physical and chemical sciences

Content Description The Abraham D. Stoesz Papers are composed of approximately 1,100 35mm slides. Subjects of the slides include soil and soil erosion, plants, and flowers, as well as tourism photographs from Washington, D.C., New York City, and other cities and universities. Many slides are clearly labeled with the date, location, and subjects. The slides represent locations across the United States. The collection also contains approximately 50 of Stoesz's field notebooks, which include notes from...

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The Albert Franklin Burgess Manuscript consists of two volumes, titled "The Gypsy Moth and the Brown-tail Moth: A History of the Work for Prevention of Spread and Extermination of these Insects in North America," by A.F. Burgess. The text volume is dated 1944 and the photographs and maps volume is dated 1889 to 1942.

Content Description The Alvin L. Young Collection on Agent Orange contains correspondence, newspaper articles, journal reprints, conference papers, technical reports, congressional hearing testimony, government documents, monographs, and other research materials concerned with phenoxy herbicides, TCDD (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, a toxic impurity found in Agent Orange, and often referred to as dioxin), and related chemicals. Much of the collection focuses on, or is related to Agent Orange, a phenoxy...

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The Charles C. Plitt Collection consists of a series of journals resulting from weekly botany field trips, which Plitt referred to as "tramps," ranging in date from about 1898 to 1922. Plitt led these tramps through many areas around Baltimore, such as Loch Raven, Glen Burnie, Towson, Curtis Bay, and Ellicott City. The collection also includes biographical data, correspondence, photographs, and a book.

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The Charles Edwin Kellogg Papers contain scripts of Kellogg's speeches, articles, reviews, reprints, correspondence, field notes, journals, slides, photographs, soil maps, and publications relating to soil science and agriculture. Publications include many of the rare works of soil science pioneers such as Glinka, Ruffin, Evelyn, Young, and Marbut.

Content Description The Charles Farquharson Stewart Sharpe Papers consist of copies of articles, translations, and publications relating to geomorphology and erosion. Materials include correspondence and other records produced in the course of Sharpe's work for the Climatic and Physiographic Division of the Soil Conservation service. There are also research notes and draft reports of physiographic studies in which Sharpe was involved, copies of published reports authored by Sharpe, and photographs and lantern...

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The Charles Thom Papers cover materials from Thom's college years to biographical memoirs published after his death. The collection includes correspondence, notes, notebooks, essays, lectures, speeches, diaries, journals, and lantern slides from professional trips. There are also published items, including monographs, journal articles, and newspaper clippings. The majority of the collection focuses on soil microbiology, mycology, food spoilage, food poisoning, and penicillin.

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The CPC Catalog contains bibliographic citations for plants and soils, mostly referring to articles, and the cards mostly carry the National Agricultural Library (NAL) cataloging system numbers. The cards are filed alphabetically by last name of author and by type of crop. Includes early horticultural literature from 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. There are both U.S. and foreign citations. Additions to the catalog may have ceased in the 1940s.

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The Edward John Russell Manuscript, titled "Field Experiments at Rothamsted," was given to the Graduate School of the U.S. Department of Agriculture by Sir John Russell. It was proposed for publication, along with many black and white photographs, as a Bureau of Chemistry and Soils Bulletin in 1928; however, it was never published.

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The Erwin Frink Smith Papers contain Smith's notes, writings, letters, and publications. Notable writings include his first paper on bacteria as a plant pathogen, his first paper on the fungus infestation of soils, material on the Fischer-Smith polemic, the results of his studies on crown gall in plants and its relation to cancer in animals, and his Bibliography of Peach Yellows.