Guide to the Cornelius H. Muller Files
MS.01
Finding aid prepared by Laurie Hannah.
Arrangement and description of this collection funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration. C.H. Muller Library
University of California
Harder South MS 9615
Santa Barbara, CA, 93106
805-893-2401
Title: Muller (Cornelius H.) Files
Identifier/Call Number: MS.01
Contributing Institution:
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration. C.H. Muller Library
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
30.75 Linear feet
: 8 record cartons, 4 photo boxes, 12 oversize folders, artifacts
Date (inclusive): 1931-1996
Language of Material: Some publications in German and some correspondence in Spanish, French, and German.
Abstract: Correspondence, publications, field notes, research notes, and photographs relating to the career of plant ecologist C.H.
Muller.
creator:
Muller, Cornelius H.
Arrangement note
The papers are organized into six series as follows. Series 1. Correspondence, 1936-1996. Arrangement is alphabetical by
correspondent and then chronological within each folder. Subject files are arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Series
2. Research and Publications; Series 3. Faculty and Professional Papers; Series 4. Personal Papers; Series 5. Maps; Series
6 Artifacts.
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Donated in two gifts in 2005 and 2007 by Robert Muller.
Preferred Citation note
Cornelius H. Muller Files. MS-01. Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Processing Information note
Collection arranged and described by Laurie Hannah with assistance from Sarah Vitone. Arrangement and description funded by
a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Related Archival Materials note
A small subset of photocopies of these papers constitute a series of bound volumes in the Museum of Systematics institutional
files (RG-01) that were compiled by former Herbarium curator Wayne Ferren. They deal predominantly with Muller's work on
oaks and include correspondence, field notes, and grant proposals. Information on Muller's role as founder and Curator of
the UCSB Herbarium can be found in the series Herbarium Correspondence. Correspondence and other files relating to Muller's
work on the Special Guayule Research Project are also located in the archives of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.
Separated Materials note
Muller's books, reprint collection, and some bound maps have been added to the library collection. They are accessible through
the library catalog. Several photograph prints and slides have been removed from correspondence folders and are housed together
with Muller's other photographs in a separate photograph collection, part of series II.
Scope and Contents note
This collection documents the botanical research and teaching career of Cornelius Muller. The bulk of the material relates
to Muller’s research on oaks, chemical ecology, or allelopathy, and plant classification and vegetation studies of plants
from the southwestern United States and Latin America, resulting in over 110 publications over the course of his long career.
The collection includes correspondence, field notes, research notes, experimental data, unpublished drafts and published articles,
photographs, drawings, maps, and artifacts, such as lab and field equipment.
The bulk of the papers fall into the Research and Publications Series. Field notes describe plants and vegetation that Muller
and his wife Katherine collected and observed on collecting trips to Mexico, Texas, the southwestern and southeastern United
States, Cuba, and in California. The guayule subseries contains data on experiments conducted at the Santa Barbara Botanic
Garden in the 1940s, additional notes, and the original drawings for the publication
Root Development and Ecological Relations of Guayule. The Quercus subseries includes correspondence, notes, data on individual species, and notes on Muller’s trips to European
herbaria. Experimental Plant Ecology subseries consists of research data on allelopathy, inhibition, and plant toxins of
California native plants compiled by Muller, his colleague Walter Muller, and various graduate students from 1961-1966, that
resulted in at least six publications. Included are gas chromatography data, bioassays, and field notes for various experiments
conducted in the Santa Ynez Valley region and elsewhere in Santa Barbara. The Publications subseries contains drafts, notes,
and correspondence for some of Muller’s publications, as well as unpublished writings. (A complete set of Muller’s publications
are catalogued in the library.) A separate photograph subseries complements the collecting trips and various publications.
Biographical/Historical note
Cornelius H. Muller or
Neil, as he was known to his colleagues and family, had a long and distinguished career as a plant ecologist and plant taxonomist.
After graduating from University of Illinois in 1938 with a PhD in Botany, Muller worked for the Illinois Natural History
Survey for one year and then for the USDA in various capacities from 1938-1945. Summers were usually spent on plant collecting
trips to Mexico, the Southwest, and the southern United States. His work focused on vegetation studies in Texas and Mexico
and most prominently on oaks. Muller married Katherine Kinsel, also a botanist, who directed the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
from 1950-1973. She was a partner with her husband in much of his vegetation studies and oak collecting trips, sharing in
the creation of the extensive field notes found in this collection. He and Katherine also collaborated on a publication about
Jean Louis Berlandier’s plant collecting in Mexico in the 1820s. Their son, Robert, is a plant ecologist and is also a correspondent
in these papers.
