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Ron Wilson Papers

14 boxes, 1 oversize folder (15.25 linear feet)

(1979 – 2021)

bulk 1989-2011

Edward H. Nabb Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury, University, Salisbury, Maryland

Identifier 2021.017
Creator(s) James S. Wilson Jr.
Acquisition

Donated by James S. Wilson Jr in 2021. 2021.017
Language(s) English
Use Records are open for research. Copyright, including literary rights, belongs to the author(s) or their legal heirs. Permission to publish or reproduce must be obtained from the Nabb Research Center which extends beyond "fair use."
Preferred Citation "Item, collection title and identifier, box # and folder # (if applicable), Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland."
Attribution Finding Aid written by Rihana Stevenson, October 2021; additions by Elissa O'Loughlin in 2022
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  • 2: Jackson Lane Survey Map, The Nature Conservancy 
Abstract

The collection contains plants, survey data, samples, reports, and correspondence regarding Ron Wilson and Frank Hirst, two self-taught botanists, and their work for The Nature Conservancy, a national preservationist organization, from 1978 to 2021. Also included is an extensive herbarium of native Delmarva plant species compiled by both Wilson and Hirst. The work in the collection covers botanizing throughout New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Biographical History

Ron Wilson, a learned botanist, was befriended by Frank Hirst who worked with Wilson at the Maryland/D.C. Nature Conservancy chapter. Hirst gained notoriety in the region for having discovered a rare type of Panicum (or Panic grass), which was later scientifically named Panicum Hirstii by the Philadelphia Botanical Club in dedication to Hirst and his brother Bob. Hirst was a New Jersey native who later moved to the Eastern Shore. His time in both regions allowed him to make many discoveries of native plants that aided in the Delaware National Heritage program and TNC’s preservation efforts. In 2009, Wilson also became popular for having discovered a rare type of orchid growing in a section of Nassawango Creek Preserve that was part of a project to reintroduce uncommon native plants. Wilson and Hirst worked together on many Nature Conservancy projects aimed towards acquiring and preserving land that contain endangered plant species. Frank Hirst passed away in 2009 at the age of 81. Ron Wilson also passed away at age 70 in early 2021.

Scope and Content Note

The collection contains plants, survey data, samples, reports, and correspondence regarding Ron Wilson and Frank Hirst’s work for The Nature Conservancy from 1978 to 2021. The collection notes Ron Wilson's plant data and land surveys conducted for the Nature Conservancy and Delaware’s Department of Natural Resources. Wilson’s contract work for TNC includes monitoring and creating survey lists of the plants within the land easements the Conservancy was acquiring for preservation. Most contract reports are centered on the preservation efforts for Maryland’s Nassawango Creek. There are also documents and reports regarding TNC’s efforts to protect the Chesapeake Bay and its endangered areas. Frank Hirst’s files contain survey items, correspondence, reference materials, and scanned images of botanical journals. Most notes are from contract jobs done with Wilson, or independent trips to various Eastern Shore areas. Correspondence pertains to the discovery and monitoring of Panicum Hirstii (named after Hirst) and other rare plant species. Reference materials are books regarding the science of botany and the various plants found in North America, predominantly the East coast. Ron Wilson's field journals detailing TNC contract data and notes of various trips in and out of the country are also included in this collection. An herbarium of plants collected by Hirst and Wilson from 1990 to 2021 contains plant species from various parts of the Delmarva region, organized in alphabetical order. Multimedia contains CD-ROMs of TNC presentations, surveys, and geographical data, as well as a VHS tape of a trail dedication ceremony within Nassawango Creek Preserve. Educational materials and photographs from Wilson’s time as a teacher are also included. 

The herbarium specimens comprise two distinct groups: the Ron Wilson collection and the Frank Hirst collection. The Wilson collection consists of dried and prepared plant specimens collected between 1992 and 2014 in the counties of Charles, Caroline, Garrett, Kent Wicomico and Dorchester counties in Maryland; in Preston, West Virginia; Virginia Beach, VA; in unspecified locations in New Jersey; and in Dixon county NC. Personnel who assisted in collecting the specimens as noted on the labels are: Bill McAvoy; Wes Knapp; Frank Hirst; E. Schuyler; Kari Metcalf; Jen Wilson; Dave Snyder and Keith Clancy. By far, the largest plant groups represented are Carex (sedges), Panicum (grasses) and Rhyncospora (beak-rush). As received the collection was arranged in alphabetical order by the species name. This order was preserved as the samples were processed and mounted. Two of Wilson wooden drying frames and their textile straps also came with the collection. 21 boxes including one oversize box.

The Frank Hirst collection consists of specimens collected between 1974 and 1995 in the counties of Dorchester, Worcester, Caroline, Talbot and Somerset Maryland; in Sussex and New Castle and Kent counties Delaware; in Dixie County FL and in North Hampton County VA. Accompanying the plant specimens is a three-ring binder that lists the plant samples, location collected, and details of the collection site. 3 boxes.

Arrangement Statement
  • Series 1: Personal Files (original file cabinet documents in alphabetical order)
  • Series 2: Surveys
  • Series 3: Herbarium (SEPARATED)
  • Series 4: Notebooks
  • Series 5: Topographical Maps 
    • Delaware Highway Maps (Subseries 5.1)
    • Maryland Highway Maps (Subseries 5.2)
  • Series 6: Reports
  • Series 7: Series Publications
  • Series 8: Multimedia/CDs 
  • Series 9: Reference Materials 
  • Series 10: Correspondence 

Subject Terms

  • Topical Terms
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Maps
    • Photography
  • Corporate Names
    • Department of Natural Resources
    • The Nature Conservancy
  • Location Terms
    • Delaware
    • Maryland

Inventory List

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Box 1 

  1. 1 (Personal Files): Aeschynomene Virginica 
  2. 1 (Personal Files): Alnus Maritimus 
  3. 1 (Personal Files): Amaranthus Pumulus 
  4. 1 (Personal Files): Arc View 
  5. 1 (Personal Files): Artifacts 
  6. 1 (Personal Files): Assateague Island 
  7. 1 (Personal Files): Awards 
  8. 1 (Personal Files): Bartoloschevsky Easement 
  9. 1 (Personal Files): Beyond the Limits - Educational materials 
  10. 1 (Personal Files): Big Marsh 
  11. 1 (Personal Files): Brittingham branch site 
  12. 1 (Personal Files): Bryophytes 
  13. 1 (Personal Files): Carex 
  14. 1 (Personal Files): Carolina Bays 
  15. 1 (Personal Files): Caroline County 
  16. 1 (Personal Files): Castanea (journal) 
  17. 1 (Personal Files): Chess 
  18. 1 (Personal Files): Coastal Bays 
  19. 1 (Personal Files): Community Studies 
  20. 1 (Personal Files): Cyperaceae 
  21. 1 (Personal Files): Cypress (taxodian) 
  22. 1 (Personal Files): John Dennis 
  23. 1 (Personal Files): Delaware Natural Heritage 
  24. 1 (Personal Files): Delaware Natural Heritage (2) 
  25. 1 (Personal Files): Delaware Natural Heritage (3) 
  26. 1 (Personal Files): Delaware Natural Heritage (4) 
  27. 1 (Personal Files): Del Inc 1997 
  28. 1 (Personal Files): Delmarva Bays 
  29. 1 (Personal Files): Delmarva Fox Squirrel 
  30. 1 (Personal Files): Del TNC ‘97 report 
  31. 1 (Personal Files): Desmodium fernaldii 
  32. 1 (Personal Files): Ditching 
  33. 1 (Personal Files): DJI Movie & Enterprise deal 
  34. 1 (Personal Files): Dorchester County Plant sites 
  35. 1 (Personal Files): Eruianthus (saccharum) 
  36. 1 (Personal Files): Fen Search (1993) 
  37. 1 (Personal Files): Ferns 
  38. 1 (Personal Files): Furnace Town 
  39. 1 (Personal Files): Frank Hirst 
  40. 1 (Personal Files): Garrett County 
  41. 1 (Personal Files): Georgetown Airport renovation report 
  42. 1 (Personal Files): GIS software 
  43. 1 (Personal Files): Gratiola brevifolia – Delaware 
  44. 1 (Personal Files): Bill Grogan 
  45. 1 (Personal Files): Mary Humphreys correspondence 
  46. 1 (Personal Files): Idlywild WMA 
  47. 1 (Personal Files): Intertidal Plants 
  48. 1 (Personal Files): Isoetes 
  49. 1 (Personal Files): Istoria 
  50. 1 (Personal Files): Jeffersonian Newsletter (Virginia) 
  51. 1 (Personal Files): Rick Johnstone 
  52. 1 (Personal Files): Lane Engineering 
  53. 1 (Personal Files): Richard LeBlond 
  54. 1 (Personal Files): Lobelia 
  55. 1 (Personal Files): Lowrance GMS deal 
  56. 1 (Personal Files): Lycopus 
  57. 1 (Personal Files): Maine 
  58. 1 (Personal Files): Maryland Natural Heritage 

