Harper, Robert Almer, 1862-1946.

Scope and Contents

The collection comprises materials relating to his professional career as a research botanist, including correspondence with scientific colleagues, photographs, lectures and notes, and materials on the Tropical Plant Research Foundation.

Scope and Contents The Charles Thom collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, research notes, an index card file of mycological literature, photographs, negatives, drawings, and personal papers. It covers his USDA career with the Bureau of Chemistry from 1913 to his retirement in 1942 and post-retirement years to 1953. The bulk of his correspondence falls during the period he was Head of the Division of Soil Microbiology from 1928 with a wide range of mycologists and microbiologists in academia,...