Manuscripts
Paul Hutchison Papers
- Description
This collection contains papers of Paul C. Hutchison (1924-1997), a senior botanist at the University of California at Berkeley. The lion's share of the collection consists of Hutchison's personal collection of the journals and correspondence of English streetcar operator and amateur cactus botanist John Thomas Bates. There are several botanical notebooks and catalogues belonging to Hutchison and Bates. Two of Bates' notebooks contain extensive notes on English botanist Nicholas Edward Brown (1849-1934). The collection also includes two botanical essays by botanist Paul Hutchison on the species of cacti in which he specialized, as well as a few of his letters to and from other prominent botanists. There is also a 1952 bound report collected by Hutchison on the horticultural and agricultural conditions of the Caribbean island of St. Croix (Box 2, Folder 8). Two of the notebooks are oversize. There are also 24 items of ephemera including a botanical catalogue, miscellaneous ledgers, invoices, photographs, a scrapbook and taxonomic notes.
Two referenced subjects include:
Brown, Nicholas Edward, 1849-1934 Subject in John Thomas Bates, "Mesembryanthemums and Some new Genera Separated from It" [undated]. 1 item. Box 2 (4). In oversize. Saint Croix (V.I.)--Description and travel Subject in P. C. (Paul Clifford) Hutchison, 1924-, "St. Croix report" (1952, Jan.). 1 item. Box 2 (8).
