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Moran (Reid) Collection
LA.1993.1220
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library
Title: Reid Moran Collection
Creator:
Moran, Reid (Reid Venable), 1916-2010
Identifier/Call Number: LA.1993.1220
Physical Description:
11.0 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1957-1982
Abstract: The Reid Moran Collection consists of botanical research material including field notes, manuscripts, and reprints. In addition,
the collection includes biographical information on Moran and one oral history interview (audio tape).
The collection consists of four series of research files maintained by botanist Reid Moran, Curator of Botany at the San Diego
Natural History Museum. Series 1 includes Moran's original field notebooks, and other research notes arranged by subject
in folders. Series 2 includes four boxes of manuscripts by Moran. Series 3 consists of four boxes of reprints arranged in
numbered folders (not alphabetical). Series 4 contains biographical material about Moran and and includes an oral history
interview of Moran conducted in 1998.
Reid Venable Moran (1916–2010) was the curator of botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum from 1957 to 1982. Born in
Los Angeles, California on June 30, 1916, he attended Stanford University (B.A. 1939) and Cornell University (M.S. 1942),
before wartime service as a navigator in the Army Air Corps (1942-1946). Moran completed his Ph.D. in Botany at the University
of California, Berkeley in 1951. He returned to Cornell and worked at the Bailey Hortorium before joining the San Diego Natural
History Museum in 1957. Moran specialized in the systematics of the Crassulaceae (the stonecrop family) and was a well-known
expert on succulents and especially the genus
Dudleya. His published works include
The Flora of Guadalupe Island, the treatment of the Crassulaceae for the Flora of North America (Vol. 8, published in 2009),
The Grasses of Baja California, Mexico (1981, with Frank W. Gould), and
The Vascular Flora of Isla Socorro, Mexico (1989, with Geoffrey A. Levin) in addition to a large number of technical research papers on the floristics of the Baja California
peninsula. Moran died on January 21, 2010 in Lake County, California.
The collection is open to researchers by appointment. Contact the Research Library Director, San Diego Natural History Museum.
Copyright may be reserved. Consult the San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library Director for more information.
Moran's field notebooks have been digitized and indexed by the Botany Department. The Flora of Baja California (BajaFlora.org).
[Identification of item], Reid Moran Collection (LA 1993.1220). Research Library, San Diego Natural History Museum.
This is an unprocessed collection in the archives of the San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library; not all of the
contents of this collection have been fully inventoried. Please consult the Library Director.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Belvedere Scientific Fund--Expedition
Botany -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula)
Botany -- Research
Crassulaceae
Plants -- Mexico -- Guadalupe Island
Field notes
Gilmore, Raymond M. (Raymond Maurice), 1907-1983
Harbison, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1904-1989
Higgins, Ethel Bailey, 1866-1963
Klauber, Laurence M. (Laurence Monroe), 1883-1968