John S. Wright papers

The papers of John Wright are comprised of notebooks, financial records (one ledger and additional receipts), publications, and photographs which document John Wright's time as a student at Purdue University, and material from his career as a botanist and drug inspector for Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Details some of the expenses Wright incurred while a Purdue student.

Inscribed "Sophmore Botany work 1890. Part II Jr. Botany work." Includes notes and illustrations.

Marked Class of ’92, 95 pages of notes, along with maps

Fifty-seven pages of notes, along with illustrations.

Inscribed, "work in the book was accomplished from Sept. to 1890", "Lectures on zoology by Prof. Stanly M. Coulter" 95 pages of notes with illustrations.

Receipts for board (10/27-11/3, 1888 & 10/20-10/27, 1888), listing of expenses for clothes and bedding, biographical information (2 copies), notes for book Marcus Aurelius Claudius, Cell-union in Herbaceous Grafting, by John Wright – original manuscript and copy from reprint from Botanical Gazette, vol. XVIII, August, 1893, pp. 285-293, with plates XXX and XXXI. Botanizing in North Dakota – original manuscript, dated Mon. January 23, 1892, Purdue Scientific Society, Lafayette, Indiana. Botanical Products of the United States Pharmacopoeia, 1890 [Particularly of plants found in Indiana] by John S. Wright, Botanical Dept. of Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, Indiana – Reprinted from Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, 1894. Recollections of North Dakota in 1891, by John S. Wright, dated May 15, 1923.

Most of the photographs are of graduates or military (possibly R.O.T.C.)