A.C. Cline Correspondence: Johnston, J.W., Jr.
- HF-ID: HFCor-1206
- Category: Correspondence
- Creator:
- Cline, Albert C.
- Fisher, Richard T.
- Johnston, James W., Jr.
- Shepard, Ward
- Raup, Hugh M.
- Associated Person:
- Bess, Henry A.
- Brues, Charles T.
- Hurford, A.W.
- Lockard, Charles R.
- Mitchell, Harold L.
- Spaeth, J. Nelson
- 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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