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Jack R. & Harry V. Harlan Papers (Digital Surrogates)
8/20/84; 10/25/85; 2/28/86, 7/9/2009
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Papers of Jack R. Harlan (1917-1998), Professor of Agronomy & Plant Genetics (1966-84), member of Crop Evolution Laboratory staff (1967-84) & USDA Near Eastern expeditions (1948, 1960), & Professor of Agronomy, Okla. State Univ. (1950-66), including Harlan's Grasslands of Oklahoma (ca. 1957, unpubl.) & dissertation "A Survey of the Genetic Variability in the Bromus carinatus Complex" (1942); collection lists, field notes & photographs from 1948 expedition to Turkey, Syria, Iraq, & Lebanon, 1960-61 expedition to Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, & Ethiopia, & 1967-72 expeditions to Africa, India, Australia, & the Philippines. The series includes genetics research correspondence about barley, corn, rice, & sorghum, recommendations for employment & awards, identifications of samples, responses to inquiries from anthropologists, correspondence with botanists & agronomists about the origin, evolution & dissemination of sorghum, wheat, barley, maize, & sesame; classification & numbering of collection, conservation of genetic materials, international cooperation, disease resistance, origins of Southwest Asian agriculture & USDA quarantine policies. Correspondents include George Beadle, Otto Frankel (Div. of Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia), J.B. Hawkes (Univ. of Birmingham), C.A. Reed (Univ. of IL-Chicago), Daniel Zohary (Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem) & Leon Croizat (Caracas, Venezuela). The series includes correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, & publications of Harry V. Harlan, USDA Agronomist (1909-44), relating to barley, crop exploration, & production & travel in the Philippines (1906-09); Peru (1913-14); Eastern Europe (1919); Algeria, India, & Ethiopia (1923); Necholai I. Vavilov & research stations in AZ & ID. This series also includes a VHS videotape copy of a film showing the construction of the addition (1977) to the Physics Research Laboratory.
Papers of Jack R. Harlan (1917- ), Professor of Agronomy & Plant Genetics (1966-84), member of Crop Evolution Laboratory staff (1967-84) & USDA Near Eastern expeditions (1948, 1960), & Professor of Agronomy, Okla. State Univ. (1950-66), including manuscripts, collection lists, field notes, photographs, genetics research correspondence about barley, corn, rice, & sorghum, recommendations for employment & awards, identifications of samples, responses to inquiries from anthropologists, correspondence with botanists & agronomists about the origin, evolution & dissemination of sorghum, wheat, barley, maize, & sesame; classification & numbering of collection, conservation of genetic materials, international cooperation, disease resistance, origins of Southwest Asian agriculture & USDA quarantine policies.
This folder contains the complete bibliography of Jack R. Harlan as produced by T.H. Hymowitz [Plant Breeding Reviews 8:1-17, 1990] and updated and edited by Dorothea Bedigian in 1998. The digital bibliography which contains a list of the articles by Jack R. Harlan the the University of Illinois Archives holds as part of the Harry V. and Jack R. Harlan Papers and can be accessed via the following link: http://www.library.illinois.edu/archives/uasfa/0806025supplement.pdf
These publications refer to subjects of study undertaken by Jack R. Harlan, although the publications are not authored by him.
These publications refer to subjects of study undertaken by Jack R. Harlan, although the publications are not authored by him.
These publications refer to subjects of study undertaken by Jack R. Harlan, although the publications are not authored by him.
These publications refer to subjects of study undertaken by Jack R. Harlan, although the publications are not authored by him.
by Jack R. Harlan (unpublished)
Includes several letters debating the origin and dispersal of maize and a reprint of Croizat article, "A Note on the Origin of Zea Mays."
