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| Collectors: | Whitford, Harry Nichols. | |
| Title: | Harry Nichols Whitford Papers (PP) | |
| Dates: | 1900-1932 | |
| Quantity: | 1.5 linear feet; 1 box | |
| Call Phrase: | Whitford (PP) | |
Harry Nichols Whitford, (1872-1941), world authority on the economics of rubber production, received a Ph.D. in plant ecology from the University of Chicago in 1903. Following his graduation, he conducted research in the Philippines and became an authority on the native forests of the islands. His career continued at The Yale School of Forestry where he was appointed assistant professor of Tropical Forestry. Whitford studied also the forests of tropical America, and Malaya and nearby regions. In 1925 he became the manager of the crude rubber division of the Rubber Manufacturers' Association. Whitford died on May 16, 1941 in his seventieth year, in Bronxville, New York.
Six of his publications are in the collection of the New York Botanical Garden Library. The genetic development of the forests of northern Michigan: a study in physiographic ecology (University of Chicago Press, 1901); A preliminary working plan for the public forest tract of the Mindoro Lumber and Logging Company, Bongabon, Mindoro, P.I. (Manila Bureau of Printing, 1906); A preliminary check list of the principal commercial timbers of the Philippine Islands (Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1907); The forests of the Philippines ( Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1911); Forests of British Columbia (Ottawa, 1918); El cultivo del caucho en la America tropical (Union Panamericana, 1927).
The Whitford papers include five bound books of student class notes from the University of Chicago; manuscripts of papers on tropical forest ecology and economics, primarily of Brazil, but including countries of Central America; and field notes from his research in the Philippines (20 vols.), Canada (2 vols.), and Central and South America (4 vols.).
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| The collection is organized into three series: | ||
| Series 1: Class Notes. 1900-1901. Arranged chronologically. | ||
| Series 2: Manuscripts. Arranged alphabetically. | ||
| Series 3: Field notes. Arranged chronologically. | ||
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 | ||
| Forests and forestry -- Central America. | ||
| Forests and forestry -- South America. | ||
| Whitford, Harry Nichols -- Archives. | ||
| New York Botanical Garden Archives. | ||
New York Botanical Garden
CFN--Field collectors’ notebooks, Nos. 631
Harry Nichols Whitford Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden.
This collection was donated to the New York Botanical Garden Archives.
Originally processed by an archives volunteer in June 2000. Converted to EAD in June 2006 by Kathleene Konkle under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH-PA 50678-04).