COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence with other bacteriologists, public health officials, publishers, commercial laboratories, and Cornell administrators, as well as reports, financial records, notes, and printed material, all of which concern his participation in the work of the Biological Stain Commission, of which he was chairman, National Research Council, American Public Health Association, and Society of American Bacteriologists, his scientific writings, and research projects undertaken at Geneva and elsewhere; correspondents include Robert S. Breed, Arthur P. Hitchens, George J. Hucker, Floyd K. Richtmyer, William A. Stocking, and Selman A. Waksman. Also, copies of his publications, an autobiography (86 pp. typescript carbon), and "A Religious Scientist at the Turn of the Century" (123 pp. mimeo), his biographical essay on his father, Herbert William Conn, professor of bacteriology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, in which is included a bibliography of his father's writings.
Dates
- 1911-1959.
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Chief of Research Soil Bacteriology, N.Y.S. Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, 1920-1948.
Cornell University Ph.D. 1911.
Extent
20 cubic feet. (20 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence with other bacteriologists, public health officials, publishers, commercial laboratories, and Cornell administrators, as well as reports, financial records, notes, and printed material, concerning his participation in the work of the Biological Stain Commission, National Research Council, American Public Health Association, and Society of American Bacteriologists, his scientific writings, and research projects.
Physical Description
Correspondence, printed material, financial records.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- August 2006
- EAD encoding:
- Dan Sterner, August 2006
- American Public Health Association
- Bacteriologists.
- Bacteriology -- Technique.
- Bacteriology, Agricultural.
- Biological Stain Commission
- Breed, Robert S. (Robert Stanley), 1877-1956.
- Conn, H. W. (Herbert William), 1859-
- Hitchens, Arthur Parker, 1877-1948.
- Hucker, George James, 1893-
- National Research Council (U.S.)
- New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
- Public health.
- Richtmyer, F. K. (Floyd Karker), 1881-1939.
- Society of American Bacteriologists
- Soils -- Analysis.
- Stocking, William Alonzo, 1872-1926.
- Waksman, Selman A. (Selman Abraham), 1888-1973.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- August 2006
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu