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Scope and Contents
The correspondence includes determinations of specimen types, exchanges, botanical society business, critiquing of journal articles, recommendations for Martin's many students, and inquiries from the general public. Correspondents include botanical garden personnel, herbarium curators, professors at other universities, government agencies dealing with the study of fungi, foreign mycologists, and his former students. Significant correspondents include Constantine John Alexopoulos, Ruth McVaugh Allen, Gladys Elizabeth Baker, Robert Joseph Bandoni, Ernst Athearn Bessey, Henry Shoemaker Conard, William Bridge Cooke, Richard William George Dennis, Bernard Ogilvie Dodge, Marie Leonore Farr, Joseph Charles Gilman, William Dudley Gray, Clifford William Hesseltine, Herbert Spencer Jackson, Theodor Karl Just, Lorene Louise Kennedy, Donald T. Kowalski, Paul Lewis Lentz, David Hunt Linder, Marcel V. Locquin, Josiah Lincoln Lowe, Bernard Lowy, Thomas Huston Macbride (no letter from Macbride is in the Martin Papers), Donald Phillip Rogers, Fred Jay Seaver, William C. Sturgis, Kartar Singh Thind, Arthur Luna Welden, and Kenneth Wells.
Biographical Note
George Willard Martin was born in Brooklyn, New York, October 27, 1886, and died in Iowa City, September 13, 1971. His degrees were Litt.B., Rutgers, 1912; M.Sc., 1915; D.Sc. (hon.), 1963; Ph.D., Chicago, 1922. He joined the Department of Botany at Iowa in 1923, reaching the rank of Professor in 1929. Martin was Director of the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, 1928-1934, and Head of the Department of Botany, 1953-1955, becoming Professor Emeritus in 1955. His specialty was mycology (fungi), especially Myxomycetes (slime molds). He was a co-author of two books on the Myxomycetes, 1934 and 1969, and was editor-in-chief of Mycologia and of the University of Iowa Studies in Natural History.
Box Contents List
Box 1
A -- Ala
Alexopoulos, C. J., 1950 -- 1963
Alexopoulos, C. J., 1964 -- 1965
Alexopoulos, C. J., 1966 -- 1967
Alexopoulos, C. J., 1968 -- 1971 through Ali
Allen, including Ruth Allen, 1961 -- 1963
Allen, Ruth, 1964 -- 1970
Alli -- Am
Box 2
An -- Ay
B -- Bal
Bandoni, Robert J., 1952 -- 1971
Ban -- Bax
Be
Bh -- Bo
Br -- Bu
Ca -- Cook
Box 3
Cooke, William Bridge, 1941 -- 1971
Cool -- Curt
D -- Dar
Dav -- Den
Dep -- Di
Do -- Du
E
Fa -- Farr, Marie L., 1954 -- 1961
Box 4
Farr, Marie L., 1962 -- 1971
Farrow -- Fid
Fin -- Fur
Gai -- Gilb
Gilk -- Gran
Gray, William D., 1935 -- 1970
Grea -- Guth
Ha
Box 5
Hed -- Hes
Hesseltine, C. W., 1940 -- 1963
Hey -- Hox
Hu -- Hy
I
Jackson, H. S., 1932 -- 1951
Jah -- Jun
Just, Theodor, 1938 -- 1956
Box 6
K -- Ken
Kennedy, Lorene L., 1953 -- 1970
Ken -- Kor
Kowalski, Donald T., 1958 -- 1971
Kr -- Leh
Lentz, Paul, 1942 -- 1968
Lenz -- Linder
Lindq -- Lon
Box 7
Lowe, Josiah L., 1940 -- 1970
Lowy, Bernard, 1949 -- 1971
Lu -- McA
Macbride, Thomas Huston, 1928 -- 1937
McC -- McG
Mack -- McV
Mad -- Mat
Max -- Mey
Mi
Moh -- Moo
Box 8
Morgan -- Morris, E. F.
Morrow -- Morton
Mos -- Mu
Mycologia
N -- Nelson, R. R.
Nelson, T. C., 1925 -- 1955
Nes -- Ny
O
P -- Pe
Ph -- Pu
Box 9
Ra
Re -- Rod
Rogers, Donald P., 1933 -- 1936
1937 -- 1939
1940 -- 1941
1942
1943
1944 -- 1946
1947 -- 1950
Box 10 Rogers, Donald P., cont.
1951 -- 1956
1957 -- 1959
1960 -- 1971
Rogers, T. E. -- Ru
S -- Seas
Seaver, Fred J., 1936 -- 1958
Seaverns -- Sh
Si -- Sm
Snell
Box 11
So -- Stanf
Stanl -- Stev
Stew -- Stou
Stov -- Sy
Ta
Te
Thind, K. S., 1958 -- 1971
Thir -- Tu
U -- V
Box 12
W -- Welc
Welden, Arthur L., 1951 -- 1969
Wells, Kenneth, 1956 -- 1971
Wen -- Wes
Wh
Wi
Wo
Wr -- Wy
Y -- Z