From 1938 to 1942 Muller worked for the USDA Division of Plant Exploration and Introduction, naming and classifying plant
specimens. As a result of this work, he published
A Revision of the Genus Lycopersicon and
The Central American Species of Quercus. During World War II, he worked for the Bureau of Plant Industry on the Special Guayule Research Project on a series of experiments
on root development. His results were published in the USDA Technical Bulletin 923 entitled
Root Development and Ecological Relations of Guayule. In 1945 he began teaching at UCSB (then known as Santa Barbara College). He helped develop the botany major in 1947 and
taught various courses in botany and ecology until 1976 when he retired from UCSB. He continued in a teaching capacity as
Adjunct Professor of Botany at University of Texas from 1974 to 1992.
At UCSB, Muller founded the Herbarium in the early 1950s and was Curator from 1956 to 1964. In addition to his teaching duties,
during his years at UCSB Muller conducted numerous research studies, funded partly by four National Science Foundation grants,
on allelopathic mechanisms in California plant communities and systematics and evolution of the species
Quercus. He published over 110 articles and books, peer reviewed numerous articles and proposals, and supervised and worked with
over 15 graduate students. He published two monographs:
The Central American Species of Quercus and
The Oaks of Texas, as well as provided treatments for the genus in
Arizona Flora,
Flora of Panama,
Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas, and
Flora North America.
Throughout his career, Muller took collecting trips to Costa Rica, Cedros Island off of Baja California, Texas, Southern California,
and Mexico, and went twice to Europe in the 1950s to study oak specimens at various herbaria. In the course of his years at
UCSB, Muller deposited over 15,000 oak specimens in the UCSB herbarium, including 90 type specimens. He was named Faculty
Research Lecturer in 1957, the third faculty member to receive the title, honoring distinguished research achievement both
locally and abroad. In 1975 Muller was honored for his work in ecology by being named Eminent Ecologist for 1975, a prestigious
award given by the Ecological Society of America. He was also honored for his work in oak systematics by having two plants
named after him:
Quercus cornelius-mulleri and
Quercus mulleri.
Muller passed away in Santa Barbara on January 26, 1997 at the age of 88.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Muller, Cornelius H.
field notes
Oaks--Mexico
Guayule--California
Photographs
Correspondence
Drawings
Oaks--North America
Allelopathy
Artifacts
Guayule--Texas
Maps
Plant ecology--California--Santa Barbara County
Oaks--California
University of California, Santa Barbara
Botanists--North America
Oaks--Classification
Box 1, Folder 2
Anderson, Edgar
1945-1956
Box 1, Folder 3
Arctic Research Laboratory Office of Naval Research
1950-1956
Box 1, Folder 4
Associates in Tropical Biogeography
1952-1954
Box 1, Folder 5
Atomic Energy Commission
1969
Box 1, Folder 8
Axelrod, Daniel
1949-1979
Box 1, Folder 11
Bacigalupi, Rimo
1959-1960
Box 1, Folder 12
Baltars, Eduards
1953-1957
Box 1, Folder 13
Banthorpe, Derek
1966-1967
Box 1, Folder 14
Bartholomew, Bruce
1970-1971
Scope and Contents note
Includes
The Role of Animals in Producing the Bare Zone Between California Shrubs and Grassland Communities and Muller's response:
The Role of Animals in Suppression of Herbs by Shrubs.
Box 1, Folder 15
Bartolme, James
1973-1979
Box 1, Folder 16
Beatley, Janice
1960-1977
Box 1, Folder 23
Bormann, Herbert
1968-1971
Box 1, Folder 24
Botanical Congress--Paris
1953
Box 1, Folder 25
Botanical Society of America--Pacific Section
1970-1971
Box 1, Folder 31
Burger, William. Genera of Fagaceae
Box 1, Folder 32
Burger, William
1971-1980
Box 1, Folder 40
Chemical Ecology, Journal of
1974-1988
Box 1, Folder 41
Chou, Chan-hung
1968-1980
Box 1, Folder 42
Christensen, Norman
1963-1983
Box 1, Folder 43
Clements, Edith
1946-1955
Box 1, Folder 44
Constance, Lincoln
1951-1959
Box 1, Folder 45
Crocker, Robert
1960-1962
Box 1, Folder 48
Dansereau, Pierre
1952-1967
Box 1, Folder 49
Del Moral, Roger
1968-1976
Box 1, Folder 50
Demaree, Delzie
1952-1962
Box 1, Folder 56
Ecological Society of America
1964-1982
Box 2, Folder 3
Evolution (Journal)
1951-1956
Box 2, Folder 8
Flatterers
1958-1976
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence/Congratulations regarding Eminent Ecologist Award 1975
Box 2, Folder 9
Flora of North America
1991-1996
Box 2, Folder 11
Forman, Richard
1976-1986
Box 2, Folder 12
Friedman, Jacob
1976-1984
Box 2, Folder 17
Gliessman, Stephen
1968-1984
Box 2, Folder 18
Grodzinskij, A.M.
