Guide to the Rudolph Beer (1873–1940) papers, 1905–1913

HI Archives collection no. 6
.25 Linear Feet (1 box)

Contents List

Papers and Correspondence - Box 1, 1905–1913
Container(s) Description Dates Online
Box 1 Folder 1 On the Development of the Pollen Grain and Anther of Some Onagraceae 1905 View
Box 1 Folder 2 "On the Development of the Spores of Helminthostachys zeylanica" 1906 View
Box 1 Folder 3 "On the Development of Spores of Riccia glauca" 1906 View
Box 1 Folder 4 "On Elaioplasts" 1909 View
Box 1 Folder 5 "Studies in Spore Development" 1911 View
Box 1 Folder 6 "Notes on the Development of the Carpophore of Agaricaceae" 1911 View
Box 1 Folder 7 "Studies in Spore Development. III. The Premeitotic and Meitotic Nuclear Divisions of Equisetum arvense" 1913 View
Box 1 Folder 8 "Ant-gardens and ant-hotels" 1909 View
Box 1 Folder 9 "The Spores of Equisetum" 1909 View

Biographical Note

In a 7 November 1962 letter to Hunt Botanical Library Director George H. M. Lawrence, William T. Stearn of the British Museum of Natural History wrote, "Rudolph Beer was a botanist with private means who worked for a time at Kew. At the time of his death during the war, on 23 September 1940, his large botanical library consisted mostly of pamphlets, periodicals, and textbooks. It was more or less thrown into an outhouse where it remained, deteriorating through damp, rats, and hooligans, until the death of Beer's widow in 1961. The housekeeper then had the enterprise to get in touch with the Linnean Society and the Commonwealth Mycological Institute. Dr. Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth (1905–1998) salvaged what he could from the remains. Among these were letters from Agnes Arber, the originals of some of Beer's papers, and reprints of these."

Scope and Contents Note

This collection was received from William T. Stearn on May 1962. It consists of nine file folders. The first eight folders each contain one article reprint and the original handwritten manuscript of the article. File folder 9 contains the handwritten manuscript for the article without the reprint.

Finding Aid Note

This finding aid was entered in to ArchiveSpace by Nancy Janda in 2020.

Processing Information

This collection was digitized by G. Boardman in 2015.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item], [date(s) of item]. Depository: Rudolph Beer (1873–1940) papers, Hunt Institute Archives collection no. 6 (box [box number], folder [folder number]), Archives, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, Pa.