Overview of the Collection
Medical Heritage Center
Stuckey, Ronald L.
Ronald L. Stuckey, PhD Papers
1 linear feet
This is a collection produced and collected by Dr. Stuckey about plants and scientists.
SPEC.199833.STUCKEY
The records are in English
1878-2003
Biography of Ronald L. Stuckey, PhDRonald L. Stuckey was born January 9, 1938 in Bucyrus, Ohio. He spent his first 18 years in Lykens Township in Crawford County as a self-described "country farm boy." Stuckey graduated as valedictorian from Lykens High School in 1956, earned a B.S. cum laude in Biology from Heidelberg College in 1960, and his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Michigan in 1965. From 1965-1991 he served as Professor of Botany at The Ohio State University where he taught courses in Local Flora, Aquatic Flowering Plants, and Plant Nomenclature.
Stuckey is an internationally recognized authority on the identification and geographical distribution of aquatic and wetland plants in North America. He has also written extensively on the botanical history and exploration of eastern North America. Stuckey is past president of the OSU Chapter of Sigma Xi, the Ohio Academy of Medical History, and the Ohio Academy of Science. Stuckey is a recognized authority on the contributions and lives of the botanists of Ohio. He is the author of more than 100 scientific journal papers and several books.
Scope and ContentThe Ronald L. Stuckey, PhD Papers (approximately 1 linear foot) is material written or collected by Stuckey primarily about plants and scientists.
Statement of ArrangementSeries I: People (71 files) contains reprints written about physicians and scientists particularly botanists. This series is arranged alphabetically. Series II: Stuckey (40 files) contains articles written by Stuckey, information produced by some organizations, and notes related to plant collectors. This series is arranged alphabetically. Series III: Subjects (21 files) contains reprints on primarily on subjects related to botany. This series is arranged alphabetically.
Restrictions on AccessThe collection is open to the public and is available for viewing in the Medical Heritage Center. Materials do not circulate and must be used in the supervised reading room.
Restrictions, including copyright, may exist and some materials may be too fragile to photocopy or digitize. The MHC charges for duplication services, which must be performed by staff.
Other Finding Aidhttps://hsl.osu.edu/sites/default/files/Spec199833Stuckey_2.pdf
Preferred Citation[Identification of item], Ronald L. Stuckey, PhD Papers, Spec.199833.Stuckey, Health Sciences Library, Medical Heritage Center, The Ohio State University.
Indexing TermsThe following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Persons:Stuckey, Ronald L.Detailed Description of The CollectionSeries I: People (71 files) contains reprints written about physicians and scientists particularly botanists. This series is arranged alphabetically.1878-199811Andreas Caesalpinus188012James Clerk Maxwell198213Cadwallader Colden1955-195814Stuart Craddock197515Francis CrickNo Date16Benedictus Crispus196617Marie and Pierre Curie1958-196818Paul de Kruif197119Theodosius Dobzhansky1976-1982110Daniel Drake1988111Andrew Duncan1981112Ludwig Edelstein1966113Famous Names in Medicine1880s-1961114Famous Names in Science1878-1984115Gustave Flaubert1985116Lord Florey1990117GallaudetNo Date118Francis Galton1911-1954119Sebastian A. Gerlach1987120Maurice J. GersteinNo Date121William Goodell1972122Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine1967-1974123Hippocrates1985124Ales Hrdlicka1945125John Hunter1975126Julian Huxley1971-1975127Thomas H. Huxley1895-1973128Edward Jenner1972129Edward Fred Knipling1976130William A. Limberger1970131William Nunn Lipscomb Jr.1977132Joseph Baron Lister1972133Marcello Malpighi1966134Pier' Andrea Mattioli1966135Nicolas Bautista MonardesNo Date136Jacques Monod1976137Thomas Hunt Morgan1933-1976138Issac Newton1943-1982139Florence Nightingale1972-1974140Paracelsus1972-1974141Ambroise Pare1952-1985142Blaise PascalNo Date143Louis Pasteur1889-1972144Jean-Andre Peysonnel1981145Lydia Pinkham1984146Felix Platter1962147Morton Prince1938148Mary Putnam1925149Walter W. Randolph, Jr.1998150Count Rumford1960151James Rumsey1987152Prince Rupert1963153Benjamin Rush1946154Bertrand Russell1975155Lord Rutherford of Nelson1950156Michel Sarrazin1963157Rudi Schoenheimer1982158Robert Schumann1934159Albert Schweitzer1966160Lemuel Shattuck1949161Ralph Edward Sheldon1919162Edward Smith1969163Theobald Smith1934-1945164Benjamin Spock1985165Willem Storm Van Leeuwen1933166August Pi Suner1958167Albert Szent-Gyorgyi1979168Edward L. Tatum1975169Doctor Trudeau1925170Van Leer Family1970171John George F. Wurdemann1969Series