Collection Title: John W. Larner Collection on Joseph Trimble Rothrock
Collection Number: MS Coll 259
Dates of Collection: 1987-1999
Extent: 4 boxes; 4 linear feet
Repository: Chester County History Center, West Chester, PA
Language: English
Project Archivist: E. Richard McKinstry
Joseph Trimble Rothrock—a physician, botanist, and forester—was born on April 9, 1839 in McVeytown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, the son of Dr. Abraham and Phoebe Brinton Trimble Rothrock. An ancestor, also named Abraham, had emigrated from the German Palatinate to Berks County, Pennsylvania in the 18th century.
Rothrock received his early schooling locally, then at Freeland Seminary, and later at Academia, a preparatory school in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. Rothrock entered the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard in 1860, but shortly afterward enlisted in the 131st Pennsylvania Infantry and served the Union during the American Civil War. Commissioned a Captain in the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry on July 1, 1863, Rothrock took part in battles at Fredericksburg, where he was wounded, and Antietam. Rothrock was honorably discharged from the armed services on June 6, 1864 and returned to Harvard where he received his B.S. degree. Rothrock then entered the school of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and was awarded his medical degree in 1868.
Early on, Rothrock worked for the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, and as an axman for the company, he developed an interest in botany and forestry. Through family connections, Rothrock became a student of and an assistant to Asa Gray, acknowledged to be the most important American botanist of the 19th century. Additionally, under an appointment from the Smithsonian Institution, he accompanied an exploring expedition to British Columbia and Alaska headed by naturalist Robert Kennicott and Major Frank Pope. From this trip, Rothrock wrote an essay, “Sketch of the Flora of Alaska,” published by the Smithsonian in 1867.
In 1868, Rothrock was named professor of botany at Pennsylvania State Agricultural College. He then moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania where he established a medical practice and helped found Wilkes-Barre Hospital. In 1873, Rothrock became a botanist and surgeon to the U.S. government geographical and geological survey in Colorado, New Mexico, and California. In 1877, Rothrock returned to the University of Pennsylvania as a professor of botany, and in that same year, he was named Michaux Lecturer of Forestry by the American Philosophical Society. The plant genus Rothrockia celebrates his fame as a botanist.
For nine months in 1880, Rothrock studied botany in Alsace at the University of Strassburg. While there, he became impressed with German forest conservation practices. When he returned home, he worked on inspiring public opinion for the need to protect forests. Rothrock was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, and in 1893, Governor Robert E. Pattison appointed him to a commission to study Pennsylvania’s forests. Rothrock then served as commissioner of the state’s Division of Forestry, a part of Pennsylvania’s Department of Agriculture, and then commissioner of the state’s Department of Forestry. Rothrock inaugurated the government’s purchase of lands at the headwaters of rivers for flood control, established tree nurseries to facilitate reforestation of public and private lands, and was instrumental in founding the State Forest School at Mount Alto, Pennsylvania to train forest service workers.
Rothrock’s book Vacation Cruising on Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, published in 1884, relates his other accomplishments and interests. In the 1880s, he sailed to the Bahamas and West Indies on his yacht White Cap, collecting scientific material for the University of Pennsylvania. As early as 1876, he introduced camping to young boys, and somewhat later founded the School of Physical Culture in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. In 1902, Rothrock opened a camp for tubercular patients near Mount Alto, which came under the administrative jurisdiction of the State Department of Health five years later.
On May 27, 1869, Rothrock married Martha E. May, the daughter of Addison and Elizabeth Shafer May, and together they had five children. He died on June 2, 1922, age 83, at his West Chester, Pennsylvania home. Two sons and a daughter survived him. He is buried in West Chester at Oaklands Cemetery. His workplace colleagues described Rothrock as a man small in stature, abounding in energy, and with great charm of manner. In an autobiographical sketch, Rothrock wrote, “I am an Episcopalian and politically a Republican when my conscience will endure it.”
For further biographical information on Joseph Trimble Rothrock see:
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1893.
Dictionary of American Biography, 1935. Vol. 15, p. 188.
Forestry Pioneer: The Life of Joseph Trimble Rothrock, by Eleanor Maass, 2003.
Joseph Trimble Rothrock, Father of Forestry in Pennsylvania, by George H. Wirt, 1956.
The John W. Larner Collection on Joseph Trimble Rothrock measures 4 linear feet and dates from 1987 to 1999. Found within the papers are photocopies of Rothrock documents from over twenty repositories in the United States and Canada. Materials include correspondence, articles, reports, lectures, essays, professional statements, notes, transcriptions, and miscellaneous printed material collected as part of Larner’s efforts to document Rothrock’s personal life and professional contributions to botany and the modern North American forestry movement.
This collection, identified as Series IV, is part of a larger collection assembled by John Larner, a historian and faculty member at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, as part of a project to microfilm the papers of Joseph Rothrock. All of the materials in the collection are photocopies of originals located in over twenty repositories, including the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, Field Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. These copies were generated in tandem with the microfilming of the papers in 1999 by Scholarly Resources, a Wilmington, Delaware company. A complete listing of institutions is available in the Acknowledgments section of the Guide and Index to the Papers of Joseph Trimble Rothrock compiled by John Larner. A copy of Larner’s original Guide and Index is also filed in Folder 1 of this collection.
Series IV comprises two sections of photocopied materials that originally date from 1864 to 1938. The physical arrangement of both sections, Correspondence and Non-Correspondence, follows the order presented in Larner’s Guide and Index.
Correspondence comprises of materials that have been arranged alphabetically by the name of Rothrock’s correspondent. Those of note include: Asa Gray (botanist and early proponent of botanical taxonomy), Spencer F. Baird (first Smithsonian museum curator), Mira Lloyd Dock (first woman to serve on the Pennsylvania Forestry Preservation Commission), Henry Sturgis Drinker (President of the American Forestry Association), George Engelmann (German-American botanist), Berhnhard Fernow and Gifford Pinchot (both chiefs of the USDA Division of Forestry), and Martin G. Brumbaugh and Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker (both Governors of Pennsylvania),
Non-Correspondence comprises of Rothrock’s published articles, reports, lectures and remarks, essays, material on legal and financial matters, professional statements, notes and outlines, transcriptions, special files, and miscellaneous printed material. With one exception, materials in each section of Non-Correspondence have been arranged in chronological order. Published articles appearing in Forest Leaves are listed in alphabetical order by article title, as presented in Larner’s Guide and Index.
