USDA Insecticide Division Notebooks on White Arsenic Research

Collection

Identifier: MS0249

Staff Only

Content Description

The USDA Insecticide Division Notebooks on White Arsenic Research contain the notebooks of scientists who worked on white arsenic research in the Insecticide Division, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. Names on notebooks include F. E. Dearborn, Charles Meldrum Smith, Ole Anker Nelson, Lloyd E. Smith, J. W. Barnes, Cecil Robert Gross, J. Weisser, Carroll Clayton Cassil, E. H. Hamilton, Robert K. Preston, Robert A. Hayes, N. Green, Houston Vernon Claborn, and W. H. Tonkin.

Dates

Creation: 1922-1946

Conditions Governing Access

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Organizational History

USDA research on insecticides began in 1910 with the Insecticide and Fungicide Board of the Bureau of Chemistry. In 1927, the Bureau of Chemistry merged with the Bureau of Soils and the soil-related divisions of the Bureau of Plant Industry to form the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. Research on insecticides continued under the broad research subject group, Chemical and Technological Research. In 1934, the Insecticide Division of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils was transferred to the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine.

The main research goal of the Insecticide Division was to find and regulate chemical solutions suitable for the control of insect pests, especially those affecting crops and other plants.