II: Stuckey (40 files) contains articles written by Stuckey, information produced by some organizations, and notes related to plant collectors. This series is arranged alphabetically.1967-2003172An Annotated Numbered List of the Archives of Ronald L. Stuckey2002173Article - Additions to the Bibliotheca Rafinesquiana1974174Article - Biography of Thomas Nuttall; A Review with Bibliography1968175Article - Botanical Excerpts from Three Letters of Rev. Christian Frederick Denke to the Botanist Schweinitz1979176Article - C. S. Rafinesque's North American Vascular Plants at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia1971177Article - Commentaries on Asa Gray's Botanical Textbooks by Gray and His Contemporaries (1836 - 1887)1997178Article - Common Names of Vascular Plants Reported by C. S. Rafinesque in an 1819 Descriptive Outline of Four Vegetation Regions of Kentucky1997179Article - Daniel Steinhauer, Early Ohio Plant Collector, and his Correspondence with the Botanist Schweinitz1967180Article - David Bates Douglass' Plants from the Cass Expedition in the Schweinitz Herbarium1978181Article - Dr. Joseph C. Frank's Botanical Work in Ohio, With a List of His 1835 Type Specimens of Vascular Plants in American Herbaria1974182Article - Dr. William Darlington's Botanical Contacts on the Western American Frontier1983183Article - Early Ohio Botanical Collections and the Development of the State Herbarium1984183.1Article - First Botanists of Columbus: A Visit to the Sullivant Family Lot in Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio2001184Article - The First Public Auction of an American Herbarium including an Account of the Fate of the Baldwin, Collins, and Rafinesque Herbaria1971185Article - History of Botany 1947 - 1972 With a Bibliographic Appendix1974186Article - Medical Botany in the Ohio Valley (1800 - 1850)1978187Article - Nathan Wright Folwell, Asa Gray's Botanical Correspondence in Michigan1978188Article - Opinions of Rafinesque Expressed by His American Botanical Contemporaries1986189Article - Rafinesque's Pursuits in the Ohio Valley (1818 - 1826)1998190Article - Scientific Contributions of Amos Eaton's Son Hezekiah Hulbert Eaton1976-1977191Article - Type Specimens of Flowering Plants Described from Long's Expedition to the Source of the St. Peter's River in 18231970192Article - Type Specimens of Flowering Plants from Eastern North America in the Herbarium of Lewis David Von Schweinitz1979193Article - William S. Sullivant and His Central Ohio Botanical Associates1988193.1Biographical Sketch2002194Book Award Announcement2000195Brochure - The Charles Woodard Memorial RoomNo Date195.1Business CardNo Date196Copies of Programs at the Ohio Academy of Medical History Annual Meetings and Various Correspondence1967-1995197Forthcoming Book FlyerNo Date197.1Holiday Letters1998 - 2002198IATROS, Newsletter from the Historical Division of The Cleveland Health Sciences Library1982-1994199Letter to Mr. D. Reid Ross19821100Membership Lists and Addresses1978-19991101Newsletters of the Cleveland Medical Association1995-20021102Newspaper Clipping - Stuckey Pens New Book19991103Notes on the History of the Organization1994-19951104Ohio Valley Plant Collectors19681104.1Photograph20031104.2Ronald L. Stuckey: His Role in the Ohio Academy of Sciences19941104.3Stuckey’s Great Party1991Series III: Subjects (21 files) contains reprints on primarily on subjects related to botany. This series is arranged alphabetically.1919-19991105Botanic Remedies in Colonial Massachusetts, 1620 - 182019801106Catalogue of Medicinal Plants Indigenous to Chester County, Pennsylvania19721107Chester County in the 19th Century A List of its Practicing Physicians and Surgeons19771108Chester County Medicine1970, 19711109The Discovery of New Drugs During the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of AmericaNo Date1110Early Botany in the Trans-Allegheny Region19881111The East Indies19671112Fugitive Leaves19951113The History of Glaucoma19901114Grave Subjects19991115History of the West Chester Academy or Cornerstone Writings19721116The Indigo of Commerce in Colonial North America19791117Lucianic Natural History19651118My Poems: Thoughts in Words of Rhyme19991119Oral Contraceptives in Ancient and Medieval Times19921120The Relationship between Pharmaceutical Libraries and Pharmaceutical Information TransferNo Date1121Scientific Medicine: What It Is and What It Is Not19191122Sertum Cestricum19721123Sertum Cestricum IV: Heads of the Practice of the Physicians of the Pennsylvania Hospital: During the Winter of the Year 1802-319731124The Therapeutic Use of Resin and of Tar Water by Bishop George Berkeley and Cadwallader Colden19551125Were the Opium Poppy and Opium Known in the Ancient Near East?1975