Published articles and editorials (sub-section B1) written by Rothrock focus on forestry maintenance, and also include articles on the timber industry, trees, forest fires, botany, agriculture, water and land conservation, the South Mountain Camp Sanatorium, and State Tuberculosis Camps. Many of these articles and editorials appeared in Forest Leaves, a publication of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association and the American Forestry Association. Forest Leaves articles are listed alphabetically by title.
Published reports (B2) include preliminary and annual reports originally published for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture or the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry.
Published lectures and remarks (B3) by Rothrock primarily focus on Pennsylvania trees and other forestry topics appearing in the Philadelphia Public Ledger and Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Manuscript essays and lectures (B4) focus on forests and trees, but topics also include medical notes, memoir drafts, Christopher Columbus, the overland telegraph, and eminent domain. Manuscript reports and legal material (B5) include the Michaux Lectures and water agreements between Little Juniata Water and Water Power Co, in addition to forestry topics.
Statements (B6) by Rothrock cover forestry and botany, in addition to Michaux Lecture remarks, science curriculums, and syllabi.
Essays, notes, and outlines (B7) include drafts on plants/botany, tree conservation and management and Western Pennsylvania and the Seven Years War.
Conference and hearing remarks (B8) include remarks at Harrisburg, the findings of the Pennsylvania Chestnut Blight Commission, and remarks at State Forresters’ Conferences.
Financial material (B9) includes accounting for lecture expenses, membership dues, and miscellaneous statements, bills, and leases.
Special files (B10) include many items that are listed in Series I-III within Larner’s Guide and Index; associated correspondence in this collection was filed within the Series IV Correspondence.
Rangers’ reports files (B11) include many that were also indexed in the Series IV Correspondence. Reports on forestry topics dating to June 1904 are included in Non-Correspondence.
Miscellaneous materials (B13) include annotations to articles, Rothrock’s notes on articles, and other comments, corrections, and responses to published and draft materials.
Fragments (B14) are fragments on a draft on the West Indies and on S.B. Elliot.
Transcriptions (B15) are of Rothrock writings transcribed by George H. Wirt, a deputy in the Pennsylvania Forestry Department and protégé of Rothrock. Wirt’s transcriptions are of forestry essays and lectures on forestry and soil topics.
Two sub-sections within Non-Correspondence (B12: Newspaper clippings and B16: Non-Joseph T. Rothrock Authors) that appear in the Guide and Index were not part of the original donation. These can be found in Larner’s microfilm edition of Rothrock’s papers.
Manuscripts are arranged in 2 Sections:
Box 1
Folder 1 – Guide and Index to the Papers of Joseph Trimble Rothrock, MD ed. by John William Larner
Section A: Correspondence, 1864-1922 (Box 1 – Box 2)
Box 1
Folder 2 [?], 7/15/1898
Folder 3 Aaron, S. Frank, 1898
Folder 4 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1886
Folder 5 Adaire, Alexander, 1898
Folder 6 Ainslie, Charles N., 1898
Folder 7 Alexander, Joseph, 1898
Folder 8 Andrews, C.C., 1898
Folder 9 Armsby, Henry Prentiss, 1900-1902
Folder 10 Arnold, Joseph A., 1897
Folder 11 Arnold, N.T., 1897-1898
Folder 12 Ashe, W.W., 1897
Folder 13 Atherton, George W., 1893, 1901
Folder 14 Ayres, Philip W., 1914-1915
Folder 15 Bailey, Liberty Hyde, 1903
Folder 16-19 Baird, Spencer F., 1865-1868, 1873-1876, 1878
Folder 20 Baker, Hugh P, 1915
Folder 21 Ball, Jacob L., 1898
Folder 22 Bebb, M.S., 1877-1882, 1895
Folder 23 Becht, George, 1898
Folder 24 [Bener], George C., 1897
Folder 25 Birkinbine, John, 1897-1898, 1911
Folder 26 Bissell, Frank S., 1897
Folder 27 Bitler, Frank L., 1903
Folder 28 [Blair County Grangers], 1898
Folder 29 Boak, George R., 1897
Folder 30 Bowers, Edward A., 1904
Folder 31 Bowers, Stephen, 1889
Folder 32 Boyer, J.M., 1898
Folder 33 Bradford, C.S., Jr., 1903
Folder 34 Bradshaw, F.K., 1898
Folder 35 Brandt, Rudolph, [1897-1898]
Folder 36 Bratton, Harry C., 1897
Folder 37 Brown, Gerard C., 1898
Folder 38 Brown, Isaac B., 1903
Folder 39 Brumbaugh, Martin G., 1898, 1903
Folder 40 Brunchen, Ernest, 1898
Folder 41 Buckhout, William A., from JTR, 1888
Folder 42 Bull, C.W., 1898
Folder 43 Burchfield, B.L., 1898
Folder 44 Burk, Jesse, from JTR, 1891-1892
Folder 45 Busch, Clarence, 1898
Folder 46 Butler, Thomas S., 1916
Folder 47 Canavah, Mrs. Bridget, 1898
Folder 48 Carnegie, Andrew, 1902
Folder 49 Cary, Austin, 1897
Folder 50 Cassatt, Alexander J., 1899
Folder 51 Chamberlain, Allen, 1900
Folder 52 Chapman, H.H., 1916
Folder 53 Chase, Arthur H., 1898
Folder 54 Chase, Howard A., 1897
Folder 55 Chesnut, V.K., 1898
Folder 56 Childs, George W., 1898
Folder 57 Clingan, A. Hunter, 1898
Folder 58 Cochran, J. Henry, 1897
Folder 59 Comstock, John Henry, 1890
Folder 60 Conklin, Robert S., 1899, 1903-1904, 1908, 1911, 1915
Folder 61 Cook, Jay, from JTR, [c 1897-1898]
Folder 62 Coxe, Maria M., 1915
Folder 63 Coxe, Sophie G., 1915
Folder 64 Crawford, Joseph, 1904
Folder 65 Cunningham, A.D., 1891
Folder 66 Cunningham, W.E., 1898
Folder 67 Dallas Lumber Co., 1898
Folder 68 Dambly, B. Whitman, 1898
Folder 69 [Darlington, Ms.], 1890
Folder 70 Davies, J.C., 1909
Folder 71 Davis, S., 1898
Folder 72 Day, Mary A., 1897
Folder 73 Deininger, H.S., 1903
Folder 74 Denlinger, W.H., 1897
Folder 75 Detwiler, Effie, 1897
Folder 76-83 Dock, Mira Lloyd, 1894-1911, 1913-1915, 1917-1921
Folder 84 Dad, S. Bayard, 1898
Folder 85 Dodge, George E., 1897
Folder 86-87 Drinker, Henry Sturgis, 1910-1916, 1918-1921
Folder 88 Dulles, William, Jr., 1898
Folder 89 Dunlap, Samuel, 1898
Folder 90 Dyer, Lewis C., 1898
Folder 91 Eaton, Daniel Cady, 1872, 1874-1877
Folder 92 Edge, Thomas J., 1897-1898
Folder 93 Ellenberger, J.W., 1903
Folder 94 Emery, Natt M., 1909
Folder 95-97 Engelmann, George, 1874-1875
Folder 98 Eshelman, John B.
