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Morton Arboretum Prairie Restoration Project: 1960-1980, Raymond F. Schulenberg (3.104345)
Date: 1980sCreator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A formerly bound series of documents pertaining to the development of the Schulenberg Prairie. The physical copy of the artifact was formerly in a three-ring binder, but has since been placed in acid free folders, organized by the original tabs represented in the binder.
A table of contents for the pdf version provided in this record is as follows:
Before 1962: Pages 1-3
1962: Pages 4-19
1963: Pages 20-69
1964: Pages 70-106
1965: Pages 107-123
1966: Pages 124-125
1967: Pages 126-196
1968: Pages 197-230
1969: Pages 231-246
1970: Pages 247-264
1971: Pages 265-268
1972: Pages 269-275
After 1972: Pages 276-288
After 1980: Pages 289-315
Extent: 315 pages
The Morton Arboretum 1981 Plant Selections (3.106936)
Date: 1981Type: Document
Description:A 1981 plant selections available for the Members' Cooperative Research Program.
Extent: 1 sheet
Woody Plant Collections at the Morton Arboretum: A Historical Perspective (3.10841)
Date: December 21 1980 – March 20 1981Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Article
Special Care of the Morton Arboretum’s Woody Plant collections (3.10842)
Date: December 21 1980 – March 20 1981Creator: Barnett, David P.
Type: Article
Research Notes (3.10843)
Date: December 21 1980 – March 20 1981Type: Article
Damage to Building Foundations: Do Tree Roots Play a Role? (3.10845)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1981Creator: Messenger, Steven, Ware, George
Type: Article
The Lookout (3.10847)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1981Type: Article
Research Complex: Construction in Progress (3.10848)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1981Type: Article
Bryophytes: Tiny Treasures of the Plant World (3.10850)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1981Creator: Armstrong, Patricia K.
Type: Article
The Lookout: Wildlife Observation Notes (3.10851)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1981Type: Article
Research Notes (3.10852)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1981Type: Article
Thoreau: A Man for the Coming Times (3.10854)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1981Creator: MacPhail, Ian
Type: Article
The Heat of Many Summers’ Suns (3.10855)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1981Creator: Lewis, Charles A.
Type: Article
On Possum and Possumwood (3.10856)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1981Type: Article
The Lookout: Wildlife Observation Notes (3.10857)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1981Type: Article
Review of Major Programs, 1981 (3.108587)
Date: 1981Type: Document
Description:An update for Morton Arboretum members on programs within the departments - Collections, Grounds, Education, Research, and the Sterling Morton Library. This update was issued in lieu of the Spring, 1981 Newsletter.
Extent: 16 pages in booklet form
The Arboretum as a Museum (3.10859)
Date: December 21 1981 – March 20 1982Creator: Lewis, Charles A.
Type: Article
Woody Plant Collections at the Morton Arboretum: Content and Arrangement (3.10860)
Date: December 21 1981 – March 20 1982Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Article
News and Notes (3.10861)
Date: December 21 1981 – March 20 1982Type: Article
Selecting Trees for Clay Soils (3.114636)
Date: 1981 – 1982Creator: Ware, George
Type: Article
Description:discusses considerations for planting trees in clay soils: mixing of top soil with clay soil on construction sites; springtime wetness; flatness/drainage of the landscape; alkalinity of the soil; and choice of tolerant species. Published by Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service.
Extent: 5 pages
Pansy (3.24633)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a large pansy flower and three detail views, including floral diagram, reverse of flower, and center, accompanied by descriptive text. Background sketches along the left side include a house, a heart, and a church, center bottom includes three women and two girls sitting in a circle drinking tea, and center right includes flowers and an elf. Sketches depict various pansy folklore.
Upper left text lists various names this flower goes by - herb trinity, pink of my John, heart's ease, step-mother, kit run in the street, kiss me at the garden gate, cuddle me to you, kiss me quick or PANSY
Top right floral diagram illustration identifies sepal, petal, stamen, pistil, nectar sac
Bottom left illustration (reverse of flower) identifies sepal, petal, nectar sac
Bottom right illustration identifies stigma, pistil and stamens, nectar sac
Extent: 1 sheet
Owl Pellets Galore (3.24640)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Document
Description:Four pages of type-written text for Owl Pellets Galore by May Theilgaard Watts, an account detailing the process of searching for and examining long-eared owl pellets with Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.
Accompanied by artwork titled Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls.
Extent: 4 sheets
Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls (3.24641)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Four illustrations depicting long-eared owls and their pellets. Captions accompany each individual illustration. The drawings illustrate the story OWL PELLETS GALORE by May Theilgaard Watts, Naturalist at The Morton Arboretum.
Upper left text: UNDER the ROOST of the LONG-EARED OWLS
Illustrations with captions, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Drawing of an owl pellet
- Caption: An owl pellet
- Drawing of forest floor, including rhododendron
- Caption: When rhododendron leaves uncurl we find pellets.
- Drawing of rodent bone findings
- Caption: Each pellet reveals parts of a small rodent.
- Drawing of two owls in a tree
- Caption: They seem to grow taller as we approach.
Extent: 1 sheet
Three Seasons of Bloom in the Prairie (3.24642)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 23 prairie plants shown in a chart formation categorized by Fall, Summer, and Spring from top to bottom, and from high prairie to low prairie from left to right. Identifying text appears beneath each illustration, some of which is on strip of board attached to the bottom with tape.
Header: THREE SEASONS of BLOOM in the PRAIRIE
Text, top right: the individual plants represent colonies of varying sizes
Plants as depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- Fall
- big bluestem
- blazing star
- Indian grass
- wild rye
- switch grass
- saw-toothed sunflower
- prairie dock
- cord grass
- Summer
- lead plant
- New Jersey tea
- flowering spurge
- stiff goldenrod
- black-eyed Susan
- Culver's root
- tall meadow rue
- Sullivant's milkweed
- Spring:
- bird's-foot violet
- blue-eyed grass
- puccoon
- downy phlox
- wild strawberry
- Canada anemone
- yellow star grass
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 16 No. 04 (3.34495)
Date: December 21 1980 – March 20 1981Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 17 No. 01 (3.34496)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1981Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 17 No. 02 (3.34497)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1981Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 17 No. 03 (3.34498)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1981Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 17 No. 04 (3.34499)
Date: December 21 1981 – March 20 1982Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
1981/03/03: Jeff Dawson to George Ware (3.38659)
Date: March 3 1981Creator: Dawson, Jeffrey O.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jeff Dawson, Assistant Professor of Forestry at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to George Ware discussing an outline of proposed research concerning the low soil oxygen tolerance (with mention of ethanol and flood tolerance) of maple and oak trees.
Enclosed with letter
An Ethanol Tree-Seedling Assay: A Potential Method to Screen Trees for Tolerance to Low Soil Oxygen Conditions Resulting from Soil Compaction and Paving. Review of current literature and proposal for two experiments to examine oxygen deficiency and ethanol tolerance in tree seedling roots. The results would be used in the creation of an tree survivability index which would be of use in flood prone areas or compacted urban and recreational sites.
Extent: 7 sheets, 1 envelope
[New] Research Building, Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5521)
Date: February 1981Creator: Keiser Associates
Type: Plan
Description:Revisions: E-1--E-8, MPE-2, M-1,3,4.
Dated February 1981.
Extent: 12 sheets, stapled
[Heating System, South Farm Facilities] (3.5531)
Date: 1980sCreator: W. A. White Associates
Type: Plan
Extent: 2 sheets, stapled
[Firefly Pond:] A Proposed Water Storage Basin for The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5568)
Date: 1980sCreator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet