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Last Name White

Given Name Violetta Susan Elizabeth °

alt. Names V. S. W. ; Violetta White Delafield ;

Marriage John Ross Delafield (1874-1964) ;

Children 3 (4 ?) children: John White Delafield (1905-1985) ; Richard Montgomery Delafield (1909-1945) und Jannet Delafield (1915-c. 1990))

Year born 1875

Year died 1949

Place of death New York City

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Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for V. S. W.: The Tylostomaceae of North America (Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden 1901), online available at https://archive.org/stream/cbarchive_50224_thetylostomaceaeofnorthamerica1901/thetylostomaceaeofnorthamerica1901_djvu.txt) ; The Nidulariaceae of North America, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 29, 5 (1902) with 5 plates ;

Patronage New York Botanical Garden ; Torrey Botanical Club ;

Collaborators botanist prof. Lucien Marcus Underwood (1853-1907), mycologist Franklin Sumner (1956-1929) & mycologist Charles Horton Peck (1833-1917), who all provided specimens of fungi ; Prof. George Francis Atkinson (1854-1918) (Cornell University), who provided another illustration of the same species

Techniques botanical and mycological watercolour and line drawing ; hand-colouring ;

Sample(s) https://nyheritage.org/collections/violetta-white-delafield-mushroom-collection ; https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/729087

Archival sources https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/719210 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violetta_White_Delafield ; https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21612598 ;

Published sources

other All information in this entry was provided by Siobhan Leachman (Wellington, New Zealand).

Further relatives: https://www.geni.com/people/John-Delafield/6000000016395623336 .

Further published source: https://omekalib.bard.edu/exhibits/show/mushroom-drawings/introduction ; https://daily.jstor.org/violetta-white-delafield-interview/ .

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