Folder 99 Farlow, William Gilson, 1878, 1881, 1892, 1898
Folder 100 Farquhar, A.B., from JTR, 1893, 1897, 1912
Folder 101 Fayette County Commissioners, 1897
Folder 102 Fernald, M.L., 1897, 1902
Folder 103-05 Fernow, Bernhard Eduard, 1892-1898, 1901, 1907, 1917
Folder 106 Field Museum of Natural History, 1909
Folder 107 Fisher, J.H., 1897-1898
Folder 108 Fisher, William R., 1915
Folder 109 Foresters, 1900
Folder 110 Foresters of America, Supreme Chief Ranger, 1900
Folder 111 Foulke, Jean Kane, 1901
Folder 112 Fraley, [Frederick], from JTR, 1887
Folder 113 Gearhart, W.M., 1898
Folder 114 Geltz, Charles G., 1922
Folder 115 Genth, F.A., 1883
Folder 116 Goode, Dr., 1890-1891
Folder 117 Gooderhan, H.M., 1897
Folder 118 [Graves], Henry S., 1868, 1899, 1910
Folder 119 Gray, Asa, 1964, 1869, 1873-1875, 1878-1880, 1884, 1887-1888
Folder 120 Gray, Herbarium, 1916-1917
Folder 121 Gray, Jane Loring, 1888, 1890-1891, 1894
Folder 122 Greenman, Jesse Moore, 1899, 1908-1909
Folder 123 Griffith, E.M., 1897
Folder 124 Groff, George G, 1879, 1898
Folder 125 Hall, George, 1913
Folder 126 Halsted, Byron D. 1897
Folder 127 Hammond, M.F., 1898
Folder 128 Harding, Frank S. 1898
Folder 129 Harrison, [C.C.], 1897
Folder 130 Harrison, George, 1882
Folder 131 Harrity, William F. 1893
Folder 132 Hershberger, John William, 1890-1891, 1893-1899, 1901-1902, 1904, 1906-1907, 1909-1910
Folder 133 Hartley, R.M., 1899
Folder 134 Harvard University
Folder 135 Hask, George E., 1902
Folder 136 Hastings, Daniel Hartman, 1895
Folder 137 Hays, Isaac Minis, 1897
Folder 138 Heilprin, Angelo, 1889-1891
Folder 139 Henry, Joseph, 1867-1869, 1877
Folder 140 Hinsdale, Guy, 1898
Folder 141 Hoar, D. Blakey, 1898
Folder 142 Holcomb, L.P., 1898
Folder 143 Horton, C.S., 1898
Folder 144 Howell, Samuel B., 1882
Folder 145 Hoyt, Henry Martyn, 1882
Folder 146 Huffman, Harvey, 1898
Folder 147 Jack, J.G., 1898
Folder 148 Jaekel, Frederick, 1898
Folder 149 James, Thomas Potts, 1865
Folder 150 Johnson, Charles W., 1897-1898
Folder 151 Johnson, Emory R., 1898
Folder 152 Johnson, R.V., 1898
Folder 153 Jones, [John D.], Dr., [1892-1894]
Box 2
Folder 1 Kaseman, D.C., 1915
Folder 2 Keator, J., 1897
Folder 3 Keffer, Charles A., 1895-1898
Folder 4 Kemp, E.L., 1897
Folder 5 Kendall, Mrs. William H., 1898
Folder 6 Kendrick, J.T., 1915
Folder 7 Kistler, Wilson, 1898
Folder 8 Kline, C.R., 1898
Folder 9 Kline, Harrison, 1898
Folder 10 Kohout, William G., 1897
Folder 11 Kreuzpointner, P., 1898
Folder 12 Lamb, Frank W., 1897
Folder 13 Lee, Benjamin, M.D., 1898
Folder 14 Lehman, George M., 1897
Folder 15 Leidy, Joseph, 1865, 1871, 1873, 1879-1880, 1884
Folder 16 Lewis, Walter H., 1915
Folder 17 Lippincott, J.B., 1898
Folder 18 Ludwig, Walter D., 1897, 1914
Folder 19 Lumberman’s Credit Association, 1894, 1897
Folder 20 Lundy, Margaret-Stevenson, [1897]
Folder 21 Martindale, Isaac C., 1890-1891
Folder 22 Mason, W.C., 1898
Folder 23 McCoy and Linn, 1897
Folder 24 McDonald, N., 1897
Folder 25 McFarland, J. Horace, 1899, 1913, 1918-1921
Folder 26 McHenry, William E., 1897
Folder 27 McKay, M., 1898
Folder 28 Mebard, Grace Raymont, 1898
Folder 29 Meehan, Thomas, 1888, 1892
Folder 30 Meier, F.R., 1894, 1897-1898
Folder 31 Meyers, Charles H., 1898,
Folder 32 Millano, Julian, 1897
Folder 33 Miller, Lewis M., 1897
Folder 34 Milligan, C.T., 1897
Folder 35 Millspaugh, Charles Frederick, 1897, 1899, 1909-1910, 1914
Folder 36 Mitchell, William P., 1898,
Folder 37 Moore, Mr. [Pennypacker, Samuel Whitaker], 1899
Folder 38 Moore, S.T., 1897
Folder 39 Moseby, W.L., 1898
Folder 40 Mullin, H.H., 1898
Folder 41 “My Dear Boys,” 1904
Folder 42 Myers, R.L., 1897
Folder 43 Mylin, Amos H., 1897
Folder 44 Naker, S.J., [1898]
Folder 45 Neubold, Esther L., 1898
Folder 46 New England Agricultural Society, 1898
Folder 47 Newell, F.W., [1898]
Folder 48 Niss, Charles, 1897
