These documents include letters, reports, lists of plants and trees, and official documents, many that are addressed to the Comte d'Angiviller, concerning Michaux' visit to America to collect specimens for a nursery.
This list was kept on Smith's travels in France and Switzerland, and includes notes by John Vaughan from whose scrapbook these sheets were removed in 1959.
This printed account includes a list of trees and shrubs, a catalog of vegetables and the time of their flowering, and a list of animals and minerals found in the vicinity of the Red River, as well as meteorological observations.
This is a miscellaneous collection of manuscripts (ca. 35 items) from the British Museum, selected for filming by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. Included are letters, botanical lists, illustrations, and other types of documents.