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Title: Herbert L. Mason papers, 1928-1980
Primary Creator: Mason, H. L. (Herbert Louis) (1896-1994)
Extent: 1.0 Linear Feet. More info below.
Arrangement: Arrangend into 7 series based on Mason's organization of his papers: Series 1: Field notes, Series 2: Personal: Miscellaneous, Series 3: Personal: Organizations, Series 4: Personal: Recommendations, Series 5: Personal: National Reserach Council, Series 6: Bio-bibliography, Series 7: Manuscripts.
Subjects: Botanists - California, University of California, Berkeley. - Dept. of Botany, University of California, Berkeley. - Herbarium.
Forms of Material: Correspondence, Field notes
Languages: English
Herbert Louis Mason was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin on January 3, 1896. He received his A. B. in 1921 from Stanford University and his M.A. in 1923 from the University of California at Berkeley. He was an instructor at Mills College from 1923 to 1925 and then returned to the University of California to receive his Ph. D. in Botany in 1932. In 1931 he married Lucile Roush, also a Berkeley graduate student in Botany. He was hired as instructor and assistant curator of the University Herbarium at Berkeley in 1933 and promoted to assistant professor and associate curator in 1934 and associate professor and curator in 1938. In 1941 he was promoted to professor of Botany and director of the herbarium. In 1957, he published A flora of the marshes of California based on surveys commissioned by the California Department of Fish and Game and conducted by Mason and his graduate students.
Herbert Mason was a member of the Biosystematists, Western Society of Naturalists, the Western Section of the Ecological Society of America, the Regional Parks Association, the California Botanical Society, and the American Society of Plant Taxonomists. He retired from Berkeley in 1963 and he and Lucile moved to Bellingham, Washington to live near their son, David. Herbert Mason passed away in Bellingham in 1994.
Botanists - California
University of California, Berkeley. - Dept. of Botany
University of California, Berkeley. - Herbarium.
Repository: University and Jepson Herbaria Archives, University of California, Berkeley
Alternate Extent Statement: 15 bound volumes and two small archival boxes.
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research except for letters of recommendation (Series 4) which are restricted until 2028.
Use Restrictions: Copyright has not been assigned to the University and Jepson Herbaria Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the University and Jepson Herbaria Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained by the publisher.
Related Materials: Additional professional correspondence to and from Herbert Mason can be found in the correspondence series of the University Herbarium Records.
Preferred Citation: Herbert L. Mason Papers, University and Jepson Herbaria Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
Includes the following collection numbers:
6258-6276
7354-8387
9000-9450
10040-10055
Collections are primarily from California with a few from Washington and Montana.
Numbers 9000-9439 are an undated typed list of Plants of Point Lobos State Park Collected by Mason and Lee.
These folders were labeled "Personal Miscellaneous", yet they contain incoming and copies of outgoing professional correspondence from Mason's time as a professor and herbarium curator at Berkeley. Letters were arranged by chronologically by Mason. Individual correspodents are listed below.
Abbott, Isabella: November 18, 1943
Abrams, LeRoy:August 10, 1944, December 12, 1944
Albritton, Errett C.: July 18, 1950, April 30, 1953, May 25, 1953
Aldrich, Elmer C.: March 23, 1953, December 18, 1953, September 3, 1954
Alexander, Gordon:December 19, 1944
Anderson, W. Warren: March 18, 1953
Arnon, Daniel I.: April 30, 1954
Ashley, James F.: December 22, 1948
Atwood, Sanford S.: August 22, 1952
Babcock, E. B.: May, 1 1947, May 24, 1949, April 9, 1954
Backus, Jean L.: September 8, 1943, October 7, 1943
Baker, F.: May 28, 1947
Baker, Milo: January 19, 1944
Ball, Carleton R.: October 30, 1950
Barber, H. N.: May 29, 1956
Barnas, Mary: November 19, 1950
Barr, P.M.: March 20, 1952
Behnke, John A.: March 25, 1942
Bonar, Lee: June 7, 1949, July 8, 1954
Braun, Edwin L: April 29, 1952
Briggs, Fred N.: January 10, 1947
Britton, Barbara B.: July 3, 1952
Brown, Homer: June 21, 1949
Buccholz, John T. (Department of Botany, University of Illinois): December 14, 1949
Buckalew, Harry L.: March 13, 1951
Buell, Murray F.: June 12, 1953, June 19, 1953
Bunn, David, B.: January 6, 1950
Burge, Raymond T.: August 12, 1952
Cain, Stanley A.: August, 10, 1943, January 12, 1944, January 19, 1950, September 11, 1952, October 16, 1952
Camp, W. H.: January 13, 1947, January 9, 1947, September 9, 1946, February 4, 1946, September 1,1950
Carter, Annetta: February 6, 1949, February-July 1951 (multiple letters), June 12, 1954, June 22, 1954, June 25, 1954, July 9, 1954, July 20, 1954, August 19, 1954, March 1960, July 1960
Chapell, Walter? (Bogota, Columbia): July 24, 1949
Cheadle, Vernon I.: January 16, 1950, September 18, 1953
Clark, Bruce L.: November 4, 1941
Clarke, J.: May 8, 1942
Clausen, Robert T.: May 4, 1944, October 14, 1949
Cleland, Ralph E.: 1951
Clokey, Ira W.: July 1, 1948, March 19, 1948
Clum, Harold H.: August 5, 1944, August 18, 1944, October 22, 1944
Cockrell, Robert: May 25, 1950
Cole, Jim: September 1944, April 24, 1943, October 1943
Copeland, Herbert: November 27, 1954
Constance, Lincoln: March 10, 1953, December 21, 1943
Cook, S. F. (Professor of Physiology, Berkley Medical School): December 14, 1949
Core, Earl. L.: June 17, 1952
Corley, James H.: January 18, 1952
Crafts, A. S.: October 26, 1942
Cross, Aureal T.: September 23, 1949
Cuatrecasas, Jose: September 13, 1953
Cutter, Robert K.: October 17, 1944
Darrah, William Culp: July 31, 1951
Darrow, Robert A.: March 19, 1948
Davis, W. B.: November 17, 1943
Davidson, John: August 12, 1949, November 2, 1950, January 14, 1944
Dawson, Yale: January 8, 1954, January 25, 1954
Demiriz, A. Husnu: January 13, 1952
Descole, Horacio R.: March 1, 1948
Deutsch, Monroe E.: January 15, 1945
Dorf, Erling: March 14, 1942, March 18, 1944
Doty, Maxwell S.: May 13, 1949
Duffield, John W.: April 27, 1950
Dunn, David B.: June 28, 1953
Dutton: November 1, 1949
Edwards, D. W.: March 30, 1954
Emerson, Ralph: October 17, 1947
England, John O: July 15, 1949, January 24, 1950, March 15, 1951, January 19, 1951
Engle, Claire: January 18, 1950
Farquhar, Samuel T.: April 11, 1944
Fassett, F. G.: July 15, 1948
Feiler, C. L.: July 10, 1948
Ferris, Roxana S.: July 13, 1948, January 27, 1948
Ferry, Philip: November 13, 1952
Fidian, James: June 8, 1947
Fisher, John F.: June 2, 1948, July 6, 1950, July 19, 1950, August 10, 1950, October 16, 1951
Fleming, Guy L.: January 14, 1950, January 30, 1950
Fritz, Emanuel: June 3, 1952
Fruge, August: July 13, 1948
Fulling, E. H.: July 9, 1942
Gerhardt, Paul D.: December 23, 1947
Gilmore, Susan: July 13, 1943
Gleason, H. A.: July 2, 1953
Glock, Waldo S.: February 4, 1950
Goddard, David R.: April 5, 1949, March 15, 1949
Goethe, C. M.: August 29, 1949
Gould, Sydney, W.: May 1, 1954
Grant, Alva (Mrs. Verne): April 15, 1950
Gunderson, Alfred: March 22, 1948
Haddock, Philip G.: July 20, 1944, August 25, 1944