Folder 49 Nolan, Edward J., 1889, 1892-1894, 1911
Folder 50 Nowell, J.S., 1898
Folder 51 Nuerll, F.H., 1898
Folder 52 Oak, Charles E., 1897
Folder 53 Ogies, Catherine B., 1915
Folder 54 Outlook, 1910
Folder 55 Payne, Cochran and Co., 1998
Folder 56 Pennsylvania Forestry Association, 1897
Folder 57-58 [Pennypacker, Samuel Whitaker], 1899, 1902-1905
Folder 59 Penrose, Boies, 1912
Folder 60 Pepper, William, M.D., 1881, 1883 1892
Folder 61 Philips, Dr. George M., 1915
Folder 62 [Phillips, Henry, Jr.], 1887-1889, 1893-1894
Folder 63 Phillips, John M., 1918-1919, 1921-1922
Folder 64-68 Pinchot, Gifford, 1893-1899, 1901-1905, 1907, 1909-1912, 1914, 1916-1922
Folder 69 Porter, Thomas C., 1898
Folder 70 Price, Eli K., 1878, 1881-1884
Folder 71 Price, John Sergeant, 1887-1889, 1892
Folder 72 Price, Overton W., 1901, 1904-1905
Folder 73 Pullman, Raymond, 1914
Folder 74 Rehn, Nelson, 1898
Folder 75 Richter, August, M.D., 1898
Folder 76 Ridgley, D.C., 1898
Folder 77 Righter, Joseph C., 1897-1898
Folder 78 Rhone, Leonard, 1898
Folder 79 Robb, N.E., 1898
Folder 80 Robinson, Benjamin Lincoln, 1894-1895, 1897-1898, 1901-1902, 1906, 1911, 1917
Folder 81 Robinson, E.D., 1896
Folder 82 Rose, J.N., 1907
Folder 83 Roth, J.E., 1889-1894, 1919
Folder 84 Rowlee, M. M., 1898
Folder 85 Sadtler, Samuel Phillip, 1899
Folder 86 Satterthwaite, Lewis P., 1904
Folder 87 Schock, Oliver D., 1923
Folder 88 Schoening, Frederick, 1901
Folder 89 Scholefield, C.O.S., 1913
Folder 90 [Selias], Albert, 1898
Folder 91 Sener, S.M., 1898
Folder 92 Sentinel and Republican, (Mifflintown, Pennsylvania), 1900
Folder 93 Shafer, George G., 1898
Folder 94 Shaman, Thomas B., 1897
Folder 95 Shaw, Henry, 1888
Folder 96 Shipley, Samuel, 1902
Folder 97 Shoemaker, Henry W., 1915
Folder 98 Shot, Charles, 1896
Folder 99 Skiff, F.J.V., 1909
Folder 100 Smiley, Albert K., 1897-1898
Folder 101 Smith, Bolton, 1897
Folder 102 Smith, Charles Eastwick, 1868
Folder 103 Smith, J.C., 1898
Folder 104 Smith, Joseph Russell, 1897
Folder 105 Smithsonian Institution, [?]
Folder 106 Sniffen, Matthew K., 1899
Folder 107 Snyder, Charles S., 1898
Folder 108 Southworth, Thomas, 1898
Folder 109 St. John, Harold, from JTR, 1917
Folder 110 Staley, Lewis E., 1911, [1914]
Folder 111 State Forestry Reservation Commission, 1911
Folder 112 Stille, Charles J., 1879
Folder 113 Stone, William Alexis, 1898-1899, 1901-1902
Folder 114 Stott, John E., 1897
Folder 115 Strand Magazine, 1898
Folder 116 Sudworth, George B., 1888,
Folder 117 Sydere, Authur H., 1897
Folder 118 Taylor, E.B., 1897
Folder 119 Tener, John Kinley, 1912
Folder 120 Thatcher, John Boyd, 1894
Folder 121 Throne, N.F., 1897
Folder 122 Tikers, T.E., 1897
Folder 123 Trelease, William, 1888
Folder 124 Truman, Alfred, 1898
Folder 125 United States Department of Agriculture, Secretary, 1895
Folder 126 University of Pennsylvania, Board of Trustees, 1879
Folder 127 Vasey, George, from JTR, 1874-1879, 1890
Folder 128 Wagenseller, M.L., 1897
Folder 129 Wanner, A., 1897
Folder 130 Waring, Frank M., 1899
Folder 131 Watson, Ashbel W., 1898
Folder 132 Watson, J.C., 1897
Folder 133 Watson, Sereno, 1876
Folder 134 Welch, Benjamin S., 1897-1901
Folder 135 Welsh, Herbert, 1893-1894, 1897, 1899-1900, 1909, 1912-1914
Folder 136 Wharton, Bromley [Pennypacker, Samuel Whitaker], 1903
Folder 137 White, John B., 1915
Folder 138 Whitehead, Mortimer, 1898, 1908
Folder 139 Whom It May Concern, 1904
Folder 140 Wilkes-Barre Record, 1899
Folder 141 Will, Thomas E., 1908
Folder 142 Williams, Brown and Earle, 1897
Folder 143 Wilson, W.P., 1897
Folder 144 Wirt, George Harmann, 1900-1901
Folder 145 Witfielo, J.W., 1898
Folder 146 Youngman, W.L., 1900
Folder 147 Ziegler, Edwin A., 1911-1912, 1915-1916
Section B. Non-Correspondence (Box 2 – Box 4)
B.1 Published Articles, [1871]-1938
Note: Free-standing essays in official published reports are included here.
