Library of the Gray Herbarium

Library of the Gray Herbarium

JAMES FRANKLIN COLLINS (1863-1940)

Container List

LETTERS

PHOTOGRAPHS

NEGATIVES & SLIDES

NOTEBOOKS & PAPERS

 

Container Listing:

LETTERS:

A

Andrews, Albert LeRoy: 1901-1912 / Asa Gray Bulletin: 1898


B

Barnes, Charles Reid: 1885-1895 / Bartlett, Harley Harris: 1907-1916 / Batchelder, Charles Foster: 1910 / Bennett, James Lawrence: 1890-1893 and n.d. / Blanchard, Ferdinand: 1884-1887 / Blanchard, William Henry: 1908-1915 / Boss, Ruth: 1910 / Boyce, Thomas E.: 1885-1887 / Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude: 1893-1912


C

Calkins, William Wirt: 1909-1910 / Cardot, Jules: 1905-1911 / Carr, C.M.: 1910-1911 / Carter, Laura A.: 1905, 1906 and n.d. / Chamberlain, Edward Blanchard : 1897-1925 / Cheney, Robert F.: 1902-1910 / Cherrington, Mary Edna: 1910 and n.d. / Chesnut, Victor King: 1899 / Churchill, Joseph Richmond: 1899-1909 / Clapp, Ida D.: 1904 / Clapp, Marguerite S.: n.d. / Clark, M.A.: 1896-1907 / Clarke, Cora Huidekoper: 1900-1908 / Clements, Jennie H.: 1886 / Clute, Willard Nelson: 1898-1899 / Collins, Frank Shipley: 1897-1918 / Corbière, Louis: 1902-1910 / Corville, Frderick Vernon: 1893-1898 / Cowles, Henry C.: 1908 and n.d. / Crockett, Alice L.: 1903-1907 / Croswell, Emily L.: 1916 / Crump, William Bunting: 1902 / Cummings, Clara Eaton: 1887-1902; 1907 / Cushman, Joseph Augustine: 1906-1908


D

Dame, Lorin Low: 1895-1899 / Davenport, George Edward: 1898-1905 / Davis, Harriet C.: 1899, 1901 / Day, Mary Anna: 1899-1911 / Deane, Walter : 1894-1918 / Dewey, Lyster Hoxie: 1891-1898 / Dismier, Gabriel: 1907-1911 / Dixon, Hugh Neville: 1906 / Dowell, Philip: 1911 / Dunham, Elizabeth Maria: 1911 / Dupret, Hippolyte Francois, Abbé: 1904-1913 / Dutton, Dura Lewis: 1910


E

Eames, E.E.: 1902 / East, Edward Murry: 1910 / Eastwood, Alice: 1893 / Eaton, Alvah Augustus: 1899-1906 / Eaton, Daniel Cady: 1892-1894 / Eaton, Lillian O.: 1901 and 1903 / Eggleston, Willard Webster: 1900 / Ehmke, Chas. W.: 1903-1905 / Evans, Alexander William: 1897-1917


F

Farrar, William Gardner: 1886 / Faxon, Charles Edward: 1902-1917 / Faxon, Edwin: 1898 / Fellows, Dana Willis: 1901-1911 / Fernald, Merritt Lyndon: 1892-1918 / Fernow, Bernhard Eduard: 1890-1909 and n.d. / Ferry, René: 1907 / Floyd, Frederick Gillan: 1902-1916 and n.d. / Foster, Albert Scott: 1907 / Fretz, Clayton Detweiler: 1885 / Furbish, Kate: 1901-1911


G

Ganong, William Francis: 1911 / Gardner, Henry B.: 1908 and n.d. / Gerritson, Walter: 1904 / Gilbert, Benjamin Davis: 1904-1905 / Glatfelter, Noah Miller: 1892 / Graves, Charles Burr: 1909 / Gravet, (Pierre Joseph) Frédéric: 1903 / Green, Arnold: 1895-1902 / Greenman, Jesse More: 1894-1912 / Grout, Abel Joel: 1898-1919


