Finding Aid to the Ynés Mexía Papers, 1872-1963

Box 1-4.

SERIES 1: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1882-1938.

Scope and Content Note

The letters in this series are arranged into two subseries. The first, Outgoing and Incoming, primarily concerns personal matters. The second, Outgoing to Nina Floy Bracelin, contain both personal and business information. Mrs. Bracelin worked very closely with Mexía, having sole responsibility for the plant collections while Mexía was in the field collecting. The Outgoing and Incoming letters in the first group are to family, friends and businesses. Incoming correspondence includes letters from Florence Merriman Bailey, Vernon Bailey, Harold C. Bryant, Willis L. Jepson and C. Hart Merriam.

Arrangement

Outgoing correspondence is arranged chronologically, while incoming correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.

OUTGOING AND INCOMING, 1882-1938.

OUTGOING

Box 1, folder 1-8

Outgoing 1882-1938

folder 9

Outgoing undated

INCOMING

Box 1, folder 10

Aguilar, Miguel 1910-1917

folder 11

Allen, A. N. 1930-1931

folder 12

Aragón, Agustín 1917-1931

folder 13

Bailey, Florence Merriman 1934-1938

folder 14

Bailey, Vernon 1924-1938

Box 2, folder 1

Bank of Montreal 1910-1932

folder 2

C. Basave del Castillo, N. 1934

folder 3

Bracelin, Nina Floy undated

folder 4

Brown, Philip King 1909-1938

folder 5

Bryant, Harold C. 1932-1933

folder 6

Díaz Mercado, Florentino 1909-1915

folder 7

Du Re, Adolfo 1932

folder 8

Eckford & Cooke, Law Offices 1910-1918

folder 9

Eloesser, Leo 1932

folder 10

Finley, Etheridge Knight 1899-1902

folder 11

First National Bank. Mexia, Texas. 1910-1913

folder 12

Gómez, Medardo 1933

folder 13

Gónzalez Rubio, Amada (Mexía) de 1872-1938

Box 2, folder 14

Goodman, E. 1930-1933

folder 15

Gray, Mary 1896

folder 16

Harrison & Harrison, Attorneys-at-Law 1910-1911

folder 17

Hunt, J. L. Starr 1912-1913

folder 18

Hunter, J. W. 1913-1915

folder 19

Hunter, Louise 1914-1915

folder 20

Jepson, Willis L. 1923-1933

folder 21

Laue, German 1910-1911

folder 22

Merriam, C. Hart 1925-1926

folder 23

Mexía, Adele A. 1935-1936

folder 24

Miller, Loye Holmes undated

folder 25

Ortega, Rafael 1930-1934

folder 26

Reygadas, Agustín 1910-1916

folder 27

Reygadas, Manuel 1911

folder 28

Sierra Club 1932-1933

folder 29

Starbuck, Anna Diller 1910-1911

folder 30

Thompson, Katherine (Ramsey) 1896-1918

folder 31

U.S. Consul. Mexico. 1929

folder 32

U.S. Consul. Rio de Janeiro. 1932

folder 33

University of California, Berkeley, Library 1932

folder 34

University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Anthropology 1937

folder 35

Weightman, Martha W. 1896-1899

folder 36

Williams & Bradley, Lawyers 1901-1911

folder 37

A-Z Miscellaneous 1877-1937

OUTGOING MEXíA TO NINA FLOY BRACELIN, 1909-1938.

Box 3, folder 1-15

Outgoing 1909-1938

Box 4.

SERIES 2: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION, 1898-1939.

Scope and Content Note

This brief series includes financial accounts, primarily for property in Tacubaya, Mexico; inventories of property in Mexico; lists of gifts to University of California, Berkeley, and the Sierra Club; family histories; papers relating to Mexía's education and first marriage; clippings about her Amazon trip; and her obituaries.

Arrangement

Folders are arranged alphabetically by subject.

Box 4, folder 1-3

Accounts 1902-1938

folder 4

Accounts re quinta in Tacubaya, Mexico 1912-1915

folder 5

Bequests to UCB and Sierra Club 1939-1957

oversize Oversize, folder 1 A

Certificates 1934, 1938

Box 4, folder 6

Clippings 1925-1937

folder 7

Education at UCB 1921-1937

folder 8

Estate inventories undated

folder 9

Lists of animals on Tacubaya property 1912-1915

folder 10

Lists of books, archaeological artifacts, etc. 1929-1934

folder 11

Marriage to Herman Laue 1898-1904

folder 12

Mexía family history, by Adele A. Mexía undated

folder 13

Mexía family history, by Nina F. Bracelin undated

folder 14

Notes on Mexía Family 1898-1937

folder 15

Obituaries 1938

folder 16

Property in Tacubaya 1912-1937

folder 17

Miscellaneous papers 1898-1938

Box 5-8.

