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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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Ulmus – 9 clippings
Umbelliferae – 4 clippings
Uncaria – 1 clipping
Urginea – 3 clippings on its use as poison
Urtica – 3 clippings (nettle as wartime food and fabric)
Utricularia – 1 clipping (carnivorous bladderwort)
Vaccinium – 11 clippings and photocopies about blueberries
Valerianella – 3 clippings
Vanilla – 21 clippings and photocopies [staples to be removed; 2 copies of “Cheney’s true vanilla bean extract” advertisement]
Varnish – 3 clippings and correspondence from the Murphy Varnish company
Vegetable Ivory – 6 clippings
Vegetables I – 57 clippings and photocopies on diverse topics, including several on the nutritional value of vegetables, vegetables “new” to the American palate (such as broccoli) and hybrids such as celtuce (celery plus lettuce); also a short bibliography of literature on vegetable extracts from the U.S. Dept. Agriculture [some staples]
Vegetables II – 62 clippings and photocopies including many articles on the popularity of new produce (kiwis, artichokes, daikon, etc.); also two pamphlets, one from the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources and one from the Centro de Investigaciones Agricolas del Noroeste (Mexico) [some staples]
Veneer – 2 clippings
Veratrum – 15 clippings, reprints, and photocopies as well as several typewritten notes from ancient and Renaissance herbals; primarily on hellebore’s pharmacological properties [paper clips]
Verbascum – 2 clippings and one typewritten citation
Verbena – 1 clipping
Vernacular Names – 5 clippings (letter from Margaret Armstrong defending vernacular names)
Veronica – 3 clippings
Viburnum – 5 clippings
Vicia – 4 clippings and a letter to Schultes asking him to identify an Iranian bean (id’d as Vicia faba)
Vigna – 2 clippings
Vinca Rosea – 4 clippings and photocopies on its pharmacological effects; also 2 International Science and Engineering Fair reports by Isaac Bruck (Cary High School) [some staples]
Vinegar – 6 clippings
Viola – 1 clipping
Virola – 3 clippings and 1 report from the Science Information Department of Smith, Kline, & French Co.
Vitamines I – 47 clippings, many from Science and Science–Supplement [some staples]
Vitamines II – 53 clippings, brochures, and informational sheets; also a short bibliography on the subject of vitamins [some staples]
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