Box 2 

  1. 1 (Personal Files): Maryland Heritage field notes 
  2. 1 (Personal Files): MD TNC field notes 
  3. 1 (Personal Files): Bill McAvoy 
  4. 1 (Personal Files): Mosses of Great Cypress swamp 
  5. 1 (Personal Files): Nanticoke River 
  6. 1 (Personal Files): Nassawango Creek 
  7. 1 (Personal Files): Nassawango News 
  8. 1 (Personal Files): Nature Conservancy article 
  9. 1 (Personal Files): National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) 
  10. 1 (Personal Files): New Jersey Pine Barrens 
  11. 1 (Personal Files): Nikon Cool Pix pictures 
  12. 1 (Personal Files): Oxypolis Canbii 
  13. 1 (Personal Files): Paniculum 
  14. 1 (Personal Files): Persea Palustris 
  15. 1 (Personal Files): Poaceae 
  16. 1 (Personal Files): Pocomoke River 
  17. 1 (Personal Files): Pocomoke State Forest 
  18. 1 (Personal Files): Polygonum 
  19. 1 (Personal Files): Pycanthemum 
  20. 1 (Personal Files): Redmond’s flora of Worcester County 
  21. 1 (Personal Files): Resolute (28’ survey) 
  22. 1 (Personal Files): Rhexia 
  23. 1 (Personal Files): Rynchospora 
  24. 1 (Personal Files): Gale’s rynchospora monograph 
  25. 1 (Personal Files): Schalbea Americana 
  26. 1 (Personal Files): Andrew Scott 
  27. 1 (Personal Files): Bill Sipple 
  28. 1 (Personal Files): Sisyrinchium 
  29. 1 (Personal Files): Scirpus  
  30. 1 (Personal Files): Soil surveys 
  31. 1 (Personal Files): Somerset County plant sites 
  32. 1 (Personal Files): Talbot County plant sites 
  33. 1 (Personal Files): Tanhouse 
  34. 1 (Personal Files): Tanzer 22 sale (11/15/98) 
  35. 1 (Personal Files): TNC – Nassawango Misc 
  36. 1 (Personal Files): Trillium 
  37. 1 (Personal Files): Trimble GEO XT 
  38. 1 (Personal Files): Utric Ularia 
  39. 1 (Personal Files): Viola 
  40. 1 (Personal Files): Virginia 
  41. 1 (Personal Files): Wicomico County (map) 
  42. 1 (Personal Files): Ron Wilson 
  43. 1 (Personal Files): C.S Williamson (Flora of Delaware) 
  44. 1 (Personal Files): Worcester County 
  45. 1 (Personal Files): Xeric Dunes 
  46. 1 (Personal Files): Zuni Pine Barrens (Virginia) 
  47. 2 (Surveys): Tyson Foods Survey Data 
  48. 2 (Surveys): Scott Stark Site 
  49. 2 (Surveys): Fred Sprock Site 
  50. 2 (Surveys): Vision Forestry – Virginia Violation Site 
  51. 2 (Surveys): Kirk Burbage site 
  52. 2 (Surveys): Buck Harbor Rd site 
  53. 2 (Surveys): Mongrel Neck area 
  54. 2 (Surveys): Baptist Church/ Elliot’s Pond site 
  55. 2 (Surveys): Cypress bark shedding sites 
  56. 2 (Surveys): Cubler tract 
  57. 2 (Surveys): Jackson Lane RTE Plant forms 
  58. 2 (Surveys): Ames Tract – Vision forestry survey 
  59. 2 (Surveys): Roger Richardson Nassawango Creek 
  60. 2 (Surveys): Patuxent & Pond Pine articles 

