Collection Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts, and printed matter concerning the Department of Forestry at Cornell, including curriculum material, minutes of staff meetings, and reports; correspondence pertaining to the forestry education situation in New York. Includes Hosmer's student notes at Harvard (1891-1894), notes on Central Park (1895), a diary (1897-1898), papers and articles by Hosmer and others, manuscripts of radio talks. Also, clippings concerning Hamilton Littlefield, Jesse Hoyt, and Edward F. Loud, 19th century Michigan "lumber kings." Also, material pertaining to the Society of American Foresters, American Forestry Association, Empire State Forest Products Association, U.S. Forest Service, Institute of Forest Genetics, State College Council, New York State Forestry and Park Association, and the New York State Forestry Association.