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Finding Aid to the Ynés Mexía papers, 1872-1963, 1872-1963 (bulk 1910-1938)
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Collection Summary
Collection Title: Ynés Mexía papers
Date (inclusive): 1872-1963
Date (bulk): 1910-1938
Collection Number: BANC MSS 68/130 m
Creator: Mexía, Ynés, 1870-1938
Extent: 9 boxes, 4 cartons, 1 oversize folder
8.5 linear feet
3 digital objects (3 images)
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University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
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Abstract: Papers of the botanist, explorer and lecturer, the daughter of Enrique Guillermo Antonio Mexia and granddaughter of Jose Antonio
Mexia. Includes letters to and from Mexia about family, personal matters, and plant collections; writings by Mexia and other
pertaining to the Mexia botanical collections from Mexico, South America, and Alaska. Includes correspondence by Nina Floy
Bracelin, acting as the representative of Mexia, pertaining to botanical collections
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English, Spanish
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ynes Mexia papers, BANC MSS 68/130 m, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Related Collections
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Title: Mexía Family Papers, BANC MSS M-B1
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Title: Nina Floy Bracelin Papers, BANC MSS 68/132 c
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Title: University of California, Berkeley, Herbarium, field notebooks and plant collections
Material Cataloged Separately
- Photographs have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
- Some maps have been transferred to the Map Collection of The Bancroft Library.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog
Mexía, Enrique Guillermo Antonio, 1829-1896
Mexía, José Antonio, 1790-1839
Mexía, Ynés, 1870-1938--Archives
Mexía family
Botany--Alaska
Botany--Mexico
Botany--South America
Herbaria--Central America
Herbaria--Mexico
Herbaria--South America
Scientific expeditions--Alaska
Scientific expeditions--Mexico
Scientific expeditions--South America
Women botanists
Acquisition Information
One carton of material was given in 1955-1956 by Mrs. Nina Floy Bracelin, from the Ynis Mexma Estate. Additional items were
a gift from Mrs. William E. Colby in 1962. The bulk of the collection came from Mrs. Bracelin in 1963.
Biography
Ynés Mexía was born May 24, 1870 in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., where her father, General Enrique A. Mexía, was serving
as a representative of the Mexican government under President Porfirio Díaz. Her grandfather, José Antonio Mexía, was also
a Mexican general, serving under President Antonio López de Santa Anna. Her mother, Sarah R. Wilmer of Maryland, was a descendent
of Samuel Eccleston, Fifth Archbishop of Baltimore. Ynés Mexía spent her early childhood in Texas on a land grant where the
town of Mexía, Limestone County, is now located. She attended private schools in Philadelphia and Ontario, Canada; St. Joseph's
College, Emmetsburg, Maryland; and the University of California, Berkeley. As a young woman she lived in Tacubaya, Mexico,
where she married Herman E. Laue in 1898. After his death, she married Agustín Reygadas. This second marriage ended in a divorce.
Her first collecting expedition was to Mexico in 1922, as a member of a group led by E. L. Furlong, Curator of Paleontology,
University of California, Berkeley. The important collecting began in 1925 on her second trip to Mexico, with Mrs. Roxana
S. Ferris, Dudley Herbarium, Stanford University. On subsequent collecting expeditions she went three more times to Mexico,
once to Alaska, and twice to South America. She collected for the University of California and the United States Department
of Agriculture. One trip to South America, lasting two and a half years, was initiated by her, and included a trip down the
Amazon.
Her contributions to botany included a total of 8,800 numbers. She collected approximately 145,000 specimens. Two were new
genera,
Mexianthus mexicanus Robinson (Compositae) and
Spulula quadrifida Mains (Pucciniaceae). The collections included approximately five hundred new species, primarily spermatophytes. Fifty species were named after
her. Her plants were widely distributed and are now in leading botanical museums in the United States and Western Europe.
She was a member of the Sierra Club, California Botanical Society, Audubon Association of the Pacific, California Academy
of Sciences, Sociedad Geografica de Lima, Peru, and an honorary member of the Departamento Forestal de Caza y Pesca of Mexico.