Box 3 

  1. 1 (Personal Files): Panicum Hirstii & Personal Data 
  2. 1 (Personal Files): Delmarva Online Setup 
  3. 2 (Surveys): TNC Deed/Plat Searches 
  4. 2 (Surveys): Tyndall Estates Line Stakeout 
  5. 2 (Surveys): Cedar Creel – Clendaniel Pond Site #19 
  6. 2 (Surveys): Church Branch Tributary Site #16 
  7. 2 (Surveys): North Prong Swamp/West Occurrence #8 
  8. 2 (Surveys): Dutton Ditch & Ingram Branch Occurrence #22 
  9. 2 (Surveys): TNC Ponders Tract Occurrence #4 
  10. 2 (Surveys): Church Branch Site – Ellendale Occurrence #31 
  11. 2 (Surveys): Tantrough Branch Sites #17 & 21 
  12. 2 (Surveys): Sites #9, 10, 32 – Hudson Pond W/SW & Ellendale Roadside 
  13. 2 (Surveys): Jackson Lane 2005 Sheets (Copies) 
  14. 2 (Surveys): Vessels Site 
  15. 2 (Surveys): Vessels Tract Survey Data 
  16. 2 (Surveys): Adkins VI Bogs & Elevation Project 
  17. 2 (Surveys): TNC Warehouse Property 
  18. 2 (Surveys): 2013 Panicum Hirstii Monitoring 
  19. 2 (Surveys): Site #6 & 28 – Killens Pond 
  20. 2 (Surveys): William C Dykes Property (map 54/parcel 46) 
  21. 2 (Surveys): 2009 Johnson Tract veg. Survey 
  22. 2 (Surveys): Cove Point Marsh Site 
  23. 2 (Surveys): Carney TNC Row Stakeout 
  24. 2 (Surveys): 2012 Dicanthelium Hirstii monitoring  
  25. 2 (Surveys): TNC Nanjemony Creek Surveys 
  26. 2 (Surveys): Adkins II & Carney Tracts 
  27. 2 (Surveys): 2016 TNC Burn Unit U16 
  28. 2 (Surveys): Adkins IX 
  29. 2 (Surveys): Jackson Lane 2007 
  30. 2 (Surveys): Furnacetown Mapping project 
  31. 2 (Surveys): Bear Swamp Tract 
  32. 2 (Surveys): Adkins Gift Survey 
  33. 2 (Surveys): Tanhouse Woods 
  34. 2 (Surveys): TNC Townsend Property 
  35. 2 (Surveys): Village trail cul-de-sac drainage 
  36. 2 (Surveys): 2019 Maryland TNC contract (Burn Blocks map) 
  37. 2 (Surveys): 2019-21 Delaware TNC Contract 
  38. 2 (Surveys): Pristine Pines TNC Preserve (2016) 
  39. 2 (Surveys): 2011-13 Johnson Tract vegetation surveys 
  40. 2 (Surveys): Hickory Point Swamp 
  41. 2 (Surveys): Cedar Creek Swamp – Site 12 
  42. 2 (Surveys): 2011 Panicum Hirstii  
  43. 2 (Surveys): Red House Landing box huckleberry site 
  44. 2 (Surveys): Horsebridge Creek Elevation Survey 
  45. 2 (Surveys): 2014 Panicum Hirstii monitoring 
  46. 2 (Surveys): Gladfelter Tract 
  47. 2 (Surveys): Flower data 
  48. 2 (Surveys): Cherry/Stevens Parcel 
  49. 2 (Surveys): Furnace Area 
  50. 2 (Surveys): Nassawango Various 
  51. 2 (Surveys): Mt Olive Bog 
  52. 2 (Surveys): Horsebridge Bog 
  53. 2 (Surveys): Adkins VI Bogs 
  54. 2 (Surveys): Bill McAvoy Ponds - St Martin 
  55. 2 (Surveys): TNC Ward Tract survey 
  56. 2 (Surveys): 2010 Panicum Hirstii monitoring 
  57. 2 (Surveys): TNC N&D Enterprises Lot 1 
  58. 2 (Surveys): Johnson Tract – 2011 TNC 
  59. 2 (Surveys): Misc TNC – Nassawango corr, Plat lists, surveys 
  60. 2 (Surveys): Plant Community 
  61. 2 (Surveys): TNC Nass[awango] ‘05 
  62. 2 (Surveys): Swethen Church Rd Pond 
  63. 2 (Surveys): Dave Ray Survey 
  64. 10 (Correspondence): Letters from Ron Wilson to Mary Humphreys 

Box 4 

  1. 2 (Surveys): Plants from Georgia & Map of Caroline County 
  2. 2 (Surveys): TNC Plant Sites 
  3. 2 (Surveys): Miscellaneous  
  4. 2 (Surveys): Delaware Dept of Natural Resources 
  5. 2 (Surveys): Memos to Joe 8/9/1993 
  6. 2 (Surveys): Plant Sites & Miscellaneous 
  7. 2 (Surveys): Xeric Dune Site, Nass[awango] Creek 
  8. 2 (Surveys): Plant Lists 
  9. 2 (Surveys): Nassawango Creel Preservation 
  10. 2 (Surveys): Scotts Landing Road 
  11. 2 (Surveys): Stevens & Corkers Creek Tract 
  12. 2 (Surveys): ES Adkins Co. Worcester MD 
  13. 2 (Surveys): Worcester County Rezoning Case #307 
  14. 2 (Surveys): Bowen’s Woods Worcester County MD 
  15. 2 (Surveys): Foster Land Worcester MD 
  16. 2 (Surveys): Soil Sample Data: Worcester County MD 
  17. 2 (Surveys): Soil Sample Data: Worcester County MD (2) 
  18. 2 (Surveys): Soil Sample Data: Dorchester County MD 
  19. 2 (Surveys): Soil Sample Data: Dorchester County MD (2) 
  20. 4 (Notebooks): Delaware Field Notes 1993-94, 1997 
  21. 4 (Notebooks): Trip Notes 1985-1990 
  22. 4 (Notebooks): 1999 Talbot County Field Notes 
  23. 4 (Notebooks): Field Notes 1989-91 
  24. 4 (Notebooks): Field Notes 1991-94 
  25. 4 (Notebooks): MD TNC Field Notes 2001 
  26. 4 (Notebooks): TNC Regional Contact Notes 1993-96 
  27. 4 (Notebooks): Miscellaneous Notes 
  28. 4 (Notebooks): Maryland TNC Field Notes 
  29. 4 (Notebooks): Delaware Log 1991-92 
  30. 4 (Notebooks): Notes from 1989 & 2006 
  31. 5 (Topographical Maps): Virginia Topographical 

Box 5 

  1. 5 (Topographical Maps): Delaware Topographical A 
  2. 5 (Topographical Maps): Delaware Topographical B 
  3. 5 (Topographical Maps): Delaware Topographical C 
  4. 5 (Topographical Maps): Delaware Topographical D 
  5. 5 (Topographical Maps): Delaware Topographical E 
  6. 5 (Topographical Maps): Delaware Topographical F, G 
  7. 5 (Topographical Maps): Delaware Topographical H 
  8. 5 (Topographical Maps): Delaware Topographical L 
  9. 5 (Topographical Maps): Delaware Topographical M 
  10. 5 (Topographical Maps): Delaware Topographical R 
  11. 5 (Topographical Maps): Delaware Topographical S 
  12. 5 (Topographical Maps): Delaware Topographical T 
  13. 5 (Topographical Maps): Delaware Topographical W 
  14. 5 (Topographical Maps): Maryland & D.C Topographical  
  15. 5 (Topographical Maps): Maryland Topographical B-D 
  16. 5 (Topographical Maps): Maryland Topographical E-G 
  17. 5 (Topographical Maps): Maryland Topographical H-M 
  18. 5 (Topographical Maps): Maryland Topographical N-P 
  19. 5 (Topographical Maps): Maryland Topographical S-W 
  20. 5.1 (Delaware Highway Maps): Delaware Highway As-Del 
  21. 5.1 (Delaware Highway Maps): Delaware Highway Fal-Geo 
  22. 5.1 (Delaware Highway Maps): Delaware Highway Gre-Heb 
  23. 5.1 (Delaware Highway Maps): Delaware Highway Lau-Wha 
  24. 5.2 (Maryland Highway Maps): Maryland Highway A-B 
  25. 5.2 (Maryland Highway Maps): Maryland Highway C-D 
  26. 5.2 (Maryland Highway Maps): Maryland Highway F-G 

