Guide to the Edward Sandford Burgess (1855–1928) papers, 1889–1895, n.d.

Edward Sandford Burgess (1855–1928) taught botany at Central High School in Washington, D.C. (1882–1895), Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute (1881–1895), Johns Hopkins University (1885) and Hunter College (1895–1925). Burgess specialized in asters, discovering 84 species. He contributed the botanical descriptions of asters to Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859–1934) and Addison Brown (1830–1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States (New York, 1896–1898, vol. 3) and to John Kunkel Small (1869–1938), Flora of the Southeastern United States (New York, 1903).

This collection consists of a notebook, labeled as "Vol. II", containing handwritten notes for lectures on botany. There are also newspaper clippings and articles concerning various plants.

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