In 1951, part of the remainder of her estate was given to the Save-the-Redwoods League, which purchased land in Northern California,
west of Prairie Creek, containing a beach and Home Creek Canyon.
In 1938, during a collecting trip in the mountains of the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, she became ill. She returned to San Francisco
in May, and died on July 12, 1938, at the age of 68.
Scope and Content
The Ynés Mexía Papers reflect the outstanding contributions of this botanist, explorer and collector, who began her most important
work late in her life, when she was past 50 years old. Her 15-year career of plant collecting for the University of California,
United States Department of Agriculture, and herself took her on five expeditions to Mexico, two to South America, and one
to Alaska. The botanical researcher will be impressed by the detailed scientific record left by Ynés Mexía.
In the General Correspondence (Series 1) there are personal letters and letters written to Nina Floy Bracelin, who was her
close associate. Some correspondence to and from Mexico is in Spanish. The letters from the field to Bracelin are fascinating
accounts of her experiences, and a few from South America were passed among friends and colleagues. Other correspondence regarding
botanical collections is found elsewhere in the collection (Series 4). The letters to botanical institutions and to other
botanists include Bracelin correspondence, written while she was acting in her capacity as an assistant to Mexía.
Series 2, Biographical Information, contains personal financial records, family history materials, newsclippings concerning
Mexía's botanical expeditions, and obituaries. Writings relating to her travels and plants, travel, lecture and natural history
notes, as well as articles which cite Mexía, are found in Series 3.
Notebooks compiled by Mrs. Bracelin containing determination and distribution lists relating to plant collections (Series
5), and card file boxes containing labels for numerical and family sets of botanical species (Series 6) are present also.
Annotated maps used during botanical expeditions are included in Series 7. Photographs of plants taken by Ynés Mexía have
been separated and placed with the Pictorial Collections.
Series 1:
General Correspondence
1882-1938
Physical Description: Box 1-4.
Arrangement
Outgoing correspondence is arranged chronologically, while incoming correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Content/Description
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.
Outgoing and Incoming
1882-1938
box 1, folder 10
Aguilar, Miguel
1910-1917
box 1, folder 12
Aragón, Agustín
1917-1931
box 1, folder 13
Bailey, Florence Merriman
1934-1938
box 2, folder 1
Bank of Montreal
1910-1932
box 2, folder 2
C. Basave del Castillo, N.
1934
box 2, folder 3
Bracelin, Nina Floy
undated
box 2, folder 4
Brown, Philip King
1909-1938
box 2, folder 5
Bryant, Harold C.
1932-1933
box 2, folder 6
Díaz Mercado, Florentino
1909-1915
box 2, folder 8
Eckford & Cooke, Law Offices
1910-1918
box 2, folder 10
Finley, Etheridge Knight
1899-1902
box 2, folder 11
First National Bank. Mexia, Texas.
1910-1913
box 2, folder 13
Gónzalez Rubio, Amada (Mexía) de
1872-1938
box 2, folder 16
Harrison & Harrison, Attorneys-at-Law
1910-1911
box 2, folder 17
Hunt, J. L. Starr
1912-1913
box 2, folder 20
Jepson, Willis L.
1923-1933
box 2, folder 22
Merriam, C. Hart
1925-1926
box 2, folder 23
Mexía, Adele A.
1935-1936
box 2, folder 24
Miller, Loye Holmes
undated
box 2, folder 26
Reygadas, Agustín
1910-1916
box 2, folder 29
Starbuck, Anna Diller
1910-1911
box 2, folder 30
Thompson, Katherine (Ramsey)
1896-1918
box 2, folder 31
U.S. Consul. Mexico.
1929
box 2, folder 32
U.S. Consul. Rio de Janeiro.
1932
box 2, folder 33
University of California, Berkeley, Library
1932
box 2, folder 34
University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Anthropology
1937
box 2, folder 35
Weightman, Martha W.
