Personal Papers
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7097, E. Yale Dawson Papers
Elmer Yale Dawson (1918-1966) came to the Smithsonian Institution in 1965 to accept the newly established position of curator of Cryptogamic Botany in the National
Museum of Natural History. Dawson received his A.B. degree in 1940 from the University of California at Berkeley. Two years later he received his Ph.D. from the same institution.
The research for his doctoral dissertation he conducted as a member of Captain Allan Hancock's expedition with the
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women’s Committee.
This collection contains papers documenting the professional and personal life of E. Yale Dawson, with most of the collection consisting of correspondence with colleagues. There are, in addition, a few segments of field notes and manuscript and typescript copies and drafts of some of his later publications. The collection generally does not include research and field notes, or publications.
This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
The description of boxes 1-17 consists of a folder list, which is essentially a list of correspondents.
Annotated Map of Lower California, undated. [Image no. SIA2017-017943]