Papers, 1918-1966.

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Papers, 1918-1966.

Collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, scrapbooks, notebooks, class notes, teaching materials, memoranda, clippings, reports, and memorabilia of subtropical horticulturist and professor of agriculture Robert Willard Hodgson. Correspondents include Henri Chapot, I. Judson Condit, Mildred E. Mathias, John Martin Reinicke, Knowles A. Ryerson, and C.A. Schroeder. Also includes itineraries, field notes, and technical reports from Hodgson's advising assignments in Tunisia, Morocco, India, Egypt, Cyprus, Chile, Palestine, Sudan, Libya, and Nepal. Some clippings are in French or Spanish.

10 cartons (10 linear ft.)1 oversize box.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7409802

University of California, Los Angeles

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Hodgson, Robert W. (Robert Willard), 1893-1966

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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,...

University of California, Los Angeles

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Biography Cox was born Jan. 5, 1926 in Fresno, CA; BA, political science, Stanford, 1949; associate for Bill P. Wreden, antiquarian book dealer, San Francisco; MLS, UC Berkeley, 1954; began working at the UCLA library in 1954, serving in gifts and exchange, as head of the Geology Library, and head of circulation (1960-77); compiled and donated Albright library bibliography; Acting Assoc. University Librarian for Public Services, UCLA, 1977-79...

University of California. Agricultural Extension Service

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Hodgson, Robert W. (Robert Willard), 1893-1966

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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,...