Box 2
Folder 148 “Medical Botany,” Report of the Luzerne County Medical Society, [c 1871], pp. 361-362
Folder 149 “The West Pittston Horror,” Report of the Luzerne County Medical Society, [c 1871], pp. 360-361
Folder 150 “The Relation of American Forests to American Prosperity,” [7/8/85], Pennsylvania School Journal, 34:3 (September, 1885), pp. 104-111
Folder 151 “The Work of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association,” [1/25/88], Pennsylvania Board of Agriculture, Thirty-Sixth Quarterly Report, Harrisburg: 1888, pp. 23-27
Folder 152 “Forests of Pennsylvania,” 11/11/93 (enc. w/: JTR to Farquhar, A.B., 11/11/93)
Folder 153 “Land to Reforest,” Pennsylvania School Journal, 41:12 (June, 1893), p. 534
Folder 154 “Dr. Rothrock on Arbor Day,” Pennsylvania School Journal, 42:10 (April, 1894), pp. 500- 502
Folder 155 “How to Treat Forests,” Pennsylvania School Journal, 43:10 (April, 1895), pp. 431-432
Folder 156 “Chestnut Possibilities in Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Annual Report, 1896. Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, 1897. pp. 410-414 (See: Series III, Chester County Historical Society Rothrock Collection)
Folder 157 “Losses by Fires in Pennsylvania in the Year 1896 So Far As Heard From,” Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Annual Report, 1896. Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, 1897. pp. 416-417, (See: Series Ill, Chester County Historical Society Rothrock Collection)
Folder 158 “Partial Abstract Statement of Timber Cut during the Year 1896 in Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Annual Report, 1896. Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, 1897. pp. 407-409 (See: Series III, Chester County Historical Society Rothrock Collection)
Folder 159 “Relations of Forests to the Farmer,” Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Annual Report, 1896. Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, 1897. pp. 382-396 (See: Series Ill, Chester County Historical Society Rothrock Collection)
Folder 160 “Removal of the Fertile Soil from the Farm by Water,” Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Annual Report, 1896. Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, 1897. pp. 396-405 (See: Series III, Chester County Historical Society Rothrock Collection)
Folder 161 “A Walnut Freak,” Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Annual Report, 1896. Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, 1897. pp. 405-407 (See: Series Ill, Chester County Historical Society Rothrock Collection)
Folder 162 “Two Weeds,” Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Annual Report, 1896. Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, 1897. pp. 414-416, (See: Series Ill, Chester County Historical Society Rothrock Collection)
Folder 163 “Water-Retaining and Water-Evaporating Areas,” Preliminary Report of the Commissioner of Forestry for 1897. Harrisburg: William Stanley Ray, 1898. pp. 142-144 (See: Series Ill, Chester County Historical Society Rothrock Collection)
Folder 164 “Tabulated Statement Showing the Acreage of Timber Land in Pennsylvania in 1898,” Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Annual Report, 1899, Part II. Harrisburg: William Stanley Ray, 1900, pp. 990-1019
Folder 165 “Timber Lands in Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Annual Report, 1899. Harrisburg: William Stanley Ray, 1900. pp. 140-142 (See: Series IV, Published Reports)
Folder 166 “The Black Willow (Salix Nigra, Marsh) As a Protector of River Banks,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, During 1901 and 1902. Harrisburg: William Stanley Ray, 1900. Chapter 8, (See: Series III, Roll 8, Pennsylvania State Archive, Record Group 6)
Folder 167 “Chestnut Meal,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, During 1901 and 1902. Harrisburg: William Stanley Ray, 1900. Chapter 6, (See: Series Ill, Roll 8, Pennsylvania State Archives, Record Group 6)
Folder 168 “Propagation of Forest Trees Having Commercial Value and Adapted to Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, During 1901 and 1902. Harrisburg: William Stanley Ray, 1900. Chapter 7. (See: Series Ill, Roll 8, Pennsylvania State Archives, Record Group 6)
Folder 169 “The South Mountain Camp Sanatorium,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Annual Report, 1903-1904. Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1905, pp. 66-72
Folder 170 “State Forest Academy,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Annual Report, 19031904. Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1905, pp. 30-32 (Transcription by Elizabeth H. Thomas, Penn State-Mont Alto)
Folder 171 “State Consumptive Camps and Cures,” 1906, 176-185.