Box 6 

  1. 5.2 (Maryland Highway Maps): Maryland Highways H-M 
  2. 5.2 (Maryland Highway Maps): Maryland Highways N-P 
  3. 5.2 (Maryland Highway Maps): Maryland Highways R-S 
  4. 5.2 (Maryland Highway Maps): Maryland Highways T-W 
  5. 6 (Reports): Delaware Nature Education Society 
  6. 6 (Reports): Nassawango Creek Site Conservation (½) 
  7. 6 (Reports): Nassawango Creek Site Conservation (2/2) 
  8. 7 (Publications): Outdoor Delaware 
  9. 7 (Publications): The Nature Conservancy 1989-1999 
  10. 7 (Publications): The Maryland Naturalist & Natual Heritage 
  11. 7 (Publications): Ecological Communities of New York State 
  12. 7 (Publications): The Nature Conservancy & Nassawango Creek Article 
  13. 7 (Publications): Pine Barrens of New Jersey 
  14. 7 (Publications): Reptiles in Delaware & Maryland 
  15. 7 (Publications): Taxodium Distichum & Gypsy Moths 
  16. 7 (Publications): Panicum Hirstii Articles 
  17. 7 (Publications): Panicum Hirstii Article 1989-1992 
  18. 8 (Multimedia): Vegetation Surveys 
  19. 8 (Multimedia): 1997 DOQQ (Digital Orthophoto Quarter-Quadrangle) files 
  20. 8 (Multimedia): The Nature Conservancy Property Surveys  
  21. 8 (Multimedia): Eastern Region Topographical Map 
  22. 8 (Multimedia): USGS DRG (Digital Roster Graphical) 39076 Baltimore-E MD 
  23. 8 (Multimedia): Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Program Map 
  24. 8 (Multimedia): Nassawango Trail Dedication 11/9/1991 
  25. 8 (Multimedia): DRG Salisbury-W MD USGS 
  26. 8 (Multimedia): Somerset County DOQQ NAD 27 (2/3) 

Box 7 

  1. 8 (Multimedia): Somerset County DOQQ NAD 27  
  2. 8 (Multimedia): TNC Properties & Txt files 
  3. 8 (Multimedia): Mavis Beacon Typing software 
  4. 8 (Multimedia): 40th Year Class Reunion 
  5. 8 (Multimedia): Worcester County DOQQ NAD 27 (¼) 
  6. 8 (Multimedia): Worcester County DOQQ NAD 27 (2/4) 
  7. 8 (Multimedia): Worcester County DOQQ NAD 27 (¾) 
  8. 8 (Multimedia): Worcester County DOQQ NAD 27 (4/4) 
  9. 8 (Multimedia): Wicomico County DOQQ NAD 27 (2/3) 
  10. 8 (Multimedia): Wicomico County DOQQ NAD 27 (3/3) 
  11. 8 (Multimedia): Delaware Swamp & Wetlands 12/06/01 
  12. 8 (Multimedia): 0571 Lockwood Subdivision Archaeology DWG 10/24/02 
  13. 8 (Multimedia): Digital Roster Graphical (DRG) 1 Washington-E 
  14. 8 (Multimedia): Digital Roster Graphical (DRG) 39075 Washington-W MD 
  15. 8 (Multimedia): Wicomico County DOQQ NAD 27 (1/3) 
  16. 8 (Multimedia): Wicomico County DOQQ NAD 27 (3/3) 
  17. 8 (Multimedia): Delaware Plants for Biolegacy 12/2002 
  18. 8 (Multimedia): Somerset County DOQQ NAD 27 (3/3) 
  19. 8 (Multimedia): Eastern Region GIS 
  20. 8 (Multimedia): Vegetation Mapping Data Oceana & Damneck 5/12/14 
  21. 8 (Multimedia): Wetland Vegetation Presentation 10/22/07 
  22. 8 (Multimedia): The Calls of Frogs & Toads of Eastern North AMerica 
  23. 8 (Multimedia): Atlantic Coastal Bay Critical Area Maps 
  24. 8 (Multimedia): Worcester County DOQQ NAD 27 (¼) 
  25. 8 (Multimedia): Worcester County DOQQ NAD 27 (2/4) 
  26. 8 (Multimedia): Worcester County DOQQ NAD 27 (¾) 
  27. 8 (Multimedia): Worcester County DOQQ NAD 27 (4/4) 
  28. 8 (Multimedia): Eastern Region GIS  
  29. 8 (Multimedia): Wicomico County DOQQ NAD 27 (1/3) 

