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- catalog abstract "This collection consists of manuscript papers dealing with the flora of China. There are a large number of copies of letters from Franklin P. Metcalf to Dr. F.A. McClure from 1939-1940. In addition there are items of memorabilia including a small photograph of F.P. Metcalf, his business cards, photographs and a curiculum vitae of his son John E. Metcalf, an economist, and extracts from the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum mentioning F.P. Metcalf. The collection also includes cardboard folders of containing typed and handwritten notes on Chinese flora. The folders are labelled with a family name and general description. Many folders contain small maps of the Fukien province with plant information filled in on the reverse side. Also included are some reprints, and carbon copies of correspondence both to and from Metcalf regarding specific flora.".
- catalog contributor b12886957.
- catalog date "1930".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:ARB:ajp00028".
- catalog description "Franklin Post Metcalf Papers. Arnold Arboretum Archives of Harvard University.".
- catalog description "Franklin Post Metcalf was born on June 10, 1892, in Oberlin, Ohio. He was an assistant ornithologist at Oberlin College from 1912-1913 and received his A.B. from the school in 1913. He was a botanist at Cornell University from 1913-1916. During the summers of those years he was a tutor at Kamp Kiamesha in Vermont (1913), an assistant instructor at Cornell (1914), and an assistant instructor for Professor Lynd Jones' field course (1915). He was an instructor at Cornell during the 1916-1917 academic year and then accepted an appointment as an assistant biologist with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) biological survey in North Dakota in 1917. He returned to that post in 1919, which he held until 1923, following his service in the United States Army Signal Corps from 1918-1919. As part of his USDA duties he performed fieldwork in the summers of 1920 and 1921. From 1923 to 1928 he was a professor of botany at Fukien Christian University and became recognized as a specialist in Chinese flora. In 1940, he held a year-long Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. From 1941-1942 he continued his work at the Arnold Arboretum as a Milton-Clarke fellow and research associate. Metcalf retired in 1947 and died in 1955.".
- catalog description "This collection consists of manuscript papers dealing with the flora of China. There are a large number of copies of letters from Franklin P. Metcalf to Dr. F.A. McClure from 1939-1940. In addition there are items of memorabilia including a small photograph of F.P. Metcalf, his business cards, photographs and a curiculum vitae of his son John E. Metcalf, an economist, and extracts from the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum mentioning F.P. Metcalf. The collection also includes cardboard folders of containing typed and handwritten notes on Chinese flora. The folders are labelled with a family name and general description. Many folders contain small maps of the Fukien province with plant information filled in on the reverse side. Also included are some reprints, and carbon copies of correspondence both to and from Metcalf regarding specific flora.".
- catalog extent "33 linear in.".
- catalog issued "1930".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "China".
- catalog subject "Arnold Arboretum.".
- catalog subject "Botanists.".
- catalog subject "Botany China Classification.".
- catalog subject "Botany China Identification.".
- catalog subject "Metcalf, Franklin P. (Franklin Post), 1892.".
- catalog title "Papers of Franklin Post Metcalf (1930-1946)".
- catalog type "collection".