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Botany -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Arkansas Native Plant Society Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 932
Scope and Content Note

The records contain correspondence and papers, (including the Society's newsletter, Claytonia), scrapbooks, and photographs. Box 1 contains correspondence and reference material and scrapbooks of the Arkansas Native Plant Society with correspondence, minutes, newsletters, clippings, photographs, and other items. Photographs are of field trips and meetings.

Dates: 1980-1998

Kent Bonar Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1665
Scope and Content Note

The collection includes a photocopied illustrated manuscript, notes, and a newsletter.

Dates: 1978-2006

Kent Bonar Materials Addendum

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1665a
Scope and Content Note This collection contains an illustrated manuscript of An Atlas and Annotated List of Vascular Plants of Arkansas, written by Edwin B. Smith in 1978 and later hand-illustrated by Kent Bonar. The custom box for the book was created by Steve Cochran of Bound To Be Around Bindery, Mount Vernon, IN. The collection also contains fourteen of Bonar's original field notebooks, which he used as the basis for his annotations. These notebooks feature...
Dates: 1978-2023

G. Thomas Clark Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1328
Scope and Content Note

The Papers are composed of research material, correspondence, biographical material, newspaper clippings, photographs, and slides.

Dates: ca 1965-1986

Lacy McCulloch Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Mc 1753
Scope and Content Note

Materials include correspondence.

Dates: 1927

Vance Randolph Notebooks and Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1009a
Scope and Contents

The collection contains original notebooks maintained by Ozarks folklorist Vance Randolph, as well as a letter to Randolph from Leo Van Scyoc. Three notebooks contain clippings, notes, and drawings of Ozarks plants; the fourth notebook contains addresses, anecdotes, and other notes.

Dates: circa 1915-1980

Edwin B. Smith Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2124
Scope and Content Note

This collection is comprised of two bound manuscripts of Edwin B. Smith's An Atlas and Annotated List of the Vascular Plants of Arkansas, edited by the author, as well as Smith's correspondence with University of Arkansas at Monticello Professor of Biology Eric Sundell.

Dates: 1978-1997

Jacob M. J. Smith Journal

 Collection
Identifier: MS Sm6
Scope and Content Note

Daily entries, 1844 to 1878, by Fayetteville, Arkansas horticulturist Smith record temperatures, botanical observations, and other data. Vol. 1, 1844-1851; Volume 2, containing entries in a different hand, includes the observations of Smith's successor, 1880 to 1886.

Dates: 1844-1886