1967-1979
Box 2, Folder 25
Harborne, Jeffrey
1970-1971
Box 2, Folder 26
Henrickson, Jim
1978-1987
Box 2, Folder 37
IBP Conference-- Plant-Plant Chemical Interactions Working Group
1967-1973
Box 2, Folder 41
Kearney, Thomas
1948-1956
Box 2, Folder 43
Knobloch, Irving
1954-1985
Box 2, Folder 44
Kruckeberg, Arthur
1958-1969
Box 2, Folder 48
Langford, Arthur
1967-1974
Box 3, Folder 1
Madrigal, Xavier
1968-1972
Box 3, Folder 2
Maguire, Bassett
1952-1963
Box 3, Folder 7
Martinez, Maximino
1946-1964
Box 3, Folder 9
Mathias, Mildred
1949-1962
Box 3, Folder 10
McIntosh, Robert
1972-1980
Box 3, Folder 12
McMillan, Calvin
1967-1975
Box 3, Folder 13
McPherson, James
1964-1972
Box 3, Folder 14
McVaugh, Rogers
1945-1988
Box 3, Folder 15
Methods (Gas Chromatography)
1967
Box 3, Folder 18
Moseley, Maynard
1949-1951
Box 3, Folder 30
Organization for Tropical Studies
1966-1972
Box 3, Folder 32
Parker, Virgil T.
1976-1993
Box 3, Folder 34
Pictures and Slides of Allelopathy
1965-1974
Scope and Contents note
Requests to reproduce images.
Box 3, Folder 35
Pictures and Slides of Allelopathy
1975-1989
Scope and Contents note
Request to reproduce images.
Box 3, Folder 39
Rice, Elroy et al.
1965-1975
Box 3, Folder 41
Rzedowski, Jerzy
1955-1970
Box 3, Folder 44
Santa Cruz Island
1966-1972
Box 3, Folder 47
Science--Commentary (Ehrlich, Janzen)
1968-1969
Box 4, Folder 2
Shinners, Lloyd
1948-1954
Box 4, Folder 3
Sigafoos, Robert
1950-1957
Box 4, Folder 6
Spellenberg, Richard
1978-1988
Box 4, Folder 9
Sprugel, George
1959-1979
Box 4, Folder 12
Strain-
Handbook of Vegetation Science
1970-1971
Box 4, Folder 18
Texas
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence to and from colleagues in Texas and from CHM when he was at UT. Alphabetical.
Box 4, Folder 24
Waterfall, U.T.
1947-1957
Box 4, Folder 28
Whittaker, Robert
1946-1959
Box 4, Folder 29
Whittaker, Robert
1960-1981
Box 4, Folder 32
Woodson, Robert
1948-1963
Research and Publications
1931-1996
Box 5, Folder 1
Collection Data and Field Notes: Mexico, Texas
1931-1933
Box 5, Folder 2
Collection Data and Field Notes: #250-1356, Mexico
1934
Box 5, Folder 3
Collection Data and Field Notes: #2001-2432, Mexico
1935
Box 5, Folder 4
Collection Data and Field Notes: Mexico
1936
Box 5, Folder 5
Collection Data and Field Notes: Mexico
1938-1939
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographic notes.
Box 5, Folder 6
Collection Data and Field Notes: Mexico
1940
Scope and Contents note
Collecting trip with Ivan Johnston on behalf of Forrest Shreve, Carnegie Institution.
Box 5, Folder 7
Collection Data and Field Notes: #2825-4970
1941
Scope and Contents note
Collecting trips to: West Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Alabama, Texas, New Mexico, California, Arizona,
Virgina, Washington D.C.
