Vesta Hesse Field Notes, 1936-1941 | University and Jepson Herbaria Archives, University of California, Berkeley

Scope and Contents: This collection contains botanical notes, photograph, and correspondence of Santa Cruz botanist Vesse Hesse. Field notes are on plants collected in the Santa Cruz Mountains in 1943 by Vesta Hesse, prepared for Professor Willis Linn Jepson at the University of California, Berkeley. Also included is a list of plants in the families Scrophulariaceae to Compositae which Hesse presumes will be available for collecting in the general vicinity of Boulder Creek during 1944; 5 letters sent from Annetta Carter to Hesse between 1968 and 1975; and 11 photographs of plants, dated and identified. Photographs were taken between 1936 and 1941.