Projects associated with Florida's leather industries, 1944- 1948.

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Projects associated with Florida's leather industries, 1944- 1948.

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This subseries consists primarily of records related to research on the production of tannins from Florida's scrub oak forests. This research was stimulated by shortages of leather tanning agents during World War II. The records contain data on the availability of scrub oak, its distribution, stand density, diameter ranges, and tannin content. Also included are records related to bark removal machinery, correspondence with other experiment stations and timber companies, and manuscripts to several articles.

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University of Florida

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University of Florida. Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station

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The predecessor of the Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station (EIES) at the University of Florida was the Engineering Experiment Station created, but not funded, by the Florida Board of Control in 1929. The Dean of the College of Engineering served as the Director of the Engineering Experiment Station. When the state legislature created EIES in 1941, Dean Joseph Weil was appointed its first director. He served as the director until 1949, when Ralph Alexander Morgen became the Station head...