Hall, J. A.: August, 30, 1943, October 27, 1943
Hamilton, E. P.: August 16, 1943
Hansell, Dorothy E.: June 24, 1954
Hansen, H. P.: October 29, 1952
Hardenbrook, Dea: September 3, 1943
Harper, Francis: February 10, 1949
Harvill Jr., A. M. (Department of Biology, University of Alabama): November 21, 1949
Hayes, G. Lloyd: January 9, 1953
Heggie, Amy E.: November 20, 1944
Heiser Jr., Charles: February 22, 1948, March 21, 1952
Heiser, Dorothy G.: November 17, 1947
Hemphill, Donald V.: August 3, 1951
Hershey, Arthur L.: July 28, 1949
Henning, A. E. (Chief, Division of Beaches and Parks, Department of Natural Resources, California): January 8, 1948
Hiesey, W.M.: March 1, 1954
Hildebrand, Milton: January 16, 1950
Holm, Dick: October 11, 1949
Holt, Vesta: May 19, 1948
Holzer, W. F.: November 5, 1947
Hone, Betty: April 22, 1949
Howell, Tom: April 17, 1944
Hoyt, Roland S.: October 1944
Huber, G.: February 18, 1952
Hubbs, Carl. L.: May 21, 1945
Hutchison, Claude B.: February 20, 1952
Iltis, Hugh H.: September 13, 1954
Ingles, Lloyd O.: January 21, 1950
Ireland, Luis G.: May 15, 1950
Jastram, Roy W.: January 13, 1952. March 11, 1953
Jenny, Hans: May 25, 1948
Jepsen, Glenn L.: November 14, 1947, January 4, 1949, February 8, 1949
Jepson, Willis Linn: June 13, 1942
Johansen, Donald A.: May 25, 1944
Johnstone, George R.: June 19, 1954
Jones, Volney H.: June 21, 1948
Just, Theodor: July 8, 1948, December 22, 1952
Keifer, H. H.: August 21, 1953
Keller, William F.: January 11, 1952
Keng, Hsuan: [March 1953], June 4, 1953, July 7, 1953
Kerr, Clark: February 24, 1953, December 11, 1953, December 30, 1953, November 15, 1955, January 3, 1956
Khan, Abrar: March 28, 1950
Kidder, Monroe: October 11, 1943
Killip, E. P.: December 9, 1947, November 12, 1947
Kirk, Paul L.: December 4, 1947, April 10, 1947
Knight, John H.: December 30, 1947
Kraebel, C. J.: October 10, 1950
Kruckeberg, A. R.: December 8, 1953
Krukoff, B. A.: July 19, 1948
LaMotte, Robert S.: October 28, 1948
Lanjouw, J.: April 2, 1953
LaRivers, Ira: October 6, 1948
Laurence, George: February 26, 1948
Lawrence, George H. M.: June 7, 1950
Legg, Ken: March 30, 1954, April 7, 1954, August 8, 1954
Leighly, John: March 20, 1952
Leonard, Richard M.: May 2, 1949, March 14, 1952
Linford, Hames B.: August 29, 1949, August 15, 1949
Luti, Ricardo: October 25, 1953
MacDougal, D.: November 10, 1949
Madson, B. A.: December 30, 1943
Mady, Cristopher: August 24, 1952
Major, Jack: October 6, 1947
Macbride, J. F. (Some letters signed only as Francis): April 1944, November 27, 1944, December 8, 1944, December 19, 1944, February 1, 1945
MacFarland, F. M.: April 8, 1943, January 31, 1944
MacKinnon, Donald W.: October 24, 1950
Maheshwari, P: April 8, 1951
Martinez, Maximino: November 11, 1953
McMillan, Calvin: September 22, 1952, January 20, 1953, January 27, 1953
McMinn, Howard E.: January 11, 1950, April 5, 1951, January 9, 1952, June 4, 1953
McPherson, Donald A.: August 4, 1949
Metcalf, Woodbridge: February 15, 1947, March 28, 1949, September 3, 1952, May 8, 1953, July 30, 1953, August 5, 1953
Miller, Alden H.: December 15, 1944
Miller, Robert C.: January 25, 1944
Mirov, N. T.: June 23, 1953
Moody, Edward F.: September 13, 1949
Mowry, Claude R.: October 15, 1953
Munz, Philip A. October 25, 1948, June 27, 1949
Narkis, Harold: October 21, 1947
Neugebauer, Edna K.: January 8, 1951
Nicholas, Richard U.: August 4, 1943
Niles, Arthur D.: March 18, 1946
Olson, Eva: March 16, 1953
O’Neill, Hugh: October 13, 1949
Ossig, E. O.: August 4, 1948, July 3, 1948
Payne, Theodore: April 29, 1949
Peirce, George J.: October 3, 1944
Perez Arbelaez, Enrique: September 6, 1951
Place, Jesse: January 5, 1944
Platt, Rutherford: March 19, 1947, August 23, 1948