Folder 172 “The Collier’s Cabin,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Report, 1905-1906. Harrisburg: 1907, pp. 110-112
Folder 173 “Fire Fighting in the Forest — Some Added Experience,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Report, 1905-1906. Harrisburg: 1907, pp. 105-109
Folder 174 “Forest Roads, Fire Lanes, and Trails,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Report, 1905-1906. Harrisburg: 1907, pp. 100-104
Folder 175 “The South Mountain Camp Sanatorium, 1906,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Report, 1905-1906. Harrisburg: 1907, pp. 92-96
Folder 176 “State Tuberculosis Camps on State Forest Reserves,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Report, 1905-1906. Harrisburg: 1907, pp. 80-84
Folder 177 “Statement by Dr. J.T. Rothrock of Money Received by Contributions from 1901 to December 31, 1906, at South Mountain Camp Sanatorium; Also Statement of Expenditures from the Same Fund for the Same Period,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Report, 1905-1906. Harrisburg: 1907, pp. 126-140
Folder 178 “Is the Production of Chestnut Fruit a Proper Function of State Forestry?,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Report, 1907. Harrisburg: 1908, pp. 138-140
Folder 179 “Commercial Pulpwood Production in Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Report, 1907. Harrisburg: 1908, pp. 73-74
Folder 180 “Should Deer Farming Be Legalized in Pennsylvania?,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Report, 1907. Harrisburg: 1908, pp. 134-135
Folder 181 “Timber on Pennsylvania Forest Reserves,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Report, 1907. Harrisburg: 1908, pp. 127-129
Folder 182 “Transfer of the Camp Sanatorium,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Report, 1907. Harrisburg: 1908, pp. 47-49
Folder 183 “Inspectors Report,” October 1909,” Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry for the Years 1908-09. Harrisburg: C.E. Aughinbaugh, 1910, pp. 289-293
Folder 184 “Inspectors Report,” 10/16/09,” Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry for the Years 1908-09. Harrisburg: C.E. Aughinbaugh, 1910, pp. 99-105
Folder 185 “Report of Conditions in the Ohio Watershed, Southwestern Pennsylvania,” Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry for the Years 1908-09. Harrisburg: C.E. Aughinbaugh, 1910, pp. 127-137
Folder 186 “Reports of Examinations of Property and Inspections of Forest Practice with Recommendations Thereon, Made by Dr. J.T. Rothrock During the Years 1910 and 1911,” Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Report, 1910-1911. Harrisburg: 1911, pp. 150-157
Folder 187 “Pennsylvania Pioneer in Work of Forestry Conservation,” Philadelphia Public Ledger, 4/4/13, pp. 6 and 12
Folder 188 “Why the State Forest Academy Was Founded,” Pennsylvania State Forest Academy, Oak Leaf (1914)
Folder 189 “The Collier’s Cabin,” Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters, Service Letter, 9:1 (January, 1938), pp. 3-6
Published Articles and Editorials in Forest Leaves, 1886-1922
Folder 190 “A Wail from Australia,” VI, 4 (August, 1897), p. 68
Folder 191 “Abstract of Pennsylvania Forestry Laws,” Viii, 8 (April, 1902), pp. 116-118
Folder 192 “Abstract of Report of Pennsylvania Forestry Commission,” V, 2 (April, 1895), pp. 27-28
Folder 193 “Acceptance by Dr. J. T. Rothrock,” XIV, 9 (June, 1914), pp. 136-138
Folder 194 “Address of President,” XVI, 1 (February, 1917), pp. 4-5
Folder 195 “Address of the General Secretary of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association,” VII, 12 (December, 1900), pp. 180-182
Folder 196 “Along the Coast Northward,” II, 7 (October, 1889), pp. 99-100 and preceding picture
Folder 197 “Along the Upper Waters of the West Branch of the Susquehanna,” XIV, 10 (August, 1914), pp. 152-153
Folder 198 “American Forestry Conference,” [I, 1] (July, 1886), p.7
Folder 199 “American Linden (Tilia Americana, L.),” V, 9 (June, 1896), p. 138
Folder 200 “American, or White Elm–Ulmus Americana, L.,” IV, 7 (February, 1894), pp. 104-105 including pictures
Folder 201 “Address to the Forest Lovers of Northwestern Pennsylvania,” XVIII, 9 (June, 1922), pp. 130-131
Folder 202 “Annual Meeting of the American Forestry Association,” XI, 8 (April, 1908), pp. 117-118
Folder 203 “Annual Address of the General Secretary,” VI, 6 (December, 1897), pp. 100-101
Folder 204 “Annual Report of the General Secretary of Pennsylvania Forestry Association,” IX, 12 (December, 1904), pp. 181-182
Folder 205 “Annual Report of the General Secretary,” X111, 6 (December, 1911), pp. 89-91. “Another Enemy!,” XV, 7 (February, 1916), pp. 97-98
Folder 206 “Another Enemy,” XV, 7 (February 1916), pp. 97-98
Folder 207 “Another Large White Oak,” IX, 11 (October, 1904), p. 168
Folder 208 “Another ‘Largest Tree in the State’,” X, 6 (December, 1905), p. 88
Folder 209 “The “Appalachian Hearing,” XI, 8 (April, 1908), pp. 123-124
Folder 210 “Autumn Meeting of the New Jersey Forestry Association,” V, 6 (December, 1895), pp. 92-93
Folder 211 “Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea, Mill.),” XII, 7 (February, 1910), p. 105
Folder 212 “Beech (Fagus ferruginea, Alt.),” V, 3 (June, 1895), pp. 40-41 and intervening pictures
Folder 213 “Beautiful Pennsylvania,” V, 2 (April, 1895), pp. 21-22
Folder 214 “Between Winter and Spring,” XVI, 8 (April, 1918), pp. 122-123
Folder 215 “Big White Oaks,” VII, 2 (April, 1899), p. 24
Folder 216 “Bit of Primeval Forest,” VII, 9 (June, 1900), p. 136
Folder 217 “Bitter Nut Hickory (Carya amara, Nutt.),” V, 6 (December, 1895), pp. 89 ff.
Box 3
Folder 1 “Black Ash. (Fraxinus Sambucifolia, Lam.) (Fraxinus Nigra, Marsh, in Britton & Brown, Vol. II., p. 602.),” IX, 12 (December, 1904), pp. 184-185
Folder 2 “Black Birch, Sweet Birch, Cherry Birch. (Betula lenta, L.),” VI, 10 (August, 1898), p. 169
Folder 3 “Black Haw. (Viburnum prunifolium, L.),” VIII, 4 (August, 1901), p. 56
Folder 4 “Black Spruce (Picea nigra, Link),” VII, 3 (June, 1899), p. 40
Folder 5 “Black Walnut–Juglans nigra, L..,” IV, 3 (June, 1893), pp. 38-39 ff.
Folder 6 “Books Received,” IV, 12 (December, 1894), p. 191
Folder 7 “Books Received,” V, 10 (August, 1896), p. 158
Folder 8 “Brandywine Banks–Above the Ford,” II, 4 (May, 1889), pp. 50-51 and picture intervening
Folder 9 “Butternut, or White Walnut (Juglans cinerea, L.), VII, 4 (August, 1899), p. 56
Folder 10 “Buttonwood,” IV, 1 (February, 1893), pp. 5-6 and preceding picture
Folder 11 “Changes in the Volumes of Streams,” IV, 10 (August, 1894), pp. 150-151
Folder 12 “Chautauga Meeting of the American Forestry Association,” XIV, 10 (August, 1914), pp. 154-156
Folder 13 “The Chestnut Tree,” II, 3 (March-April 1889), pp. 35-36 and preceding picture
Folder 14 “China’s Lesson to Pennsylvania,” XV, 2 (April, 1915), p. 24
Folder 15 “Civilization and Forestry,” II, 9 (January, 1890), p. 132. (Report of JTR Michaux lecture)
Folder 16 “Communal Forests,” XVI, 12 (December, 1918), p. 190
Folder 17 “Concerning our Sassafras Trees,” II, 5 (June-July, 1889), pp. 67-68 and preceding picture
Folder 18 “Concerning the Boy Scout,” XVII, 11 (October, 1920), p. 168 ff.
Folder 19 “Consulting Forester Advertisement,” XV, 4 (August, 1915), p. 63
Folder 20 “Consumptive Camps’ and State Forestry,” XI, 1 (February, 1907), pp. 8-10
Folder 21 “Correspondence,” VII, 9 (June, 1900), p. 137
Folder 22 “Correspondence,” VII, 12 (December, 1900), p. 187
Folder 23 “Cottonwood, Carolina Poplar, Necklace Poplar. (Populus monilifera, Ait.) (Sargent, Silva N.A., Vol. IX, Populus deltoidea, p. 179, t. 494, 495),” VII, 12 (December, 1900), pp. 184-185
Folder 24 “Council Meeting at Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania,” VIII, 10 (August, 1902), pp. 146-149
Folder 25 “Crab Apple (Pyrus Coronaria, L.),” VIII, 7 (February, 1902), p. 104
Folder 26 “Cucumber Tree (Magnolia acuminata, L.),” X, 3 (June, 1905), p. 40
Folder 27 “Daniel Carter Beard,” XV, 8 (April, 1916), p. 113
Folder 28 “Deer Hunters in Camp, Clinton County,” XVI, 3 (June, 1917), pp. 39-40 ff.
Folder 29 “Demonstration Tree Plantation at Lehigh University,” (Includes JTR reports.), XVIII, 1 (February, 1921), pp. 9-13
Folder 30 “Department of Forestry. World’s Fair, St. Louis, 1904,” VIII, 10 (August, 1902), p. 149. “Desolate Pennsylvania,” XIV, 2 (April, 1913), pp. 24-29
Folder 31 “Desolate Pennsylvania,” XIV, 2 (April, 1913), pp. 24-25
Folder 32 “Desolated Pennsylvania,” XI I, 5 (October, 1909), pp. 71-72
Folder 33 “Desolated Pennsylvania,” XIV, 4 (August, 1913), pp. 52-53
Folder 34 A “Discovery in Pike County,” IV, 9 (June, 1894), pp. 140-141
Folder 35 “Dogwood, Flowering Dogwood, Boxwood, (Corpus florida, L.), VII, 10 (August, 1900), pp. 152-153
Folder 36 “Dr. J. T. Rothrock’s Statement,” IX, 9 (June, 1904), pp. 129-130
Folder 37 “Editorial,” Communal Forests for Pennsylvania,” XVI, 9 (June, 1918), pp. 129-130
Folder 38 “Editorial,” IV, 3 (June, 1893) p. 34
Folder 39 “Editorial,” IX, 9 (June, 1904), pp. 129-130
Folder 40 “Editorial,” Re: Arbor Day, Memorial Trees, and “our Aryan ancestors,” XVII, 3 (June, 1919), p. 33
Folder 41 “Editorial,” Re: Death of John Birkinbine, XV, 3 (June, 1915), p. 33
Folder 42 “Editorial,” Re: Fire Control in Berks County, Pennsylvania, VI, 9 (June, 1898), p. 146
Folder 43 “Editorial,” Re: Forest Fires, XVII, 11 (October, 1920), pp. 161-162
Folder 44 “Editorial,” Re: Forest Fires, XVII, 12 (December, 1920), p. 177
Folder 45 “Editorial,” Re: Forestry Program at the Pennsylvania State College, XVII, 10 (August, 1920), pp. 145-146
Folder 46 “Editorial,” Re: Forestry Progress and the Allied Fish, Game, and Forestry Association, XVI, 1 (February, 1917), pp. 1-2
Folder 47 “Editorial,” Re: Forestry Progress and the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, XV, 12 (December, 1916), p. 177
Folder 48 “Editorial,” Re: Governor Sproul and Legislative Appropriations, and “Spring Notes,” XVIII, 2 (April, 1921), pp. 17-19
Folder 49 “Editorial,” Re: Governor Sproul and Legislative Appropriations, Forest Fires, and Water Supplies,” XVIII, 8 (April, 1922), pp. 113-114
Folder 50 “Editorial,” Re: Impact of World War I on Forestry, XVI, 7 (February, 1918), p. 97
Folder 51 “Editorial,” Re: Legislative Appropriations, XVI, 4 (August, 1917), p. 49
Folder 52 “Editorial,” Re: Legislative Appropriations; “A Letter from Mr. Pinchot; “Further Discussion of Federal and State Regulation;” Budget for Fire Protection, XVIII, 1 (February, 1921), pp. 1-3
Folder 53 “Editorial,” Re: Pennsylvania Wildlife League, XVI, 10 (August, 1918), pp. 145-146
Folder 54 “Editorial,” Re: Pittsburgh History, XVI, 3 (June, 1917), pp. 33-34
Folder 55 “Editorial,” Re: Timber Crisis and Forestry Funding, XVIII, 3 (June, 1921), pp. 33-34
Folder 56 “Editorial,” Re: U. S. Forest Service, Allegheny Valley Reforestation and Retrospective on Federal Forestry in Pennsylvania, XVIII, 7 (February, 1921), pp. 96-99
