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• Title:John Davidson fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Davidson, John F., 1878-1970.
  
• Published/Created:1899-1970
  

• Holdings

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  • Location:UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES ASRS storageWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number:No call number available 
  • Number of Items:13
    
  • Status:c.1 Box 2 Requested
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-13.
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Davidson, John F., 1878-1970.
  Vancouver Natural History Society.
  
• Description:2. 6 m of textual records
  8 photographs
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of biographical material (1901-1987), teaching material (1899-1948), publications (1913-1949), lectures (1919-1945), journals/notebooks (1911-1948), correspondence/ subject files (1912-1962), Vancouver Natural History Society material (1927-1941), printed material and photographs (1919-1949).
  
• Biography/history note:John Davidson was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and graduated from Queen's College. In 1911, he was appointed as British Columbia's first Provincial Botanist. Davidson established Canada's first botanical garden at Essondale's Colony Farm near New Westminster. In 1916, the 25,000 plants were transferred to the new Point Grey site of University of British Columbia and the garden continued to develop under his supervision. Davidson joined the UBC faculty in 1917 as an instructor of Botany and remained at the university until his retirement in 1945. He was founder and, until 1937, president of the Vancouver Natural History Society.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.