Leonard A. Maynard papers, 1940-1971.
Collection Number: 29-1-292

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Leonard A. Maynard papers, 1940-1971.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
29-1-292
Abstract:
Papers documenting Maynard's career at Cornell, including his involvement in establishing the School of Nutrition.
Creator:
Maynard, L. A. (Leonard Amby), 1887-1972.
Quanitities:
6.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Biochemistry and Nutrition; director of the School of Nutition,1941-1955; special consultant to the U.S. Interdepartmental Committee for Nutrition and National Defense.
After receiving his Ph.D. in chemistry from Cornell University in 1915 Leonard Amby Maynard was appointed assistant professor in the College of Agriculture there. In 1934 he served as visiting professor at the University of Nanking, China, and assisted in a survey of the nutrition of the Chinese farm family. At Cornell he directed the Animal Nutrition Laboratory and the U.S. Plant, Soil, and Nutrition Laboratory. He was named commissioner in charge of nutrition for the New York State Emergency Food Commission during World War II., and late in 1947 was appointed to a new food commission established by Governor Thomas E. Dewey. He wrote ANIMAL NUTRITION (1937); coauthored BETTER DAIRY FARMING with Elmer S. Savage; and wrote numerous publications on biochemistry and nutrition.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Included are administrative papers pertaining to four executive positions held by Professor Maynard (1940-49): director of the U.S. Plant, Soil, and Nutrition Laboratory, New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (1940-45); director of the School of Nutrition, Cornell University (1941-49); head of the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, N.Y.S. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (1945-49); and head of the Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, N.Y.S. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (1940-49). Includes correspondence dealing with the establishment (1941) of the School of Nutrition and efforts to obtain financial support for it, administrative matters, nutrition research, the London Nutrition Conference (1951) and other professional meetings, Maynard's lecture invitations, and his evaluation of scientific manuscripts sent him; inquiries from individuals and institutions, with Maynard's replies, chiefly concerning the nutritive value of milk and enriched bread and of butter as opposed to margarine; and notes (June 1941) from discussions with President Edmund Ezra Day on the establishment of the School and notes (1951, 1952) relating to its present and future programs. Correspondents include Sanford S. Atwood, Howard E. Babcock, Cornelis W. de Kiewiet, Edward R. Eastman, Willard I. Emerson, Anson W. Gibson, David Birney Hand, Herman E. Hilleboe, Asa S. Knowles, Deane W. Malott, William I. Myers, Weyland Pfeiffer, and Fred Sexauer.
Also, an interview (47-2-O.H. 31, 114 page typescript) conducted in 1963 in six sessions by Gould P. Colman, in which Maynard discusses his graduate work, the establishment of a chemical laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry, research and graduate instruction, nutrition studies at other institutions in the 1920s, work on open formula feeds and other studies done with the GLF (Cooperative Grange League Federation Exchange, Inc., now Agway), the administration of the U.S. Plant, Soil, and Nutrition Laboratory at Cornell, the development and administration of the Department of Biochemistry and the School of Nutrition, nutrition practices and study in China in 1934, England during World War II., Germany at the end of the war, and Central America and elsewhere following his retirement, the work of ICA and FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), and his association with H. E. Babcock, J. Lossing Buck, Lewis Knudson, Albert R. Mann, and Elmer Seth Savage.
RELATED MATERIALS

Includes collection #21-1-292.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Cite As:

Leonard A. Maynard papers, #29-1-292. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Atwood, Sanford S.
Babcock, H. E. (Howard Edward), 1889-1950.
Buck, John Lossing, 1890-1975.
Day, Edmund Ezra, 1883-1951.
De Kiewiet, C. W. (Cornelius William), 1902-1986.
Eastman, Edward R.
Emerson, Willard I.
Gibson, Anson Wright, 1892-1977.
Hand, David Birney.
Hilleboe, Herman E.
Knowles, Asa S.
Knudson, Lewis, 1884-1958.
Malott, Deane Waldo, 1898-
Mann, Albert Russell, 1880-1947.
