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Correspondence of G. W. Clinton 1865-1878 Continue to correspondence (click below): George William Clinton was the son of New York
Governor DeWitt Clinton. He was the first President of the Buffalo Society of
Natural Sciences, and was instrumental in establishing a vigorous botanical
presence in Buffalo, New York. His herbarium of ca. 30,000 specimens forms
the basis of the Clinton Herbarium of the Buffalo Museum of Science (BUF). Clinton's correspondence with other botanists in
the late mid-1800's is upwards of 2,200 letters and is archived at the
Buffalo Museum of Science. It includes communications from professional and
amateur botanists of the time, the world over. Editorial
Note Editor's comments are in square brackets. At the
beginning of every letter there is a volume number and another number (e.g. Vol.
5 No. 116). This is George Clinton's own system for organizing his letters in
sequence, the volumes roughly corresponding to a given year and a number
given each letter as he received it. Actually only the letter number occurs
on each individual letter); Clinton later had his letters bound together into
volumes. The letter and number in square brackets is part of the numbering
and cataloguing or inventory system developed during the 1990's at the
Research Library of the Buffalo Museum of Science. On each letter, the black
ink is Clinton's handwriting, the pencil marks are the library's. At the
bottom of each letter Clinton wrote the date when he received it and whether
he took action.
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