Episodes

Retrolental Fibroplasia - Leona Zacharias

by Kinsey and Zacharias (February 26, 1949)

Flora's Mushroom Ketchup Recipe

Plant and Animal Quarantining in United States Legal History

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Mycologists Help Guard U.S. Borders

USDA article (March 2004)

Celebrating 100 Years of Washington, DC’s Cherry Blossoms

by Alyn Kiel, APHIS Public Affairs, Feb 21, 2017

Flora W. Patterson: The First Woman Mycologist at the USDA

by Amy Y. Rossman, 2002

A history of the National Fungus Collections from the USDA Plant Science Bulletin

by Chester R. Benjamin (July, 1963)

The Japanese Flowering Cherry Trees of Washington, D.C

by Roland M. Jefferson, U.S. National Arboretum and Alan E. Fusonie, National Agricultural Library in the National Arboretum Contribution No. 4

Problems, and Personalities: The Genesis of the Bureau of Plant Industry

Author: John A. Stevenson; Source: Agricultural History , Oct., 1954, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Oct., 1954), pp. 155-162

Women in Nineteenth Century American Botany: A Generally Unrecognized Constituency

Author: Emanuel D. Rudolph; Source: American Journal of Botany , Sep., 1982, Vol. 69, No. 8 (Sep., 1982), pp. 1346- 1355

Mycology and Trade: A View from the Front Line

Author: Mary E. Palm; Source: Mycologia , Jan. - Feb., 1999, Vol. 91, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1999), pp. 1-12

Another Cherry-Tree Lie

Washington Post (Feb 1, 1910)

Taxonomic Literature

A elective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types, EXCERPT

Obituary of Flora Patterson

by Beverly T. Galloway

Flora's Mother's Obituary

Found in the Minutes of the Thirty-Seventh Session of the Cincinnati Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held in Jamestown, Ohio, September 5-10, 1888.

Flora's Father's Obituary

Found in the Minutes of the Cincinnati Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held at Springfield, O., August 27, 1873.

Flora Patterson Death Notice

Death of Son Blamed for Hastening Demise of Former U.S. Mycologist.

The National Fungus Collections

by Mary Ellen Lentz and Paul L. Lentz

Women in the USDA, 1975

by Gladys L. Baker

Japans Gift Trees Arrive At Seattle On Way To Capital

Christian Science Monitor (December 18, 1909).

Charles, Obituary of Flora Patterson

Mycologia, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1929), pp. 1-4

Society Turns Out To Christen Washingtons Riverside Drive

Baltimore Sun (April 18, 1909).

1893 University of Iowa yearbook page mentioning Flora Patterson

List of graduates from the University of Iowa yearbook

Patterson, Some Woody Fungi, 1900

The Asa Gray Bulletin, Vol. 8, No. 1 (36) (February, 1900), pp. 13-19

Patterson, New Species of Fungi, 1900

Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Vol. 27, No. 5 (May, 1900), pp. 282-286

Some Fungous Diseases of Economic Importance, 1920

U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry Bulletin No. 171

Mushrooms and Other Common Fungi, 1915

United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin No. 175

Correspondence Relating to the Blue Hills Flora Project, 1894-1896

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Women@MIT Archival Sources

Archival Scans from the Women@MIT archival initiative, which seeks to add the records of women faculty, staff, students and alumnae to the historic record by collecting, preserving, and sharing their life and work with MIT and global audiences.