Harry Nichols Whitford papers

Harry Nichols Whitford, (1872-1941), world authority on the economics of rubber production, received a Ph.D. in plant ecology from the University of Chicago in 1903. Following his graduation, he conducted research in the Philippines and became an authority on the native forests of the islands. His career continued at The Yale School of Forestry where he was appointed assistant professor of Tropical Forestry. Whitford studied also the forests of tropical America, and Malaya and nearby regions. In 1925 he became the manager of the crude rubber division of the Rubber Manufacturers' Association. Whitford died on May 16, 1941 in his seventieth year, in Bronxville, New York.

Six of his publications are in the collection of the New York Botanical Garden Library. The genetic development of the forests of northern Michigan: a study in physiographic ecology (University of Chicago Press, 1901); A preliminary working plan for the public forest tract of the Mindoro Lumber and Logging Company, Bongabon, Mindoro, P.I. (Manila Bureau of Printing, 1906); A preliminary check list of the principal commercial timbers of the Philippine Islands (Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1907); The forests of the Philippines ( Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1911); Forests of British Columbia (Ottawa, 1918); El cultivo del caucho en la America tropical (Union Panamericana, 1927).