George Lewis Slate (1899–1976) papers on Arnold Arboretum

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: HIBDARC-0040

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Correspondence with some handwritten notes on letters.

A booklet titled "A Review of the Arnold Arboretum Controversy", dated April 1955, along with a copy of an excerpt and a table of contents.

An article titled "A Denial of Justice and A Matter of Principle" dated March 15, 1956.

A copy of the booklet, Ivan M. Johnston, A Correspondence between A Professor At Harvard and The President of the University (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts: January 1957).

A copy of an editorial letter from Augusta S. Merrill (1873–1965) published in Plant Science Bulletin 3.2 (April 1957): 7.

An article titled "A Survey of the Arnold Arboretum Controversy" by Karl Sax (1892–1973), dated September 30, 1957.

A copy of a newspaper clipping titled "Arboretum to Harvard High Court Upholds Herb Display Move" from a February 1, 1966 issue of the Harvard Crimson.

Copies of advance sheets, briefs, and reports from the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

Various pamphlets, booklets, papers, memos, notes, business cards, and photographs of the Arboretum, some with handwritten notes.

Dates

Creation: 1949–1967, n.d.

Biographical / Historical

George Lewis Slate (1899–1976) was a horticulturalist specializing in viticulture and pomology. He worked as a research assistant and then a professor at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station under the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University (1922–1969) in Geneva, New York. Over the course of his career, he wrote and published hundreds of scientific and popular articles on plant genetics and breeding. He received the Mackson Dawson Medla from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1949), the Johnny Appleseed Gold Medal from the Men's Garden Club of America (1959), the American Horticultural Society Citation (1965), the E.H. Wilson Award from the North American Lily Society (1960), and the Wilder Medal from the American Pomological Society (1968).