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Economic Botany Historic Clipping File
Dr. Schultes teaching in the Nash Lecture Hall
Painting by Hannah Barrett, November 1994
This is a collection of small manuscripts, photographs, magazine and newspaper articles dealing with economic botany ending circa 1985. The collection was housed in the Nash Lecture Hall, Harvard Museum of Natural History. In 2001 it was transferred to the Botany Libraries, Harvard University Herbaria.
The files are arranged alphabetically by subject with the plants usually filed under their Latin name.
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Earthwatch - Number 16 1984.
Eagle Wing Press - Late Winter 1985.
Ecballium - 1 clipping
Echinocystis - 1 clipping
Ecology 1 - 34 items, mostly clippings; eclectic articles on acid rain, pollution, Co2, the rain forest, etc.
Ecology 2 - items, mostly clippings; ecosystems, pollution; a brochure for the new Alchemy Institute, an ecologically-friendly organization on Cape Cod.
Economic Botany 1 - 37 items, mostly clippings, including New Scientist 1982 "An Eldorado of plants that cure, feed and fuel".
Economic Botany 2 - 31 items, including Science 1890 "Useful Plants in Guatemala", The Times (London) 1980 "Plants that have more uses than as food alone".
Economic Botany 3 - 19 items, including Natural History 1936 "Native American Food".
Eichornia - 4 items.
Elaeis - 14 items, including Boston Sunday Globe 1982 "Soap and Slavery", The Agricultural News 1907 "The Oil Palm".
Elaeocarpus - 1 clipping
Elettaria - 2 clippings
Entada - 2 clippings
Enzymes - 6 items
Ephedra - 6 items, including Science News Letter 1933 "Two drugs found which cure horrible disease of weakness".
Epigaea - 2 clippings
Epilobium - 2 clippings
Ergot - 10 items, including American Scientist 1982 "Ergot and the Salem witchcraft affair", The New York Times 1982 "New Study Backs Thesis on Witches".
Ergosterol - 1 clipping
Eriobotrya - 8 clippings
Eriophorum - 1 clipping
Erythraea - 1 clipping
Erythrina - 3 clippings, including Boston Post 1943 "Coral Tree Drug Helps Paralysis".
Erythronium - 1 clipping
Erythroxylon - 22 clippings, including Good Housekeeping Magazine 1912 "Dr. Wiley on Drug Dangers", The American Food Journal 1911 "Coca-Cola Free from Cocaine".
Eschscholtzias - 2 clippings
Esparto - 2 clippings
Essential Oils - 6 items
Ethnobotany 1 (up to 1950's) - 25 items, including Cosmopolitan 1955 "Witch doctors and your health".
Ethnobotany 2 (1960's - 1980's) - 35 items, including Harvard Gazette 1985 "Ethnobotanists Race Against Time to Save Useful Plants".
Ethnobotany 2 (1960's - 1980's) Cont. - 38 items, including The New York Times 1992 "Drug made from rare tree is approved to treat cancer".
Eucalyptus - 30 items, including The Agriculture News 1912 "The Uses of Eucalyptus".
Eucommia - 3 items
Eucryphia - 2 items
Euphorbia - 15 items, including The New York Times 1976 "Chemist Says a Botanical Plant Can be Used to Make Gasoline".
Euphorbiaceae - 3 items
Everglades - 1 item
Evolution - 29 items, including The New York Times 1982 "Prehistoric Gnat".
Evonymus - 4 items
Eysenhardtia - 2 items
Last updated February 2009. Send comments, corrections, or updates to:
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