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Herbarium Historical Correspondence Collection, 1851-1971
The Herbarium Historical Correspondence series, 1851-1971 (9.75 linear feet), arranged alphabetically by correspondent is a collection of historical botany-related correspondence as curated by the Herbarium. The Herbarium's original arrangement has been retained. The series includes correspondence by Herbarium faculty, Michigan botanists, and other notable American botanists. This series includes correspondence by University of Michigan School of Forestry director Charles A. Davis and University of Michigan Herbarium directors Calvin H. Kauffman and Edwin B. Mains. The series also includes correspondence by Herbarium founder Elizabeth Allmendinger, botany professor John Henry Ehlers, and curators Joyce Hedrick Jones, Bessie B. Kanouse, and Rogers McVaugh. Michigan botanists whose correspondence were collected by the Herbarium include Cecil Billington, Ernst A. Bessey (Professor of Mycology and Dean at Michigan State University), Emma J. Cole, Charles Keene Dodge (of the Michigan Geological and Biological Survey), and Clarence R. Hanes. In addition to Michigan botanists, the Herbarium collected papers of other leading botanical researchers. Represented names include Bruce Fink, leading lichenologist and chairman of the Miami University Department of Botany, Charles McIlvaine, Civil War veteran and leading mycologist, Charles H. Peck, the state botanist of New York, and Edward Tuckerman, a founding member of the Natural Historical Society of Boston. Other American botanists with records related to them include William Herbst, Howard A. Kelly, Charles E. Plitt, Paul Marshall Rea, and Edward B. Sterling.
Chronological Degree Lists, 1849-1994
The Degree Lists - Chronological subseries (4 linear feet) lists the degrees granted, organized chronologically by year. Beginning in October 1877, the graduates are listed by semester and year in which the degrees were granted. The individual entries list the first and last name, and later the entries include any previous degrees received and the degree granting institution. The graduates are generally listed alphabetically by last name. In the cases of doctoral degrees, the individual entries also include the field of study and the thesis title.
The subseries covers the 1848/49 school year through September 1938 inclusively. An additional volume, which covers the 1937/38 and 1938/39 school years duplicates some earlier information, but also includes listings of graduates in 1939, which are not included in the previous volumes. The volume is divided into the two school years, and then sub-divided into fields; the individual entries are arranged alphabetically. The individual entries list the first initial, middle initial and last name of the graduate, and have a note in the column under the degree received.
After a gap of eight years, the degree lists resume in February 1947 continuing through August 1994. Notable during this period is the first appearance of a listing for graduate degrees granted at the Dearborn campus in May 1971; and the first appearance of a listings for graduate degrees granted at the Flint campus in April 1979. Between the years of 1947 until December 1975, the individual entries are listed as full name, previous degrees received, previous degree granting institutions. The entries are listed alphabetically. The doctoral degrees also include the field of study and thesis title. The individual listings are arranged under the degree received. Beginning in May 1976, the individual listings are grouped first by the granting college, then by the degree granted. The series contains a second gap stretching between April 1991 until April 1993, when the series resumes. The individual listing scheme and arrangement of the individual listings continues as before. The portion of the series between April 1984 and August 1994 is restricted because the documents contain student identification numbers.
Society of Alumni, 1845-1897
The Society of Alumni series (box 122) contains records of this precursor to the Alumni Association. The society was initially open to graduates of all the schools and colleges but eventually was defined as the alumni organization of the literary college. Often the society functioned as a coordinating body for the loose confederation of societies formed by the other schools and colleges while also administering the Williams Professorship Fund. Records of the society include minutes, 1859-1897, a receipt book, letter book, and assorted early records including a compilation of alumni news articles appearing in campus publication from 1845 to 1892. The minutes include necrology reports on members of the universities early classes. Also included is a minute book of the Medical Alumni Association covering 1875-1897.