Cuba and Honduras: Notes on reforestation in tropical America
- HF-ID: HF1949-30
- Category: Research Files
- Creator: Raup, H.M.
- Associated Person: Chable, A.C., Dunlap, V.C., Schubert, T.H.
- Date: 1949
- Location: Cuba, Honduras
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- 3 accordion folders. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.
- Keywords: off forest, silviculture
- Abstract:
- Folder 1
- Photographs of the Atkins Garden and Research Laboratory [ca. 1946-1949]
- H. M. Raup notebooks: Cuba and Honduras, 1949 (2); Honduras, 1950 (2); Honduras, 1951 (2); Cuba, 1952 (1)
- Folder 2
- H. M. Raup’s notes for talks
- • Harvard Forest staff, March 1952
- • New England Botanical Club, December 1952
- • Durham NH, February 15, 1958
- Reports
- • Notes on Reforestation in Tropical American, II. by H. M. Raup, April 1950 (2 copies)
- • Notes on Reforestation in Tropical American, III. by H. M. Raup, April 1951 (3 copies)
- • Progress report to V. C. Dunlap [head of the Research Department of the United Fruit Company] listing activities at Harvard Forest; and paper reviewing present silvicultural problems and proposed improvement measures in the Caribbean area, by A. C. Chable, January 1950
- • Suggested projects for silvicultural research in the United Fruit Company’s Reforestation Program in Honduras, by A. C. Chable, April 1950
- Folder 3
- • Draft of Notes on Reforestation in Tropical America, II and III
- • Esso map of Honduras
- • USDA Forest Service paper No. R1744, Exploratory Tests on Machining and Related Properties of Fifteen Tropical American Hardwoods
- • Report on Preliminary Inspection of “Anubis” Timber Plantation. Guatamala, by J. B. Kinloch
- • Copy of letter from F. Bruce Lamb to John C. McClintock of the United Fruit Company regarding mahogany plantations
- • Postcards (unused) and Guide Book to the Ruins of Copan (Honduras)
- • Rainfall tables, soil surveys, crop acreage list
- • Notes about timber
- • Letter to P. C. Mangelsdorf, report draft and report on 1949 visit to the United Fruit Company’s reforestation project in Honduras by I. W. Bailey, K. Sax and H. M. Raup
- • Soil figure for unknown publication
- • Annual Report: Research and New Crops Departments, Tela Railroad Company, 1950 by V. C. Dunlap
- Folder of correspondence with Thomas Herman Schubert, United Fruit Company Fellow in Tropical Forestry. Includes summary report on teak study, 1957, with photographs
- Archives Location: Middle Room
- Access: Active