Papers, 1924-1988.

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Papers, 1924-1988.

Includes correspondence, manuscripts, printed matter, reports, subject files and photographic material concerning Beath's life and work as a chemist and authority on plants and selenium in the Western United States. The subject files contain important material about selenium poisoning and uptake. The photographic materials include glass plate negatives, slides, photoprints and photonegatives of vegetation and geological formations, seleniferous plants, other toxic plants and the effects of selenium toxicity.

10.6 cubic ft. (30 boxes)

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University of Wyoming.

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Beath, Orville A. (Orville Andrew), 1884-

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Orville A. Beath was a professor of chemistry and leader of a team (Irene Rosenfeld, Carl S. Gilbert and Harold F. Eppson) at the University of Wyoming which researched plant chemistry, poisonous constituents of western range plants, seleniferous vegetation, chemical valuation of native forage plants and the geology of selenium distribution. Beath was an internationally known authority on the toxicity of selenium and authored or coauthored fifty-nine publications on this and related subjects inc...

Beath, Orville A. (Orville Andrew), 1884-

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Orville A. Beath was a professor of chemistry and leader of a team (Irene Rosenfeld, Carl S. Gilbert and Harold F. Eppson) at the University of Wyoming which researched plant chemistry, poisonous constituents of western range plants, seleniferous vegetation, chemical valuation of native forage plants and the geology of selenium distribution. Beath was an internationally known authority on the toxicity of selenium and authored or coauthored fifty-nine publications on this and related subjects inc...

Rosenfeld, Irene

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Dr. Irene Rosenfeld (1908-1983) was an experimental pathologist at the University of Wyoming for 25 years. She did extensive research on the element selenium and its effects on mammals, birds and humans. She authored over sixty publications and co-authored, with Orville A. Beath, the book "Selenium" (1964). From the description of Papers, 1906-1968. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 23761582 ...

Trelease, Sam F. (Sam Farlow), 1892-

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