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.
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.
In part, restricted to permission of donor or Archivist.
Frederick C. Steward papers, #53-2-1592. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.