H

Hadley, Sarah B.: 1905-1907 / Halsted, Byron David: 1892 / Handy, Louise H.: 1903-1908 and n.d. / Handy, S.E. and Dr. B.J.: 1907-1909 / Harshberger, John William: 1911 / Hartwell, Marjorie B.: 1910 / Harvey, Francis Le Roy: 1896 / Hay, George Upham: 1886 and 1898 / Haynes, Caroline Coventry: 1905-1912 and n.d. / Heller, Amos Arthur: 1895-1899 / Hervey, Eliphalet Williams: 1913 / Hill, J. Irving: 1910 / Hitchcock, Albert Spear: 1909 and n.d. / Holden, Isaac: 1897 / Holzinger, John Michael 1892-1917 / Hood, Samuel C.: 1910 / Hope, Thomas: 1908-1918 / Horr, Ella Louise (née Brown): 1909-1913 / Howe, Reginald Heber, Jr.: 1908-1911 / Howell, Thomas: 1896 / Hoxie, Nellie H.M.: 1909 and n.d. / Hull, S.E.: 1898 / Hunt, Ellen G.: 1910 / Huntington, John Warren: 1900-1905 / Husnot, (Pierre) Tranquille: 1902-1911 and n.d.


I - K

Institut International d'Agriculture: 1913-1914 / Jack, John George: 1901 and 1904 / Jackson, Joseph: 1894-1910 / Josselyn Botanical Society: 1896-1909 / Junk, Wilhelm: 1904-1907 / Kaiser, George B.: 1910-1917 / Kendall, Alice C.: 1908-1909 / Kennedy, George Golding: 1897-1916 / Kidder, Nathaniel Thayer: 1919 / Kingman, Chester Cole: 1908-1911 / Kirk, George L.: 1910-1911 / Klugh, Alfred Brooker: 1906 / Knowlton, Clarence Hinckley: 1897-1917 / Koopman, H.L.: 1909-1916


L

Leavitt, Robert Greenleaf: 1902-1918 / Leland, George Herbert: 1886-1904 / Letterman, George Washington: 1891-1892 / Ljunggren, C.J.(?): 1907 / Lloyd Library: 1910 / Long, Bayard Henry: 1917 / Lorenz, Annie: 1904-1911 and n.d. / Lothrop, Dorrance B.: 1916 / Lowe, Josephine L. (Née Dyer): 1904 and n.d.


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M

McCudden, Margaret L.: 1897-1899 / McDonald, Francis Eugene: 1901 and 1911 / Mackintosh, Richards Bryant: 1902 / Macoun, James Melville: 1906-1911 / Macoun, John: 1892-1910 and n.d. / Madison, Harold L.: 1908-1917 / Magoon, Eva: 1912 and 1914 / Mann, Benjamin Pickman: 1884 / Manning, Warren Henry: 1896 and 1902 / Mansfield, Nellie F.: 1901 and 1903 / Marchal, E.: 1907 / Merrill, Elmer Drew: 1898-1899 / Metcalf, Esther Pierce: 1895 / Miles, M.M.: 1886-1887 / Miller, John: 1897-1915 / Miller, Mary Farrand (née Rogers): 1900-1915 / Mitten, Flora: 1911 / Morong, Thomas: 1892-1893 / Morris, Edward Lyman: 1909-1912 / Moulton, Elizabeth P.: 1916 / Munro, Wilfred H.: 1916


N

Nelson, Nelson Lawrence T.: 1903-1909 / Newman, Stephen Morrell: 1904; 1911 / Nichols, George Elwood: 1905-1915 / Nicholson, William Edward: 1910-1911 / Norton, Arthur Herbert: 1901-1915 / Nott, Charles Palmer: 1895 and 1896


O - P

Osterhout, Winthrop John Valeuven: 1892-1909 / Pammel, Louis Herman: 1914 / Parrique, Géraud: 1902 / Pearce, Edward Douglas: 1902-1911 / Pearson, William Henry: 1903 / Pease, Arthur Stanley: 1903-1908 and n.d. / Perry, Elizabeth: 1896 / Peterson, Stella Freeman: 1908-1910 / Petley, Henry: 1908 / Piquet, Adolphe Pierre David: 1904 / Pinchot, Gifford: 1898 / Poland, W.S.: 1910 / Pollard, Charles Louis: 1897-1907 / Porter, Alice F.: 1919 / Portland Society of Natural History: 1896-1908 / Powers, William L.: 1905 / Preston, Howard Willis: 1903-1912 / Priest, Irwin G.: 1913 / Pringle, Cyrus Guernsey: 1906-1910 / Providence Journal: ca. 1910-1912 / Pyle, Harry L.: 1908


