Abstract

Articles and notes concerning plants as a source of rubber, including guayule and kok-saghyz; papers pertaining to the Ninth Annual Chemurgie Conference. Also, photocopy of bound manuscript containing "A Brief History of the Department of Botany" by Lewis Knudson, October 15, 1938, and menu and guest list from Botany Department dinner, 1938.

Scope and content Lists of members and various reports of the Rubber Survey Committee, together with pamphlets and reports having to do with the history of rubber. Pamphlets include the printed Report of the Rubber Survey Committee, Sept. 10, 1942; The rubber situation, a printed message from President Roosevelt; Rubber industry of the United States, 1839-1939, published by the Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; Rubber: history, production, and manufacture, by the same Bureau; and We...