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Chandler, William H., 1878-1970, Undated

 Item — transcript box: 4 - Trans. 124

Scope and Contents

Occupation: Pomology Professor (University of California)Interviewer: Dixon"Description: Childhood on farm in Missouri; early education and teaching experiences; further education and teaching at University of Missouri, 1901-13; difficulties of farming; quality of early agricultural studies; appointment to faculty of Cornell University, 1913; influence of Liberty Hyde Bailey, professor at Cornell; tenure as head of department; study of pomology established at Cornell; relationship between Cornell and State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, New York; interaction between farmers and university study of agriculture; decision to accept position at University of California, Southern Branch, 1923; work with California agriculture; importance of soil chemistry; Martin R. Huberty; John Eliot Coit; Vernon T. Stoutemeyer; Claude B. Hutchison; start of floriculture program at UCLA; contributions of plant pathologists; fruit growers' problems; B. H. Crocheron; Ralph E. Smith; Thomas F. Hunt; E. W. Hilgard.

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Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

60 volumes. (60 volumes.)

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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