Box 5, Folder 8
Collection Data and Field Notes: #5000-5133, Texas, New Mexico, Calif.
1942
Box 5, Folder 9
Collection Data and Field Notes: #5145-5182, Texas
1943
Box 5, Folder 10
Collection Data and Field Notes: #5183-5216, Texas
1944
Box 5, Folder 11
Collection Data: #6000-6830, Calif., Texas
1945
Box 5, Folder 12
Field Notes: Calif., Texas
1945
Box 5, Folder 13
Collection Data and Field Notes: #8831-8963, Calif.
1947-1951
Box 5, Folder 14
Collection Data and Field Notes: #9000-9483, Mexico
1951
Box 5, Folder 15
Collection Data and Field Notes: #9484-9616, Calif., Arizona, Texas
1952-1953
Box 5, Folder 16
Collection Data and Field Notes: #9617-9683, Calif.
1954
Box 5, Folder 17
Collection Data and Field Notes: #9683-10055, United States, Cuba
1955
Scope and Contents note
Collecting trips to: Texas, Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Cuba
Box 5, Folder 18
Collection Data: #10055-10139, Calif.
1956
Box 5, Folder 19
Collection Data and Field Notes: #10141-10440, United States
1957-1958
Scope and Contents note
Collecting trips to: New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, California, Baja California
Box 5, Folder 20
Collection Data: #10441-10722, United States, Mexico
1958-1959
Scope and Contents note
Collecting trips to: Vermont, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Baja California, Santa
Barbara (Calif.).
Box 5, Folder 21
Collection Data and Field Notes: #10723-10937, Baja Calif., Cedros Island (Mexico), Channel Islands (Calif.)
1960
Box 5, Folder 22
Collection Data and Field Notes: #10952-11093, Calif., Nevada, Costa Rica
1961
Box 5, Folder 23
Collection Data and Field Notes: #11096-11285, Calif., Nevada, Costa Rica
1962
Box 5, Folder 24
Collection Data #11290-11302, Mexico, Texas
1969
Box 5, Folder 25
Collection Data and Field Notes: #11303-11764, Texas, Arizona, Calif., Baja Calif.
1980-1983
Box 5, Folder 26
Field Notes, Experimental Data
1944-1979 (bulk 1944-1945)
Scope and Contents note
Field notes include a trip to Texas, as well as misc. notes. Experimental data conducted at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.
Folder also includes printed matter.
Oversize_folder 14
Drawings for
Root Development and Ecological Relations of Guayule
1943-1945
Scope and Contents note
Pen and ink drawings by Juan Cardona.
Oversize_folder 15
Drawings for
Root Development and Ecological Relations of Guayule
1943-1945
Box 5, Folder 27
Quercus Types, Examined/Not Examined
1942-1978
Scope and Contents note
Includes collection # 5000-5133 and #10952-11285; photocopies of field notes entitled "Fossil collections by C.H. Muller";
and photocopies of specimen processing notes from 1978.
Box 5, Folder 28
Quercus Correspondence
1949-1958
Scope and Contents note
Mostly determinations as requested by other botanists.
Box 5, Folder 29
Quercus Notes: Madrid, Geneva, Copenhagen
1950
Box 5, Folder 30
Notes on Quercus from European Herbaria (typescript, photocopied)
1950
Box 5, Folder 31
Notes on Quercus from European Herbaria (handwritten)
1958
Box 5, Folder 32
Notes on Quercus from European Herbaria (handwritten)
1958
Box 5, Folder 33
Miscellaneous Quercus Notes
Box 5, Folder 34
Trelease Notes and Sources
1983
Box 5, Folder 39
Stellata Complex (Haller)
1957-1958
Box 5, Folder 40
Fusiformis Group: Data Worksheets
Scope and Contents note
Quercus brandegei, Q. fusiformis, Q. virginiana, Q. oleoides var. texana
Box 5, Folder 41
Fusiformis Group Data
Scope and Contents note
Includes drawings and hand drawn maps
Box 5, Folder 42
Geminata Group: Data Worksheets
Scope and Contents note
Quercus oleoides, Q. geminata, Q. sagraeana
Box 6, Folder 1
Quercus sagraeana, Q. geminata, Q. oleoides Data Sheets
Box 6, Folder 3
Quercus palmeri: Notes, Correspondence
1988-1990
Box 6, Folder 4
Quercus talpensia, Q. viminea, etc.