1896-1899
box 2, folder 36
Williams & Bradley, Lawyers
1901-1911
box 2, folder 37
A-Z Miscellaneous
1877-1937
Outgoing Mexía to Nina Floy Bracelin
1909-1938
Series 2:
Biographical Information
1898-1939
Physical Description: Box 4.
Arrangement
Folders are arranged alphabetically by subject.
Content/Description
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.
box 4, folder 4
Accounts re quinta in Tacubaya, Mexico
1912-1915
box 4, folder 5
Bequests to UCB and Sierra Club
1939-1957
box 4, folder 7
Education at UCB
1921-1937
box 4, folder 8
Estate inventories
undated
box 4, folder 9
Lists of animals on Tacubaya property
1912-1915
box 4, folder 10
Lists of books, archaeological artifacts, etc.
1929-1934
box 4, folder 11
Marriage to Herman Laue
1898-1904
box 4, folder 12
Mexía family history, by Adele A. Mexía
undated
box 4, folder 13
Mexía family history, by Nina F. Bracelin
undated
box 4, folder 14
Notes on Mexía Family
1898-1937
box 4, folder 16
Property in Tacubaya
1912-1937
box 4, folder 17
Miscellaneous papers
1898-1938
Series 3:
Papers Relating to Botanical Expeditions
1922-1938
Physical Description: Box 5-8.
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.
Content/Description
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.
Accounts and Botanical Notes
1922-1938
box 5, folder 1-5
Accounts for trips
1925-1938
box 5, folder 6
Drawings of Brazilian plants
undated
box 5, folder 7
Labels for plants collected in Alaska
1928
box 5, folder 8
Letters of introduction
1925-1938
box 5, folder 10
Lists of changes and additional determinations
undated
box 5, folder 11
Lists of Mexican plant photographs
1926-1927
box 5, folder 12
Materials re fern collections
1939-1961
box 5, folder 14
Notes on birds, Biological Station, Michigan
937
box 5, folder 15
Notes on birds, Chihuahua
1929
box 5, folder 16
Notes on birds, Mexico
1926-1927
box 5, folder 17
Notes on birds, Peru
1931-1932
box 5, folder 18
Notes on birds, Yosemite
1922
box 5, folder 19
Notes on birds and animals, Brazil and Peru
924-1932
box 5, folder 20
Notes on birds and botany, Pacific Northwest
924
box 5, folder 22
Notes on shells, Brazil and Peru
1929-1932
box 5, folder 23
Passports and collecting permits
1925-1938
box 5, folder 24
Photographs of Columbian plants (Pilea)
1922
Travel Notes and Writings
1921-1938
box 6, folder 9
Bird Study for Beginners by a Beginner.
1924-1925
box 6, folder 11
The Birds of Golden Gate Park.
undated
box 6, folder 12
Botanical Exploration of the Upper Amazon.
undated
box 6, folder 13
Botanical Trails of Old Mexico--The Lure of the Unknown.
1929
box 6, folder 14
Camping on the Equator.
1937
box 6, folder 15
The Conqueror of the Sun.
undated
box 6, folder 16
The Dispatch-bearers. (a play)
undated
box 6, folder 17
Experiences in Hospitable Mexico.
1927
box 6, folder 18-19
Following the Sun Across South America or Down the Amazon and Over the Andes.
1933
box 6, folder 20
Glimpses of a Brazilian Cattle Ranch.
1931
box 7, folder 2
Lecture notices.
1927-1937
box 7, folder 3
The Legend of Leticia.
undated
box 7, folder 4
The Life of a Gray Squirrel.
1921
box 7, folder 6
Report on Fish-Poisons of Ecuador.
1934-1935
box 7, folder 7
Some of the Common Plants Found in Mt. McKinley National Park.
undated
box 7, folder 8
The Talking Leaves. (a play)
undated
box 7, folder 9
Three Thousand Miles up the Amazon.
1933
box 7, folder 10
A Trip to the Rio Doce.
undated
box 7, 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
box 7, folder 13
Bacigalupi, Rimo.
Taxonomic Studies in Cuphea.
1931
box 7, folder 14
Barkley, Fred A. and Reed, Merton J.
