E. Eugene Barker papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 37-5-156

Scope and content

This collection contains papers documenting the work of Elmer Eugene Barker dating 1907-1958. It includes notes, sketches, and lab reports from classes in botany and zoology; "The Eugenics Movement at Cornell" (3 pp.); "The Brook Stickleback" by E. Eugene Barker (1918); miscellaneous photographs; letters, including one from Dr. Barker to A. Bradford Reed describing the relationship between Mrs. Frances Scharf and Dr. Burt Green Wilder, with a copy of Reed's reply, November 1953; an obituary pertaining to Anna Botsford Comstock and John Henry Comstock, professors at Cornell; and news clippings, 1956 and 1958, relating to William F. Friedman (Class of 1914), a leading cryptologist, with two photographs of Friedman taken in the Canal Zone in 1936.

Dates

1907-1918, 1953-1958.

Creator

Barker, E. Eugene, 1887-1964. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Elmer Eugene Barker graduated from Cornell University in 1910, and received a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1914, and served as an Assistant Professor of Plant Breeding.

Extent

.2 cubic feet. (.2 cubic feet.)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

E. Eugene Barker was an Assistant Professor of Plant Breeding at Cornell University. This collection contains notes, sketches, lab reports, as well as miscellaneous photographs, clippings, and letters.