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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.
Clipping Files P Pachyrrhizus – 2 clippings Paeonia – 2 clippings Paint – 3 clippings Paleo Botany – 16 items, including Natural History 1984 “Ancient Flowers for the Faithful”, The Times (London) 1980 “Microbiology: The oldest fossils”. Palmae 1 – 30 clippings, including The Agricultural News 1906 “The Economic Uses of the Palms”. Palmae 2 – 26 items, including The Agricultural News 1908 “Palm Trees and Their Uses”. Pandanus – 3 clippings Papaveraceae – 1 clipping Papaver – 11 clippings, including Natural History 1980 “The Versatile Opium Poppy”. Paper 1 – 38 items, including The Agricultural News 1913 “New Sources of Paper”. Paper 2 – 14 items, including Natural History 1937 “The Story of Paper”. Paper 3 – 42 items, including American Forestry 1917 “Forestry and the Paper Industry”. Paper 4 – 19 items, including The Boston Globe 1925 “The Invention of Writing and Discovery of Metals”. Paper 5 – 23 items, including The New York Times 1981 “Book Keeping in New York”. Paper Pulp – 15 clippings, including American Forestry 1920 “Paper pulp from seaweed”. Parkinsonia – 9 items, including The Times (London) 1982 “Some acid words from mummy”, Harvard Gazette 1979 “Historic records: Legal documents could be oldest from Palestine”. Parmentiera – 1 clipping Passiflora – 7 items, including The Agricultural News 1903 “The Bell Apple”. Paullinia – 18 items Pea – 4 clippings Peach – 6 clippings Peanuts 1 (up to 1930’s) – 31 items Peanuts 2 (1940’s–1980’s) – 26 items Pear – 16 items Peat – 18 items, including Natural History 1982 “Beneath the blanket bogs of Britian”. Pecan – 7 items Pedicularis – 1 clipping Peltostigma – 2 clippings Penicillin – 7 clippings Pentadesma – 1 clipping Pepper – 11 items Peppermint – 2 items Perfumes – 34 clippings, including Boston Traveler 1951 “Making, selling perfume grosses 100 Million Yearly”, Clipper 1979 “The World’s Rare Fragrances”. Periploca – 1 clipping Persea – 9 clippings, including The Agricultural News 1909 “The Avocado Pear”. Persimmon – 2 clippings Pesticides – 14 clippings, including The New York Times 1980 “Turkish Farmers Turn Bitterly From Opium Poppy”. Peyote – 31 items, including The Florida Times–Union “Vicious Drug Plays Havoc with Navajos”. Phaseolus – 12 clippings, including The Agricultural News 1905 “Lima Beans”. Phleum – 1 item Phoenix – 24 clippings, including Geographical Review 1926 “The Distribution of the Date Palm”. Phoradendron – 2 clippings Phormium – 10 clippings, including The Agricultural News 1918 “New Zealand Hemp”. Photinia – 1 clipping Physiology – 8 clippings, including Newsweek 1980 “Hormones for Profit”. Physostigma – 1 clipping Phytelephas – 6 clippings Phytolacca – 6 items Phytochemistry – 4 items Picea – 10 items, including Natural History 1938 “The Rarest American Spruce”. Pickles – 3 items Pilocarpus – 1 item Pimenta – 5 items Pinckneya – 3 items Pine – 13 items Pineapple – 24 items Pinus – 41 items, including American Forestry 1917 “The Slash Pine”. Piper – 17 items, including New York Times 1971 “Betel– “Leaf Chewers in Karachi Joyfully Await a Taste of Peace”. Pipes – 14 items, including New York Times 1979 advertisement “New – Fashionable Pipes for the Ladies (you need not inhale)”. Pisonia – 1 item Pistacia – 7 items Pisum – 1 item Pithecolobium – 5 items, including American Forestry 1916 “The Saman or Rain Tree”. Plant Lore – 15 items, including The New York Times Sunday 1938 “Finds Death Trees, Feared by Indians”. Plantago – 5 items Plastics – 3 items Plantus – 3 items Plum – 7 items Podophyllum – 3 items Pointsettia – 1 item Poisons 1 (up to 1930’s) – 40 items, including The Garden 1921 “Squills as a Rat Poison”, The Boston Globe 1924 “Two are Killed by Toadstools”. Poisons 2 – 23 items Poisons 3 – 17 items, including The New York Times 1983 “The Deepening Mystery of Yellow Rain”. Pollination – 1 item Polygala – 2 items Polygonum – 2 items Polymnia – 1 item Pomaderris – 1 item Pontederia – 2 items Potato 1 – 34 items, including Science News Letter 1929 “Earliest Description of Potatoes”. Potato 2 – 35 items, including The New York Times 1938 “Researchers work on sticky potato that traps insects”. Preservatives – 3 items, including The New York Times Sunday 1978 “Dried Blossoms Will Last Forever”. Preserves – 6 items, including The Garden Magazine 1916 “The Guava – A Substitute for Gooseberries in Florida”. Primula – 2 items Prioria – 1 item Propagation – 1 item Prosopis – 11 items, including The New York Times 1982 “Mesquite: Bad Press but Great Flavor”. Protein – 9 items Prunus – 24 items Pseudotsuga – 11 items Psophocarpus – 13 items, including Life Magazine 1980 “Food for Tomorrow: From odd pods that grow in the tropics to lobsters bred in boxes”. Pteridium – 6 items Puccoon – 1 item Pumpkins – 8 items Punica – 4 items Puya – 2 items Pyrethrum – 4 items Pyrola – 2 items Pyrus – 7 items
Last updated February 2009. Send comments, corrections, or updates to: ldecesare@oeb.harvard.edu Copyright 2008 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
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