Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Frank Nicholas Meyer Series I

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Table of Contents Container List...... 1 Series I. Correspondence. 1907-1994. 18 folders...... 1 Subseries I.A. Frank Nicholas Meyer Correspondence. 1907-1916...... 1 Subseries I.B. Isabel Shipley Cunningham Correspondence. 1912-1994...... 1 Series II. Documents. 1908-1979. 2 folders...... 2 Series III. Research Notes and Annotations. 1911-1984. 9 folders...... 2 Series IV. Photographs. 1898-1994. 62 folders...... 3 Subseries IV.A. Photographs. 1898-1994...... 3 Subseries IV.B. Photograph Notes and Annotations. 1906-1986 ...... 6 Series V. Articles. 1908-2005. 28 folders...... 6 Series VI. Maps. 1905-1918. 6 folders...... 8 Oversize Boxes ...... 9

Special Collections of the National Agricultural Library: Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Frank Nicholas Meyer Series I. Correspondence. Subseries I.A. Frank Nicholas Meyer Correspondence. Series I. Correspondence. Subseries I.B. Isabel Shipley Cunningham Correspondence.

Container List

Series I. Correspondence. 1907-1994. 18 folders.

Subseries I.A. Frank Nicholas Meyer Correspondence. 1907-1916.

Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 1 Folder 1 Correspondence between Frank Nicholas Meyer and E. H. 1907-1908 Wilson Box 1 Folder 2 Letters from Frank Nicholas Meyer to Hugo de Vries 1911-1915 Box 1 Folder 3 Letter from Frank Nicholas Meyer to Henry Hicks 1912 Box 1 Folder 4 Letters from Frank Nicholas Meyer to C. S. Sargent 1913 Box 1 Folder 5 Letter from Frank Nicholas Meyer to David G. Fairchild 1915 Box 1 Folder 6 Letter from Frank Nicholas Meyer to Alfred Rehder 1916

Subseries I.B. Isabel Shipley Cunningham Correspondence. 1912-1994.

Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 1 Folder 7 Letter from George C. Gerber to John L. Creech referring 1912-1980 to excerpts of letters from Nelson T. Johnson and his daughter Elizabeth Holmes Johnson to their family Box 1 Folder 8 Letters from Mrs. Esther Hicks Emory to Isabel Shipley 1985-1987 Cunningham Box 1 Folder 9 Letter from M.H. de Brijn of the Royal Netherlands 1979 Embassy to Isabel Shipley Cunningham and the Netherlands Box 1 Folder 10 Correspondence order form papers between Isabel Shipley 1979-1980 Cunningham to the Koninklijkie Bibliotheek, Den Haag and De Nederlandsche Bank N.V. Box 1 Folder 11 Correspondence between Isabel Shipley Cunningham and 1980 Diny Winthagen, Librarian at the Hugo De Vries Laboratorium Box 1 Folder 12 Letter from Isabel Shipley Cunningham to E.J.M. 1981 Hoogland Box 1 Folder 13 Correspondence to Isabel Shipley Cunningham on the 1981-1983 Meyer lemon (C. meri Y. Tan.)

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Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 1 Folder 14 Correspondence with Isabel Shipley Cunningham on Frank 1981-1983 Nicholas Meyer's Ziziphus zizyphus jujube introductions Box 1 Folder 15 Letter from Mel Westwood to Isabel Shipley Cunningham 1982 Box 1 Folder 16 Correspondence to Isabel Shipley Cunningham on the 1983 Chinese white-barked pine (Pinus bungeana) Box 1 Folder 17 Correspondence between Isabel Shipley Cunningham and 1989-1991 Sandra L. Anagnostakis on chestnuts Box 1 Folder 18 Correspondence between Mayo S. Stantz with Jerome C. 1994 Ogeden, Tess Johnston, and Isabel Shipley Cunningham, on Frank Nicholas Meyer's grave

Series II. Documents. 1908-1979. 2 folders.

Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 1 Folder 19 Copy of Frank Nicholas Meyer’s petition for 1908 naturalization Box 1 Folder 20 Copy of Frank Nicholas Meyer’s last will and testament 1916-1979

Series III. Research Notes and Annotations. 1911-1984. 9 folders.

Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 1 Folder 21 Bibliography on Frank Nicholas Meyer 1911 Box 1 Folder 22 Isabel Shipley Cunningham’s requests for publication 1978-1979 Box 1 Folder 23 Isabel Shipley Cunningham’s annotated copy of Frank N. 1984 Meyer Plant Hunter in Asia by Isabel Shipley Cunningham Box 1 Folder 24 Isabel Shipley Cunningham’s notes on Frank Nicholas No date Meyer’s persimmons (Diospyros lotus) Box 1 Folder 25 Isabel Shipley Cunningham’s research notes (1/4) No date Box 1 Folder 26 Isabel Shipley Cunningham’s research notes (2/4) No date Box 2 Folder 27 Isabel Shipley Cunningham’s research notes (3/4) No date Box 2 Folder 28 Isabel Shipley Cunningham’s research notes (4/4) No date Box 2 Folder 29 Research notes from the National Archives and Records No date Administration

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Series IV. Photographs. 1898-1994. 62 folders.

Subseries IV.A. Photographs. 1898-1994.

Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 2 Folder 30 Frank Nicholas Meyer at age 23 in Amsterdam 1898 Box 2 Folder 31 Photograph of the official document authorizing Frank 1905 Nicholas Meyer to go as an agricultural explorer Box 2 Folder 32 Caravan resting near a Populus suaveolens (Poplar) in 1906 South Manchuria Box 2 Folder 33 Crossing a bridge in North Musan, North Korea 1906 Box 2 Folder 34 Caravan on the road from Peking to Wu-tai-shan, Shansi, 1907 China Box 2 Folder 35 David Fairchild at his desk 1908 Box 2 Folder 36 David Fairchild with Frank Nicholas Meyer in Fairchild’s 1908 office Box 2 Folder 37 David Fairchild with Frank Nicholas Meyer leaning 1908 slightly forward in Fairchild’s office Box 2 Folder 38 Frank Nicholas Meyer returning from a successful raid in 1908 the high mountains near Wu-tai-shan, Shansi, China Box 2 Folder 39 Plants and seeds in San Francisco harbor 1908 Box 2 Folder 40 Photographs a Ziziphus zizyphus jujube (missing image) 1908 Box 2 Folder 41 Ulmus pumila in Fengtai photograph 1908 Box 2 Folder 42 Man under Diospyros kaki, a lotus flower seedless ca. 1908 persimmon at Taid jet soa photograph Box 2 Folder 43 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s route from Tiflis to Wiadikonkas 1910 taken near Guda-ur, Caucasus, Russia Box 2 Folder 44 Frank Nicholas Meyer with wild Caucasian quince 1910 (Cydonia vulgaris) Box 2 Folder 45 Family of Cossacks that Frank Nicholas Meyer stayed 1911 with at the Village of Altaisk, southwest Siberia Box 2 Folder 46 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s party near Tangha-Tash, Chinese 1911 Turkistan, Asia Box 2 Folder 47 Kirghis encampment in Billikche, Chinese Turkistan, Asia 1911 with Picea schrenkiana and Populus tremula (spruce and aspen trees) Box 2 Folder 48 Larir (larch tree) near Marka-kul, Atai, southwest Siberia, 1911 Asia Box 2 Folder 49 On the dreaded Mussart or ice pass near Tangha-Tash, 1911 Chinese Turkistan, Asia Box 2 Folder 50 Frank Nicholas Meyer and party on an 800 year old Biota 1912 orientalis at Tsian-sze near Siantu-province of Shansi

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Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 2 Folder 51 Frank Nicholas Meyer at the crest of a mountain pass near 1913 Yingtau Box 2 Folder 52 Mountain scenery in Haiao Wu-tai-shan, Chili 1913 Providence, China Box 2 Folder 53 Caravan waiting to cross Siku river between China and 1914 Tibet Box 2 Folder 54 Crossing Siku River between China and Tibet using 1914 bamboo cable made from Arundinaria nitida Box 2 Folder 55 Frank Nicholas Meyer beside Taiyuan variety of jujube 1914 tree in Shansi Box 2 Folder 56 Frank Nicholas Meyer by a Pistacia chinensis 1914 Box 2 Folder 57 Johanais J.C. de Leuw and Frank Nicholas Meyer in 1915 Peking Box 2 Folder 58 Frank Nicholas Meyer in Peking 1915 Box 2 Folder 59 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s grave in Shanghai 1924 Box 2 Folder 60 Reverse side of Meyer medal awarded to Palemon 1936 Howard Dorsett Box 2 Folder 61 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s introduction of Pinus bungeana 1983 planted on William Woodville Rockhill’s grave in Litchfield, Connecticut Box 2 Folder 62 A collection of Frank Nicholas Meyer’s tree introductions 1986 at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 63 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s introduction of almonds or 1986 pistachios at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 64 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s introduction of almonds or 1986 pistachios at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 65 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s introduction of Chinese Maple at 1986 the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 66 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s introduction of Firmiana simplex 1986 Australia at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 67 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s introduction of kiwi at the Tree 1986 Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 68 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s introduction of kiwi the Tree 1986 Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 69 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s introduction of kiwi with a new 1986 trellis built by a boy scout at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico

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Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 2 Folder 70 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s introduction of Phoenix 1986 canariensis palm at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 71 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s introduction of pomegranate at 1986 the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 72 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s introduction of Tilia Rubra 1986 Causasica at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 73 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s introduction of white bark pine at 1986 the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 74 Paul J. Fitzgerald holding Frank N. Meyer Plant Hunter in 1986 Asia in front of kiwi at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 75 Paul J. Fitzgerald with a Frank Nicholas Meyer’s 1986 introduction jujube sprout of at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 76 Paul J. Fitzgerald with a Frank Nicholas Meyer’s 1986 introduction of a Pinus bungeana (Chinese pine) at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 77 Paul J. Fitzgerald with a Frank Nicholas Meyer’s 1986 introduction of white bark pine at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 78 Paul J. Fitzgerald with Frank Nicholas Meyer’s 1986 introduction of a white bark pine at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 79 Paul J. Fitzgerald with a Frank Nicholas Meyer’s 1986 introduction of Ziziphus zizyphus jujube at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 80 Paul J. Fitzgerald with a lemon cutting from a Frank 1986 Nicholas Meyer introduction at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 81 Paul J. Fitzgerald with a sprout from a Meyer lemon tree 1986 at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 82 Sprout from a Meyer lemon tree at the Tree Improvement 1986 Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico Box 2 Folder 83 Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in 1986 Chico

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Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 2 Folder 84 James W.P. Kelly with Frank Nicholas Meyer’s 1990 introduction of a Castanea mollissima Bartlett in Rochester, New York Box 2 Folder 85 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s introduction of a Castanea 1991 mollissima at the Bartlett Arboretum in Stanford, Connecticut Box 2 Folder 86 Frank Nicholas Meyer’s grave in Shanghai 1994 Box 2 Folder 87 Plant shipment photograph No date

Subseries IV.B. Photograph Notes and Annotations. 1906-1986

Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 2 Folder 88 Isabel Shipley Cunningham general notes on photographs 1906-1918 and negatives Box 2 Folder 89 Photocopies and annotations of photographs used in 1906-1915 Frank N. Meyer Plant Hunter in Asia Box 2 Folder 90 Annotations of photographs used in Frank N. Meyer Plant 1907-1916 Hunter in Asia Box 2 Folder 91 Notes on the photographs of Frank Nicholas Meyer’s 1986 introductions at the Tree Improvement Center Pacific Southwest Region in Chico

Series V. Articles. 1908-2005. 28 folders.

Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 3 Folder 92 Copy of "The people who stand for plus: Frank Nicholas 1908 Meyer, scientific explorer for the United States government in China and Russia." Outing 53 (October 1908): 69-76. Box 3 Folder 93 Copy of Wilson, Owen. "The travels of a plant hunter: 1909 three years of agriculture exploration by Frank Nicholas Meyer from middle China to northern Manchuria." World's Work 18 (June 1909): 11670-11684. Box 3 Folder 94 Copy of Meyer, Frank Nicholas “Agriculture exploration 1911 in the fruit and nut orchards of China.” Bureau of Plant Industry Bulletin no. 204 (March 25, 1911).

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Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 3 Folder 95 Copy of Meyer, Frank Nicholas Chinese plant names. 1911 New York: Chinese & Japanese Publishing Company, 1911. sample pages Box 3 Folder 96 Copy of McAdam, Thomas. “In the woods: a successful 1914 blending of Japanese simplicity, European permanence, and American materials with outdoor life, amid surroundings full of local color.” County Life in America (October 1914): 48-49, 86, 88. Box 3 Folder 97 Copy of Reimer, F.C. "Report of a trip to the orient to ca. 1918 collect and study oriental pears." Box 3 Folder 98 Copy of Fairchild, David. "A hunter of plants." National 1919 Geographic 36 (July 1919): 57-77. Box 3 Folder 99 Copy of Condit, I.J. "The kaki or oriental persimmon.” 1919 Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin no. 316 (December 1919): 246-266. Box 3 Folder 100 Copy and translation of Van Uildriks, Fredericke J. “De 1919 Reiziger-plantkundige Frans N. Meijer en zijn werk.” De Aarde en Haar Volken (1919): 1-171. or “Traveler- botanist Frank Nicholas Meyer and his work.” Box 3 Folder 101 Copy of Fairchild, David. "An Agricultural explorer in 1920 China" Asia 21 (December 1920): 7-13. Box 3 Folder 102 Copy of Rehder, Alfred. “New species varieties and 1920 combinations" Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 2 (1920): 122-123. Box 3 Folder 103 Copy of Fairchild, David. "Inventory of seeds and plants 1921 imported by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction during the period from April 1 to June 30, 1918 ( No. 55; Nos. 45972 to 46302)." Seeds and plants imported 110 (1921): 1-6. Box 3 Folder 104 Copy and translation of Derksen, Leo. “De onrust van 1957 Frank Meijer.” Panorama 44, no. 20 (1957): 4-5. or "The restless Frank Meyer." Box 3 Folder 105 Copy of Whitehouse, W.E., J. L. Creech, and G. A. 1963 Seaton. "Bradford ornamental pear - a promising shade tree." The American Nurseryman (April 15, 1963): 7-8, 56-60. Box 3 Folder 106 Copy of "The Southern Oregon Branch Experiment 1963 Station…its development, program, and accomplishments 1911-1962." Agricultural Experiment Station Special Report no. 156 (July 1963): 1-16.

