Expeditions & Exploration
The botanical expeditions of Harvard botanists represented in the Archives date from 1818 to 1980. The collections include plant lists, field notes, maps, illustrations, photographs, and realia.
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1817-1818
Voyage of Frigate Congress to Buenos Aires and other South American ports
William Darlington collection of William Baldwin correspondence
1819
Maj. Stephen H. Long expedition to Rocky Mountains
William Darlington collection of William Baldwin correspondence
1827-1829
Mexican Boundary Commission (Comisi'on de L'imites under Mier y Ter'an)
Jean Louis Berlandier Papers
1838-1842
Wilkes Expedition (U.S. Exploring Expedition)
Asa Gray Correspondence Files
Records of the United States Exploring Expedition
Digital Collection
1850-1854
U.S. Boundary Commission (surveyed boundary with Mexico)
George Thurber and William Munro Gramineae Papers
1852-1854
U.S. Japan Expedition
Asa Gray Correspondence Files
Drawings for the United States Naval Expedition to Japan and United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition
Charles Wright Papers
1853-1856
U.S. North Pacific Exploring Expedition
Asa Gray Correspondence Files
Drawings for the United States Naval Expedition to Japan and United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition
Charles Wright Papers
1853-1856
August Fendler's Venezuela Exploration
Asa Gray Correspondence Files
Plant List Collections
William Starling Sullivant Papers
1860-1864
California State Geological Survey
William Henry Brewer California Geological Survey Papers
Henry Nicholas Bolander California Geological Survey field notes
1867-1869
Clarence King Expedition / Geological Survey of the 40th Parallel
Sereno Watson Papers
1871
U.S. Commission to Santo Domingo
Charles Wright Papers
1878-1910
Edward Palmer Expeditions
Edward Palmer Plant Lists
Plant List Collections
Digital Collection
1900-1927
Gaspe Exploration
James Franklin Collins Papers
Carroll William Dodge Papers
Merritt Lyndon Fernald Papers
1905-1906
South American Voyage
William Gilson Farlow Papers
Roland Thaxter Papers
1925-1935
Costa Rica and Panama Collecting Trips
Carroll William Dodge Papers
1931
Forbes Expedition (survey of northern Labrador)
Alexander Forbes Labrador Survey Photographs
1936-1937
Second Archibold New Guinea Expedition
Leonard John Brass Papers
1943
Operation Tabarin, Antarctic Expedition
Elke Mackenzie Papers
1950s Amazon Exploration
Richard Evans Schultes Papers
1953
Fourth Archbold New Guinea Expedition
Leonard John Brass Papers
1980
Sino-American Botanical Expedition to Western Hubei Province, People's Republic of China
Field data of the Sino-American Botanical Expedition
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