Myers, William I.
Pfeiffer, Weyland.
Savage, Elmer Seth.
Sexauer, Fred H.
Cooperative Grange League Federation Exchange
Cornell University. School of Nutrition
New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition
New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Department of Animal Husbandry
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
U.S. Plant, Soil, and Nutrition Laboratory
Places:
China.
Subjects:
Nutrition -- Germany.
Nutrition -- England.
Nutrition -- China.
Nutrition -- Central America.
Biochemistry.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1
Correspondence, A-Z
Box 2
School of Nutrition correspondence, A-Z
 1941-1949
Box 3
School of Nutrition files: Research reports done for Consolidation Edison Co.
Box 3
Correspondence of Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, A-Z
Box 4
Biochemistry and nutrition correspondence, files A-W
Box 4
Leonard A. Maynard's manuscripts for publication; correspondence and publications of various organizations and subjects
Box 5 Folder 1
ICNND - Finance records
Box 5 Folder 2
Leung
 1971
Box 5 Folder 3
Food composition - Africa
Southeast Asia
Box 5 Folder 4
Nutrition history - Reprints
Box 5 Folder 5
Food composition - Far East
Box 5 Folder 6
Outline, references, biographical sources
Box 5 Folder 7
Early history
Box 5 Folder 8
History - Organizations - Journals S.N. 520
Box 5 Folder 9
Energy metabolism, animal calorimetry
Box 5 Folder 10
Proteins and amino acids
Box 5 Folder 11
Digestion, feeding standards
Box 5 Folder 12
Calcium and phosphorus
Box 5 Folder 13
Other minerals
Box 5 Folder 14
Vitamins
Box 5 Folder 15
Miscellaneous notes not Included in lectures
Box 5 Folder 16
Aristotle and others
History of Nutrition Course - Background
Box 5 Folder 17
Biographies
Box 5 Folder 18
Introduction
Box 5 Folder 19
Professor Verzar
Box 5 Folder 20
Miscellaneous correspondence - McCay
Box 5 Folder 21
Library call numbers, etc.
Box 5 Folder 22
McCay history (miscellaneous related notes)
Box 5 Folder 23
Mrs. C.M. McCay
Box 5 Folder 24
Food Commission
Box 5 Folder 25
Letters of transmittal and replies - History of the School
Box 5 Folder 26
Miscellaneous correspondence
Box 5 Folder 27
Food enrichment
Box 5 Folder 28
Babcock Memorial Fund - DeGraff as Professor
Box 5 Folder 29
Notes from L.A.M. archives
Box 5 Folder 30
Savage Hall construction and dedication
Box 5 Folder 31
Data on beginnings
Box 5 Folder 32
Frozen food research
Box 5 Folder 33
State Appropriation Fund-Raising Program
Box 5 Folder 34
Geer Research Fellowship
Box 5 Folder 35-36
Early Years of the Graduate School of Nutrition at Cornell, by Leonard A. Maynard
 1941-1956
Box 5 Folder 37
Miscellaneous documents and summaries
History of School
Box 5 Folder 38
History - Comments of reviewers
Box 5 Folder 39
Maynard. Report of Chairman of Standing Committee on Nutrition, Ninth Pacific Science Congress
Box 5 Folder 40
UK System vs. Atwater, S and D article, letters to Matt
 1970-1971
Box 5 Folder 41
History of Institute of Nutrition - Correspondence
Box 5 Folder 42
American Institute of Nutrition
Box 5 Folder 43
Animal efficiency
Box 5 Folder 44
Wesleyan
Box 5 Folder 45
Ab antibiotics
Box 5 Folder 46
Data from Stevens on cellulose metabolism
Box 5 Folder 47
Medlar's bibliography on cellulose metabolism
Box 5 Folder 48
Calcitonin
Box 5 Folder 49
Calcium Phosphorous CaP
Box 5 Folder 50
Carbohydrates CAR
Box 5 Folder 51
The Calorie Content of Urine of Human Beings and the Estimation of Metabolizable Energy of Foodstuffs
Box 5 Folder 52
Energy-yielding components of food and computation of calorie values
Box 5 Folder 53
Notes on calculation of energy values
 1965-1971
Box 5 Folder 54
EN energetics (animals)
Box 5 Folder 55
EN discussion of the terms digestibility, availability and fuel value. W.O. Atwater Storrs Report, 1899
Box 5 Folder 56
Available carbohydrates Atwater System of calculating the caloric value of diets
Box 5 Folder 57
Food standards
Box 5 Folder 58
FF feeds, foods
Box 5 Folder 59
Physiology - Pathology PP
Box 5 Folder 60
Protein P
Box 5 Folder 61
Reproduction
Box 5 Folder 62
S.P.N. Soil - Plant - Nutrition
Box 5 Folder 63
Guide to terminology in Biomedical Res.
Box 5 Folder 64
Teaching T
Box 5 Folder 65
Vitamin D VD
Box 5 Folder 66
V
Box 5 Folder 67
Vitamin E VE
Box 5 Folder 68
VPan. Pantothenic Acid
Box 5 Folder 69
VCH Choline
Box 5 Folder 70
Vitamin B6
Box 5 Folder 71
Vitamin A VA
Box 5 Folder 72
Vitamin B VB
Box 5 Folder 73
Vitamin B12 VB12
Box 5 Folder 74
Vitamins V
Box 5 Folder 75
Michigan studies of soil effect on milk SPN
Box 5 Folder 76
Water
Box 6 Folder 1
Miscellaneous correspondence and documents
 1941-1952
Box 6 Folder 1A.
Correspondence, some 1950, 1952 included
Box 6 Folder 2
Application Lilly Endowment, Inc; 813 Merch. Bk. Bld., Indianapolis 4, Ind. (weight and nutrition 1951)
Box 6 Folder 3
118th American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, Philadelphia and correspondence
 1951
Box 6 Folder 3B.
Nutrition correspondence
 1950-1951
Box 6 Folder 3C.
Correspondence
 1951
Box 6 Folder 4
Cornell Nutrition Feed Conference, Buffalo
 1951
Box 6 Folder 4D.
Correspondence
 1951
Box 6 Folder 4E.
E.R. Eastman (American Agriculturist) W.I. Emerson, Vice President, University Development
 1951
Box 6 Folder 5
Emerson- Fundraising program
 1951-1952
Box 7 Folder 5F.
Foster, Edward S., General Secretary New York State Farm Bureau Federation, Ithaca. Federal Security Agency, Public Health Service, application for grant
 1951
Box 7 Folder 6
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Chicago
 1951
Box 7 Folder 6G.
Correspondence
 1951
Box 7 Folder 7
Gibson, A.W., Director Resident Instruction, Roberts Hall
 1951
Box 7 Folder 8
Guterman, C.E.F., Director Agricultural Experiment Station, Roberts Hall
 1951
Box 7 Folder 9
Hoblitzelle Award, New York Regional Committee
 1950-1951
Box 7 Folder 10
Harrell Heath News- Albany. Nutritional broadsides
 1951
Box 7 Folder 11
Dr. David B. Hand, Agricultural Experiment Station
1951
Box 7 Folder 11H.
Correspondence
 1951
Box 7 Folder 11J.
Correspondence
 1951
Box 7 Folder 11K.
Correspondence
 1951
Box 7 Folder 11L.
Correspondence
 1951
Box 7 Folder 12
London Conference
 1951-01-1951-02
Box 7 Folder 13
London Conference
 1951-11-1951-12
Box 7 Folder 13M.
Correspondence
 1951-1952
Box 7 Folder 13Mc.
Correspondence
 1951
Box 7 Folder 14
Manuscripts and correspondence
 1950-1951
Box 7 Folder 15
Dean W.I. Myers correspondence
 1951
Box 7 Folder 16
Memoranda
 1951
Box 8 Folder 17
Professor L.C. Norris
 1951
Box 8 Folder 17N.