Includes correspondence with Ann Stemler (Davis, California) concerning "hazards and pitfalls" archaeobotany and assorted identifications of samples sent to Crop Evolution Laboratory
Includes numbered listings from 1948 Near East expedition
University of Illinois A.I.D. Project, Contract A.I.D. / Afr-293
Harlan Doctoral Dissertation (Department of Genetics, University of California)
Correspondents include faculty of University College of Ibadan, Nigeria, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Contains correspondence with K.C. Change (Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University) concerning the domestication of the peanut in China
Includes Harlan's review of Ping-Ti Ho's The Cradle of the East: An Inquiry into the Indigenous Origins of Techniques and Ideas of Neolithic and Early Historic China 5000-1000 B.C.
Includes correspondence with Charles Reed (University of Illinois-Chicago Circle) and Fred Wendorf (Southern Methodist University) concerning the origins of domesticated barley
Includes letters of recommendation for employment and awards, correspondence concerning student research, and invitations to present papers.
Includes letter to Vice Chancellor E.L. Goldwasser urging that the World Heritage Museum not be downgraded or dispersed.
Includes Harlan's "Social and Ethical Dimensions of Plant and Animal Genetic Research with Respect to Food and Environment" (4 pp.)
Includes correspondence with Robert Braidwood (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) concerning "weed" and "wild" barley and with Daniel Zohary (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) concerning findings of Iranian visits. Also includes Harlan's "The Origin and Evolution of Cultivated Plants" which proposes a laboratory for biosystematic studies.
Includes correspondence with Theodore Buila (Southern Illinois University) concerning the bringing of seed materials into the U.S. and with Stanley Jensen (Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company) concerning temperature response in selection, Njala University College Terminal report, 1968
Includes correspondence with O.H. Frankel (International Biological Programme, Canberra City, Australia) concerning conservation of genetic materials and with Charles Brown (College of Agriculture, University of Illinois) concerning the need for a research facility in the tropics
Includes correspondence with H.I. Oka (National Institute of Genetics, Misima, Japan) concerning the history of sorghum in Africa and China and with David Timothy concerning the collection and maintenance of germ plasm
Includes correspondence with Walton Galinat (University of Massachusetts-Waltham) concerning the "tripartite hypothesis" of the origin of maize
Includes correspondence with George Beadle concerning teocintle in Mexico
Includes correspondence with L.F. Randolf concerning maize-Tripsacum derivatives and with C.F. Konzak concerning collecting difficulties in Ethiopia
Includes background paper ("Exploration: Africa") used as a research proposal and list of Chinese rice varieties obtained on China trip by Harlan and N.C. Brady. Also includes correspondence with Peter Lawrence (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad, India) concerning numbering systems for accessions, with Richard Frederickson (Texas A & M University) concerning effects of USDA quarantine policies on germ plasm supplies, and with Peter Jennings (Centro International De Agricultura Tropical) concerning centers of origin and the success of exotic crops
Includes correspondence with Frank Press (Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, National Academy of Sciences) concerning future scholarly exchanges and topics for exploration, with Ali Kambel (Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, England) concerning Sudanese sorghums, and with K.H. Asay (Utach State University concerning grass breeding
Includes Harlan biographical sketch prepared for Agronomy Journal and correspondence with C.R. Vinycomb concerning naked barleys
Includes review copy of Domenic Fuccillo's "What is a Weed?" and correspondence with Victor Patino (Cali, Columbia) concerning possible maize-Tripsacum interaction
Includes Harlan letter to Edward Browning Award Committee recommending Earnest Sears and correspondence with D. Brezhev (Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry, Leningrad) concerning problems in preserving Vavilov collections
Includes correspondence with Haldore Hanson (Londres, Mexico) concerning inadequacy of U.S. plant genetics resources program and with Fred Miller (Texas A & M University) concerning twin-seeded sorghum and origins of sorghum. Also includes assorted correspondence relating to Crop Evolution Laboratory study of sesame.
