Frederick C. Steward papers, 1921-1973.
Collection Number: 53-2-1592
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Frederick C. Steward papers, 1921-1973.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
53-2-1592
Abstract:
Papers of Frederick C. Campion, a botanist and plant physiologist who held teaching
and research positions at the University of Leeds, the University of Rochester, the
University of California at Berkeley, and Cornell University, where he was instrumental
in the development of the Biological Sciences Division of the New York State College
of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Creator:
Steward, F. C. (Frederick Campion), 1904-
Krikorian, Abraham D.
Quanitities:
11.1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Frederick Campion Steward, a botanist and plant physiologist, was an assistant lecturer
at the University of Leeds; did research at the University of Rochester; was a Rockefeller
Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley and Cornell University; and later,
as a professor at Cornell, was instrumental in the development of the Biological Sciences
Division of the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell
University. He would later become a Scholar-in-Residence at the State University of
New York at Stony Brook.
Collection includes papers documenting Steward's research work at the University of
Rochester and its funding through industry and foundations; course lists and other
material relating to botany and plant physiology; student and staff files; reprints
and research reports; correspondence; papers concerning invitational lectures, Steward's
activities involving the development of the Biological Division at Cornell University,
and his interest in creating controlled environments for plant cultivation and experimentation
at Cornell; Corson Committee materials; records pertaining to the National Cancer
Institute and the National Institutes of Health; and other papers of Frederick Campion
Steward, including audiotape interviews. Includes transcript of an oral memoir (1985)
made at the request of Abraham D. Krikorian.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Frederick C. Steward papers, #53-2-1592. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Access to Boxes 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 restricted to the permission of the University Archivist.
Names:
Cornell University -- : Planning.
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Division of Biological Sciences
New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- : Buildings.
New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- : Faculty.
New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- : Funds and scholarships.
University of Rochester -- : Funds and scholarships.
University of Rochester -- : Graduate work.
National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Subjects:
Plant physiologists.
Botanists.
Research -- Finance.
Plant physiology.
Botany.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 |
F. C. Steward at Rochester
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Scope and Contents
Classified file documenting establishment of various lines of scientific work, later
developed at Cornell; pattern of research support through industry and Foundations
commenced; "school" or work and thought, with graduate students, research associates
and technicians began to emerge even though he was heavily occupied with teaching
all aspects of botany to classes in the post war years; period during which his contacts
with science and scientists in the USA became so close he did not return to England,
as expected; reprint file and bibliographies in Box 2
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| Box 2 |
F. C. Steward at Rochester
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Scope and Contents
Classified file documenting establishment of various lines of scientific work, later
developed at Cornell; pattern of research support through industry and Foundations
commenced; "school" or work and thought, with graduate students, research associates
and technicians began to emerge even though he was heavily occupied with teaching
all aspects of botany to classes in the post war years; period during which his contacts
with science and scientists in the USA became so close he did not return to England,
as expected; reprint file and bibliographies in Box 2
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| Box 3 |
Restricted
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| Box 4 |
Restricted
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| Box 5 |
General file
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Scope and Contents
General file containing materials relating to a variety of Cornell activities and
professional work: (a) invitational lectures; (b) interest in developing facilities
for controlled environments for the growth of plants (This ante-dated, and led up
to, the existing installations on Tower Road.); (c) concern for, and discontent with,
the status of plant physiology in the Botany Department and the College of Agriculture
and various efforts to improve this through interdepartmental programs, a graduate
field of Plant Physiology, and eventually resulting in a Rockefeller Grant of $250,000;
(d) Botany and Plant Physiology courses and record books (3) covering topics and attendance
at his Plant Physiology seminar; (e) correspondence with department chairmen of Botany,
and with the Dean and Directors of the College of Agriculture
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| Box 6 |
General file
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Scope and Contents
General file containing materials relating to a variety of Cornell activities and
professional work: (a) invitational lectures; (b) interest in developing facilities
for controlled environments for the growth of plants (This ante-dated, and led up
to, the existing installations on Tower Road.); (c) concern for, and discontent with,
the status of plant physiology in the Botany Department and the College of Agriculture
and various efforts to improve this through interdepartmental programs, a graduate
field of Plant Physiology, and eventually resulting in a Rockefeller Grant of $250,000;
(d) Botany and Plant Physiology courses and record books (3) covering topics and attendance
at his Plant Physiology seminar; (e) correspondence with department chairmen of Botany,
and with the Dean and Directors of the College of Agriculture
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| Box 8 |
Restricted
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| Box 9 |
Restricted
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| Box 7 |
Restricted
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| Box 10 |
Early research reports as submitted to the Dean and Directors of the College of Agriculture
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Date unknown | |
| Box 10 | Folder 6 |
National Cancer Institute and NIH reports and papers
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1952-1962 |
| Box 11 |
Lecture notes taken at Leeds relating to B. Sc. Honours Degree in Chemistry
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1921-1924 | |
| Box 12 |
Transcript
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Date unknown | |
| Tape Recording 7196a7197a7198a7199a7200a | tr. 7196-7200 |
5 audiotape interview cassettes
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Date unknown |