Box 8 

  1. 8 (Multimedia): Wicomico County DOQQ NAD 27 (2/3) 
  2. 9 (Reference Materials): Plant Families: How to Know Them 
  3. 9 (Reference Materials): The Mushroom Hunter’s Field Guide 
  4. 9 (Reference Materials): Three Days Botanizing in Southeast Virginia 
  5. 9 (Reference Materials): Newcomb’s Wildflowers Guide 
  6. 9 (Reference Materials): The Flora of Delaware 
  7. 9 (Reference Materials): How to Know the Spring Flowers 
  8. 9 (Reference Materials): How to Know the Seed Plants 
  9. 9 (Reference Materials): Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Maine 
  10. 9 (Reference Materials): Life Histories of American Birds of Prey 
  11. 9 (Reference Materials): Wetlands 
  12. 9 (Reference Materials): Pennsylvania Trees 
  13. 9 (Reference Materials): The Big Tree Champions of Maryland 1990 
  14. 9 (Reference Materials): The World of Plant Life 
  15. 9 (Reference Materials): Atlas of Tidewater Plant Maps in Maryland 

Box 9 

  1. 9 (Reference Materials): Carnivorous Plants of the US & Canada 
  2. 9 (Reference Materials): Woody Plants of Maryland 
  3. 9 (Reference Materials): Report of the New York State Museum 
  4. 9 (Reference Materials): Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas 
  5. 9 (Reference Materials): Annotated list of New Jersey birds 
  6. 9 (Reference Materials): Wildflowers of Delaware & the Eastern Shore 
  7. 9 (Reference Materials): Vascular Flora of the Southeast US volume 1 
  8. 9 (Reference Materials): Vascular Flora of the Southeast US volume 3 
  9. 9 (Reference Materials): The Plant Life of Maryland 

Box 10 

  1. 9 (Reference Materials): Manual of the vascular plants of Northeast U.S & Adjacent Canada 
  2. 9 (Reference Materials): Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern U.S & Canada vol. 1 
  3. 9 (Reference Materials): Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern U.S & Canada vol. 2 
  4. 9 (Reference Materials): Flora of North American vol. 2 
  5. 9 (Reference Materials): Flora of North America vol. 22 
  6. 9 (Reference Materials): Flora of North America vol. 23 
  7. 9 (Reference Materials): Aquatic & Wetland plants of the Southeast U.S 

Box 11 

  1. 9 (Reference Materials): Manual of the grasses of the U.S vol. 1 
  2. 9 (Reference Materials): Manual of the grasses of the U.S vol. 2 
  3. 9 (Reference Materials): Flora of Virginia 
  4. 9 (Reference Materials): Bartonia Journals (1/3) 
  5. 9 (Reference Materials): Bartonia Journals (2/3) 
  6. 9 (Reference Materials): Bartonia Journals (3/3) 
  7. 9 (Reference Materials): Gray’s Manual of Botany 

