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Original Accession; 1756-1985; boxes 1-21 and two oversize folders

Office files and correspondence of Dr. Core, head of the Biology Department, editor of Castanea, and well-known biologist. Collection includes multiple addenda, all of which have been interfiled except for the addendum of 1978/01/17.

Newspaper clippings, mainly from Doddridge and Harrison county, concerning marriages, deaths, family histories, letters from World War I service men, nurses, and from former residents who had moved, or gone to other states to teach, including a series of letters from L.P. Willis from the Phillippine Islands and Japan. Mr.Willis was employed as a teacher and Head Of the Bureau of Education in Japan, and the Phillipines for twenty years. Also, included in the collection are tax and school tuition receipts, orders,unsigned copy of Thomas Hickman's will, deed and other papers of several members of the Hickman family of Harrison county. A photostat copy of a form letter from the State Medical Society Committee on Examination of the Medical Botany of the State addressed to Dr.P. Davis from Wheeling, 1868.

This collection includes 153 handmade scrapbooks in which John E. Reed gathered and pasted newspaper and magazine articles, pamphlets, pictures, definitions, and handwritten notes about different plants. These scrapbooks are alphabetized by the botanical/scientific names of each plant, and the collection also includes four index books for reference. It also includes copies of two pages of correspondence between John Reed and William H. Witte with background about the scrapbooks (Box 1).

This collection contains materials pertaining to the professional career and personal life of Dr. John Thomas Baldwin Jr. Also included are the professional papers of Dr. Bernice Speese, a William & Mary professor and colleague of Dr. Baldwin.

Papers of P. D. Strausbaugh, former head of the Department of Botany, author of a biology textbook, and professor of Botany at WVU.

Correspondence, artwork, drawings, and notes of Robert Baker Wynne, professor of English at North Carolina State University. Through his poetry writings, Wynne developed and maintained a correspondence relationship with a number well known writers of the 1920's and 30's, including Gertrude Stein and Eudora Welty, of which there is correspondence in this collection between Wynne and them. Wynne was also an avid gardener and some of his affinity of flowers and development of hybrid species of irises and calla lilies is represented in this collection of papers.

Publications and photographs relating to West Virginian botany and geology, originating from the WVU Department of Biology and Dr. Charles H. Baer, conservationist and professor of ecology. Topics include geological and archaeological surveys, studies of various sites, and West Virginian Flora. Also includes photographs of Spruce, West Virginia (Pulp Mill and Spruce Hotel, circa 1910-1912). Places mentioned include Randolph, Nicholas, Kanawha, Monongalia, and Barbour Counties, as well as Watoga and Droop Mountain Battlefield State Parks, Dolly Sods, and Cheat Lake. This collection includes Dr. Earl Core's Outlines of the Flora of West Virginia in an Acco binder, published by the WVU Bookstore in 1954. This is one of very few copies, and appears to be related to the "Flora of West Virginia" course he taught at WVU, rather than his seminal Flora of West Virginia.