- Introduction by Pauline Ames Plimpton
- Foreword by George Plimpton
- Autobiographical Jottings
- Earliest Memories
- Home Life in the Nineties
- 355 Commonwealth Avenue
- I Turn to Botany
- Harvard College
- Battery A
- Retrospect
- The Boston Houses
- Harvard Tercentenary
- The Botanic Garden
- Advice on Taxonomy
- President Eliot
- President Lowell
- The Bussey
- Journal of Common Things—1901
- Description of a Local Valley
- English Sparrows
- A Strange Letter
- The Weather and the Local Flora
- Notes on My Library
- Bay View, Massachusetts
- Cuban Letters—1903
- Florida Journal—1904 Trip
- Naples, Lee County
- Journal of My Trip to Palm Hammock
- Trip to London—1905
- The Diaries
- Random Letters
- To Blanche—1916
- To Pauline at Smith, 1919–21, in New York 1926–28, in Paris 1930–31
- To Other Family Members
- To Colleagues
- Oakes’ Own Summary of His Life for His Harvard 50th Reunion
- Addendum
- Introduction
- Borderland Turkey Farm Advertisement
- A Milk Bill to Oakes’ Mother, February 1, 1913
- The Harvard Lampoon, May, 1930—“Drippings from a Witch’s Quill”
- A Warning to Little Boys (George Ames Plimpton and Francis Plimpton Jr), July 4, 1938
- “Uneconomic Botany,” a chapter from “Plants, Man and Life,” by Edgar Anderson, Univ of California (1947), dedicated in part to Oakes Ames
- Handwritten Examination
- “The Rediscovery of a Lost Orchid”
- Genealogy of Oakes Ames and Blanche Ames Ames

Oakes Ames
Jottings of a Harvard Botanist
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$13.50 • £10.95 • €12.00
ISBN 9780674629219
Publication Date: 02/06/1980