Herbert J. Webber papers, 1886-1946.

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Herbert J. Webber papers, 1886-1946.

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Consists of only a small amount of correspondence and writings, including incoming letters, 1886 to 1892, received during Webber's years as a student, and incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1912 to 1946, from his years as a professor at the University of California. Prominent correspondents include Walter T. Swingle, L.R. Abrams, J.B. Ellis, David Fairchild, W.L. Howard, A.E. Jenkins, W.L. Jepson, Theo. S. Kellogg, William Trelease, H.B. Tukey, and George Vasey, among others. Webber's writings relate chiefly to his studies of citrus in Calif. and Florida, travels to South Africa, and on the general subject of botanical gardens, but also include memoirs of Harold Clark Powell, Field Marshall Smuts of South Africa, and Thomas Topswain of Cornell University. A detailed biographical sketch presented in June 1946 before the Synapsis Club, Riverside, Calif. is accompanied by Webber's own autobiographical sketches. Also includes 3 photographs: one (in Box 2:18) aerial view of the Citrus Experiment Station in Riverside, Calif., 1931; and, two (in Box 2:30) of orange groves in Florida after the freeze of 1894-1895.

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University of California (1868-1952). Dept. of Agriculture.

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Fairchild, David, 1869-1954

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American botanist and plant explorer, 1869-1954. From the description of Notes on a sea grape leaf [realia]. 1946. (Morton Arboretum). WorldCat record id: 57592946 Author; b. David Grandison Fairchild. From the description of Papers, [1942]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70951226 David Grandison Fairchild was an American botanist. He was born in Michigan in 1869. For most of his career he worked in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, managing the Depart...

Abrams, Le Roy, 1874-1956

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Professor of biology (botany) at Stanford (1900-1904, 1906-1940; emeritus 1940-1956). From the description of Leroy Abrams papers, 1863-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702912830 Biographical/Historical Sketch Professor of biology (botany) at Stanford (1900-1904, 1906-1940; emeritus 1940-1956). From the guide to the Leroy Abrams papers, 1863-1939, (Department of Special Collections and University Archives)...

Webber, Herbert John, 1865-1946

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Herbert John Webber was born on a farm near Lawton, Mich. on Dec. 27, 1865, spent his childhood in Iowa and Lincoln, Neb., and attended the Univ. of Nebraska, receiving his B.S. in 1889 and M.A. in 1890. He married Lucene Anna Hardin in 1890, and in 1892 accepted a position with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and was sent to Eustis, Fla. with Walter T. Swingle to investigate citrus diseases. In 1907, he became professor at Cornell University, and from 1909-10 also served as acting director of the...

Citrus Experiment Station (Lake Alfred, Fla.)

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Howard, W. L. (Walter Lafayette), 1872-

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Tukey, Harold Bradford.

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Jepson, Willis Linn, 1867-1946

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Jenkins, Anna E. (Anna Eliza), 1886-

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Mycologist, United States Department of Agriculture. Cornell University Class of 1911, M.S. 1923, Ph.D. 1927. From the description of Anna Eliza Jenkins papers, 1908-1961. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074823 ...

Swingle, Walter T. (Walter Tennyson), 1871-1952

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Smuts, Jan Christiaan, 1870-1950

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South African statesman. From the description of Typed letter signed : to Sir Sydney Cockerell, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665092 Jan Christiaan Smuts was a guerilla commander in the Boer War, led forces against the German in World War I, and commanded South African forces in World War II. He was Prime Minister of South Africa, 1919-1924 and 1939-1948, and helped draft the United Nations charter. From the description of Walt Whitman : a study in th...

Kellogg, Theo. S.

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Trelease, William, 1857-1945

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First director at Missouri Botanical Garden, 1889-1912; professor of botany at Wisconsin, Washington, and Illinois universities, 1883-1912. From the description of William Trelease records and papers, 1857-1912. (Missouri Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 61772665 Professor of Botany at Wisconsin, Washington, and Illinois Universities, 1883-1912; and director, Missouri Botanical Gardens, 1889-1912. From the description of William Trelease papers, [ca. 1862-1...

Topswain, Thomas.

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Ellis, Job Bicknell, 1829-1905

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Job Bicknell Ellis (1829-1905) was an American mycologist best known for his work as a collector and classifier of fungal specimens. Ellis was born in Potsdam, New York and graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1849. Influenced by the American mycologist Henry Ravenel, Ellis dedicated his life to the collection and exchange of dried specimens, or "exsiccati," creating reference collections sold in sets of one hundred. These "centuries" of fungi were published as Fungi Nova-Caesareenses ...

California agricultural experiment station

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Vasey, George, 1822-1893

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George Vasey (1822-1893), a physician and botanist, was born near Scarborough, England. In 1828 his parents emigrated to the United States, settling in Oneida County, New York. Vasey became interested in botany as a youth, reading Almira Hart Lincoln's Elements of Botany, and meeting the German botanist, P. H. Kneiskern, who subsequently introduced him to John Torrey and Asa Gray. In 1872, Vasey was appointed Botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Curator of the Natio...

Powell, Harold Clark, 1900-1938

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