Richard L. and Kathleen A. Hauke Papers (Mss. Gr. 68)

The papers pertaining to Richard L. Hauke were given to Special Collections, University of Rhode Island by Professor Hauke upon his retiring in 1989. The papers contain correspondence, photographs, research notes for publications, lecture, and teaching materials used in the courses while a Professor of Botany at the University of Rhode Island.

In 1997 and in 1999 Professor Hauke sent an additional one linear foot of material to incorporate into his papers. These materials are mostly research materials for his publication relating to Agnes Arber, Edith Saunders, and Edmund Sinnott for Vignettes of Plant Morphology. The materials include photographs, slides and three micro audio cassettes of interviews with relatives of Edith Saunders and Agnes Arber. The interviews are accompanied by written transcripts. There is also an audio cassette tape of a talk given by Oz Tippo in 1987 (see box 15, folder 59), a distinguished Botanist who later became Provost and Chancellor at the University of Massachusetts. With the exception of a talk for the Southeastern Fern Conference: "Tales of an Itinerant Equisetologist," Oct 12, 1990 (Series IV, box 22,folder 26A), these research materials and publications were interfiled into Series II, Manuscripts, in May 2001.

In 1998 Nancy Potter, English Professor Emerita at the University of Rhode Island, received a small collection of papers and books from Kathleen Hauke to evaluate for research value. The collection was given by Dr. Potter to the Library. The books were cataloged into the circulating collection and the papers, consisting of travel journals to South Africa and other writings by Kathleen Hauke, were incorporated into the Hauke Papers, MSG #68 .In addition to the South African journals, the writings include "Notes From African Diary" written in 1955 and a typescript manuscript entitled "Biography of John Bilson, M.D" written in 1975. In March of 2002 Kathleen Hauke donated .25 linear feet of her papers to Special Collections and the collection was renamed the Richard L and Kathleen A. Hauke Papers.

The original collection was compiled by Joan M. Barnes in 1997. Subsequent additions to the collection necessitated a reorganization of the papers and an extensive revision of the register.