Guide to the Maynard F. Moseley Papers
Laurie Hannah
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Santa Barbara, California 93106-9615
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Guide to the Maynard F. Moseley Papers
Collection number: MS-03
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California
- Processed by:
- Laurie Hannah
- Date Completed:
- 2008
- Encoded by:
- Laurie Hannah
© 2008 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Maynard F. Moseley papers
Dates: 1941-1989
Collection number: MS-03
Creator:
Moseley, Maynard F.
Collection Size:
3 linear feet
Repository:
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (University of California, Santa Barbara). C. H. Muller Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9615
Abstract: Teaching materials, including hand-drawn illustrations, lectures, and exams for several botany courses taught by UCSB professor
Maynard Moseley. Includes a small amount of correspondence.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
German
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, UC Santa Barbara. All requests
for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Cheadle Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
Maynard F. Moseley papers, MS-03, Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration. University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Transfer from Dept. of Biological Sciences in 2005.
Processing Information
Arrangement and description of this collection was made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Biography / Administrative History
Maynard Fowle Moseley was born in Boston in 1918 and attended University of Massachusetts and University of Illinois at Urbana,
completing his Ph.D. in Botany in 1947. He taught for two years at Cornell before moving to Santa Barbara to join the faculty
of UCSB in 1949. At UCSB, he was Professor of Botany where he taught plant anatomy and plant morphology until April 1, 1984.
Moseley researched wood and floral anatomy as they related to the evolution of and relationship between flowering plants.
He was an expert in the floral structure of water lilies and published extensively on them. He was also co-author with William
Purves of
Botany in the Laboratory, published in 1974. During his career he advised seven doctoral students and was known for his interest and enthusiasm in
his students' work. The Botanical Society of America established the Maynard F. Moseley Award in 1995 to honor a career of
dedicated teaching, scholarship, and service to the furtherance of the botanical sciences. Moseley passed away in 2003 at
the age of 85.
Scope and Content of Collection
The bulk of the papers in this collection are teaching materials related to plant anatomy and morphology courses Moseley taught
at UCSB. The series Research and Publications is an artificial group of items, ranging from a notebook used during Moseley's
wartime service as a lab technician to a National Science Foundation grant report. Also included are collection notes for
plant specimens Moseley collected in California which correspond to his chart on
Garrya. The Plant Anatomy Drawings consist of about 200 pen and pencil drawings made mostly by Moseley when he was an undergraduate
studying botany.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into five series: Series 1 Correspondence; Series 2 Research and Publications; Series 3 Plant
Anatomy Drawings; Series 4 Teaching Materials; and Series 5 Biographical.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Botanists--North America
Plant anatomy
Angiosperms--Morphology
Photographs
Drawings
Moseley, Maynard F.
University of California, Santa Barbara
Separated Material
A large reprint collection has been transfered to the Herbarium reprint files. Copies of the doctoral dissertations of Moseley's
students have been transfered to the library and are listed in the library online catalog.
Box 1, Folder 1
Correspondence and Reports
1969-1987
Research and Publications
1944-1983
Box 1, Folder 4
Notes
Language of Material:
German
Box 2
Rolled Chart--Anatomy Data on
Garrya
1951-1954
Box 2
Rolled Chart--Anatomical Characteristics of Angiosperm Families
Box 2
Note Cards of Plant Collection Data
Plant Anatomy Drawings
1941-1942
Scope and Contents note
Pencil and ink drawings, most done by Moseley for his undergraduate and graduate coursework in botany.
Box 1, Folder 8-9
Drawings of Fungi and Algae
Teaching Materials
1942-1983
Box 1, Folder 13
Botany 110 and 111 Administration
Box 1, Folder 14
Botany 110 and 111 Lectures
Photographs
Scope and Contents note
Black and white photographs of various sizes and negatives. Images are unlabeled.
Photo_box 1, Folder 1
[Family and Friends?]--Negatives only
Photo_box 1, Folder 2
Plant Tissue--Negatives and 1 contact sheet
Photo_box 1, Folder 3
Plant Tissue (Various) and Illustrations for Publication--Prints and negatives
