Romeyn Beck Hough : papers, 1882-1908 1882-1900.

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Romeyn Beck Hough : papers, 1882-1908 1882-1900.

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The Romeyn Beck Hough papers include Hough's journals from 1882-1887, 1890-1894, 1898-1900; a July 6, 1908, letter to Hough from Melvill Dewey requesting Hough's book- Handbook of the Trees of the Northern States and Canada; and an undated statement made by Dewey, President of the American Library Institute, commending Hough's book at a meeting of the Virginia State Library Association.

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National Agricultural Library, NAL

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National Agricultural Library, NAL

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Dewey, Melvil, 1851-1931

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Director of the New York State Library. From the description of Employment card, 1888-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122573790 ...

Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924

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Romeyn Beck Hough (1857-1924) son of Franklin Benjamin Hough, was a naturalist, author and businessman in the state of New York. In 1888 he published the first volume of a series of 12 books titled American Woods, which contained the native and naturalized species of woods in the United States and Canada. These volumes were unique in that they included samples of wood as illustrations. Hough also devised a machine for cutting wood sections with thichnesses of 1/10 to 1/1,200 of an inch. In the s...