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physical and chemical sciences

 Subject
Subject Source: Nalt

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Flood Control Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0291
Content Description The Flood Control Collection contains reports, publications, correspondence, notes, photographs, audio recordings, maps, and data regarding floods and flood control in the United States. Most of these items were produced by the USDA Soil Conservation Service. There are a few pieces authored by other individuals and agencies. The collection also includes articles and addresses written for professional organizations, such as the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the Society of...
Dates: 1910-1979; Majority of material found within 1938-1953
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Food Processing Abstracts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0437
Content Description The Food Processing Abstracts were available on a subscription basis from Lowry-Cocroft Abstracts based in Evanston, Illinois. Each week subscribers received abstracts, alphabetized and numbered in order, coded by a classification system. The code numbers appeared on the lower right hand corner of each card. The classification system had three divisions: Processing Fields, Type of Food Processed, and Kind of Information Included. Processing Fields subjects consisted of...
Dates: 1963-1969
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Franklin Benjamin Hough Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0263
Content Description

The Franklin Benjamin Hough Papers consist of handwritten correspondence, agreements, and memoranda. Much of the correspondence deals with forestry matters and Hough’s paper, titled "The Duty of Governments in the Preservation of Forests," which he presented to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1873.

Dates: 1870-1884; Majority of material found within 1876-1877
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Gas Chromatography Abstracts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0438
Content Description

The Gas Chromatography Abstracts were produced by Preston Technical Abstracts Company in Evanston, Illinois. Subject classification consisted of apparatus, theory and review articles, applications, and special techniques.

Dates: 1965-1969
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Harriett Singleton Stubbs Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0163
Content Description

The Harriett Singleton Stubbs Papers consist of publications, brochures, reports, articles, speeches, fact sheets, bibliographies, and correspondence relating to acid rain in Canada and to United States government agencies and other organizations that addressed acid rain.

Dates: 1982-1985
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Harvey Washington Wiley Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS0199
Content Description

The Harvey Washington Wiley manuscript consists of a typewritten draft of an unpublished USDA Bureau of Chemistry bulletin entitled "Comparative Fertility and Nitrifying Power of Soils." The draft was co-written by Wiley, C. C. Moore, and E. E. Ewell. It is dated June 30, 1904.

Dates: 1904
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

John Peter Richardson Correspondence with W. S. Reynolds

 Collection
Identifier: MS0142
Content Description

The John Peter Richardson Correspondence with W. S. Reynolds contains two letters between Richardson and Reynolds relating to the status of agriculture in South Carolina and the possibility of a survey of agriculture, soils, and mineral resources.

Dates: 1840
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Karl H. Norris Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0490
Content Description

The Karl H. Norris Papers consist of reports, correspondence, articles (originals and photocopies), reprints, and publications related to Norris's work with near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS).

Dates: 1948-2013; Majority of material found within 1980-1999
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Lyle Thomas Alexander Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0342
Content Description

The Lyle Thomas Alexander Papers contain biographical documents, letters, photographs, awards, medals, publications, journal transcript of West Africa and Belgian Congo, maps, and clippings related to his career as a soil chemist for USDA Soil Conservation Service.

Dates: 1932-2004
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Marvin A. Norcross Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0380
Content Description The Marvin A. Norcross Papers relate to food safety and food residues, including integrating the concept of risk assessment into food production and processing. There are manuscripts for presentations (including slides), publications, and awards. There is also research data associated with Norcross's Ph.D. thesis, titled "An Immunological Study of the Localization of Certain Chemical Carcinogens in Rat Tissue," along with black and white photographs of dissections, camera slides, and...
Dates: 1966-2007; Majority of material found within 1966-1996
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections