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Edward Lee Greene Papers

GRE Edward Lee Greene Papers 1830s-1915
Origination : Greene, Edward Lee, 1843-1915.
Extent : 14 linear feet. 5 linear inches of photographs.
Repository : University of Notre Dame Archives Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

Source

Obtained from Edward L. Greene, January 25, 1915.

Preferred Citation

Edward Lee Greene Papers (GRE), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556

Scope and Content

Letters received by Greene (1871-1915), and copies of Greene's correspondence (1904-1909); notebooks containing descriptions of plant species; clippings and scrapbooks; notebooks containing records of letters sent by Greene (1881-1915); an account book (1830s) and financial records; report of the Botany Department, Catholic University of America (1902); card file of books in Greene's library; botanical and autobiographical articles and manuscripts by Greene; and photographs.

The Robert P. McIntosh Collection in our archives contains a card file (CMSH box 2) that serves as a supplementary finding aid for Greene's letter books (in boxes 10 and 11 below).

Microfilm of Greene papers was made and sent to the University of Oregon Library in November, 1965.

Background

Episcopal cleryman, convert to Catholicism, and botantist who taught at the University of California (Berkeley) and the Catholic University of America (1885-1904) and served as an associate in botany at the Smithsonian Institution (1904-1909); LL.D., University of Notre Dame (1895).

Index : 

 Greene, Edward Lee, 1843-1915.
 
 Botany. 
 Botanical literature. 
 Botanists.

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