Joseph Charles Arthur papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 22-1-3318

Scope and content

Three notebooks of J.C. Arthur including "Diseases of Plants: Experiments," 1884; "Experiments with Bacteria," 1885 and 1886; also, Arthur's "Daily Notes" notebooks no. 1, 2, 4 and 5, 1884, 1886, and 1887 and photocopies of the "Daily Notes."

Dates

1884-1887.

Creator

Arthur, Joseph Charles, 1850-1942. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Joseph Charles Arthur received a B.S. (1872) in botany and was a member of the first graduating class of 1872 at the Iowa Agricultural College (Iowa State University). He also earned the first M.S. in Botany, the first one conferred. He received his Sc.D (1886) in Plant Pathology from Cornell University. Arthur studied at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University, before becoming an Instructor (1879-1881) at the University of Wisconsin; Instructor (1882) at the University of Minnesota; and botanist (1884-1886) at the Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York. He was then invited to form and head the Department of Botany (1887-1915) at Purdue University. Arthur devoted his career to studying plant rust fungi, and wrote several books and manuals, as well as founded the herbarium at Purdue. He served as president of the following scientific societies: the Indiana Academy of Science, the American Phytopathological Society, and the Botanical Society of America.