Persons, Collections and Topics
Burgess, Edward Sandford, 1855–1928
HI Archives collection no. 39
Papers, 1889–1895 and n.d.
.2 linear feet (2 file folders)
Biographical Note
Edward Sandford Burgess (1855–1928) taught botany at Central High School in Washington, D.C. (1882–1895), Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute (1881–1895), Johns Hopkins University (1885) and Hunter College (1895–1925). Burgess specialized in asters, discovering 84 species. He contributed the botanical descriptions of asters to Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859–1934) and Addison Brown (1830–1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States (New York, 1896–1898, vol. 3) and to John Kunkel Small (1869–1938), Flora of the Southeastern United States (New York, 1903).
Scope and Contents Note
This collection consists of a notebook with handwritten notes for lectures on botany and newspaper clippings and articles concerning various plants.
Finding Aid
A finding aid for this collection is available online.
Other Resources
For information about portraits of and biographical citations for the subject, see the Hunt Institute Archives Register of Botanical Biography and Iconography database.
Edward Sandford Burgess (1855–1928), unknown location and date, photograph by an unknown photographer, HI Archives portrait no. 1.
