Collections of Women in the HI Archives

                                                                                    Collection Number

Allen, Dorothy Osdieck, 1911 - 1973

            Botanical art

            Illustrated notes

            (Additional material with Paul

            Hamilton Papers (1)                                                    259

Arber, Agnes Robertson, 1879-1960

            Plant Morphology

            Papers, 1886-1953                                                      53

Bechtel, Louise Seaman, 1894 -

            Compiler, Pursuit of the Rose

            Scrapbook                                                                   164

Blaine, May, 1889 - deceased (date unknown)

            Secretary in Office of Plant Exploration                    61

            Letters, 1931-1964

Blos, Maybelle, 1906 -

            Botanical illustration

            Time book                                                                   186

 Braun, Emma Luvy, 1889 - 1971

            Forest ecology and taxonomy of

            vascular plants

            Field notebooks                                                          181

Carlson, Margery Clair, 1892 -

            Plant taxonomy, morphology, anatomy,

            collection.

            Corresondence                                                                        86

Cathcart, Ellen Weir,

            Scientific Asst.,Div. of Bot.,USDA

            Letters                                                                         98

Chase, Mary Agnes Merrill, 1869-11963

            Agrostology

            Misc. items in HI                                                        235

            Papers returned to Smithsonian,

            HI to get microfilm copies

Croasdale, Hannah Thompson, 1905 -

            Phycology

            Papers                                                                          230

Curtis, Winifred Mary, 1905 -

            Taxonomy

            Letters                                                                         258

Davis, Fanny Elisabeth Waugh, 1871 - 1958

            Botanical art

            AMS with illustrations (photocopy

            in Archives.)  All botanical drawings

            in HI Art Department                                                 287

Dowdon, Anne Ophelia Todd, 1907 -

            Botanical art

            Manuscript material pertainig to her

            publications.                                                                245

 Esau, Katherine, 1898-

            Plant Morphology

            Letters, notes, typescripts                                           71

Evans, Patricia Healey

            Author, herbalist

            Correspondence, Ms proofs                                        124

Gilmartin, Amy Jean, 1932 - 1989

            Taxonomy

            Correspondence                                                          300

Grasby, Nancy

            Landscape gardener, horticulture

            Journal of a 1938 collecting trip

             to Mexico while assistant to Lester Rowntree           301

 Green, Mary Letitia, 1886-1978

            Botanical nomenclature

            Copy of her "Standard

            species of Nomina Conservanda"

            70 memeographed, annotated pages                           126

Harding,  Alice Howard1846(?) - 1938

            Horticulture

            Correspondence, mss., photographs

            misc. items                                                                  161

Hu, Shiu Ying, 1910 -

            Taxonomy

            Misc. items, letters                                                      302

 Hunt, Rachel McMasters Miller (restricted)                          190

  RMMH correspondence with Bookdealers, etc.

         (not restricted)                                                               252

Jekyll, Gertrude , 1843-1932

            Pioneer of modern informal gardening.

            Letters, page proofs, ms.                                             148

Langman, Ida Kaplan, 1904-1991

            Botanical bibliography (Mexican

            botany)

            Papers                                                              179

 Letty, Cythna Lindenberg, 1895-1985

            Botanical art

            Letters (35), 1934-1945.                                 73

Leyel, Hilda Winifred Wauton, 1890-1957.

            Author, Herbalist

            Leyel's annotated copy of Herbal

            Delights as well as her loose notes.                 130

McClintock, Elizabeth May, 1912-

            Taxonomy

            Letters                                                             217

Mathias, Mildred Esther, 1906 -

            Plant Taxonomy

            Papers, 1927 - 1952.                                       26

Miller, Helena Agnes,  1913 -

            Plant anatomy

            Misc. items (papers promised)                                    283

Neal, Mary Catherine, 1889 - 1965

            Botany

            Sketch book and misc. items                          234

O'Gorman, Helen  Lanpher, 1904 -

            Author, botanical art

            Misc. items                                                                  238

Overholts, Marie Bertha Knauz, 1894 -

            Botany

            Box of color lantern slides International

            Botanical Congress, 1930.                              249

Rohde, Eleanor Sinclair

            Author, horticulture

            Misc. items                                                                  276

Roupell, Arabella Elizabeth, 1817-1914

            Botanical art

            Photocopies of letters,

            misc.items., 1846-1851                                               127

Rudd, Velva Elaine, 1910-

            Taxonomy

            Papersl, 1976 - present                                                146

Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932

            Botanical art

            Notebook and misc. items                              237

 Warner, Marjorie Fleming, 1871-1960

            Librarian, Special research in USDA 

            Items, 1920 - 1959                                          122

Willmott, Ellen Ann, 1860 - 1934

            Created gardens in England and on

            the Riviera

            Lists of plants used in her gardens                 171

Many individual letters and autographs of women plant scientists have been placed in our General Autograph collection and are not included in the above list.