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Backenberg-Blossfield

Description: A collection of letters and manuscripts of botanists and nurserymen specializing in the discovery and cultivation of cacti and succulents. Correspondents in the collection include: Curt Backeberg, Neff K. Bakkers, Edgar M. Baxter, Nicholas E. Brown, Thomas MacDougall, and Ira L. Wiggins.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1929-1971.
Call number: mssAbbey
Creator: Abbey Garden Press (Santa Barbara, Calif.)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Abbey Garden Press, April 1981.; Gift of Abbey Garden Press, October 1976.

Brown-Wiggins

Manuscripts

A collection of letters and manuscripts of botanists and nurserymen specializing in the discovery and cultivation of cacti and succulents. Correspondents in the collection include: Curt Backeberg, Neff K. Bakkers, Edgar M. Baxter, Nicholas E. Brown, Thomas MacDougall, and Ira L. Wiggins.

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Abbey Garden Press records

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Brown, J. R. To Murray Skinner. Pasadena, Calif

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This collection primarily consists of letters to Don B. and Murray Skinner from other botanists in California and Washington, D.C. The Skinner's were predominantly interested in cacti and succulents and this is reflected in the letters to them, which cover such subjects as botany nomenclature, dudleya, and echeveria. As a result of their expertise in succulents and their involvement in various societies, the Skinner's received correspondence from various botanists of note such as J. R. Brown, H. M. Butterfield, Thomas Harper Goodpseed (1887-), Reid Moran, and B. Y. (Benjamin Yoe) Morrison (1891-1966).

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Goodspeed, Thomas Harper. To Don B. Skinner. Berkeley, Calif

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Brown, J. R. To Murray Skinner. Pasadena, Calif

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Brown, J. R. To Murray Skinner. Pasadena, Calif

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mssSkinner

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