SERIES 3: PAPERS RELATING TO BOTANICAL EXPEDITIONS, 1922-1938.

Scope and Content Note

Series 3 contains documents and notes related to collecting expeditions; writings emanating from travels and articles written by others about Mexía's work or who cite her. The series is subdivided into three subseries. The first, Accounts and Botanical Notes, contains accounts for trips, letters of introduction, passports, collecting permits and notes on birds and plants. The second, Travel Notes and Writings, includes notes taken during her travels, lecture notes, writings about birds, plants, places, and some fiction, such as plays and short stories. The third, Mexia Cited in Articles, contains the work of botanists who write about Mexía's plant collections or who cite Mexía. Included are Edwin B. Bartram, Edwin Bingham Copeland, E.P Killip, Harold N. Moldenke and C.V. Morton, among others.

Arrangement

Folders in subseries 1 are arranged alphabetically by subject. Folders in subseries 2 are arranged alphabetically by title or subject, as in the case of travel notes and lecture notes. Folders in subseries 3 are arranged alphabetically by author.

ACCOUNTS AND BOTANICAL NOTES, 1922-1938.

Box 5, folder 1-5

Accounts for trips 1925-1938

folder 6

Drawings of Brazilian plants undated

folder 7

Labels for plants collected in Alaska 1928

folder 8

Letters of introduction 1925-1938

folder 9

List of plants 1926-1934

folder 10

Lists of changes and additional determinations undated

folder 11

Lists of Mexican plant photographs 1926-1927

folder 12

Materials re fern collections 1939-1961

folder 13

Notes on birds 1926

folder 14

Notes on birds, Biological Station, Michigan 937

folder 15

Notes on birds, Chihuahua 1929

folder 16

Notes on birds, Mexico 1926-1927

folder 17

Notes on birds, Peru 1931-1932

folder 18

Notes on birds, Yosemite 1922

folder 19

Notes on birds and animals, Brazil and Peru 924-1932

folder 20

Notes on birds and botany, Pacific Northwest 924

folder 21

Notes on plants undated

folder 22

Notes on shells, Brazil and Peru 1929-1932

folder 23

Passports and collecting permits 1925-1938

folder 24

Photographs of Columbian plants (Pilea) undated

TRAVEL NOTES AND WRITINGS, 1921-1938.

Box 6, folder 1-8

Travel notes 1926-1938

folder 9

Bird Study for Beginners by a Beginner. 1924-1925

folder 10

Birds of Brazil. 1930

folder 11

The Birds of Golden Gate Park. undated

folder 12

Botanical Exploration of the Upper Amazon. undated

folder 13

Botanical Trails of Old Mexico--The Lure of the Unknown. 1929

folder 14

Camping on the Equator. 1937

folder 15

The Conqueror of the Sun. undated

folder 16

The Dispatch-bearers. (a play) undated

folder 17

Experiences in Hospitable Mexico. 1927

folder 18-19

Following the Sun Across South America or Down the Amazon and Over the Andes. 1933

folder 20

Glimpses of a Brazilian Cattle Ranch. 1931

folder 21

The Grand Cañon. undated

Box 7, folder 1

Lecture notes. 1932-1937

folder 2

Lecture notices. 1927-1937

folder 3

The Legend of Leticia. undated

folder 4

The Life of a Gray Squirrel. 1921

folder 5

Ramphastidae. 1933

folder 6

Report on Fish-Poisons of Ecuador. 1934-1935

folder 7

Some of the Common Plants Found in Mt. McKinley National Park. undated

folder 8

The Talking Leaves. (a play) undated

folder 9

Three Thousand Miles up the Amazon. 1933

folder 10

A Trip to the Rio Doce. undated

folder 11

Vignettes of Birds Long Since Flown. 1935

MEXíA CITED IN ARTICLES, 1924-1951.