Box 6, Folder 5
Multiple Species Concepts in Quercus (handwritten and typed drafts)
Box 6, Folder 6
Quercus Classification (typescript, photocopy)
Scope and Contents note
Includes Muller's comments on placement of individual taxa and synonyms.
Experimental Plant Ecology
Box 6, Folder 7
Encelia Experiments (Albert Martin)
1949-1950
Box 6, Folder 8
Field Notes: Bruce Haines
1962-1963
Box 6, Folder 9
Field Notes: Bruce Haines
1963-1964
Box 6, Folder 10
Field Notes: Bruce Haines
1964-1965
Box 6, Folder 11
Research Summary Data: Bruce Haines
1962-1965
Box 6, Folder 12
Experiments Inquiring into the Inhibition of Grasslands by Salvia leucophylla and Other Aromatic Shrubs
1962-1963
Scope and Contents note
Lab and field data for 81 experiments conducted by C.H. Muller, W.H. Muller, and Bruce Haines.
Box 6, Folder 13
Lab Notes, NSF Grant GB149
1965-1966
Box 6, Folder 14
Salvia Research Notes
1965-1967
Scope and Contents note
Includes data on rodent activity.
Box 6, Folder 15
Field Notes: Ivana Gardner
1965
Box 6, Folder 16
A Field Method for Determining Food preferences and Spatial Activity Patterns of Rodents and Birds
1965-1966
Scope and Contents note
Various drafts of a research paper by one of Muller's students, Ivana Gardner, and a research report. Includes hand drawn
diagrams.
Box 6, Folder 17
The Activities of Birds and Rodents in Relation to Vegetation Patterning About
Salvia leucophylla
1966
Scope and Contents note
Research paper written by Roger del Moral, one of Muller's students.
Box 6, Folder 19
Experiment Comparing Salvia Species
1963-1964
Box 6, Folder 20
Atmosphere (Salvia leucophylla), Happy Canyon
1964
Box 6, Folder 21
Atmosphere (Cold Trap and Direct), Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
1964
Box 6, Folder 23
Benzaldehyde and Benzonitrile Identification: Prunus and Heteromeles
Box 6, Folder 24
Dry Ice Extract of Air (Lab and Greenhouse)
1964
Box 6, Folder 25
Soil Absorbtion of Terpenes by Salvia leucophylla
1964
Box 6, Folder 26
Solubility of Terpenes in Paraffin
Box 6, Folder 27
Wax vs. Glass--Equal Surface
Box 6, Folder 28
Water Extracts, Happy Canyon Study Site
1964
Box 6, Folder 31
Identification of Terpenes
Box 6, Folder 33
Artemesia californica
1963-1964
Box 6, Folder 36
Heteromeles and Prunus ilicifolia
1964
Box 6, Folder 39
Old and New Samples (Salvia leucophylla)
Box 6, Folder 41
Soil Toxicity Chromatographs
1966
Box 6, Folder 42
Solubility, Salvia Soil Toxins
Box 6, Folder 43
Terpene Detection, Soils of Salvia leucophlla
1967
Box 6, Folder 44
Illustrations and Notes for Allelopathy: Salvia leucophylla Acting Upon Annual Grasslands
Scope and Contents note
Includes comments and illustrations by Jackie Broughton.
Box 6, Folder 45
Misc. Notes and References on Chemical Ecology and Allelopathy
Box 6, Folder 47
Mounds of Louisiana and Texas: Notes, Correspondence
1956
Box 6, Folder 48
Vegetation, Southwest Texas
Scope and Contents note
Includes hand drawn map.
Box 6, Folder 49
Reinterpretation of Desert Scrub and Desert Plains Grassland Climaxes (unpublished draft)
c. 1944
Scope and Contents note
Includes handwritten notes and typescript.
Box 6, Folder 50
The Association of Desert Annuals with Shrubs
1952-1953
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence, drafts, and abstract for paper presented at the Western Society of Naturalists Conference, 1952.
Box 6, Folder 51
Ecological Degrees of Sympathy in Quercus (unpublished draft)
Box 6, Folder 52
The Origin of Quercus on Cuba
1955
Scope and Contents note
Includes typescript, handwritten notes, and correspondence.
Box 6, Folder 53
Association Patterns Involving Desert Plants Containing Toxic Products
1956
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence, various drafts, and a copy of
Notes on Succession from the MAB-SCOPE Workshop.
