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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Leroy Abrams papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0013
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1863-1939
Language of Material:
Undetermined .
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must
be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special
Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of the Leroy Adams estate, 1964.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
LeRoy Abrams (1874–1956) was an American botanist and author. He was a Professor of Botany
at Stanford University (1900-1904, 1906-1940; emeritus 1940-1956). He wrote and illustrated
a four-volume Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States, with the final volume published
posthumously, after compilation and editing by Roxanna Ferris.
Correspondence regarding dispute over ownership of L.A. Patterson property in Tennessee,
diplomas, notebook, French song book, exercise book for articulation, diary of 1933 trip,
scrapbook, and photographs.
Leroy Abrams Papers (SC0013). Department of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Related materials: at the California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco,
California (Dudley Herbarium collection).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Diaries.
Diplomas.
Botanists.
Photoprints.
College teachers.
Notebooks.