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Papers of Orland E. White, Accession #12767-a, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
These papers were originally deposited by Mr. O. E.
White in the Manuscripts Department of the University of
Virginia Library. The several dates of deposit, as well as
the Manuscripts Accession Number assigned to each, are as
follows:
July 5, 1948 2978
June 8, 1950 2978-c
June 21, 1950 2927-d
July 5, 1955 2978-e
Feb. 16, 1968 2978- f.
Mr. White's daughters, Mrs. Winchester and Mrs. James
Quarles, donated the papers to the University of Virginia
in January and July of 1982.
White, Orland Emile, biologist; b. Sibley, Ia. B. S., S. D. State College, 1909, M.S., 1911; M.S., Harvard, 1912; Sc.D., Bussey Instin. of Harvard, 1913: m. Loto Rollinstall Underwood, July, 1913; children - Margaret Underwood (Mrs. Dean Winchester), Prudence Wayne (Mrs. James Quarles). Nurseryman, Yankton, S.D., 1904; research asst., S.D. State College and experiment station, 1909-1910, instr. in botany, 1910-11; lab. teaching asst. in botany, Radcliffe Coll., 1912, in genetics, 1913; asst. curator plant breeding Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1913-1915, curator, 1916-1924, curator plant breeding and economic plants, 1914-1927; collaborator U.S. Dept. of Agr., 1915-18, 1919-1923, specialist, 1918-1919; botanist Mulford Exploration of Amazon Basin Expedition, 1921-1922; prof. agrl. biology and dir. Blandy Experimental Farm, U. of Va., since 1927; research scholar, U.S. Ednl. Found. In Burma and vis. prof., Univ. Coll., Mandalay and U. of Rangoon, 1950-1951, Fellow A.A.A.S.; mem. Nat. Research Council com. on fellowships in biology and agr., 1943-1945, chmn. panel on botany, growth com., med. div., 1945-1946; mem. Botanical Soc. of Am. (editorial bd., 1920-1921, council mem. genetics sectn., 1928, chmn, southeastern sect., 1943-1945), Am. Naturalist, Am. Genetics Assn., Genetics Soc. of Am., Tenn. Acad. Science, Washington Acad. Science, Va. Acad. Science (chmn. biol. sect., 1931), Rock Garden Soc. of Am. (chmn South Atlantic region, 1936-1938, 1941-43), John Burroughs Memorial Assn. (2d vice president, 1925-28, mem. bd. dirs. since 1928), Sigma XI. Clubs: Genetics (pres. 1944-1946), Harvard (Washington); Explorer's. Author numerous articles on plant genetics and cytology, origin of cultivated plants, cytogenetics of pisum, biology of fasciation, temperature tolerance in relation to mutation and geog. distribution. Mem. ed. bd. Am. Jour. of Botany, 1920-1921; editor genetics sect. of round table conf. on agr. and population increase, Inst. of Politics, Williamstown, Mass., 1925; rep. Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Inst. for Research in Tropical Am., 1923-27. (from Who's Who in America)
The Orland E. White papers consist of ca. 4000 items (ca. 6 linear feet), 1902-1955, concerning all aspects of White's life as a professor, researcher, scientist, explorer, and husband. The collection includes correspondence, articles, reviews, research notes, a typescript and illustrations for Economic Plants, his journal of the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Basin, and student applications for Blandy Experimental Farm. Most of the material dates from White's years as Curator of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (1916-1927) and as director of the Blandy Experimental Farm (1927-1955), although a number of items date from White's college years at South Dakota State College (ca. 1905-1909) and the Bussey Institution of Harvard University (1909-1913). Included in the correspondence are letters to and from the eminent naturalist John Burroughs.
Correspondents include Clara Barrus, Albert Francis Blakeslee, Charles Thomas Brues, Charles Stuart Gager, Lincoln Constance, Raymond Adams Butcher, Edward Murray East, Walter Samuel Flory, Montague Free, Lulu Odell Gaiser, Roman Kenk, Hui-Lin Li, Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf, Samuel Lewis Meyer, Bruce Dodson Reynolds, Harold Archie Senn, Hiram Miller Showalter, George Harrison Shull, Edmund Ware Sennott, Marion Storm, Charles Fletcher Swingle, James Herbert Taylor, Norman Taylor, Raymond Leech Taylor, Frans Verdoon, Edward Norris Wentworth, and Thomas W. Whitaker.
Additional papers of O. E. White can be found under 6/9/2.831, Administrative files of the directors, vice-directors and acting directors of the Blandy Experimental Farm ... 1926-1974.
The collection consists of 15 Hollinger boxes. White's arrangement, with slight modifications, has been maintained. The papers are arranged alphabetically within the following series: I. Correspondence re John Burrough, II. Personal and General Correspondence, III. Articles, Reviews, and Manuscripts, and IV. Blandy Experimental Farm Correspondence.