R

Rand, Edward Lothrop: 1896-1914 / Rau, Eugene Abraham: 1887 / Regester, Charles A.: 1893-1894 / Rice, H.M.: 1904-1912 and n.d. / Rich, William Penn: 1899-1910 / Richardson, J.H.: 1910-1911 / Richardson, O.H.: 1903 / Rickey, P.L.: 1917 / Riddle, Lincoln Ware: 1908-1911 / Ripley, Winfield Scott, Jr.: 1918 / Robinson, Benjamin Lincoln: 1890-1917 / Roelker, William Greene: 1909 / Rugg, Harold Goddard: 1911


S

St. John, Harold: 1915 / Sandberg, John Herman: 1890 / Sanger, R(?).C.: 1909 / Sargent, Charles Sprague: 1893-1900 / Scott, W.B.: 1904 / Seymour, Arthur Bliss: 1913 / Shafer, John Adolph: 1885 / Shaw, Elsie Louise: 1914 / Sheldon, Edmund Perry: 1896 / Simonds, Arthur P.: 1885-1886 / Small, Abbie M.: 1900 / Small, John Kunkel: 1896-1906 / Smith, Annie Morrill: 1898-1912 / Smith, Bertha B.: 1910 / Smith, John Donnell: 1884 / Southwick, James Mortimer: 1899 / Stefano, Frank: 1910 / Stevens, Mary Louise: 1896-1906 and n.d. / Strong, William Chamberlain: 1896


T - V

Teel, Florence B.: 1895-1898 / Thompson, T.H.: 1908 / Thornton, E.C.: 1892-1901; photos / Tillinghast, A.G.: 1912 / Tillinghast, Frank N.:1887 / Trelease, William: 1905 / True, Rodney Howard: 1899-1907 / Umbach, Levi Menger: 1907-1908 / Underwood, Lucien Marcus: 1885-1903 / Vasey, George: 1892


W

Ware, Robert Allison: 1908-1916 / Warner, Edith A.: 1901-1910 / Warnstorf, Carl Fr.: 1895-1908 / Watson, Sereno: 1890-1892; death notice / Weatherby, Charles Alfred: 1906 / Webber, George C.: 1886 / Webber, Martha J.: 1901 / Webster, Hollis: 1900-1904 / Weg, Max: 1904, 1911 / Weigel, Oswald: 1900-1914 / Wendte, William: 1902 / Wesley, William, & Son:1904-1905 / Wetherby, Albert G.: 189? / Wheeler, Harriet: 1898-1909 / Whipple, Edward Everett: 1902-1909 / White, Mary B.: 1893 / Whittemore, George Francis: 1886 / Williams, Emile F.: 1896-1912 / Williams, Robert Statham: 1896 and 1910 / Wilson, A.B., Mrs.: ca. 1884-1885? / Wilson, C.E.: 1906 / Wilson, Ernest Henry: 1913


X-Z

Zerschwitz, Friedrich von: 1905

 

PHOTO CABINET

PHOTOGRAPHS:

Note: The photographs are mounted in albums in numerical sequence. In the list below, beginning and ending numbers of albums are given (underlined), followed by approximate dates when possible, any other notation on the cover (in quotation marks), and a brief indication of some of the subjects covered.

BOX 1

1-112. Family, Providence, Maine, Josselyn Society, botany students, coon cats.
113-198. Maine, Providence, Brown U., Rhode Island, trees, tree buds, flowers, frost, clouds, friends and family.
199-272. Maine, New Brunswick, Josselyn Society, family, R.I. peaches, angora cat.
273-345. Maine, (No. Anson, etc.); Providence; family; Collins' parlor; peaches; moss, milkweed pods, flowers, plants.
346-375. Pine cones, acorns, bark, tree buds, branches, diseased branches, fungi on trees, illustrations in books.
376-462. Tree wounds, bark, cross-sections of trees, seed beds, herbarium specimens, nuts.
463-534. Herbarium specimens, leaves and twigs, bark, tree wounds.
535-624. Leaves, bark, fungi and insect damage on branches, cross sections of trees, cross section of pumpkin with germinating seeds, herbarium specimens, seed planting.
625-718. Evergreen seedlings, branches, growths on branches, fungi, tree wounds.

