Papers, 1901-1972.

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Papers, 1901-1972.

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Collection includes biographical data, correspondence, reports, addresses, published and unpublished writings, including his thesis (1908), and 5th (1951) and 6th (1959) editions of Bacteriology, reprints, illustrations for manuscripts, card index of published work, awards and honoraries. Also includes material on campus affairs, and his visiting professorship at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität. Events include the oleomargarine controversy at Iowa State. Correspondents include: Charles Harvey Brown, Ralph K. Bliss, Robert S. Breed, Roger N. Baldwin, Bruce Bliven, D.H. Bergey, Barnett Cohen, Karl T. Compton, H.J. Conn, S.T. Cowan, Chester C. Davis, Paul L. Errington, Charles E. Friley, Guy M. Gillette, Arthur T. Henricci, James H. Hilton, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Elizabeth E. Hoyt, Allan Kline, A.J. Kluyver, Robert M. LaFollette, Jay L. Lush, William G. Murray, William C. Paddock, Nelson Rockefeller, Lauren Soth, Albert B. Sabin, Louis I. Thompson, John Timmons, Henry A. Wallace, Selman A. Waksman and William Vogt. Organizations include: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Type Culture Collection, Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, Bergey Manual Trust, Biological Abstracts, Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations, and its missions to Greece and the Near East, Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences (Turrialba, Costa Rica), International Association of Plant Taxonomy, International Botanical Congress (1950), International Committee on Bacteriological Nomenclature, International Congresses of Microbiology (1930-1958), International Plant Congress (1926), International Union of Biological Sciences, Iowa Academy of Science, Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, Latin America, Marshall Plan, National Research Council, National Resources Board, New York Academy of Science, and Society of American Bacteriologists.

26 linear ft. (69 document boxes)

Iowa State University, Parks Library

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Iowa State University, Parks Library

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Buchanan, Robert Earle, 1883-1973

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R.E. Buchanan (1883-1973) was a bacteriologist and administrator at Iowa State University where he also received his B.S. (1904) and M.S. (1906) degrees. He was the first head of the Bacteriology Dept. (1910-1948), the first dean of Industrial Science (1914-1916), the first dean of the Graduate College (1919-1948), director of the Agriculture Experiment Station (1933-1948), and active in many national and international scientific committees, commissions and boards. He served as editor of the Jou...

Iowa State University

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On March 22, 1948, Iowa State College (University) sponsored a 90th anniversary celebration in honor of the founding of the college, which occurred on the same date in 1858 when the charter act establishing a state agricultural college became law. The celebration included a symposium, luncheon, departmental open houses, and a dinner. From the description of 90th anniversary collection, 1947-1948. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 54799482 In 1958, Iowa State Colle...