Oakes Ames, Jottings of a Harvard Botanist, 1874-1950

Ames devoted his life to the study and teaching of botany and became a world authority on orchids and economic botany, directing the Harvard Botanical Museum and the Arnold Arboretum. His journals, letters, and diaries, written in the first half of the century and collected here, give a vivid autobiographic picture of the era.