These ads, received by Demaree in 1947, reflect Americans' earlier widespread passion for collecting and specimen exchange. Such ephemera shed a little more light on botanical practices; they show specimen availability and the advertisements' target audience-"educational institutions, teachers and persons." Missouri Botanical Garden collections. Click on either image to enlarge. (70 KB) |
In this 1936 handwritten letter to agronomist Dr. Carleton Ball (1873-1958), Demaree says that he is working on his checklist of Arkansas plants, claiming to have added 200 species to the Arkansas state flora. This work would be self-published in his limited-edition journal Taxodium. A carbon copy of Ball's typed response is on the back of this letter; botanists' signatures, on letters and labels, are important for verifying the authenticity of type specimens. Hunt Institute collections. Click on image to enlarge. (202 KB) |
This 1948 letter to Demaree from Burton Gates reveals a problem of tracing frontier botany. Gates clarified a fuzzy collecting location "in what is now Oklahoma" that predated current state configurations. Missouri Botanical Garden collections. Click on image to enlarge. (159 KB) |
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