Studies in the Anacardiaceae. IV.
1939
box 7, folder 15
Bartram, Edwin B.
Mosses of Western Mexico Collected by Mrs. Ynés Mexía.
1928
box 7, folder 16
Blake, S. F.
Eleven New American Asteraceae.
1938
box 7, folder 17
Blake, S. F.
Twelve New American Asteraceae.
1938
box 7, folder 18
Bryant, Harold C.
Nesting of the Allen Hummingbird In Golden Gate Park. (four photos by Ynés Mexía)
1925
box 7, folder 19
Cook, O. F.
A New Commerical Oil Palm in Ecuador.
1942
box 7, folder 20
Copeland, Edwin Bingham.
Brazilian Ferns Collected by Ynés Mexía.
1932
box 7, folder 21
Copeland, Edwin Bingham.
A New Genus of Ferns.
1951
box 7, folder 22
Copeland, Edwin Bingham.
Tropical American Ferns.
1941
box 7, folder 23
Crawford, Lloyd C.
A New Fern for the United States.
1951
box 7, folder 24
Epling, Carl.
Las Labiadas del Noroeste de la Argentina.
1939
box 7, folder 25
Epling, Carl.
Supplementary Notes on American Labiatae.
1940
box 7, folder 26
Gleason, H. A.
Eight Undescribed Species of Melastomataceae.
1939
box 7, folder 27
Herre, Albert W.C.T.
A New Species of Lecidea from Brazil.
1940
box 7, folder 28
Johnston, Ivan M.
Studies in the Boraginaceae. XII.
1937
box 7, folder 29
Killip, E. P.
New Species of Pilea from the Andes.
1925
box 7, folder 30
Killip, E. P. and Morton, C. V.
A Revision of the Mexican and Central American Species of Smilax.
1936
box 7, folder 31
Krukoff, B. A.
Erythrina.
1941
box 7, folder 32
Krukoff, B.A. and Moldenke, H.N.
Studies of American Menispermaceae, with Special Reference to SpeciesUsed in Preparation of Arrow-Poisons.
1938
box 7, folder 33
Krukoff, B.A. and Moldenke, H.N.
Supplementary Notes on American Menispermaceae.
1941
box 7, folder 34
Krukoff, B.A. and Monachino, J.
The American Species of Strychnos.
1942
box 7, folder 35
Lundell, Cyrus Longworth.
New Vascular Plants from Texas, Mexico, and Central America.
1943
box 7, folder 36
Mains, E. B.
Spumula, A New Genus of Rusts.
1935
box 7, folder 37
Malme, Gust. O.
Asclepiadaceae brasilienses.
1936
box 7, folder 38
Maxon, Willima R. and Morton, C. V.
The American Species of Dryopteris, subGenus Meniscium.
1938
box 7, folder 39
Moldenke, Harold N.
Additional Notes on Menispermaceae. I.
1940
box 7, folder 40
Moldenke, Harold N.
Additional Notes on the Genus Aegiphila. I, III, IV, VI, VII.
1937-1941
box 7, folder 41
Moldenke, Harold N.
A Monograph on the Genus Amasonia. XXXIV.
1939
box 7, folder 42
Moldenke, Harold N.
Nomenclatural Notes. III.
1946
box 7, folder 43
Moldenke, Harold N.
Novelties in the American Verbenaceae.
1940
box 7, 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
box 8, folder 2
Morton, C. V.
A New Species of Peltostigma from Mexico.
1933
box 8, folder 3
Morton, C. V.
A Revision of Besleria.
1939
box 8, folder 4
Morton, C. V.
Taxonomic Studies of Tropical American Plants.
1944
box 8, folder 5
Morton, C. V.
Two New Species of Meibomia from Mexico.
1941
box 8, folder 6
Robinson, B. L.
Records Preliminary to a General Treatment of the Eupatorieae. VII.
1928
box 8, folder 7
Smith, A. C.
Three New Species of Vacciniaceae.
1937
box 8, folder 8
Smith, Lyman B.