 

BOX 2

719-787. Stages of wood-filled cavity, flowers, branches, trees, book illustratons, first stages of elm at Brown needing repair
788-897. Second stages of elm needing repair at Brown, other scenes at Brown, group photo, E.M. Collins, printed illustrations.
898-962. Trees and trunks, tree diseases, herbarium specimens, relief map of Mt. Logan.
963-[977]. Herbarium specimens, printed ad on tree surgery, trees.
1-1 - 16-6. Ca. 1900. Katahdin, with list of views; Ft. Kent, Me.; New Brunswick; Providence; family
17-3 - 34-12. Ca. 1903. Family, trees, rabbits, pigs, Maine, Providence, Cambridge, Mass. and vicinity
35-1 - 54-12. Ca. 1904. Maine, Josselyn Society, Quebec, Providence, Ponkapaug (Canton, Mass.), sheep, ox, piglets, people.
55-1 - 69-12. 1904. Collecting expedition in Quebec with M.L. Fernald, A.S. Pease, et al.
70-1 - 83-12. 1904. Quebec trip.
84-1 - 98-12. "Quebec, R.I., Me, Gaspé '05"; also self portraits, people and pets, flowers and plants.

 

BOX 3

99-1 - 112-12. "Gaspé '05" -- August, 1905, with M.L. Fernald et al.
113-1 - 134-6. "Gaspé '05, Me, R.I."
135-1 - 137-4; 182-7 - 182-12; 184-5 - 184-12. "R.I. and Conn. 1906" -- mostly plants and scenery.
137-5 - 139-9. "Maine 1906" -- dams, bridge, people, etc.
139-11 - 145-12. "Bic, Quebec, Riv. Ste Anne. July, 1906"
146-1 - 156-9, minus singles. "Panorama Mt. Albert. 1906" -- long chains of pasted together photos.
146-1 - 158-2, minus panoramas. "Mt. Albert, P.Q. July 1906" -- scenes of field trip.
158-3 - 179-4. "Panoramas, '06. Table-top Mt. Western edge"
158-3 - 179-4. "Panoramas, '06. Table-top Mt. Eastern edge."
158-3 - 179-4 minus panoramas. "Table-top Mt. Gorge and falls, R.S.A. Aug. 1906"
179-5 - 182-6. "Riv. Ste. Anne to Quebec. Aug. 1906"
185-1 - 188-12. "R.I. 1907. Montmorency Falls" (Quebec), July 1907.
189-1 - 198-2. "Bic P.Q. July 1907, No. 1" -- includes a shot of Mrs. Fernald
198-3 - 201-3. "Bic P.Q. July 1907, No. 2" -- also has shots of Mrs. Fernald
201-6 - 204-12. "Percé, P.Q. Aug. 1907, No. 1"
205-1 - 209-6. "Bonaventure ID & Percé, P.Q. (No. 2) Aug. 1907"
209-7 - 210-3. "Maine, 1907" -- people

 

BOX 4

210-8 - 212-9. "R.I. 1907" -- scenery, someone's greenhouse
183-1 - 184-4; 139-10-212-10 - 213-6; 668-679. "Groups, Miscellany, etc." -- repeats of some earlier group photos; people who look like they're putting on skits; copies of family daguerreotypes
214-1 - 223-12. "1908. R.I., Wash., Va., N.Y.C., Me., R.I." -- also Pt. Jefferson, New Haven, bridges, seedlings
224-1 - 234-12. "1909 Spring" -- scenery, trees, bridges, seedlings, plants, Providence, Washington (D.C.), N.Y.C., Arnold Arboretum
235-1 - 247-12. "1909 Summer" -- trees, people, seedlings, Pennsylvania, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
248-1 - 256-12. "1909 & 1910" -- trees, parts of trees illustrations, herbarium specimens, Providence and Rhode Island
257-1 - 272-12. "1910" -- trees, especially wounds; sawed-off trees; leaves; goats; corn smut
273-1 - 295-12. "1910-11" -- tree parts, tree wounds, mushrooms, seedlings, illustrations, young turtle doves, people, Washington (D.C.), Pennsylvania, Maine, Providence, N.Y.C., Cold Spring Harbor
296-1 - 305-12. Ca. 1912? Trees, tree wounds, people, forest pathology office force in D.C., Providence, Pennsylvania
306-1 - 319-12. Ca. 1912. Washington, D.C.; Boston; Arnold Arboretum; Warwick, R.I.; Mississippi; boats (including Lusitania); trees and tree wounds
320-1 - 333-12. Ca. 1913. South Carolina, Pennsylvania, R.I., Maine; ruins at No. Anson (Me) after the town burned in August, 1913 with sheet describing ruins; people, pets; branches, illustrations
334-1 - 348-12. Ca. 1914? Providence and Rhode Island; botanizing group; trees and tree repairs; Atlantic City; Washington, D.C.; cats and dogs

