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    <title>Asa Gray papers, 1840-1859</title>
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    <namePart>Gray, Asa</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1810-1888</namePart>
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  <abstract>Chiefly letters relating to botanical matters  from Gray and his wife, Jane Loring Gray, to botanist Elizabeth Carrington Morris and her sister, naturalist Margaretta Hare Morris.  Also includes letters to the Morris sisters from Louis Agassiz, Samuel Stehman Halderman, Thaddeus William Harris, and Benjamin Silliman.  Also included are two articles possibily written by entomologist Thomas Say for the journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Botanist and professor of natural history at Harvard University.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Agassiz, Louis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1807-1873</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gray, Jane Loring</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1821-1909</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Haldeman, Samuel Stehman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1812-1880</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Harris, Thaddeus William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1856</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morris, Elizabeth Carrington</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1775-1865</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Morris, Margaretta Hare</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1797-1867</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Say, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1787-1834</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Silliman, Benjamin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1885</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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    <topic>Faculty</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Botany</topic>
    <topic>Study and teaching</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Entomology</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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    <occupation>Botanists</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
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