Studies in the Bromeliaceae. VIII.
937
box 8, folder 9-12
Standley, Paul C.
Studies of American Plants. I-IV, VI-X.
1929-1940
box 8, folder 13
Trelease, William.
The Pedicellate Peppers of South America.
1935
box 8, folder 14
Woodson, Robert E., Jr.
Studies in the Apocynaceae. VII.
1938
Series 4:
Correspondence with Botanical Institutions and Botanists
1919-1963
Physical Description: Carton 1-2.
Arrangement
Folders are arranged alphabetically by name of institution or person.
Content/Description
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.
carton 1, folder 1
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Department of Botany
1928-1963
carton 1, folder 2
Allan Hancock Foundation
1946-1948
carton 1, folder 4
Arnold Arboretum
1925-1963
carton 1, folder 5
Aspiazu, Miguel
1934-1943
carton 1, folder 6
Bailey, Joshua L., Jr.
1933-1935
carton 1, folder 8
Barkley, Fred Alexander
1938-1939
carton 1, folder 9
Bartram, Edwin Bunting
1928-1939
carton 1, folder 10
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum (Germany)
1929-1963
carton 1, folder 11
British Museum (Natural History)
1925-1963
carton 1, folder 12
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
1928-1946
carton 1, folder 13
California Academy of Sciences
1928-1951
carton 1, folder 14
California Institute of Technology
1929-193
carton 1, folder 15
Catholic University of America. Herbarium
1934-1963
carton 1, folder 17
Conservatoire et jardin botaniques de la ville de Geneve
1926-1963
carton 1, folder 18
Copeland, Edwin Bingham
1930-1933
carton 1, folder 19
Core, Earl Lemley
1934-1939
carton 1, folder 20
Dudley Herbarium
1927-1963
carton 1, folder 21
Eddy Tree Breeding Station
1928-1929
carton 1, folder 23
Ewan, Joseph Andorfer
1934-1944
carton 1, folder 24
Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium
1935-1936
carton 1, folder 25
Field Museum of Natural History
1926-1963
carton 1, folder 26
Forest College and Research Institute. Dehra Dun, India
1928-1963
carton 1, folder 27
González Ortega, Jesús
1927-1928
carton 1, folder 28
Goodspeed, Thomas Harper
1930-1938
carton 1, folder 29
Goteborg (Sweden). Botaniska Tradgard
1939-1948
carton 1, folder 31
Harvard University. Botanical Museum
1928-1939
carton 1, folder 32
Harvard University. Gray Herbarium
1926-1963
carton 1, folder 33
Herre, Albert W.
1933-1940
carton 1, folder 35
Kobenhavn Universitets. Botanisk Museum (Denmark)
1929-1939
carton 1, folder 37
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium
1945-1963
carton 1, folder 38
Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art
1931-1932
carton 1, folder 39
Lund (Sweden). Botaniska Museet
1935-1940
carton 1, folder 41
Missouri Botanical Garden
1926-1963
carton 1, folder 42
Mt. McKinley Tourist & Transportation Co., Inc.
1929-1938
carton 1, folder 43
Munz, Philip A.
