Walter Muenscher papers, 1911-1956.

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Walter Muenscher papers, 1911-1956.

Correspondence, notebooks, lecture outlines and notes, field notes, examination questions, lists of plants, records of seed germination tests, data on aquatic plants, scrapbook with photographs concerning trees and wood, photographs of botanical specimens, and other papers. Subjects include botany and botanical specimens, weed identification, Extension work, herbarium exchanges with other institutions, and advisory work for the Tennessee Valley Authority.

14.1 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7917896

Cornell University Library

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Muenscher, Walter, 1891-1963.

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Professor of Botany. From the description of Walter Muenscher papers, 1911-1956. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64683534 ...

Tennessee Valley authority

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The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...

Cornell University

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