Box 12 

  1. 9 (Reference Materials): Aquatic & Wetland Plants of the Southeastern U.S  
  2. 9 (Reference Materials): How to Know the Lichens 
  3. 9 (Reference Materials): How to Know the Grasses 
  4. 9 (Reference Materials): How to Know the Ferns & Fern Allies 
  5. 9 (Reference Materials): How to Know the Aquatic Plants 
  6. 9 (Reference Materials): Bartonia Philadelphia Botanical Club 
  7. 9 (Reference Materials): The Maryland Naturalist 
  8. 9 (Reference Materials): Botanical Societies of New Jersey 
  9. 9 (Reference Materials): New York State Museum bulletin 
  10. 9 (Reference Materials): Rare & Endangered Vascular Plants in Delaware 
  11. 9 (Reference Materials): Caesanae: Flora & Fauna 1958-59 
  12. 9 (Reference Materials): Conifers & Broadleaved Evergreens 
  13. 9 (Reference Materials): North American species of Puniculum 
  14. 9 (Reference Materials): Great Smokey Mountain Wildflowers 
  15. 9 (Reference Materials): Field guide of the New England Alpine Summits 
  16. 9 (Reference Materials): Shrubland & Wetlands of Maryland’s Eastern Shore 
  17. 9 (Reference Materials): Conservation of Biological Diversity 

Box 13 

  1. 9 (Reference Materials): Illustrated Flora of the Northeast U.S & Canada 
  2. 9 (Reference Materials): Virginia Journal of Science 
  3. 9 (Reference Materials): Atlas of the Virginia flora 
  4. 9 (Reference Materials): Maryland Archaeology 
  5. 9 (Reference Materials): A Manual of Aquatic Plants 
  6. 9 (Reference Materials): Field guide to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey 
  7. 9 (Reference Materials): Herbaceous Plants of Maryland 
  8. 9 (Reference Materials): Flora of Delaware & the Eastern Shore 
  9. 9 (Reference Materials): The Trees of the Northern States (pressed plants inside) 

Box 14 

  1. 9 (Reference Materials): Illustration of the vascular plants of the Northeastern U.S & Adjacent Canada 
  2. 9 (Reference Materials): Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas 
  3. 9 (Reference Materials): Designing a Geography of Hope 
  4. 9 (Reference Materials): Provisional booklet 
  5. 9 (Reference Materials): Chesapeake Bay Critical Area program 
  6. 9 (Reference Materials): Clubs of New England 
  7. 9 (Reference Materials): Linnaean Herbarium 
  8. 10 (Correspondence): Snow Hill HS 
  9. 10 (Correspondence): Delaware Department of Natural resources 
  10. 10 (Correspondence): Frank Hirst to Larry Morse 
  11. 10 (Correspondence): Panicum Hirstii info to Frank Hirst 
  12. 10 (Correspondence): From Clifford G Day to Frank Hirst 
  13. 10 (Correspondence): Notes to Frank Hirst 
  14. 10 (Correspondence): Hirst Pond Preserve – TNC to Frank Hirst 
  15. 10 (Correspondence): Hirst Pond Preserve dedication 
  16. 10 (Correspondence): Panicum Hirstii study 
  17. 10 (Correspondence): Donation Note to Frank Hirst 

Box 15

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: A and B

Box 16

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens:C

Box 17

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: C

Box 18

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: C

Box 19

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: D

Box 20

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: E

Box 21

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens:F, G, H, K

Box 22

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: L, M, N, O

Box 23

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: P

Box 24

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: P

Box 25

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: P

Box 26

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: Q, R

Box 27

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: R

Box 28

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: S

Box 29

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: S

Box 30

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: T, U, V, W, X

Box 31

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: Contains a group called “Specimen Inventory” and accompanying list of species

Box 32

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: Specimens from North Carolina 1983 and 1984

Box 33

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: Frank Hirst Herbarium

Box 34

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: Frank Hirst Herbarium

Box 35

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: Oversize specimens from the Wilson herbarium

Box 36

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: 3-ring binder “Plant Specimens Record F. Hirst, Number – Date – location of specimens…”; compact disc “Herbarium Labels Database Theo”, NY Natural Heritage Program ND

Box 37

  1. Series 3: Herbarium specimens: Specimens from the Hirst herbarium sent to the Tawes Herbarium in Annapolis MD. Cover letter dated 5-24-99

Separated Items (Oversize) 

  1. 2: Jackson Lane Survey Map, The Nature Conservancy 

Artifacts

Digital Compass 

Protractor 

Set Square/Triangular protractor 

Traditional compass 

Attachments

None