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RG 9/15 - Botany Department
Inventory
An asterisk (*) indicates restricted records.

Series I: Account Books, 1899-1960 (5 vol.)

Box 1

1899-1933, (3 vol.)

Box 2 (oversize)

1933-1960, (2 vol.)

Series II: Faculty Files, 1889-1903, 1938, n.d. (11f)

Box 3

Budington, Robert Allyn

A Series of Physiological Records Illustrating Experimental Studies on Phenomena of Circulation, Respiration, Secretion and their Nervous Control, (1897?)

[See also Series IX. Miscellaneous Non-Textual Files.]

Jones, Herbert L.

Lorain County Plant List, n.d.

Kelsey, F.D.

Exchange Correspondents and Lists of Microscopic Exchanges, 1902-1903
Notebook VII-Saccardo Fungi, n.d.
Common and Conspicuous Algae of Montana (New York, 1891)

Reprinted from Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Vol. XVIII, no. 5

The Genus Uncinuls. Drawings and Descriptions of all the American Species

(Portland, CT, 1897) (Oberlin College, Laboratory Bulletin, no. 7)

Questions for Botany V, designed to assist pupils in mastering the principles of phanerogamic classification adopted by Bentham and Hooker and used by Gray in his Manual (Pierce and Randolph: Oberlin OH, 1897 (Oberlin College, Laboratory Bulletin, no. 4)

Box 3A

Nichols, Susan P.

Something of Oberlin (scrapbook given to Nichols on her retirement), 1938

Wright, Albert A.

Plant and Botanical List, 1889

Miscellaneous files, n.d.

Series III: Grade Books, 1900-1963 (82 vol.)

Box 4

F.O. Grover, 1900-1932 (41 vol.)
George T. Jones, 1926-1963 (11 vol.)
S. P. Nichols, 1936-1938 (2 vol.)

Box 5

Paul B. Sears, 1938-1943 (10 vol.)
Botany Department Grade Book, 1921-1959 (2 vol.)
Miscellaneous Grade Books (Unidentified), 1928-1957 (16 vol.)

Series IV: Miscellaneous Files, 1888-1960, 1971, n.d. (9f)

Box 6

Alumni Notes, c. 1940-1960
Arboretum, 1902-05, 1911, 1914-15
Biology 103: Syllabus (Unidentified), 1971
Botany Students at Oberlin College, n.d.
F.O. Grover Reports re: Lincoln House, Botany Department, Herbarium, 1900, 1913, 1957
List of Botany Majors, 1888-1957
Student Recommendations, ca.1930-1950 (3f)

Box 6A

Bird check lists, c. 1920s, 1945
Bird descriptions, n.d. (2f)

Series V: Miscellaneous Printed Material, 1846, 1872-74, 1888-89, 1892-93, 1898, 1905, 1936, 1988, n.d. (10f)

Box 7

Catalogue of North American Plants, 1888
Catalogue of North American Plants, 1898
Catalogue of North American Plants, 2nd Edition, 1898
Catalogue of Phaenogamous Plants of the United States, 1872
Checklist of North American Plants, n.d.
Fourth State Catalog of Ohio Plants, 1988
List of Plants Contained in the 6th Edition of Gray’s Manual, 1893
List of Lichens in the Collection of E. Wilkinson, Mansfield, Ohio Distributed into the General Herbarium, November 1936
Patterson’s Numbered Checklist of North American Plants North of New Mexico, Style A, 1892
Patterson’s Numbered Checklist of North American Plants North of New Mexico, Style B, 1892

Box 8

Patterson’s Numbered Checklist of North American Plants North of New Mexico, Style C, 1892
E. Wilkinson Checklist, n.d.

Box 8A

Apgar’s Plant Analyses, 1874
Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal by Rev. John T. Gulick, 1905
Illustrated Botany, Vol. I, no. I-VIII; 1846
Record of Plant Analyses, 1889

Series VI: Student Files, 1938-1978 (18f)

Box 9

Ader - Krauss, 1938-78 (9f)

Box 10

Law - Yocum, 1938-78 (9f)

Series VII: Student Papers, 1878, 1882-89, 1902, c. 1909- c.1913, n.d. (14f)

Box 11

Ackerman, Emily F. Laboratory Notes and Drawings, c.1909-13
Beardslee, H.C., Catalogue of Ohio Plants, 1878
Hoff, Clayton, Herbarium and Plant Description, 1902
Hill, Mary Pamela Benton, Student Coursework, 1897

Box 12

Leonard, Fred E.

Botanical Collections, 1889
Catalogue of Plants, 1882-1884
Field Notebooks, 1883-1888
List of Plants, 1882-1883
List of Plants, 1885
Localities and Dates of Plants, 1882-1884
Plant Book No. 1, n.d.

Ricksecker, A.E.

Botanical Collecting, Autumn, 1889

Williams, Stephen R. The Bungle Book, n.d.
Miscellaneous Student Papers, n.d.

Series VIII: Herbarium, 1874-1987, n.d. (73f and 4 vol.)

Subseries 1. Correspondence, 1952-1986 (17f)

Box 13

Other Colleges and Universities

Bowling Green State University, 1969-70
Fairfield College, 1967
Florida State University, 1967-70
Kent State University, 1965-71
Miami University, 1967-86
Michigan State University, 1967-70
Montana State University, 1973-84
Muskingum College, 1963-71
Ohio State University, 1955-76
Ohio University, 1966-68
Tien Wei Yang (College of Artesia), 1968
University of Kansas, 1982
University of New Mexico, 1968
University of Tennessee, 1964-84
Upper Iowa College, 1968

Box 14

Misc. Correspondence with George T. Jones, 1952-86 (2f)

Subseries 2. General Files (Alphabetical), 1874-1987, n.d. (43f and 4 vol.)

Box 15

Accession Lists and Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1900,1933,1943,1947, n.d.
Additions to the Herbarium Collection, 1964-86 (3f)
Business related to The Vascular Flora of Ohio Project, 1962-69
Camden Lake Plants, n.d.
Chance Creek Flora Lists, 1973-74
Collection Sites, 1969, 1974, 1985

Box 16

Erie County Nuclear Project (ECNP) maps and forms, 1973-79 (2f)
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1938
Flora of Lorain County by A.A. Wright, 1889, 1959
Fossil Plants, 1874-1933
Fungi and Lorain County Plants in the Herbarium, 1962-65
General Collection Information, 1910-3, 1965-75, 1979, 1985, n.d. (4f)
Inventory by Years of Collection, n.d.
History of the Oberlin College Herbarium; Survey of the Herbarium Resources of Ohio, 1889-93, 1948, 1965, 1979, 1982
History of Science at Oberlin, (1980?)
In-service Institute for High School Teachers of Biology: Grant Proposal to the NSF, 1965

Box 17

Indexes of Current Taxonomic Research, 1964-66
Inventory of Plants, 1966, 1973, 1977 (2f)
Lorain County Woodlands Maps, n.d.
Lorain County Vascular Plants in the Herbarium, 1962, 1966
Lists of Lichen and Bryophytes in the Herbarium, 1964-5
Misc. Notes and Lists, 1965, 1982, n.d.
New York Botanical Garden, 1970
Ohio Grasses in the Herbarium, n.d.
Ohio Polypores in the Herbarium, n.d.
Ohio Pteridophytes in the Herbarium, 1920
Plant Collectors and Oberlin College Collection, 1987, n.d.
Polyperaceae Host and Species Indexes, n.d.
Report on Fungus Exsiccatae, 1964
Report on the Oberlin College Herbarium, 1936
Sandusky Flora and Flora of the Oak Openings, by E.L. Moseley, 1899, 1928

Box 18

The Vascular Plant Collection by George T. Jones (2 copies), 1970
Winter Term: Winter Biology, 1971, 1973, 1981-2
Winter Term: World in Winter, 1975

Box 19

Herbarium and Plant Descriptions, 1984 (1 vol.)
List of Fungi from E. Wilkinson in the OC Herbarium, Nov. 1936 (1 vol.)
Microscope Record, 1940s-50s (1 vol.)
Microscope Slide Data, 1908-12 (1 vol.)

Subseries 3. Files of George T. Jones (1999/74) (14f)

Box 20

Collections of George T. Jones, 1946, 1966-1985, 1987 (6f)
Duplicate Plant Specimens sent to other Botany Departments, 1964-1967, 1969, 1974
Miscellaneous notes, lists, and maps, n.d. (2f)
Pamphlet, Ashland, Huron and Lorain County Plants in Oberlin College Herbarium, compiled by George T. Jones, 1966
Writings of George T. Jones (4f)

The Oberlin College Herbarium, n.d.
Oberlin College Herbarium Non-Vascular Book, 1978
The Oberlin Colleg Herbarium, The Vascular Plant Collection, 1978
Miscellaneous, n.d.

Series IX. Miscellaneous Non-Textual Files, 1893, 1925, 1926, 1932, 1935, n.d. (94 items)

Box 21

5x7 Glass Plate Negatives of Various Plants, 1925, 1926, 1935 (49 items)

Box 22

Miscellaneous Glass Plate Negatives and Safety Negatives of Plants, 1932, n.d. (44 items)

Box 23 (oversize)

Framed specimen, Unilaua perfoliata Liliaciai, 1893

 
 
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