Box 7, folder 12

Alston, A. H. G. The Brazilian Species of Selaginella. 1936

folder 13

Bacigalupi, Rimo. Taxonomic Studies in Cuphea. 1931

folder 14

Barkley, Fred A. and Reed, Merton J. Studies in the Anacardiaceae. IV. 1939

folder 15

Bartram, Edwin B. Mosses of Western Mexico Collected by Mrs. Ynés Mexía. 1928

folder 16

Blake, S. F. Eleven New American Asteraceae. 1938

folder 17

Blake, S. F. Twelve New American Asteraceae. 1938

folder 18

Bryant, Harold C. Nesting of the Allen Hummingbird In Golden Gate Park. (four photos by Ynés Mexía) 1925

folder 19

Cook, O. F. A New Commerical Oil Palm in Ecuador. 1942

folder 20

Copeland, Edwin Bingham. Brazilian Ferns Collected by Ynés Mexía. 1932

folder 21

Copeland, Edwin Bingham. A New Genus of Ferns. 1951

folder 22

Copeland, Edwin Bingham. Tropical American Ferns. 1941

folder 23

Crawford, Lloyd C. A New Fern for the United States. 1951

folder 24

Epling, Carl. Las Labiadas del Noroeste de la Argentina. 1939

folder 25

Epling, Carl. Supplementary Notes on American Labiatae. 1940

folder 26

Gleason, H. A. Eight Undescribed Species of Melastomataceae. 1939

folder 27

Herre, Albert W.C.T. A New Species of Lecidea from Brazil. 1940

folder 28

Johnston, Ivan M. Studies in the Boraginaceae. XII. 1937

folder 29

Killip, E. P. New Species of Pilea from the Andes. 1925

folder 30

Killip, E. P. and Morton, C. V. A Revision of the Mexican and Central American Species of Smilax. 1936

folder 31

Krukoff, B. A. Erythrina. 1941

folder 32

Krukoff, B.A. and Moldenke, H.N. Studies of American Menispermaceae, with Special Reference to SpeciesUsed in Preparation of Arrow-Poisons. 1938

folder 33

Krukoff, B.A. and Moldenke, H.N. Supplementary Notes on American Menispermaceae. 1941

folder 34

Krukoff, B.A. and Monachino, J. The American Species of Strychnos. 1942

folder 35

Lundell, Cyrus Longworth. New Vascular Plants from Texas, Mexico, and Central America. 1943

folder 36

Mains, E. B. Spumula, A New Genus of Rusts. 1935

folder 37

Malme, Gust. O. Asclepiadaceae brasilienses. 1936

folder 38

Maxon, Willima R. and Morton, C. V. The American Species of Dryopteris, subGenus Meniscium. 1938

folder 39

Moldenke, Harold N. Additional Notes on Menispermaceae. I. 1940

folder 40

Moldenke, Harold N. Additional Notes on the Genus Aegiphila. I, III, IV, VI, VII. 1937-1941

folder 41

Moldenke, Harold N. A Monograph on the Genus Amasonia. XXXIV. 1939

folder 42

Moldenke, Harold N. Nomenclatural Notes. III. 1946

Box 7, folder 43

Moldenke, Harold N. Novelties in the American Verbenaceae. 1940

folder 44

Moldenke, Harold N. Novelties in the Avicenniaceae and Verbenaceae. 1940

Box 8, folder 1

Morton, C. V. The American Species of Hymenophyllum Section Sphaerocionium. 1947

folder 2

Morton, C. V. A New Species of Peltostigma from Mexico. 1933

folder 3

Morton, C. V. A Revision of Besleria. 1939

folder 4

Morton, C. V. Taxonomic Studies of Tropical American Plants. 1944

folder 5

Morton, C. V. Two New Species of Meibomia from Mexico. 1941

folder 6

Robinson, B. L. Records Preliminary to a General Treatment of the Eupatorieae. VII. 1928

folder 7

Smith, A. C. Three New Species of Vacciniaceae. 1937

folder 8

Smith, Lyman B. Studies in the Bromeliaceae. VIII. 937

folder 9-12

Standley, Paul C. Studies of American Plants. I-IV, VI-X. 1929-1940

folder 13

Trelease, William. The Pedicellate Peppers of South America. 1935

folder 14

Woodson, Robert E., Jr. Studies in the Apocynaceae. VII. 1938

folder 15

Miscellaneous 1928-1951

Carton 1-2.

SERIES 4: CORRESPONDENCE WITH BOTANICAL INSTITUTIONS AND BOTANISTS, 1919-1963.

Scope and Content Note

Mexía relied heavily on the assistance of Bracelin during her collecting years. The correspondence in this series reflects this close working relationship. Bracelin continued to work with the plant collections after Mexía died. For instance, in 1963 she sent out letters to botanical institutions about corrections to some numerical sets. The correspondence primarily relates to plant collections distributed to botanical institutions in the United States and Western Europe and her collecting activities for the United States Department of Agriculture and the University of California, Berkeley. Some letters are to other botanists, including Edwin B. Bartram, Agnes Chase, Edwin Bingham Copeland, Carl Epling, Thomas Harper Goodspeed, B.A. Krukoff, and William Trelease.

Arrangement

Folders are arranged alphabetically by name of institution or person.

Ctn. 1, folder 1

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Department of Botany 1928-1963

folder 2

Allan Hancock Foundation 1946-1948

folder 3

Allen, G. O. 1933-1937

folder 4

Arnold Arboretum 1925-1963

folder 5

Aspiazu, Miguel 1934-1943

Ctn. 1, folder 6

Bailey, Joshua L., Jr. 1933-1935

folder 7

Baker, Milo S. 1930-1937

folder 8

Barkley, Fred Alexander 1938-1939

folder 9

Bartram, Edwin Bunting 1928-1939

folder 10

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum (Germany) 1929-1963

folder 11

British Museum (Natural History) 1925-1963

folder 12

Brooklyn Botanic Garden 1928-1946

folder 13

California Academy of Sciences 1928-1951

folder 14

California Institute of Technology 1929-193

folder 15

Catholic University of America. Herbarium 1934-1963

folder 16

Chase, Agnes 1926-1935

folder 17

Conservatoire et jardin botaniques de la ville de Geneve 1926-1963

folder 18

Copeland, Edwin Bingham 1930-1933

folder 19

Core, Earl Lemley 1934-1939

folder 20

Dudley Herbarium 1927-1963

folder 21

Eddy Tree Breeding Station 1928-1929

folder 22

Epling, Carl 1930-1943

folder 23

Ewan, Joseph Andorfer 1934-1944

folder 24

Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium 1935-1936

folder 25

Field Museum of Natural History 1926-1963

folder 26

Forest College and Research Institute. Dehra Dun, India 1928-1963

folder 27

González Ortega, Jesús 1927-1928

folder 28

Goodspeed, Thomas Harper 1930-1938

folder 29

Goteborg (Sweden). Botaniska Tradgard 1939-1948

folder 30

Groves, James 1932-1933

folder 31

Harvard University. Botanical Museum 1928-1939

folder 32

Harvard University. Gray Herbarium 1926-1963

folder 33

Herre, Albert W. 1933-1940

folder 34

Jackson, H. S. 1934-1939

folder 35

Kobenhavn Universitets. Botanisk Museum (Denmark) 1929-1939

folder 36

Krukoff, B. A. 1937-1938

folder 37

Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium 1945-1963

folder 38

Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art 1931-1932

folder 39

Lund (Sweden). Botaniska Museet 1935-1940

folder 40

Mille, Luis 1936-1938

folder 41

Missouri Botanical Garden 1926-1963

folder 42

Mt. McKinley Tourist & Transportation Co., Inc. 1929-1938

folder 43

Munz, Philip A. 1928-1941

folder 44

Museu Nacional (Brazil). Seccao de Botanica 1931-1938

folder 45

Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (Brazil) 1938

folder 46

Museum national d'histoire naturelle. Botanique (France) 1930-1937

folder 47

National Museum of Canada. Ottawa Herbarium 1929

folder 48

New South Wales. Department of Agriculture 1941-1948

folder 49-50

New York Botanical Garden 1926-1963

folder 51

Oxford University. Department of Botany 1937-1951

folder 52

Richards, Donald 1940-1941

folder 53

Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht. Botanisch Museum en Herbarium (Netherlands) 1938-1963

folder 54

Riksmuseets Botaniska Avdelning (Sweden) 930-1963

folder 55

Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 1928-1938

folder 56

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Herbarium 1926-1963

folder 57

Smith, Charles Piper 1929-1940

folder 58

Southern Methodist University. Institute of Technology and Plant Industry 1945-1946

folder 59

Stewart, Jeanette 1946

folder 60

Stokes, Susan 1930

folder 61

Swingle, Walter Tennyson 1927-1938

folder 62

Trelease, William 1928-1943

folder 63-64

United States Department of Agriculture 1929-1948

folder 65

United States Forest Service 1935-1939

folder 66-68

United States National Museum. Plant Division 926-1963

Ctn. 2, folder 1

Universitat Zurich. Botanisches Museum 1929-1963

folder 2

Universite de Geneve. Institut de botanique systematique 1929-1934

folder 3

University of California. College of Agriculture 927-1939

folder 4

University of California, Berkeley. Department of Botany 1926-1963

folder 5

University of California, Berkeley. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology 1919-1936