Box 6, Folder 54
Faculty Research Paper
1958
Scope and Contents note
First draft of
Science and Philosophy of the Community Concept.
Box 6, Folder 55
Plant Succession in Desert Vegetation?(unpublished draft)
1962
Scope and Contents note
Written in response to an article by Philip Wells entitled
Succession in Desert Vegetation on Streets of a Nevada Ghost Town. Includes correspondence to Janice Beatley and others and weather data.
Box 6, Folder 56
A New Species of Quercus from Baja California, Mexico
1962
Box 7, Folder 1
The
Climate Concept: Perennial Confoundment
(unpublished draft)
c. 1963
Box 7, Folder 2
Volatile Growth Inhibitors Produced by
Salvia Species
1964
Box 7, Folder 3
Inhibitory Terpenes Volatilized from
Salvia Shrubs
1965
Box 7, Folder 4
Grodzinsky, A.M.
Allelopathy, etc.
1965-1966
Language of Material: Translation from Russian for Botany 241.
Box 7, Folder 5
The Role of Chemical Competition in Vegetational Patterning
1966
Box 7, Folder 6
Die Bedeutung der Allelopathie fuer die Zusammenfassung der Vegetation
1967
Language of Material: German translation by Muller of <emph render="italic">The Role of Chemical Inhibition (Allelopathy) in Vegetational Composition.</emph>
Box 7, Folder 7
The Role of Allelopathy in the Evolution of Vegetation (unpublished draft)
c. 1970
Box 7, Folder 8
The Role of Animals in Suppression of Herbs by Shrubs (photocopy)
1971
Box 7, Folder 9
Allelopathy in the Environmental Complex (handwritten draft)
1974
Box 7, Folder 10
Differential Distribution of Epiphitic Lichens (typescript and handwritten draft)
1974
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence to and article by Philip W. Rundel.
Box 7, Folder 11
Effects of Fire on Factors Controlling Plant Growth in
Adenostoma Chaparral
1975
Box 7, Folder 12
Allelopathic Activity by
Arctostaphylos in Chaparral-Grassland Ecotones
(unpublished draft)
1975
Box 7, Folder 13
The Allelopathic Mechanisms of Dominance in Bracken (
Pteridium aquilinum) in Southern California
1978
Box 7, Folder 14
A New Combination in Pithecellobium
1979
Box 7, Folder 15
Quercus deliquescens, a New Species from Chihuahua, Mexico
1974
Box 7, Folder 16
Quercus treatments, Chihuahuan Desert Flora (unpublished)
c. 1979-1987
Box 7, Folder 17
Quercus treatments, Chihuahuan Desert Flora (unpublished)
Box 7, Folder 18
Quercus treatments, Chihuahuan Desert Flora (unpublished)
Box 7, Folder 19
Quercus treatments, Chihuahuan Desert Flora (unpublished)
Box 7, Folder 20
Quercus treatments, Chihuahuan Desert Flora (unpublished)
Box 7, Folder 21
Quercus treatments, Chihuahuan Desert Flora (unpublished)
Box 7, Folder 22
Quercus treatments, Chihuahuan Desert Flora (unpublished)
Box 7, Folder 23
Oaks of Northeastern Mexico: Tentative Species List with Nomenclature (unpublished draft)
1983
Box 7, Folder 24
Biotically Induced Cliff Formation in Uncontrolled Alluvium in the Santa Ynez Valley, California (unpublished)
1983
Box 7, Folder 25
Oaks of Northeastern Mexico: Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulias (unpublished draft)
1988
Box 7, Folder 26
Quercus palmeri (Engelmann) Engelmann, the Correct Name for the Palmer Oak
(unpublished draft)
1989
Box 7, Folder 27
The Taxonomic Resurrection of
Quercus laceyi Small (Fagaceae)
1992
Box 7, Folder 28
The
Quercus hypoxatha Complex (Fagaceae) in Northeastern Mexico
1993
Box 7, Folder 29
Erythronium Bioassays and
Dormancy of Bulbs in Chaparral (handwritten drafts)
Box 7, Folder 30
Plants Described by Jean Louis Berlandier
Box 7, Folder 31
The Biological Dilemma of Liberalism (handwritten draft)
Box 7, Folder 32
Tannin Balm Sandwich
1969
Scope and Contents note
A song about allelopathy sung to the tune of
O Christmas Tree.
Box 7, Folder 33
That Fabulous Orchid Industry (unpublished drafts)
1942
Separated Materials note
11 colored negatives of orchids removed and put in photo collection.
Box 7, Folder 34
Nature of the Tropics
1961
Scope and Contents note
1 notebook containing handwritten notes from various publications.
Box 7, Folder 35
Reprint requests
1947-1964
Box 7, Folder 36
Reprint requests--Postcards
Photo_box 1
Roll P.I--Mexico, Cañon Calabozo, Nuevo Leon
June 21, 1935
Photo_box 1
Roll P.II--Mexico, Cañon Marisio Arriba, Nuevo Leon
1935
Photo_box 1
Roll P.III--Mexico, Cañon Guajuco, Nuevo Leon
July 3, 1935
Photo_box 1
Roll P.IV--Mexico, Cañon de Potrero Redondo, Nuevo Leon
July 5, 1935
Photo_box 1
Roll P.V--Mexico, Potrero Redondo and Casillas, Nuevo Leon
July 6-7, 1935
Photo_box 1
Roll P.VI--Mexico, Las Trancas region, Nuevo Leon
July 8-21, 1935
Photo_box 1
Roll P.VII--Mexico, Cerro Potosi, Nuevo Leon
July 21, 1935
Photo_box 1
Roll P. VII---Mexico, Las Canoas, Nuevo Leon
July 23, 1935
Photo_box 1
Roll P. IX--Mexico, Nuevo Leon
July 23-August 10, 1935
Scope and Contents note
Several photos of Muller with deer he shot in camp in Arroyo Hondo.
Photo_box 1
Roll P.X--Mexico, Oveja and Villa Mainero, Nuevo Leon
August 13, 1935
Photo_box 1
Roll I--Mexico, Coahuila
June 15, 1936
Photo_box 1
Roll II--Mexico, Sierra San Lazaro, Coahuila
June 15-22, 1936
Photo_box 1
Roll III--Mexico, Sierra San Manuel, Coahuila
June 26-28, 1936
Photo_box 1
Roll IV--Mexico, Coahuila
1936
Photo_box 1
Roll V--Mexico, Cañon del Sentinela, Coahuila
1936
Scope and Contents note
Some photos of Muller in camp at Cañon de Sentinela, Sierra del Carmen
Photo_box 1
Roll VI--Mexico, Cañon de Sentinela, Coahuila
1936
Photo_box 1
Roll VII--Mexico, Coahuila
1936
Photo_box 1
Photos of Mexico and Texas
1939
Photo_box 1
Photos of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Aug.-Sept. 1939
Photo_box 1
Roll Ph.I--Texas
June 2-9, 1945
Photo_box 1
Roll Ph.II--Texas
June 9-12, 1945
Photo_box 1
Roll Ph.III--Texas
June 12-15, 1945
Photo_box 1
Roll Ph.IV--Texas
June 15-16, 1945
Photo_box 1
Roll Ph.V--Texas
June 19-25, 1945
Photo_box 1
Roll Ph.VI--Texas
July 10-23, 1945
Photo_box 1
Roll Ph.VII--Texas
July 23-24, 1945
Photo_box 1
Roll Ph.VIII--Texas
July 1945
Photo_box 2
Sweden and Norway
July 1950
Scope and Contents note
Photos of vegetation and habitats near Abisko, Sweden and Solovome, Norway taken during Muller's summer visit to the International
Botanical Congress.
Photo_box 3, Folder 2
Oaks of Texas, plates 2-75
1948
Arrangement note
Photos are in plate # order which does not correspond to plate numbers in the book. Some plates missing.
Scope and Contents note
Photos of oak herbarium specimens taken by Walter Douglas for Muller's publication
Oaks of Texas. Photos have Douglas' dates, neg. #, and plate # inscribed on back. Some photos annotated by Muller and include plant name,
collector and specimen number, and herbarium abbreviation.
Photo_box 3, Folder 3
Oaks of Texas, plates 86-129
1948
Photo_box 1
Oaks of Texas, plates 2-122
Photo_box 3, Folder 4
Misc. Oak Specimens
1948-1993
Scope and Contents note
Photos by Walter Douglas, USDA Bureau of Plant Industry, and Kevin Nixon. Nixon's photos published in
The Quercus hypoxantha complex (Fagaceae) in Northeastern Mexico,
Brittonia, 1993.
Photo_box 3, Folder 5
Quercus sapotaefolia
August 1965
Scope and Contents note
Photos of
Quercus sapotaefolia study in Costa Rica taken by Bruce Haines, Aug. 1965.
