# Personal Papers ## expand\_more ![Black-and-white photograph of Sereno Watson seated at a large desk surrounded by books, papers, and specimens in the Gray Herbarium at Harvard, dated 1880](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/herbaria/files/web_watson_in_the_herbaria_0.jpg?itok=zxskPlCJ) Sereno Watson in the Gray Herbarium, 1880.Botany Libraries photograph collectionThe Botany Libraries Archives hold personal paper collections for select Harvard faculty as well as a some members of our staff, affiliates, and researchers with a connection to the study of botany at Harvard. ![Camera Emoji](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/herbaria/files/camera.png?itok=Qg4W7mOp) digital content available Open all sections Close all sections ### Personal Papers A-C expand\_more [Ahmadjian, Vernon (1930-)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00017/catalog) [Allen, Lizzie C.](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00007/catalog) Ames, Oakes (1874-1950) [Oakes Ames orchid manuscripts](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/orc00001/catalog) , [Epidendrum and Encyclia notes, likely for the publication, The genus Epidendrum in the United States and Middle America by Oakes Ames, F. Tracy Hubbard, and Charles Schweinfurth](https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/catalog/orc00011) , and [Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium glass stereograph collection](https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/catalog/orc00013) . [Ashton, Peter Shaw (1934-) Oral History](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00025/catalog) [Bachelot de la Pylaie, Auguste Jean Marie (1786-1856)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00010/catalog) [Bailey, Irving Widmer (1884-1967)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00008/catalog) [Bailey, Jacob Whitman (1811-1857) Catalogue in Boston Society of Natural History](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00062/catalog) [Bailey, Jacob Whitman (1811-1857) Slide catalogue](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00061/catalog) [Bailey, Liberty Hyde, Jr. (1858-1954)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00011/catalog) [Bailey, William Whitman (1843-1914)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00012/catalog) [Baldwin, William (1779-1819)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00007/catalog) [Bartram, Edwin Bunting (1878-1964)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00003/catalog) [Berlandier, Jean Louis (c.1805-1851)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00013/catalog) [Bigelow, Jacob (1786-1879)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00002/catalog) [Blackford, Eliza Beulah (1847-1935)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00008/catalog) [Blakeslee, Albert F. (1874-1954)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00002/catalog) [Blaschka, Rudolf and Leopold](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/ecb00006/catalog) [Board of Visitors for the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History meeting minutes](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00109/catalog) [Bolander, Henry Nicholas (1831-1897)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00014/catalog) [Boott, Francis (1792-1863)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00004/catalog) [Brass, Leonard John (1900-1971)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00002/catalog) [Brewer, William Henry (1828-1910)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00015/catalog) [Brinkman, Alfred Henry (1873-1945)]() [Bullard, Charles](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00006/catalog) [Burt, Edward Angus (1859-1939)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00012/catalog) [Cheever, Clarence A. (1858-1947)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00011/catalog) [Child, H. W. (Horace W.), 1852-1931](https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/catalog/orc00014) [Clarke University Herbarium](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00018/catalog) [Clarke, Cora H. (1851-1916)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00009/catalog) [Collins, Frank Shipley (1848-1920)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00060/catalog) [Collins, James Franklin (1863-1940)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00017/catalog) [Cutler, Manasseh (1742-1823)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00062/catalog) [Cutler /Dandridge/ Thorndike](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00065/catalog) ### Personal Papers D-G expand\_more [Day, Mary (1852-1924)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00095/catalog) [Davenport, George Edward (1833-1907)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00067/catalog) [Deane, Walter (1848-1930)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00073/catalog) [Dodge, Carroll William (1895-1988)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00005/catalog) [Eastwood,Alice (1859-1953)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00018/catalog) [Eaton, Alvah Augustus (1865-1908)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00019/catalog) [Elliot, Stephen(1771-1830)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00020/catalog) [Ellis, Job Bicknell (1829-1905)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00065/catalog) [Farlow, William G. (1844-1919)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00030/catalog) [Faull, Joseph Horace](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00004/catalog) [Faxon, Charles Edward](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00003/catalog) [Fernald, Merritt Lyndon (1873-1950)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00023/catalog) [Fisher, George](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00013/catalog) [Floyd, Frederick Gillan (1869-1941)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00021/catalog) [Forbes, Alexander (1882-1965)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00024/catalog) [Francis, George](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00029/catalog) [Fuertes Loren, (Padre) Miguel Domingo (1871-1926)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00004/catalog) [Gerard, William Ruggles (1841-1914)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00027/catalog) [Goodale, George Lincoln (1839-1923)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/ecb00012/catalog) [Gray, Alice A (1850-1930)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00060/catalog) [Gray, Asa (1810-1888)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00026/catalog) [Gray, Jane Loring (1821-1909)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00029/catalog) [Greenwood, Edward Warren (1918-2002)](https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/28/resources/11661) [Guba, Emil Frederick (1897-1999)](https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/catalog/bot00006) ### Personal Papers H-M expand\_more [Harris, Thaddeus William (1795-1856)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00030/catalog) [Herbaria specimen covers with published descriptions and plates](https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/catalog/bot00005) [Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00031/catalog) [Howard, Richard A. (1917-2003)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00014/catalog) [James, Thomas Potts (1803-1882) (Gray)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00032/catalog) [James, Thomas