Includes correspondence with Anatolii Martynov (Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, D.C.) concerning possible shared research interests between Crop Evolution Laboratory and colleagues in USSR
Includes correspondence with Patrick Hayes (University of Minnesota) concerning synchrous flowering in wild rice, with Richard Matthews (British Broadcasting Corporation) concerning "The Living Planet" series, and with Malla Padidan (University of Saskatchewan) concerning "Plant Breeding in 2000 AD"
USDA expedition to Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon
USDA expedition to Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon
USDA expedition to Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon
USDA expedition to Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon; 6241-6500 are missing
USDA expedition to Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon
34 booklets form USDA expedition to Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Ethiopia
1 Field Notebook
by Jack Harlan
by Jack Harlan
Photographs, Map of Ethiopia
by Jack Harlan
Accepted but never published
Speech given at University of Kentucky, Lexington
Papers of Harry V. Harlan, USDA Agronomist (1909-44), includes correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and publications relating to barley, crop exploration, production and travel in the Philippines (1906-09), Peru (1913-14), Eastern Europe (1919), Algeria, India, and Ethiopia (1923), Necholai I. Vavilov, and research stations in Arizona and Idaho.
Kansas State transcript, Philippine teaching position, photographs and accounts, USDA plant breeding assistant appointment (1909)
W. Spillman, letters from Macedonia (1913) and Mexico/South America (1915)
Service in Europe as an agronomist to study wheat production problems, supplies and demands in cooperation with the United States Food Administration and the American Relief Administration, England, France, battlefield tours, Mt. Cenis Pass, Turin, Venice, Trieste, Croatia, Slavonia, Belgrade, Hungary, Temisvar, Bucharest (Rumania), Transylvania, Bukovina, Galicia, Moravia, Austria, Bohemia, Germany, Belgium, letters & official documents
"The Wheat and Rye Crops of Europe, 1919", 20 pp. manuscript and four page memo on method of computing probable yields in Eastern Europe
Barley studies, letters and diary
Cairo, Poona, Ganderfal (Kashmir), Srinagar, Indian Ocean travel
Letters and reports on barley
Amharic documents, letters fro Haile Selassie
Amharic letter, manuscripts "An Agricultural Adventure in Punjab and Kashmir"
Family news and travel
N.I. Vavilov (Leningrad)
Service as agricultural expert for the Peruvian Corporation, rail travel, exploration, crops, Arequipa (October 29-November 6), Juliaca (November 7-March 8), Cuzco, notes on vegetation and topography, November 4-8, 1913, barley plantings, Indians, Christmas customs and travel (December 2-January 6), Juliaca & Lake Titicaca, Andes & Peru, railroads, Cuzco, Sicuani, barley plantings, plants, houses, travel, Incan buildings & legends (February 7-March 16, 1914)
Four volumes
2 volumes with transcriptions - Acquitania to Southampton. London & Paris, Verdun battlefield. Rheims & Soissons. Lyon. Turin (May 26) & Venice. May 31-June 3--travel from Trieste to Belgrade. Transylvania. Bucharest (June 11). Auto trouble. Lemberg (June 19). Refugees. Anti-Semitism. Warsaw (June 22-25). Germany. Netherlands. July 8--return to Paris after 5000 mile auto trip in 46 days. France, Italy, Croatia, Slavonia, Serbia, Banat, Transylvania, Rumania, Bukovina, Galicia, Poland, Germany, Holland, Belgium
Paris to Marseilles and Algiers. Camel riding. Cairo (May 2-10). Egyptian horticultural station. Bombay & Poona, India (May 25-June 3). Simla & Kashmir. Addis Ababa (November 3) and Modjo (November 15). Travel in Ethiopia (December 16, 1923-February 10, 1924). Teff fields, churches.
Sandwich Islands Mission (1816): Arabic phrasebook
New York and North Africa
VHS videotape dub of movie of construction
Missouri politics, Indians, farmers letters of J.C. Spees
Aberdeen, Idaho, Shaw's Ranch
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Article from National Geographic Magazine