Archives and Manuscript Collections
Personal Papers
HARRY NICHOLS WHITFORD PAPERS (1900-1932)
1.5 linear feet (1 box)
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Harry Nichols Whitford (1872-1941), world authority on the economics
of rubber production, received a Ph.D. in plant ecology from the University
of Chicago in 1903. Following his graduation, he conducted research in
the Philippines and became an authority on the native forests of the islands.
His career continued at The Yale School of Forestry, where he was appointed
assistant professor of Tropical Forestry. Whitford also studied the forests
of tropical America, and Malaya and nearby regions. In 1925 he became the
manager of the crude rubber division of the Rubber Manufacturers' Association.
Harry Whitford died on May 16, 1941, in his seventieth year, in Bronxville,
New York.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The Whitford papers include five bound books of student class notes
from the University of Chicago; manuscripts of papers on tropical forest
ecology and economics, primarily of Brazil but including countries of Central
America; and field notes from his research in the Philippines (twenty volumes),
Canada (two volumes), and Central and South America (four volumes).
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Series 1: Class Notes
Series 2: Manuscripts
Series 3: Field Notes
Series 1 Class Notes, 1900-1901
2.5 lin. in. arranged chronologically.
This series contains 5 bound books of student notes from University
of Chicago science courses.
Series 2 Manuscripts
5.5 lin. in. arranged alphabetically.
Holographs and typescripts of writings relating to Whitford's scientific
interests, forest ecology and economics, make up this series..
Series 3 Field Notes
10 lin. in. arranged chronologically.
Series 3 contains 26 bound field notebooks: 20 pertaining to the Philippine
Islands (1904-1906); 2 from Canada (1913); and 4 from South America (1919).
These have been removed to the Collectors' Field Notebooks series.
RELATED COLLECTIONS
The New York Botanical Garden
CFN Number 631
Processed May 2000 by Natalie S. Brody, Volunteer Archives
Assistant.
For more information and a complete description contact:
Susan Fraser, NYBG
Archivist
The LuEsther T. Mertz Library
The New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, NY 10458-5126
(718) 817-8879
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