Course Notes and Field Notebooks
- HF-ID: HF1901-01
- Category: Research Files
- Creator: Fisher, R.T.
- Date: 1899 to 1914
- Location: California, Cambridge MA, Harvard Forest
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Course Notes, field notebooks. 1 accordion folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches, 4 inches x 7 inches, 5 1/4 inches x 8 1/4 inches, 5.5 inches x 8.5 inches.
- Keywords: pathology, silviculture, education and policy, lumbering
- Abstract:
- 4 USDA Division of Forestry Notebooks:
- 1. 1899 Notes on the Redwoods, Humboldt County, California
- September 15, 1899 to October 4, 1899.
- 1905 Fay Lot, Lawrence Lot, Fay Lot Sections 26 - 52.
- 2. No year stated in this notebook. Redwoods:
- General distribution, geography, topography, climate, soil
- and elevation of belt. Silvicultural - forest types. Demands
- upon light. Demand upon moisture of soil and atmosphere.
- Dangers - wind fire, insects, fungi. General information
- about mills, logging, costs, market. List of supplies and
- food.
- 3. 1901 Notes supplied from last book - Sisson to Hay Fork - July 10
- to September 18, 1901. Notes on Fires. Notes on Large Game.
- 4. Consulting Woodlot Examinations October 28, 1902 to December 22, 1902.
- See also HF 1903-01.
- 8 Course Notebooks:
- 1. English 15. Scott's Poems. Record of Report, Forestry 1 (list of students
- and grades).
- 2. Diseases of trees (Dr. Sturgis).
- 3. Forest Management (1901).
- 4. Forest Technology (1901).
- 5. Insects (January to March - no year given).
- 6. Roads (January to March - no year given).
- 7. Silviculture (October 1901 to February 1902), Photocopy of these notes.
- 8. Miscellaneous - Board Accounts (Fall 1914). Exam of Cummingham Lot and
- Sargent Lot. Yard costs.
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- Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 1, drawer 3, HF History file
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