John Donnell Smith (1829–1928) papers
.25 linear feet (1 box)
Biographical Note
Taxonomist John Donnell Smith (1829–1928) of Baltimore, Maryland, was a trustee of Peabody Institute in Baltimore (1888–1915) as well as a captain in the Confederate Army. In 1906 he donated his herbarium of more than 100,000 mounted specimens and his botanical library of over 1,600 volumes to the Smithsonian Institution. The herbarium is now kept as a historical collection in the U.S. National Herbarium.
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains two autograph manuscripts of plant descriptions by Smith and photocopies of pages from Botanical Gazette and of plant labels.Administrative Information
This finding aid was completed by Nancy Janda in 2018 and placed online by J. Dustin Williams in 2018.
Digital Materials Available
This collection was digitized by G. Boardman in 2015.
Additional collections and materials
The Hunt Institute Art Department also has 32 pencil drawings by Faxon, which are the originals for new species described by Smith in his series of 36 papers, “Undescribed plants from Guatemala,” for the American journal, Botanical Gazette (1887–1916, nos. 12–61). For additional Smith items, see HI Archives collection nos. 41, 42 and 370.
Contents
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Manuscripts |
1894–[after 1894]. |
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Description of Pinus donnell-smithii (3 pp., 21 × 13.5cm) |
1894 |
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Description of Passiflora porphyresica (3 pp., 28 × 21cm) |
[after 1894] |
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Photocopies |
?–? |
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Botanical Gazette (7 pp.) |
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Plant labels (3 pp.) |
7 June 1927 |
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