A.C. Cline Correspondence: Johnston, J.W., Jr.
- HF-ID: HFCor-1206
- Category: Correspondence
- Creator: Cline, A.C., Fisher, R.T., Johnston, James W., Jr., Shepard, W., Raup, H.M.
- Associated Person: Hurford, A.W., Lockard, C., Holsoe, T., Brues, C.T., Jacot, [?] (Mr.), Johnston, Robert, Gast, P.R., Stillman, E.G., Clark, [?] (Mr.), Bess, H., Prouty, R.V., Spaeth, J. Nelson, Mitchell, H.L., Happ, H., Coolidge, H., Kilbourne, R.
- Date: 1933-1951
- Location: Tom Swamp Tract (Harvard Forest), TS I
- Media: Paper
- Keywords: hurricane damage
- Abstract:
- Letters from Cline, Fisher, Raup and Shepard are unsigned carbon copies of typewritten letters
- Includes copies of letters of recommendation for Johnston from Cline to Hurford and Lockard and letter from Cline to C. T. Brues regarding Johnston's soil fauna study
- Includes 2 letters from Johnston to R.T. Fisher and letter from Fisher regarding Bliss Fund and Harvard Forest scholarship allotment
- Correspondence topics include work at Vermont CCC [Civilian Conservation Corps] camp, Camp Washington; forest soil fauna study and earthworms; microscope rental; statement of proposed study prepared for the Pack Forest Education Board; research activities at Statens skogsförsöksanstalt [Swedish Forest Research Institute] including studying Oribatid and Gamasid mites; Johnston's thesis manuscript; gypsy moth sample plot work in Tom Swamp; Johnston's organization of salvage work in Hardwick [after 1938 hurricane]; recommendation of candidate for forest patrol; letter to USDA silviculturalist (Mitchell) regarding spray to control white pine weevil, signed by Johnston as Forest Entomologist; plotting permanent sample plots in Tom Swamp; "Outline of Forest Soil Fauna Thesis"
- Includes correspondence with H. M. Raup with request for advice about planning for field research in northern Canada; description of germination of Shipmast locust in Gast's nursery behind the [Nichewaug] hotel and planting of seedlings on Mr. Coolidge's farm with request for research file; Black Locust planting on Horace Coolidge's farm on Phillipston Rd. in Petersham, MA
- Archives Location: Map Room, stack 7, drawer 1
- Access: Restricted
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