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Smith, John Donnell

Subject ID: 28625

Last Name: Smith
First Name: John
Middle Names: Donnell
Birth Date: 5 June 1829
Birth Place: Baltimore, Maryland
Death Date: 2 December 1928
Death Place: Baltimore, Maryland
Gender: male
HI Archives Collection #: 41, 42, 48, 92, 118, 255, GAC
Other Holdings: Smithsonian Institute; Gray Herbarium, Harvard Univ.; Museo Nacional, San José, Costa Rica (corres.).
Notes: Portrait in HI portrait collection. 5 John D. Smith Collections: #41-letters (8), 1892-1911; #42 -items (38), 1880-1909; #92 -Plant descriptions (2 mss); #118 -letters (1 reel microfilm), 1893-1927; #255 -Biog. items (1 box). #48 -letter, ff 57. GAC: to Smith from Urban, 1889; to Smith from Watson, 1889; to Smith from Faxon, 1888 & 1898.

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Collections #41 , 42 , 48 , 92

Alternate Names

  • Smith, Capt. John
  • Smith, Capt. John Donnell
  • Smith, J.
  • Smith, J. D.
  • Smith, John D.
  • Smith, John Donnell

Specialties

Botanical Collection, Botany, Central America, Plant Collection, Taxonomy, Trustee