#  Expeditions & Exploration 

 



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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](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00007/catalog)  
  
1819  
Maj. Stephen H. Long expedition to Rocky Mountains  
[William Darlington collection of William Baldwin correspondence](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00007/catalog)  
  
1827-1829  
Mexican Boundary Commission (Comisi'on de L'imites under Mier y Ter'an)  
[Jean Louis Berlandier Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00013/catalog)  
  
1838-1842  
Wilkes Expedition (U.S. Exploring Expedition)  
[Asa Gray Correspondence Files](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00078/catalog)  
[Records of the United States Exploring Expedition](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00016/catalog)  
[Digital Collection](/pages/digital-collections-0)  
  
1850-1854  
U.S. Boundary Commission (surveyed boundary with Mexico)  
[George Thurber and William Munro Gramineae Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00054/catalog)  
  
1852-1854  
U.S. Japan Expedition  
[Asa Gray Correspondence Files](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00078/catalog)  
[Drawings for the United States Naval Expedition to Japan and United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00080/catalog)  
[Charles Wright Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00058/catalog)  
  
1853-1856  
U.S. North Pacific Exploring Expedition  
[Asa Gray Correspondence Files](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00078/catalog)  
[Drawings for the United States Naval Expedition to Japan and United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00080/catalog)  
[Charles Wright Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00058/catalog)  
  
1853-1856  
August Fendler's Venezuela Exploration  
[Asa Gray Correspondence Files](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00078/catalog)  
[Plant List Collections](/pages/plant-lists-field-notes)  
[William Starling Sullivant Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00026/catalog)  
  
1860-1864  
California State Geological Survey  
[William Henry Brewer California Geological Survey Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00015/catalog)  
[Henry Nicholas Bolander California Geological Survey field notes](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00014/catalog)  
  
1867-1869  
Clarence King Expedition / Geological Survey of the 40th Parallel  
[Sereno Watson Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00056/catalog)  
  
1871  
U.S. Commission to Santo Domingo  
[Charles Wright Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00058/catalog)  
  
1878-1910  
Edward Palmer Expeditions  
[Edward Palmer Plant Lists](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00071/catalog)  
[Plant List Collections](/pages/plant-lists-field-notes)  
[Digital Collection](/pages/digital-collections-0)  
  
1900-1927  
Gaspe Exploration  
[James Franklin Collins Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00017/catalog)  
[Carroll William Dodge Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00005/catalog)  
[Merritt Lyndon Fernald Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00023/catalog)  
  
1905-1906  
South American Voyage  
[William Gilson Farlow Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00030/catalog)  
[Roland Thaxter Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00028/catalog)  
  
1925-1935  
Costa Rica and Panama Collecting Trips  
[Carroll William Dodge Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00005/catalog)  
  
1931  
Forbes Expedition (survey of northern Labrador)  
[Alexander Forbes Labrador Survey Photographs](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00024/catalog)  
  
1936-1937  
Second Archibold New Guinea Expedition  
[Leonard John Brass Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00002/catalog)  
  
1943  
Operation Tabarin, Antarctic Expedition  
[Elke Mackenzie Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00025/catalog)  
  
1950s Amazon Exploration  
[Richard Evans Schultes Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/ecb00004/catalog)  
  
1953  
Fourth Archbold New Guinea Expedition  
[Leonard John Brass Papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00002/catalog)  
  
1980  
Sino-American Botanical Expedition to Western Hubei Province, People's Republic of China  
[Field data of the Sino-American Botanical Expedition](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00008/catalog)

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