 

BOX 5

349-1 - 363-12. Ca. 1915? Maine; South Carolina; Savannah, Ga.; Providence; Cambridge, Mass.; trees; people
364-1 - 379-5. Ca. 1916? Maine, Rhode Island, Block Island, Arnold Arboretum, Swansea (Mass.), New Ipswich (Mass.), South Carolina
379-6 - 392-12. Ca. 1917. Boston Common, Rhode Island, Maine, Florida, alligators, ostriches, everglads, people
393-1 - 398-12. Ca. 1918. Florida, North Carolina, Providence
399-1 - 411-12. Ca. 1918. St. Louis Botanical Garden; Kansas City, Mo.; Colorado; New Mexico; Arizona; Grand Canyon
412-1 - 424-12. Ca. 1918. Arizona, California
425-1 - 438-6. Ca. 1918. California; Yosemite; Stanford U.; Washington; Montana; Missoula ranger station; Minnesota; Chicago
438-7 - 453-12. Ca. 1919. Erie, Pa.; R.I.; Providence; Maine; New Hampshire; West Virginia; people on outings; trees and repairs
454-1 - 468-2. Ca. 1920. Maine; R.I.; botanical club; beaches; trees and cross sections

 

BOX 6

468-3 - 483-12. "Gaspé 1923" -- panoramas, camp photos, etc.; Providence folder: list of 1923 Gaspé photos and 2 bundles of unmounted photos
484-1 - 497-10. Ca. 1924. Rhode Island; Tarrytown, N.Y.; Long Island; trees and wounds; hepaticae; gropu photos
497-11 - 511-5. Ca. 1925. Rhode Island; Albany, N.Y.; Niagara Falls; Erie, Pa.; Storm King; Bear Mt. bridge; trees and wounds; groups
511-6 - 525-3. Ca. 1927-1929. Mt. Monadnock; Sharon and Westport, Mass.; Rhode Island; Providence; Mt. Vernon; Washington, D.C.; New Orleans; Texas; New Mexico; Arizona; California
525-4 - 539-9. Ca. 1929. California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia
539-10 - 555-10. Ca. 1929. Percé, P.Q.; Providence; Rhode Island; printed articles; pictures of mushrooms; herbarium specimens; illustrations from the Cambridge British Flora
555-11 - 580-6. Ca. 1930-1935. Providence; Brownn; Woods Hole; Oak Bluffs; Nantucket Sound; Rhode Island; people; deer [there are typewritten captions for a section of the photos in this album]
581-1 - 582-12. Ca. 1935. Rhode Island. [more typewritten captions]

 

CABINET 15
NEGATIVES:
In wooden boxes
1-582
In brown paper wrappers:
41-360
361-400;forest pathology
401-500;mostly Castanea
501-550;mostly Castanea and pho____?
551-600
601-649;tree seedlings, etc.
650-700;incl. family portraits
701-750;For. Path. & Arcenthob(?)
751-800
801-850;misc. mostly path.
851-900
901-

 

PHOTO CABINET
LANTERN SLIDES: (In wooden boxes)
Small cardboard boxes (5):
mounted plants, maps
negatives for lantern slides - "Cardilleran"? (2 boxes)
negatives for lantern slides - vegetative report
negatives for lantern slides - Gaspé and NNE

 

BOX AE

1. Small notebook containing notes on geography and plants for 1906 trip to the Gaspé. Notes on plants are organized by soil number, with lists of plants underneath. Brief notes on expenses.

2. Folder containing reprint of report of 1923 trip to the Gaspé (from the Geographical Review, Vol. 15, No. 1); typed extracts from Collins' diary for the 1923 trip; typed draft of a report on the Mt. Logan trip; tracings of Salix leaves; ms. notes on altitudes

3. Folder containing 7 letters to Collins, 6 carbons of letters from Collins and 1 clipping, all about 1923 Gaspé trip. Letters date 1923-1924 and 1935, are from M.L. Fernald, A.S. Pease, Lyman Smith, C.W. Dodge and Ludlow Griscom.

4. Packet of typed lables for Flora of Quebec, 1923

5. Notebook containing about 60 pages of notes on Salix, 1909-1913. No name on book, but appears to be J.F. Collins' handwriting.

 

BOX 7 (Library shelf 11 & 12)

 

Plaster model of Mt. Logan Range, Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec. Presented by J.F. Collins, March, 1928.


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