Forests and forestry -- South America.

Scope and Contents

The Whitford papers include five bound books of student class notes from the University of Chicago; manuscripts of papers on tropical forest ecology and economics, primarily of Brazil, but including countries of Central America; and field notes from his research in the Philippines (20 vols.), Canada (2 vols.), and Central and South America (4 vols.).

Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, research papers, personal papers, maps, travel memorabilia, audio tape recordings (dictaphone), film (16mm), artifacts, and photographic material which includes positive and negative prints, glass negatives, and color slides. A portion of the photography appears in scrapbooks and bound publications. The collection covers most of Dr. Williams' career including botanical research and fieldwork with the Chicago (Field)...