Bates is Professor Emeritus, Plant Biology (Bailey Hortorium) and former Director of the L. H. Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University.
Includes correspondence and reports about the hortorium and material on Conservation Farming in the Tropical Uplands (CFTU); Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD); the Organization for Tropical Studies and the Society for Economic Botany.
David Bates papers, #34-1-2495. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.