Pococh, Mary A.: November 7, 1950
Porsild, A. E.: March 24, 1950
Polunin, Nicholas: February 6, 1953
Pultz, L. M.: April 19, 1944
Puri, G. S.: January 17, 1948, September 20, 1948, April 17, 1952
Ramp, Hugh M.: January 23, 1950
Ray, W. W.: March 27, 1952, July 29, 1952, August, 7 1952, August 11, 1952 November 30, 1953, December 18, 1953
Reed, John F.: October 18, 1948
Reichert, I.: March 28, 1950
Reinecke, Lawrence W.: May 15, 1944
Reynolds, Roy C.: July 12, 1949
Rice, Bertha M.: April 19, 1943
Richards, Adrian: April 22, 1954
Robbins, Tom: May 26, 1945
Rollins, Reed C.: September 22, 1952
Ross, Edward: May 8, 1953
Rushforth, Robert N.: April 23, 1948
Russell, Carl: March 3, 1950
Ryerson, Knowles, A.: May 10, 1952
Sampson, A. W.: June 11, 1952
Sanchez-Monge, E.: November 9, 1949
Sauer, Jonathan: January 10, 1952
Schopf, James M.: February 13, 1950
Sharp, Aaron J.: February 7, 1948, November 7, 1951
Sharsmith, Carl: November 6, 1944, December 15, 1944
Sharsmith, Helen K.: December 16, 1931, April 5, 1951
Shelford, V. E.: May 4, 1953, June 15, 1953
Shepherd, H. W.: April 22, 1949, May 19, 1953
Sigafoos, Robert S.: November 17, 1947
Skei, A. T. (Thurston): November 5, 1948
Sluiter, Engel: May 19, 1950
Smith, A.C.: November 1, 1944
Smith, Clifton F.: September 23, 1944
Smith, G. Dudley: April 29, 1948
Smith, Gilbert M.: October 2, 1942
Sproul, Robert: February 8, 1952, February 12, 1952, May 12, 1944, May 26, 1944
Standley, Paul C.: February 10, 1943
Stebbins, G. Ledyard: April 3, 1950
Steere, William C.: October 23, 1953, March 29, 1954
Stewart, Morris A.:April 18, 1950
Stock, Chester: July 21, 1947
Stockwell, Palmer: October 1949
Symmes, Mabel: March 28, 1946
Talbot, M.W.: January 21, 1953
Tatum, Brooking: January 24, 1945
Taylor, Joanne: April 10, 1952
Taylor, Lewis W.: January 12, 1949
Templeton, Bonnie: December 14, 1950
Tepfer, Sanford S.: September 17, 1952
Tevis, William S.: June 25, 1946
Theobald, Marion Jo: June 27, 1943
Thomson, M.S.: September 27, 1954
Tippo, Oswald: January 11, 1952, January 17, 1952, August 1, 1953
Traum, J.: December 2, 1943
Tucker, John M.: January 30, 1953
Tucker, Shirley, C.: December 2, 1953
Tufts, Warren P.: January 12, 1949
Tyler, E. J.: November 13, 1941
van Niel, C. B.: October 19, 1952, September 26, 1952
Van Rensselaer, Maunsell: March 12, 1951
Vaux, Henry J.: February 28, 1952
Verdoorn, Frans: February 1,1952, May 21, 1952, September 29, 1952, May 22, 1953, July 3, 1953, September 25, 1953, April 4, 1944
Wantrup, S. V: November 30, 1953
Weier, T. E. (Elliot): August 30, 1943, April 23, 1948
Wheeler, Helen-Mar: May 23, 1947
White Jr., Lynn: April 22, 1952
White, O. C.: March 27, 1950, March 7, 1950
Whittaker, Robert H.: February 5, 1951, October 12, 1953, November 2, 1953, December 14, 1953, January 22, 1954, March 1, 1954
Wiggins, Ira L.: October 20, 1943, October 10, 1949, September 21, 1954
Wiley, W. Bradford: March 19, 1942
Wolfson, Albert: May 20, 1949
Woodson, Jr. Robert E.: April 24, 1949
Wringley, Gladys M.: July 10, 1943
Zscheile, F. P.: November 30, 1943, April 9, 1944
Includes correspondence, meeting minutes, symposium planning documents, and other materials regarding the following organizations:
Western Society of Naturalists (1941-1949) including materials related to the organization of the symposium on Genetics and Evolution in 1941.
California Garden Clubs, Inc. (1950-1951)
Sierra Club (1950)
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (1949)
National Academy of Sciences (1948)
Botanical Society of American (1947-1948)
American Society of Naturalists (1948)
American Association for the Advancement of Science Pacific Division (1943)
National Research Council (1943)