Scope and content Silk top hat given by Isaac Roberts to Liberty Hyde Bailey and then passed on to other Deans of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. Documentation includes ten letters relating to the "Dean's Hat"; correspondents include Liberty Hyde Bailey, Carl E. Ladd, Mary Roberts Coolidge, William I. Myers, C. E. Palm, W. Keith Kennedy, Beverly T. Galloway, I. P. Roberts, and Alfred R. Mann. Also, a scroll describing the tradition of the hat. Also a twig pen belonging to...

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Records include routine college and interdepartmental administrative correspondence; correspondence pertaining to commercial forestry, government regulation of forest products industries, conservation, and professional forestry associations; also, correspondence pertaining to the formal exercises at the opening of the Forestry Building at the N.Y.S. College of Agriculture (1914).

Scope and content Includes many letters to Stewart from prominent mycologists and plant pathologists of the day. The remaining correspondence is largely from Stewart to F. A. Sirrine, and deals with plant diseases and experiments then underway. Also, a set of Stewart's publications for the Experiment Station Bulletin and other journals. Correspondents include George F. Atkinson, Charles D. Baker, P. T. Barnes, S. A. Beach, Charles J. Brown, C. P. Close, J. L. Colvin, William L. Deming, J. B. Ellis, G. L....

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Letters, telegrams, and newspaper clippings concerning Galloway's recruitment and service as Director and then Dean of the New York State College of Agriculture. Topics include the College's budget, cases of individual students requiring special consideration, relations with New York State, extension work, and the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva.