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[X308-F] Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. -- Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

Title: [X308-F] Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. -- Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Description: These two letters, written in September 1927 to botanist Marcus E. Jones, concern a proposed search in Mexico for plants yielding rubber. The first letter is by Edison. The second, on the letterhead of the newly-formed Edison Botanic Research Corp., is by John V. Miller, Edison's brother-in-law and business associate. It mentions Dr. Joseph Nelson Rose, a botanist at the Smithsonian Institution whom Edison hired to collect specimens in northeastern Mexico.
Identifier: X308-F
uri: https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/folder/X308-F
Is Part Of: Outside Repositories
Rights: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. -- Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

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