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Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 3 Folder 107 Ackerman, W.L. and J.L. Creech. "Long-term observation 1966 reveals self-unfruitful trait and other desirable characteristics of the Bradford pear." The American Nurseryman (July 1, 1966). Box 3 Folder 108 Ackerman, W. L. and G. A. Seaton. "Propagating the 1969 Bradford pear from cuttings." The American Nurseryman (October 1, 1969). Box 3 Folder 109 Anderson, Jack. (September 3, 1977). on pears 1977 Box 3 Folder 110 Ackerman. W.L. "'Whitehouse' ornamental pear." 1977 Hortscience 12, no. 6 (December 1977): 591-592. Box 3 Folder 111 Copy of Lyrene, P.M. "The jujube tree (Zizyphus jujuba 1979 Lam)." Fruit Varieties Journal 33, no. 3 (1979): 100-104. Box 3 Folder 112 Farney, Dennis. "Meet the men who risked their lives to 1980 find new plants." Smithsonian 11, no. 2 (June 1980): 128- 140. Box 3 Folder 113 Copy of Westwood, M.N. “‘Autumn blaze' ornamental 1980 pear." Hortscience 15, no. 6 (December 1980): 830-831. Box 3 Folder 114 Copy of Lyrene, P.M. "Flowering and fruiting of Chinese 1983 jujubes in Florida." Hortscience 18, no. 2 (April 1983): 208-209. Box 3 Folder 115 O'Donnell, Gertrude. "Reunited in Litchfield: a man, a 1984 woman, and a tree from China." The Sunday Republican Magazine (January 15, 1984): 6-7. Box 3 Folder 116 Burnham, Charles R. "The restoration of the American 1988 chestnut." American Scientist 76 (September-October 1988): 478-487 Box 3 Folder 117 Cochran, M. Ford. "Back from the brink chestnuts." 1991 National Geographic 177, no. 2 (February 1990): 128- 139. Box 3 Folder 118 The Journal of the American Chestnut Foundation 9, no. 2 1995-1996 (Fall/Winter 1995-96): 1-61. Box 3 Folder 119 Klivans, Elinor. "Squeezing the most out of Meyer 2005 lemon." Connecticut Post (April 24, 2005).

Series VI. Maps. 1905-1918. 6 folders.

Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 3 Folder 120 Map of Frank Nicholas Meyer’s expeditions combined 1905-1918 (See Oversize Box 4, Folder 126) http://specialcollections.nal.usda.gov/ 8 Last Modified August 1, 2013 Special Collections of the National Agricultural Library: Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Frank Nicholas Meyer Series VI. Maps. Oversize Boxes.

Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 3 Folder 121 Maps of Frank Nicholas Meyer’s first expedition 1905-1909 Box 3 Folder 122 Maps of Frank Nicholas Meyer’s second expedition (See 1909-1912 Oversize Box 4, Folder 127) Box 3 Folder 123 Maps of Frank Nicholas Meyer’s third expedition (See 1912-1915 Oversize Box 4, Folder 128) Box 3 Folder 124 Map of Frank Nicholas Meyer’s fourth expedition (See 1916-1918 Oversize Box 4, Folder 129) Box 3 Folder 125 Notes for creating the maps of Frank Nicholas Meyer’s No date expeditions

Oversize Boxes

Box Folder Folder Title Year(s) Number Number Box 4 Folder 126 Map of Frank Nicholas Meyer’s expeditions combined 1905-1918 (From Box 3, Folder 120) Box 4 Folder 127 Maps of Frank Nicholas Meyer’s second expeditions 1905-1912 (From Box 3, Folder 122) Box 4 Folder 128 Maps of Frank Nicholas Meyer’s third expedition (From 1912-1915 Box 3, Folder 123) Box 4 Folder 129 Maps of Frank Nicholas Meyer’s fourth expedition (From 1916-1918 Box 3, Folder 124)

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