Potts (1803-1882) (Farlow)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00015/catalog) [Jameson, William (1796-1873)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00032/catalog) [Jesup, Henry Griswold (1826-1903)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00035/catalog) Kamen-Kaye, Dorothy (1900-1998) [Keeler, Clyde E. (1900-1994)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00059/catalog) [Kennedy, George Clayton (1919-1980)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/orc00009/catalog) [Kennedy, George Golding (1841-1918)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00036/catalog) [Kennedy, Rae Casena (nee Baldwin) (1879- )](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00037/catalog) [Klatt, Friedrich Wilhelm (1825-1897)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00038/catalog) [Krieger, L.C.C. (1873-1940)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00020/catalog) Lamb, Ivan Mackenzie (1911-1990) (see Mackenzie, Elke) [Lesquereux, Leo (1806-1889)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00106/catalog) [Linder, David Hunter (1899-1946)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00021/catalog) [Mackenzie, Elke (1911-1990)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00025/catalog) [Mann, Horace (1844-1868)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00039/catalog) [Merrill, Elmer Drew (1876-1956)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00001/catalog) [Merrill, George Knox (1864-1927)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00023/catalog) [McKelvey, Susan Delano (1883-1964)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00030/catalog) [Moore, Albert Hanford (1883- )](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00040/catalog) [Morong, Thomas (1827-1894)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00033/catalog) [Morris, George E.](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00016/catalog) [Munoz Pizarro, Carlos (1913-1976)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00063/catalog) ### Personal Papers N-R expand\_more [Nicholls, Henry Alfred Alford (1851-1926)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00005/catalog) [Nuttall, Thomas (1786-1859)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00066/catalog) [Oakes, William (1799-1848)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00001/catalog) [Olney, Stephen Thayer (1812-1878)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00064/catalog) [Palmer, Edward (1831-1911)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00071/catalog) [Patten, Jane Boit](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00005/catalog) [Pease, Arthur Stanley (1881-1964)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00009/catalog) [Pennant, Thomas (1726-1798)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00006/catalog) [Perry, Lily May (1895-1992)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00012/catalog) [Pierce, George (ca. 1807- ?)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00041/catalog) [Primack, Richard B. (1950-)](https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/catalog/bot00004) [Pursh, Frederick (1774-1820)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00042/catalog) [Rand, Edward Lothrop (1859-1924)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00043/catalog) [Ravenel, Henry William (1814-1887)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00058/catalog) [Riddell, John Leonard (1807-1865) & Josiah Hale (ca. 1791- 1856)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00044/catalog) [Riddle, Lincoln W. (1811-1921) and Gertrude H. Riddle](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00010/catalog) [Robbins, James Watson (1801-1879)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00045/catalog) [Robinson, Benjamin Lincoln (1864-1935)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00046/catalog) [Rock, Joseph Francis Charles (1864-1935)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00068/catalog) [Rollins, Reed Clarke (1911-1998)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00090/catalog) [Russell, John Lewis (1808-1873)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00047/catalog) ### Personal Papers S-Z expand\_more [Sayre, Geneva (1911-1992)](/geneva-sayre-1911-1992-papers) [Scamman, Edith Henry (1882-1967)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00048/catalog) [Schubert, Bernice (1913-2000)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00024/catalog) [Schultes, Richard Evans (1915-2001)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/ecb00004/catalog) [Schultes, Richard Evans (1915-2001) Oral History](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/ecb00016/catalog) [Schweinfuth, Charles (1890-1970)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/orc00007/catalog) [von Schweinitz, Lewis David (1780-1834)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00049/catalog) [Seymour, Arthur Bliss (1859-1933)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00024/catalog) [Seymour, Frank Conkling (1895-1985)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00050/catalog) [Shaw, George Russell (1848-1937)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00010/catalog) [Singer, Rolf (1906-)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00022/catalog) [Sparrow, Frederick Kroeber II (1903-1977)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00001/catalog) [Sullivant, William Starling (1803-1873)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00026/catalog) [Svenson, Henry K. (1930-1983)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00052/catalog) [Sweet, Herman R. ](https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/catalog/orc00015) [Targioni-Tozzetti, Antonio (1785-1856)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00053/catalog) [Terry, William Almeron (1828-1917)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00014/catalog) [Thaxter, Levi Lincoln (1821-1883)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00027/catalog) [Thaxter, Roland (1858-1932)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00028/catalog) [Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)](https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/catalog/gra00059) [Thurber, George (1821-1890) & William Munro (1818-1880)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00054/catalog) [Topping, David LeRoy (1861-1892)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00055/catalog) [Tozier, Charles Herman (1875-1947)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00061/catalog) [Wasson, Tina & R.Gordon](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/ecb00001/catalog) [Watson, Sereno (1826-1892)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00056/catalog) [Weatherby, Charles Alfred (1875-1949)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00105/catalog) [Weston, William Henry Jr. (1890-1978)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00053/catalog) [Wheeler, Charles Fay (1842-1910)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00057/catalog) [White, William Lawrence (1908-1952)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/far00052/catalog) [Withers, William](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/arn00009/catalog) [Woytkowski, Felix (1892-1966)](https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/catalog/orc00012) [Wright, Charles (1811-1885)](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00058/catalog)