Beverly Thomas Galloway Papers

This collection comprises 4 linear feet of the papers of Beverly Thomas Galloway (1863-1938) and spans the years 1891-1995, the bulk of which falls into the time period of 1891-1933. The material relates almost entirely to his work with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The papers are in good condition and arranged in thirteen series.

The collection consists of manuscripts of his published and unpublished writings (chiefly, typescripts of the same period); pamphlets; clippings; a corrected galley; other USDA publications, including many with Galloway's articles; reports (1897-1935); speeches, addresses, lectures (1891-1927); two notebooks dating from 1916 and 1917; loose-leaf manuscripts (28 pp.) of his scientific notes; correspondence (1914-1937) related to his professional activities, major areas of research, and his interest in plant diseases and plant introduction; biographical information (1914-1938); a photograph album (1914) from 1914 with 60 photographs dating 1886-1893 representing Galloway and his colleagues and their activities in the Section of Plant Pathology; and a few other photographs.

The articles and reports (Series III) reflect the research activities of Galloway as plant pathologist, and later as Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry in the Department of Agriculture. He propagated the activities of the Bureau of Plant Industry, and discussed many agricultural issues of the American nation. His publications became especially numerous when he was Assistant Secretary of Agriculture (1913-14) and Dean of the New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Subjects of his publications include diseases of plants, protection of plants against alien enemies, marketing problems, and physiological and biochemical studies of plant pollens and their relation to certain allergic diseases. Two articles were devoted to reminiscences about his colleagues (G.C.Roeding, W.A.Taylor). After returning to BPI in 1916 his reports and articles deal with organization of plant introduction gardens, foreign seed and plant introduction (avocado, apples, pears, timber bamboo, quetta nectarine, banana, sugar cane), etc. Within this series, some typewritten papers are not dated and the date was restored from the handwritten notes made by B.T.Galloway or by someone who filed the papers.

The speeches, addresses, and lectures (Series IV) discuss issues on plant diseases and their treatment; progress in plant pathology in 1880-1900, early development of plant industry work; early history of plant introduction; evolution of research in USDA, its relation to agricultural colleges, to other agricultural organizations, and also to the farmer; industrial progress in plant work; relations of the farmer to education; cooperation in agriculture, problems of agricultural extension; farm management; future of the farms; distribution and marketing of fruits; seed trade; tropical horticulture; rice growing; and blight-resistant chestnuts, cost of potato production, sketches of foreign farming, etc.

Galloway wrote letters (Series VI) to the following individuals: Henry S. Bernton, John W. Crowe, P.H. Dorsett, David G. Fairchild, A. Keathley, James F. Kelley, Rodney Cline, A.R. Lawton, E.A. McIlhenny, O.B. Martin, Frank Park, Wilson Popenoe, A.F. Sievers, and Robert Young. There are letters written to him by John W. Crowe; D.F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture; George E. Rines, editor of Encyclopedia Americana; Edward Simmons; W.A. Taylor; agronomist C.W. Warburton; and G.W. Wharton; and Robert Young.

A large group of materials relate to the history of the Department of Agriculture, its buildings and grounds, and Plant Introduction Gardens (Series IX). Types of material include publications of employees from the Bureau of Plant Industry and other offices, series publications of the Department of Agriculture, and three scrapbooks for 1896 (112 pp.), 1908 (160 pp.), and ca. 1909-1913 (160 pp.) of newspaper clippings on agricultural issues.

The following abbreviations are used in the finding aid and are located mainly in the Correspondence Series. They are based on Glossary for Archivists, Manuscript Curators, and Records Managers compiled by L.J. Bellardo and L.L. Bellardo. Chicago: SAA, 1992.

AD: autographed document unsigned (i.e. unsigned document in the hand of the author)

ADS: autographed document signed by the author

AL: autographed letter unsigned

ALS: autographed letter signed by the author

Ams: autographed manuscript

AmsS: autographed manuscript signed by the author

AN: autographed note

BPI: Bureau of Plant Industry

BTG: Beverly Thomas Galloway

Clip.: clipping

DS: document signed by the author (not in the hand of author)

Dupl.: duplicate

L: letter

Ms: manuscript

N: note (a brief informal letter or message)

n.d.: no date

n.p.: no place

n.y.: no year

p., pp.: page, pages

S: signed by the author

TDS: typewritten document signed by the author

TLS: typewritten letter signed by the author

TMs: typewritten manuscript

TMsS: typewritten manuscript signed by the author

U.: University

USDA: U.S. Department of Agriculture

vol.: volume

W., DC: Washington, DC.

Additional information written by the author on the manuscript (typescript) or on the publication is included into forward slashes / /.

Information added by the arranger from various sources (correspondence, publications, reference sources) is included into square brackets [ ].