folder 6

University of California, Los Angeles 1943

folder 7

University of Michigan. University Herbarium 1926-1963

folder 8

University of Minnesota. Department of Botany 1928-1963

folder 9

University of Washington. Museum 1929-1931

folder 10

Utah Agricultural Experiment Station 1935-1938

folder 11

Wellesley College. Department of Botany 1932-1938

folder 12

Wimmer, Franz Elfried 1938

folder 13

Yale University. Osborn Botanical Laboratory 1934-1938

folder 14

Yale University. School of Forestry 1938

folder 15

Miscellaneous correspondence re Mexía Collection 1925-1963

Carton 2.

SERIES 5: NOTEBOOKS CONTAINING DISTRIBUTION AND DETERMINATION LISTS, 1925-1947.

Scope and Content Note

The notebooks in this series were compiled by Bracelin and contain primarily lists of distributions of plant collections and determinations of plant specimens.

Arrangement

Folders are numerically arranged by volume numbers, 1-12.

carton Ctn. 2, folder 16-19

Volume 1. 1925-1929

folder 20-21

Volume 2. 1926-1927

folder 22-23

Volume 3. 1926-1927

folder 24-27

Volume 4. 1929-1932

folder 28-29

Volume 5. 1929-1932

Brazil - Peru

I Distribution Nos. 4001-5199

folder 30-31

Volume 6. 1929-1932

Brazil - Peru

II Distribution Nos. 5200-6072

State of Minas Geraes, Nos. 4321a-4340

Dept. de Loreto, Nos. 6515-4369a

folder 32

Volume 7. 1934-1937

Brazil - Peru

III Distribution Nos. 6073-6517

folder 33-34

Volume 8. 1934-1937

Ecuador and South America

Nos. 6551-8499

folder 35

Volume 9. 1937-1938

Mexico

8701-9318

folder 36-37

Volume 10. 1934-1943

South America and Ecuador

Nos. 6551-8499

folder 38

Volume 11. 1935-1936

Collections for Goodspeed

Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile

folder 39

Volume 12. 1926-1927

Mexico

Carton 3-4

SERIES 6: CARD FILE BOXES OF LABELS FOR PLANT SPECIMENS, 1925-1938.

Scope and Content Note

Series 6 includes Numerical and Family sets of plants collected by Ynéz Mexía. The labels are on index cards in file boxes.

Arrangement

File boxes are arranged numerically.

Ctn. 3, folder 1

Family and Numerical Sets 1925, 1929

Mexico 1925, Nos. 1-496

Mexico 1929, Nos. 2500-2771

folder 2

Numerical Sets 1926-1928

Mexico 1926-1927, Nos. 500-1953

Alaska 1928, Nos. 2000-2321

folder 3

Family Sets 1926-1928

Mexico 1926-1927, Nos. 500-1953

Alaska 1928, Nos. 2000-2321

folder 4

Numerical Set 1929-1930

Brazil - Peru 1929-1932

Nos. 4001-5399

folder 5

Numerical Set 1930-1932

Brazil - Peru 1929-1932

Nos. 5400-6517

folder 6

Family Sets 1929-1932

Brazil - Peru 1929-1932

Lichens, Mosses

Ctn. 4, folder 1

Family Sets 1929-1935

Brazil - Peru 1929-1932

Flowering Plants, Ferns and Fern Allies

Ecuador 1934-1935

Nos. 6551-7715, 8401-8499

folder 2

Family and Numerical Sets 1934-1935

Ecuador 1934-1935

folder 3

Numerical Sets 1934-1935

Ecuador 1934-1935

folder 4

Family Sets 1934-1937

South America, Nos. 7751-8334

8335-8400 Skipped

folder 5

Family and Numerical Sets 1937-1938

Mexico, Nos. 8701-9318

folder 6

Bibliographic References to Ynés Mexía and/or her collections. undated

Box 9.

SERIES 7: MAPS, ca. 1931.

Scope and Content Note

Annotated maps used in expeditions to Mexico and South America.

Arrangement

Folders are arranged alphabetically by geographical location.

Box 9, folder 1

Amazon River: Iquitos to Pongo de Mansu Rolled-up map (on tracing paper) Notations on map include dates and times of day 1931

folder 2

Argentina. Tierra del Fuego undated

folder 3

Bolivia undated

folder 4

Brazil undated

folder 5

Ecuador undated

folder 6-7

Mexico undated

folder 8

Peru undated

folder 9-10

South America undated

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