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Collection Overview
Abstract
Correspondence and field notes of Nathaniel Lyon Gardner, phycologist and curator of the herbarium at the University of California, Berkeley.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This collection documents the algal collecting and curatorial work of Nathaniel Lyon Gardner, phycologist and curator of the Herbarium at the University of California, Berkeley. The collection contains correspondence with phycologists from around the world, specimen identification lists, and Gardner's 10 volumes of field note. Information on Gardner's algal collections from 1897-1901 can be found in his correspondence with William Setchell in the William Setchell Papers.
Biographical Note
Nathaniel Lyon Gardner (1864-1937) phycologist and herbarium curator at the University of California, Berkeley, was born in February 26, 1864 in Keokuk, Iowa. As a high school teacher on Whidbey Island, Washington he became interested in the marine algae of Washington and began corresponding with noted phycologist William Setchell at the University of California, Berkeley. Setchell encouraged Gardner to further his botanical studies and the two collaborated closely on the marine algal flora of the Pacific Coast over the next 40 years. Gardner received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Botany from the University of California in 1903 and 1906. He served as a professor in Botany at Berkeley from 1913 until his retirement in 1934, and was the curator of the Herbarium from 1920-1934. He also was head of the department of biology at Los Angles Polytechnic High School from 1906-1909 and 1910-1913. He married Edith Jordan in 1915. Gardner passed away in Berkeley on August 15, 1937.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
University and Jepson Herbaria Archives, University of California, Berkeley
Access Restrictions:
Material is open for research.
Use Restrictions:
Material may be protected by copyright.
Preferred Citation:
Nathaniel Lyon Gardner papers, University and Jepson Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Series 1: Correspondence, 1903-1938
- Includes carbons of outgoing correspondence sent by Gardner. The bulk of the correspondence pertains to the identifcation of algal specimens. Some folders include lists of algal specimens identified by Gardner. Includes some correspondence addressed to William A. Setchell.
- Box 1
- Folder 1: American Agar Company, 1921-1930
- Folder 2: Borgesen, F., 1931-1933
- Includes list of Algae (126 species) sent on exchange
- Folder 3: Brohaska, Ondine (Mrs. Fred C.), 1934
- Folder 4: Chung, H. H., 1927-1931
- Folder 5: Collins, Frank Shipley, 1903-1908
- Folder 6: Collins, Frank Shipley, 1909-1920
- Folder 7: de France, Carmen, 1926-1927
- Folder 8: Connell, Robert C., 1926-1928
- Folder 9: Drouet, Francis, 1936
- Folder 10: Duthie, A. V., 1938
- Folder 11: Flowers, Sevillle, 1929-1930
- Folder 12: Fosberg, M., 1932
- Folder 13: Garrett, A. O., 1926-1931
- Folder 14: Gist Gee, N., 1931
- Folder 15: Howe, Marshall A., 1918-1930
- Folder 16: Howe, Marshall A., 1932-1936
- Folder 17: Johnstone, G. R., 1926-1929
- Folder 18: Kuznezoff, A., 1929
- Folder 19: Kylin, Harold, 1926-1927
- Folder 20: Parks, H. E., 1936
- Folder 21: Quisumbing, Eduardo, 1931
- Folder 22: Taylor, William Randolph, 1930-1941
- Folder 23: Thaxter, Roland, 1925-1929
- Folder 24: Tseng, Cheng-Kwei, 1933
- Folder 25: Weber van Bosse, Anna, 1933
- Folder 26: Wong, Y. C. Hawthorne, 1930-1931
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