Bernhard Eduard Fernow papers
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes manuscripts of speeches and articles by Fernow concerning forestry, forest legislation, and the Division of Forestry, U.S. Department of Agriculture; letters concerning the history of forestry and forest legislation in the United States; correspondence related to Fernow's position at Cornell, with J. Sterling Morton, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, with commercial firms in the United States and Germany, and with the New York State Forest, Fish and Game Commission; scrapbooks of clippings concerning forestry, the College of Forestry at Cornell, artificial rain making, and Fernow himself; corrected printer's proof of his book ECONOMICS OF FORESTRY; and family correspondence. Also includes correspondence between Fernow and Captain Ahern, head of the Philippine forestry service, concerning the recruitment of foresters to serve under Ahern, and including remarks on the alleged mismanagement of Philippine forests by the Spanish, 1900-1902.
Dates
- 1885-1930.
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Bernhard Fernow was Chief of the Division of Forestry, U.S. Department of Agriculture (1886-1898), and Director of the New York State College of Forestry at Cornell University (1898-1903).
Extent
2.7 cubic feet. (2.7 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Includes manuscripts, speeches and articles by Fernow concerning forestry.
Physical Description
Correspondence, Manuscripts, Newspapers, Publications, Scrapbooks
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 2008
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, August 2008
- Date modified:
- Kristen Reichenbach, January 2018
- Ahern, Captain.
- Fernow, Bernhard Eduard. (Title of work: Economics of forestry..)
- Foresters.
- Forestry law and legislation.
- Forests and forestry -- History.
- Forests and forestry -- Philippines.
- Germany.
- Morton, J. Sterling.
- New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
- New York State College of Forestry
- Philippines.
- Rain-making.
- United States. Department of Agriculture. Division of Forestry
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- August 2008
- 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