15/4/21 Guide to the Charles F. Hottes Papers Charles F. Hottes Papers

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Guide to the Charles F. Hottes Papers 1891/1965 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Charles F. Hottes Papers 1891-1912, 1919-40, 1951-65 15/4/21 Hottes, Charles F., 1870-1966 6.00 English University of Illinois Archives
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Biographical Information:

Charles Frederick Hottes (1870-1966) was instructor of botany (1901-02); assistant professor of botany (1902-13); professor of plant physiology (1913-38); head of the Department of Botany (1928-38); and professor emeritus (1938-66) at the University of Illinois (UI). He was widely respected in the field of cellular plant physiology and was an early practitioner in experimental plant cytology.

Hottes was born July 8, 1870, in Mascoutah, Illinois. He earned a bachelor's degree (1894) and a master's degree (1895) at UI where he also worked as a botany assistant from 1895 to 1898. He then attended the Universität Bonn in Germany where he earned a PhD (1901). In 1901, Hottes returned to UI as an instructor in botany and remained there for the rest of his career. Hottes's research interests included wheat germination and experimental plant cytology. In 1932, he received the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award.

Hottes married Flora Guth on August 25, 1895, and together they had a daughter, Flora Emily.

Sources:

"History," Department of Plant Biology (UIUC), accessed April 28, 2020, https://sib.illinois.edu/plantbio/history.

"Notes," Plant Physiology 8, no. 1 (January 1933): 173. Accessed April 29, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.8.1.173.

Access Terms

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Genre/Form of Material: Papers Topical Term: Botany Cypress Trees Cytology Faculty Papers Glacier National Park, Montana Guatemala -- History and Government Lumber Industry Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado Microscopy Music -- Mexico -- History and Geography Plant Physiology Student Life Trees University of Bonn World War I -- Intelligence, Morale and Propaganda Yellowstone National Park Yosemite National Park, California
Administrative Information Accruals:

1/24/64; 6/17/66; 10/25/74; 2/6/76

Arrangement of Materials:

By type of material (correspondence, photographs & recollections).

Scope and Contents

Papers of Charles F. Hottes '91 (1870-1966), professor of botany (1902-13) and plant physiology (1913-38), including correspondence, photographs and publications relating to university life, Thomas J. Burrill, botanical research, graduate study at Bonn (1898-1901), botany headship (1928) and articles in plant physiology, experimental cytology, corn & wheat (1926-34) & photographs of cypress trees.

The series includes tape-recorded recollections concerning Prof. Hottes student days, a human physiology class, Selim H. Peabody, Thomas J. Burrill, the student military organization, Stephen A. Forbes, compulsory chapel, Andrew S. Draper, Edmund J. James, George T. Kemp, prominent townspeople, Edward Snyder, Bonn and Strassburger, Henry B. Ward, William Trelease, Hottes' lecture technique, David Kinley, Mrs. Edmund James, Arnold Emch & anti-German feeling during World War I, plant physiology instruction, William Crocker & Henry Gleason, first use of microscopes at Illinois, publication and Frank L. Stevens, Alvin C. Beal's seed germination experiment, effect of acids on germination and related topics.

The series also includes travelogue notes, photographs, films and slides of Alaska, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Glacier, Mesa Verde, Yellowstone, & Yosemite National Park.