• Classification number: 3P
• Title of Record Series: Margaret Clay Ferguson
• Record Group: Faculty
• Sub Group: Individuals
• Date: 11/14/1975
• Accession Number: A75-2
• Source: Harreit Creighton
• Restrictions: Some material restricted. See box list for more information.
• Volume: 3 boxes

Personal Papers of Margaret C. Ferguson (1863-1951); reviewed and occasionally annotated by Harriet B. Creighton Professor of Botany 1940-1974; dating from 1889 to 1914; consisting of notebooks manuscripts, drawings correspondence, report; concerning her years at Wellesley as a "special student" and a member of the faculty of the Botany Department.

Margaret Clay Ferguson was a "special student" at Wellesley 1888-1891; an instructor in botany 1893-1896 and 1901-1904; an associate professor of Botany and head of department 1904-1906; a professor and head of department 1906-1930; the Director of Botany Greenhouses and gardens and research professor of botany 193O-1932.

• General (includes biographical notes and resumes)
• Awards, honors, tributes and Susan M. Minns Grant (1933) [includes Honorary degree from Mt. Holyoke, 1937]
• Correspondence: General 1901 to 1934: Correspondence with Mary C. Bliss 1909 to 1921
• Instructors Lecture Notes, Botany 1891-1892; Notebook of Drawings, 1895
• Instructors Lecture Notes, Botany I, 1893-1894
• Instructors Lecture Notebook 1895-1896
• Laboratory Drawings in Plant Anatomy, 1891
• Laboratory Observations on Fungi (Book I and Book III)

• Manuscript: The Development of the Pollen Tube and the Division of the Generative Nucleus in Certain Species of Pines; Echoes from the Old Seminary, given at Genesee Wesleyan Seminary circa 1908]
• Manuscript: Preliminary Note on Fertilization in the White Pine, 1898; The Sporegeny of Pinus Strobus (B.A. Thesis, 1899)
• Manuscript: Notes on the Development of the Pollen Tube and Fertilization in Some Species of Pine, 1901; The Development of the Egg and Fertilization in Pinus Strobus
• Manuscript: Paper on Pinus, 1902 [page 1 to 160]
• Manuscript: Paper on Pinus, 1902 [page 161 to 337]; 2 pages of notes
• Notebook, 1894 (includes poems, lecture and reading notes)
• Student Notebooks, Wellesley: Botany Notes and Drawings, 1888-1889; Botany V, 1891
• Student Notebooks, Wellesley: Botany, Chemistry and Roman History, 1888-1889; Chemistry I, 1891

• Student Notebooks, Wellesley: Organic Chemistry, 1891; Chemistry II and III, 1889-1890
• Student Notebooks, Wellesley: Geology, 1889-1990; Lecture Notes at Cornell [Biology and Zoology, 1899-1900]

• Class List and Grade Book 1895-1897; transcript of Mary C. Bliss, Wellesley 1902-1904, Radcliffe 1915-1920

• Correspondence, general
• C. J. Chamberlain
• Dr. Aven Nelson
• Annie J. Cannon
• A. Talmage Schulmaier
• Sophie Hart
• Elizabeth Paige May
• Edward M. East
• Caroline Hazard
• Pauline Durant
• John M. Macfarlaine
• C. R. Barnes
• Mary C. Bliss
• Professor Hendrick
• Edward C. Jeffrey
• Dean Brody
• Susan M. Minns Grant