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Edward Lee Greene Papers

1830s-1915

Origination : Greene, Edward Lee, 1843-1915.
Extent : 14 linear feet. 5 linear inches of photographs.
Repository : University of Notre Dame Archives
Address : Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
English.

Administrative Information

Source

Obtained from Edward L. Greene, January 25, 1915.

Preferred Citation

Edward Lee Greene Papers (GRE), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556

Scope and Content

Letters received by Greene (1871-1915), and copies of Greene's correspondence (1904-1909); notebooks containing descriptions of plant species; clippings and scrapbooks; notebooks containing records of letters sent by Greene (1881-1915); an account book (1830s) and financial records; report of the Botany Department, Catholic University of America (1902); card file of books in Greene's library; botanical and autobiographical articles and manuscripts by Greene; and photographs.

Greene's letters to Julius A. Nieuwland, CSC, 1905-1915, may be found in box 10 of the Nieuwland Papers and in our digital edition of Nieuwland's correspondence. The Nieuwland Papers also include a folder containing photostats of Greene's leaflets (box 9 folder 11).

The Robert P. McIntosh Collection in our archives contains a card file (CMSH box 2) that serves as a supplementary finding aid for Greene's letter books (in boxes 10 and 11 below).

Microfilm of Greene papers was made and sent to the University of Oregon Library in November, 1965.

Background

Episcopal clergyman, convert to Catholicism, and botantist who taught at the University of California (Berkeley) and the Catholic University of America (1885-1904) and served as an associate in botany at the Smithsonian Institution (1904-1909); LL.D., University of Notre Dame (1895).

Index

Greene, Edward Lee, 1843-1915.
Botany.
Botanical literature.
Botanists.

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