Collector’s field notebooks at The New York Botanical Garden Library

Abstract

The Archives of The New York Botanical Garden is currently home to more than 600 volumes of plant collectors’ field notebooks. In many cases, these notebooks belonged to former NYBG staff members or their associates and collaborators at other institutions. An accounting of these, arranged alphabetically by collector, is presented. For each volume, or range of volumes for each collector, the title of the notebook (if any) is given, along with the locations(s) of the fieldwork, the dates, and the range of collection numbers.