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Robert Willard Hodgson was born on Apr. 3, 1893 in Dallas, TX; BS, 1916, and MS, 1917, UC Berkeley; served as as an asst. in botany and became instructor in citriculture in 1917; with J. Eliot Coit, founded the Agricultural Extension Service in Los Angeles, 1918; served as farm advisor, Los Angeles County, 1919-24; became assoc. professor of subtropical horticulture, UC Berkeley, and assoc. citriculturist in the Agriculture Experiment Station; became head of Division of Subtropical Horticulture, 1925; after the division was transferred to the Los Angeles campus in 1932, Hodgson developed the College of Agriculture there; became professor of subtropical horticulture, 1935; named asst. dean of the College of Agriculture and assistant director of the Agriculture Experiment Station, 1943; became dean of the college in 1952 until he retired in 1960; wrote many books, including Analyzing the citrus orchard by means of simple tree records (1923) and The California avocado industry (1930); he died on May 17, 1966 in LA.

From the description of Papers, 1918-1966. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 38991431

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