Photo_box 3, Folder 11
Misc. Allelopathy--Experimental Site Photos
Scope and Contents note
Mostly duplicates of Arctostaphylos clearing and cow pie patch, used in publications.
Photo_box 3, Folder 6
Chou's Site
Mar.-Aug. 1971
Scope and Contents note
Photos of Chang-Hung Chou's experimental site in Santa Ynez Valley. Inscribed on envelope:
Chou's site: clearing at end of 3rd growing season. Natural burn (Adenostoma and Arctostaphylos). Photos by Norm Christensen and Muller.
Photo_box 3, Folder 7
Orchids
1942
Scope and Contents note
Photos of various types of orchids for an unpublished article (see Box 7, Folder 33.) Includes handwritten notes about each
image.
Photo_box 3, Folder 8
Guayule
Scope and Contents note
Photos from the publication
Root Development and Ecological Relations in Guayule.
Photo_box 3, Folder 9
Misc. photos from various authors' publications
1948-1975
Photo_box 3, Folder 10
Misc. photos
Scope and Contents note
Includes photos of Muller (passport and him at site locality for
Quercus hinkleyi in Texas); Chang-Hung Chou; attendees of the Institute in Tropical Biology, Costa Rica, 1962; and Santa Cruz Island.
Photo_box 1
Arctostaphylos Clearings
May 21, 1970
Scope and Contents note
Muller's inscription:
Principally Emmenanthe, Sonchus, and sprouts of Arctostaphylos and a little Adenostoma. 2nd growing season following clearing
in September 1968.
Photo_box 1
Artemesia Invasion--Very Good
July 20, 1966
Photo_box 2
Volatile Bioassay Methods and Results
Photo_box 4
Lantern slides
Scope and Contents note
Slides of Mexican oaks, pines, maps, and guayule illustrations--24 items.
Artifacts--Inventoried separately
Faculty and Professional Papers
Box 8, Folder 1
Biology Building
Scope and Contents note
Includes drawings for Herbarium.
Box 8, Folder 2
Biology Curriculum (incl. new Botany major)
1945-1947
Box 8, Folder 3
Biology--Personnel Records
1944-1965
Box 8, Folder 4
Botanic Garden Lab
1947-1950
Scope and Contents note
ncludes correspondence to Director Maunsell van Rensselaer and specifications for setting up a research lab for UCSB faculty
to use at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Faculty research proposals also included.
Box 8, Folder 7
Funds (Research)
1949-1976
Box 8, Folder 9
Guggenheim Foundation
1951
Box 8, Folder 10
NSF Grant Proposals and Projects (Muller's)
bulk 1961-1969
Box 8, Folder 11
Research Grants
1946-1974
Box 8, Folder 12
Europe, 1950
Scope and Contents note
Travel notes from Muller's trip to Europe to attend the International Botanical Congress and study at European herbaria.
Box 8, Folder 13
France, Spain, etc.
1950-1951
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence regarding his trip to visit various European herbaria.
Box 8, Folder 14
Stockholm, International Botanical Congress
1949-1953
Box 8, Folder 16
Summer
1954-1955
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence on research in Mexico on Quercus, ser. Virentes.
Box 8, Folder 17
Cedros Island [collecting trip]
1960
Box 8, Folder 20
Ecology (Journal)--Editorial Board
1955-1958
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence with Dwight Billings, William Steere, and Alton Lindsay.
Box 8, Folder 21
Manuscripts Reviewed
1942-1984
Box 8, Folder 22
NSF Proposals Reviewed
1958-1967
Box 8, Folder 23
NSF Proposals Reviewed
1968-1975
Box 8, Folder 24
NSF Proposals Reviewed
1977-1986
Box 8, Folder 25
AAAS Western Section Meeting
1953-1954
Box 8, Folder 26
Ecological Society of America, Western Section, AAAS Meeting
1953-1956
Box 8, Folder 27
Western Society of Naturalists--Membership rosters, bylaws
1946-1951
Box 8, Folder 29
Botany Notebooks, Texas Wesleyan College
1935
Oversize_folder 4
Carta General de la Republica Mexicana
Bulk 1902-1909
Oversize_folder 5
Misc. Original and Annotated Maps
Oversize_folder 6
Vegetation Types in California
1901
Oversize_folder 7
Vegetation Types in California
1941-1942
Oversize_folder 8
Vegetation Types in California
1941-1942
