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Glen D. Chamberlain Papers
Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0092
Abstract
The collection reflects both the amateur and professional scientific studies of a high school biology teacher in Presque Isle, Maine. There are field notes, study guides, plant lists, extensive correspondence, and an unpublished manuscript for the flora of Aroostook County, Maine.
Dates:
1932-1948
Herbarium and Plant Descriptions
Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1701
Abstract
Plant description notes and mounted plant specimens from an unidentified compiler gathered in a portfolio titled "Herbarium and plant descriptions" designed by Edward T. Nelson.
Dates:
1891-1897; Majority of material found within 1894-1895
Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine Records
Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0269
Abstract
The records of the Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine include meeting minutes, newsletters, correspondence, scrapbooks, and clippings recording the society's activities. It also includes journals, lantern slides, and microscope slides documenting the information gathered by the society.
Dates:
1895-2000
Olof Olsson Nylander Collection
Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0817-sc
Abstract
A collection of material by and about a geologist and mineralogist whose discovery of the first fossil specimens unearthed in Aroostook County altered many theories about the geological history of northern Maine. Included are newspaper clippings by and about Olof O. Nylander in Maine newspapers from the period 1932 to 1943. The newspapers represented are the Bangor Daily News, Presque Isle Star-Herald, Houlton Pioneer Times, Aroostook Republican, and the Lewiston Journal Magazine Section....
Dates:
1895-1943; Majority of material found in 1932-1943