1928-1941
carton 1, folder 44
Museu Nacional (Brazil). Seccao de Botanica
1931-1938
carton 1, folder 45
Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (Brazil)
1938
carton 1, folder 46
Museum national d'histoire naturelle. Botanique (France)
1930-1937
carton 1, folder 47
National Museum of Canada. Ottawa Herbarium
1929
carton 1, folder 48
New South Wales. Department of Agriculture
1941-1948
carton 1, folder 49-50
New York Botanical Garden
1926-1963
carton 1, folder 51
Oxford University. Department of Botany
1937-1951
carton 1, folder 52
Richards, Donald
1940-1941
carton 1, folder 53
Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht. Botanisch Museum en Herbarium (Netherlands)
1938-1963
carton 1, folder 54
Riksmuseets Botaniska Avdelning (Sweden)
930-1963
carton 1, folder 55
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
1928-1938
carton 1, folder 56
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Herbarium
1926-1963
carton 1, folder 57
Smith, Charles Piper
1929-1940
carton 1, folder 58
Southern Methodist University. Institute of Technology and Plant Industry
1945-1946
carton 1, folder 61
Swingle, Walter Tennyson
1927-1938
carton 1, folder 62
Trelease, William
1928-1943
carton 1, folder 63-64
United States Department of Agriculture
1929-1948
carton 1, folder 65
United States Forest Service
1935-1939
carton 1, folder 66-68
United States National Museum. Plant Division
926-1963
carton 2, folder 1
Universitat Zurich. Botanisches Museum
1929-1963
carton 2, folder 2
Universite de Geneve. Institut de botanique systematique
1929-1934
carton 2, folder 3
University of California. College of Agriculture
927-1939
carton 2, folder 4
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Botany
1926-1963
carton 2, folder 5
University of California, Berkeley. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
1919-1936
carton 2, folder 6
University of California, Los Angeles
1943
carton 2, folder 7
University of Michigan. University Herbarium
1926-1963
carton 2, folder 8
University of Minnesota. Department of Botany
1928-1963
carton 2, folder 9
University of Washington. Museum
1929-1931
carton 2, folder 10
Utah Agricultural Experiment Station
1935-1938
carton 2, folder 11
Wellesley College. Department of Botany
1932-1938
carton 2, folder 12
Wimmer, Franz Elfried
1938
carton 2, folder 13
Yale University. Osborn Botanical Laboratory
1934-1938
carton 2, folder 14
Yale University. School of Forestry
1938
carton 2, folder 15
Miscellaneous correspondence re Mexía Collection
1925-1963
Series 5:
Notebooks Containing Distribution and Determination Lists
1925-1947
Physical Description: Carton 2.
Arrangement
Folders are numerically arranged by volume numbers, 1-12.
Content/Description
The notebooks in this series were compiled by Bracelin and contain primarily lists of distributions of plant collections and
determinations of plant specimens.
I Distribution Nos. 4001-5199
II Distribution Nos. 5200-6072
State of Minas Geraes, Nos. 4321a-4340
Dept. de Loreto, Nos. 6515-4369a
III Distribution Nos. 6073-6517
Ecuador and South America
South America and Ecuador
Collections for Goodspeed
Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile
Series 6:
Card File Boxes of Labels for Plant Specimens
1925-1938
Physical Description: Carton 3-4
Arrangement
File boxes are arranged numerically.
Content/Description
Series 6 includes Numerical and Family sets of plants collected by Ynéz Mexía. The labels are on index cards in file boxes.
carton 3, folder 1
Family and Numerical Sets
1925
1929
Mexico, Nos. 2500-2771.
1929
Mexico, Nos. 500-1953.
1926-1927
Alaska, Nos. 2000-2321.
1928
Mexico, Nos. 500-1953.
1926-1927
Alaska, Nos. 2000-2321.
1928
Brazil - Peru, Nos. 4001-5399
1929-1932
Flowering Plants, Ferns and Fern Allies
Nos. 6551-7715, 8401-8499
carton 4, folder 2
Family and Numerical Sets
1934-1935
South America, Nos. 7751-8334
carton 4, folder 5
Family and Numerical Sets
1937-1938
carton 4, folder 6
Bibliographic References to Ynés Mexía and/or her collections.
undated
Series 7:
Maps
circa 1931
Physical Description: Box 9.
Arrangement
Folders are arranged alphabetically by geographical location.
Content/Description
Annotated maps used in expeditions to Mexico and South America.
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
box 9, folder 2
Argentina. Tierra del Fuego
undated
box 9, folder 5
La Region Oriental Del Ecuador. BANC MSS 68/130 m
Physical Description: 1 map
box 9, folder 9
Mapa del Sur del Peru y Parte de Bolivia.
June 1931 BANC MSS 68/130 m
Physical Description: 1 map
box 9, folder 9
Cours de L'Amazone, Paul Le Cointe, 1892-1906.
September 1931 BANC MSS 68/130 m
Physical Description: 1 map