Papers 1876-1903.

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Papers 1876-1903.

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Letter impression copybooks (1876-1901), incoming letters (1881-1903), student dissertations, and notes on experiments. The correspondence is concerned largely with the establishment of experiment stations in the United States, with chemical analyses made, and with other professional and administrative matters, but also deals occasionally with his family affairs. Correspondents include the American Copyright League, American Chemical Society, American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Maine State College, New York Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor, New York Tribune, New York University, Pennsylvania State College, Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, Indiana, Simpson College at Indianola, Iowa, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Geological Survey, University of Virginia, Yale University, members of the U.S. Congress, scientific periodicals and journals of opinion, laboratories, manufacturing concerns, colleges of agriculture, and numerous other scientific, educational, and governmental institutions.

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Iowa State University, Parks Library

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Iowa State University, Parks Library

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Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

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Atwater, W. O. (Wilbur Olin), 1844-1907

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Agricultural and physiological chemist; Professor of Chemistry at Wesleyan, 1873+; director, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 1875-1877; founder and director, Office of Experiment Stations, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1888-1891; director, Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station, 1888-1902. From the description of Papers 1876-1903. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 13088469 Wilbur Olin Atwater (1844-1907) was the first chief of the Office of Experime...