Correspondence
 1951
Box 8 Folder 17O.
Correspondence
 1951
Box 8 Folder 17P.
Correspondence
 1951
Box 8 Folder 18
Correspondence with President, Malott, D.W.; Act. Wright, T.P.; act. de Kiewiet, C.W.
1951
Box 8 Folder 19
Weyland Pfeiffer correspondence
 1951
Box 8 Folder 19R.
Correspondence
 1951
Box 8 Folder 19S.
Correspondence
 1951-1952
Box 8 Folder 20
Science service
 1951
Box 8 Folder 21
Professor Sumner, J.B.
 1951
Box 8 Folder 22
Symposium- School lunch program
 1951
Box 8 Folder 23
Francis H. Scheetz- Ozonizers
 1946-1951
Box 8 Folder 24
Task force- School
 1950
Box 8 Folder 25
Incoming telegrams
 1949-1951
Box 8 Folder 26
Outgoing telegrams
 1949-1951
Box 8 Folder 26V.
Correspondence
 1949-1950
Box 8 Folder 27
Correspondence Dean E.L. Vincent
 1949-1950
Box 8 Folder 27W.
Correspondence
 1950-1951
Box 8 Folder 27Y.
Correspondence
 1951
Box 8 Folder 27Z.
Correspondence
 1951
Box 9
"Early Years of the graduate School of Nutrition at Cornell, 1941-1956 ." Published by the Graduate School of Nutrition, Cornell University, in 1968, giving a history of the establishment of the School of Nutrition in 1941. 104 page pamphlet
 1941-1956
Box 9
Historical notes by Leonard Maynard (copy)
 1950-1069, 1950-1969
Box 9
Letter, Howard E. Babcock to James McConnell concerning the School of Nutrition
 1950-02-09
Box 10
1 folder of correspondence
 1964-1969
Box 10
Partial reprint set of L.A. Maynard's articles
 1918, 1928-1963
Transcript Box 1 - O.H. 31 47-2-O.H. 31
Transcript of interview with Maynard by Gould Colman
 1963-02-19
Scope and Contents
Also listed in guide for collection #13-6-428
Biographical material
Box 9
Fifty-five page manuscript "Diary of Army Service" written by Maynard
 1917
Scope and Contents
Accounting of Maynard's years as a member of American Expeditionay Forces in WWI, including photographs and telegram concerning his official commission.
Box 9
Text transcript of the diary made by husband of Maynard's granddaughter, Roger Ferlo
 2018
Box 9
Photographs
 1917-1919
Scope and Contents
All photographs are of Maynard in military uniform, including a wedding photo.
Box 9
Document appointing Maynard a First Lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare Service
1917-09-21
Box 9
Document appointing Maynard a Captain in the Chemical Warfare Service of the U.S. Army
 1918-09-09
Box 9
Document appointing Maynard a Major in Chemical Warfare Service of the U.S. Army
 1919-02-27
Box 9
Document appointing Maynard a Major in the Chemical Warfare Service of the Officers' Reserve Corp.
 1921-02-03
Box 9
Two letters of commendation to Maynard from Chief of Chemical Warfare Services
 1919-06-03, 1919-06-17
Box 9
Honorable discharge from military service
 1919-07-28
Box 9
Correspondence from Maynard to his father, Edward Maynard
 1918-01-06-1918-02-22
Box 9
Correspondence from Maynard to his sister, Harriet Maynard
 1918-02-01-1919-04-26
Box 9
Photograph of Maynard in China when he was a visiting professor
1934
Box 9
Letter to Maynard from Dwight Eisenhower
1956-11-09
Scope and Contents
Letter thanking Maynard for his service as a member of the Committee of the Arts and Sciences.
Box 9
Invitation to Eisenhower and Nixon inauguration
1957-01-01
Box 9
Honorary doctorate conferred by Wesleyan University
1945-06-24
Scope and Contents
Includes text for its presentation.
Box 9
Honorary doctorate conferred by the University of Rhode Island
 1958-06-09
Scope and Contents
Includes text for its presentation.