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| Collectors: | Earle, F. S. (Franklin Sumner), 1856-1929. | |
| Title: | Franklin Sumner Earle Records (RG4) | |
| Dates: | 1896-1907 | |
| Dates: | 1901-1907 | |
| Quantity: | 0.3 linear feet; 1 box | |
| Call Phrase: | Earle (RG4) | |
Franklin Sumner Earle (1856-1929) was a mycologist and specialist in diseases and cultivation of sugar cane. He was born in Dwight, Illinois and attended the University of Illinois, studying under Thomas J. Burrill but received no degree. He served as superintendent of the Mississippi Agriculture Experiment Station (1892-95), assistant pathologist in charge of the mycological herbarium of the USDA (1895-96), and biologist and horticulturist of the Alabama Agriculture Experiment Station (1895-1900). In 1902 he held an appointment as Professor of Botany at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute where he was awarded an honorary masters degree.
In 1901 Earle joined the New York Botanical Garden where he worked for three years as Assistant Curator in charge of the mycological collections. During his career as the first full-time NYBG mycologist he published “The Genera of the North American Gill Fungi” an important taxonomic work that followed the American Code of Nomenclature. In 1904 he became the director of the Estacion Agronomica at Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. Soon afterwards, he began fruit cultivation at Herradura, Cuba on a farm that he maintained until the end of his life. His work in Cuba, as a business consultant, president of the Cuba Fruit Exchange, and later USDA investigator, focused on the sugar cane industry. He developed a variety of sugar cane resistant to a mosaic disease and made many contributions to the development of its cultivation. Among his many publications a major work was Sugar Cane and its Culture (1928).
The Franklin Sumner Earle records consist of correspondence during the period of his work at the NYBG and immediately after (1901-1907). Watercolor illustrations of Caribbean fungi composed by Esther J. Skehan Earle (F. S. Earle’s wife) are part of the William A. Murrill collection (Series 6: Artwork) and are housed in the NYBG Art & Illustration collection. Field notebooks are located in the Collectors’ Field Notebook collection.
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| The collection is organized into one series: | ||
| Series 1: Correspondence. 1896-1907. Arranged alphabetically by author. | ||
This collection is open for research with permission from Mertz Library staff.
Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be submitted in writing to the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden.
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| The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. | ||
| Subjects | ||
| Earle, F. S. (Franklin Sumner), 1856-1929 -- Archives. | ||
| Fungi -- Caribbean Area -- Pictorial works. | ||
| Fungi -- North America -- Classification. | ||
| New York Botanical Garden Archives. | ||
New York Botanical Garden
PP--Lucian Marcus Underwood Papers
RG4--Nathaniel Lord Britton Records
RG4--William Alphonso Murrill Records
Franklin Sumner Earle Records (RG4), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden.
This collection was transferred to the New York Botanical Garden Archives.
Originally processed by David Rose, Archives Assistant, June 2000 with grant funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH-PA 23141-98) and the Harriet Ford Dickenson Foundation. Converted to EAD in August 2006 by Kathleene Konkle under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH-PA 50678-04).