, biographer, historian and professor, Harshberger's correspondence is chiefly with 86 other botanists. His book "Botanists of Philadelphia and Their Works," protrays a history of American botany along with the biographies.

Gift of Zoo-Botany Department, University of Pennsylvania through Dr. John Fogg and Mrs. Ida Langman, Dec. 21, 1959