Fifty years study of some of our most common ferns in their habitats : mostly at "Camptosorus" : 1883-1903-1930 | 50 years study of some of our most common ferns in their habitats | Common ferns in their habitats
1883-1930
Prince, S. Fred.
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书目信息
Souvenirs of Yellowstone
Woodland Booke
Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project, Garden and Landscape Studies
其它主题
Botanical illustration; Yellowstone national park; 20th century; Camptosorus rhizophyllus; United states; Ozark mountains; Wild flower; Wild flowers
语言
英语
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print
注释
"S. Fred Prince, a botanical illustrator and amateur scientist, is a largely unknown artist whose work on the American landscape demonstrates his eligibility to be considered in the lineage of self-taught illustrator-naturalists such as Mark Catesby and Genevieve Jones."--Abstract, Sarah Burke Cahalan and Jason W. Dean (2018). The Manuscript Works of S. Fred Prince (1857-1951). Archives of Natural History. 45.
Samuel Fred Prince (born Samuel Webb Prince) was a self-taught scientific and botanical illustrator and artist, working professionally as an illustrator for colleges and universities. Prince lived in and surveyed Marvel Cave, near present-day Branson, Missouri, from 1894 to 1898.
"Samuel George Prince and Alice Cordelia Little gave birth to their first child, Samuel Webb (later calling himself S. Fred), on 26 May 1857 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[; died in 1949 at age 92]."--Sarah Burke Cahalan and Jason W. Dean (2018). The Manuscript Works of S. Fred Prince (1857-1951). Archives of Natural History. 45.
"S. Fred Prince left Chicago and came to the Ozarks as a bachelor homesteader in the 1880s. He roamed the wilderness of Missouri’s Stone County, climbed bluffs to find ferns, searched the hills for wildflowers and descended into the intricate grandeur of a great cavern"--Missouri Department of Conservation website.
"Kansas State Agricultural College hired the artist in 1919. The Princes [with wife Maude Ellen Higgenbotham] moved to Manhattan, Kan., where Fred Prince lived apart from his family in a light-filled studio in a rooming house. He worked on scientific illustrations, pressed fern specimens for his collection and painted"--Missouri Department of Conservation website.
"In 1904, Prince's article on the ferns of the Marble Cave [or Marvel Cave, west of Branson, Missouri] area was published in the American Fern Society's Fern Bulletin [article entitled "Some ferns of the cave region of Stone County, Missouri", v. 12, no. 3, July 1904, p. 72-77]"---Missouri Department of Conservation website.
"A lengthy manuscript on ferns is in the collection of the Garden Library of Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. The Oak Spring Garden Library, Upperville, Va., owns several manuscripts, including 207 watercolors of wildflowers Prince found around Marvel Cave in the 1890s"--Missouri Department of Conservation website.
The name "Camptosorus": "I named the spot 'Camptosorus' after one of the [ferns] - one of the most common"--Unnumbered leaf 2 [p. 10], Woodland Booke.
Some text leaves/pages have ink pen drawings of flora; some text leaves/pages interspersed with full-page ink pen drawings of flora.
Includes in portfolios pressed and dried plant specimens (ferns and wildfowers) mounted on sheets and taped to the leaves/pages; name of plant handwritten in ink pen next to plant.
Portfolio 2 at end: Souvenirs of Yellowstone, 10 unnumbered leaves of pressed wildflowers with ink pen handwritten identification of each wildflower; color cover title page with pressed fern; no text.
No bibliographical references included?
Preface to the 'Woodland Booke' [done at ye house in the Woode at Camptosorus, 1893-1932]-- Title to the fern studies -- Map of the fern country 'Camptosorus' -- Dedication -- Contents -- [Small, horizontal black/white/gray watercolor view of mountains (Ozarks?)] -- Results of fifty years observation and study of some common ferns in their natural habitats, mostly at Camptosorus-Chicago 1885-1893; Camptosorus 1893-1928 -- Preface -- Foreword -- In parenthesis - Part I: The Ozark uplift -- Part II: The ferns of Camptosorus and phenomena connected with them -- Part III: Summary of the conclusions -- Part IV: Ferns collected in the United States-Canada; Ferns acquired for comparison and study -- Part V: Acknowledments [sic] and bibliography -- Indexes.
Wilson, S., S. Fred Prince, Missouri conservationist, Dec. 1998, Vol. 59, No. 12.
Sarah Burke Cahalan and Jason W. Dean (2018). The Manuscript Works of S. Fred Prince (1857-1951). Archives of Natural History. 45. http://ecommons.udayton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=imri_faculty_publications
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Book; Mixed Material
2024-10-08
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