Folder 57 “Editorial,” Re: Variety of Topics, XVI, 11 (October, 1918), p. 161
Folder 58 “Editorial,” Re: Water Power, XVII, 1 (February, 919), pp. 1-2
Folder 59 “Editorial,” Re: Water Supply, XVII, 6 (December, 1919), pp. 81-82
Folder 60 “Editorial,” Re. White Pine, V, 10 (August, 1896), p. 146
Folder 61 “Editorial, “Word to Our Members,” XVIII, 5 (October, 1921), pp. 65-66
Folder 62 “Editorials,” IV, 9 (June, 1894), p. 130
Folder 63 “Editorials,” Re: Chestnut Blight; Forest Academy Graduates in the Military; State Forests and Public Recreation, XVI, 5 (October, 1917), p. 65
Folder 64 “Editorials,” Re: Community Forests; State Tree Nurseries and Tree Planting, XVIII, 6 (December, 1921), pp. 81-82
Folder 65 “Editorials,” Re: Fire Season, XV, 11 (October, 1916), p. 161
Folder 66 “Editorials,” Re: Forestry and the War Effort; Mary Blakiston and Gilts for Foresters in the Military; James L. Grimes, City Forester of Pittsburgh, XVI, 6 (December, 1917), p. 81
Folder 67 “Editorials,” Re: Forest Commission, Forest Taxation, V1, 11 (October, 1898), pp. 177-179
Folder 68 “Editorials,” Re: Forestry, World War I, and Legislative Appropriations; Death of Colonel R. Bruce Ricketts, XVI, 12 (December, 1918), pp. 177-178
Folder 69 “Editorials,” Re: Henlock Slashing; Reforestation, V, 9 (June, 1896), p. 134
Folder 70 “Editorials,” Re: Legislative Appropriations; Game Commission, XV, 4 (August, 1915), pp. 49-50
Folder 71 “Editorials,” Re: Lumber Shortages; Dr. J. Ewing Mears’ Legacy; Publicity and the State Forestry Department; Pocono Protective Fire Association; Death of Joseph Johnson, XVII, 5 (October, 1919), pp. 65-66
Folder 72 “Editorials,” Re: Mid-Summer Meeting of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association; White Pine Blister Rust, XV, 10 (August, 1916), p. 145
Folder 73 “Editorials,” Re: Pennsylvania Conservation Coalition; 1916 “Out Meeting” Pennsylvania Forestry Association, XV, 9 (June, 1916), p. 129
Folder 74 “Editorials,” Re: Pennsylvania Forestry Association Summer Meeting; Bryn Mawr College and the War Effort Arbor Day Proclamation, XVI, 8 (April, 1918), pp. 113-114
Folder 75 “Editorials,” Re: Pennsylvania Forestry Association Summer Meeting; Preparedness; Massachusetts Forestry Association; Address by Judge Albert S. Heck, XVI, 2 (April, 1917), p. 17
Folder 76 “Editorials,” Re: Urgency of. Tree Planting; “Pennsylvania Desert,” XVIII, 4 (August, 1921), p. 49
Folder 77 “Editorials,” Re: World War I Memorial Trees; Creation of a Conservation Department; Re-forestation of France, XVII, 2 (April, 1919), pp. 17-18
Folder 78 “Editorials–An Official Transfer,” XVII, 8 (April, 1920), pp. 113-114
Folder 79 “Editorials–The Plague of the Forest,” XVII, 9 (June, 1920), pp. 129-131. Also: “That Growing Scarcity of Paper” and “Boy Scout Movement Growing.”
Folder 80 “Editorial–The National Forestry Situation,” XVII, 7 (February, 1920), pp. 97-98
Folder 81 “Editorial–The Pennsylvania Highlands of the Ohio Watershed,” XVII, 4 (August, 1919), pp. 49-50
Folder 82 “Eminent Domain and some of Its Consequences,” XVIII, 5 (October, 1921), pp. 69-72
Folder 83 “Enforcement of Forest Fire Laws,” VII, 11 (October, 1900), pp. 165-166
Folder 84 “Feed Forest Fire Fighters,” XV, 5 (October, 1915), pp. 65-66
Folder 85 “Fighting Forest Fires,” IX, 9 (June, 1904), pp. 136-137
Folder 86 “Fire and Flood,” V, 1 (February, 1895), pp. 8-9 and intervening pictures
Folder 87 “First Annual Report of the New York State College of Forestry,” VII, 6 (December, 1899), p. 87
Folder 88 “Floods, Fires and Forests,” 1V, 11 (October, 1894), p. 167
Folder 89 “Forest and Water Flow,” XII, 9 (June, 1910), pp. 130-131
Folder 90 “Forest Fires,” IX, 3 (June, 1903), pp. 36-37
Folder 91 “Forest Goes Out When the Railroad Comes in,” XVII, 1 (February, 1919), pp. 7-8
Folder 92 “Forestry in Ontario, Canada,” VI, 10 (August, 1898), p. 173
Folder 93 “Forest of Alaska,” XII, 10 (August, 1910), p. 153
Folder 94 “Forest Policy of Pennsylvania,” XI, 7 (February, 1908), pp. 98-99
Folder 95 “Forest Primeval,” IV, 6 (December, 1893), p. 88 ff.
Folder 96 “Forest Problems in Pennsylvania,” XV, 2 (April, 1915), pp. 24-25
Folder 97 “Forest Protection in Canada,” V, 11 (October, 1896), pp. 164-166
Folder 98 “Forest Reserves as Outing Places and Sanatoria,” X, 9 (June, 1906), pp. 141-142
Folder 99 “Forestry at the Colombian Exposition,” IV, 6 (December, 1893), p. 84
Folder 100 “Forestry Commissioner’s Report on Forest Fires,” V, 7 (February, 1896), pp. 102-103
Folder 101 “Forestry Question,” V111, 8 (April, 1902), pp. 115-116
Folder 102 “Forests and the Constitution,” XI, 12 (December, 1908), p. 190
Folder 103 “Free Scholarships for Foresters,” XIII, 2 (April, 1911), pp. 20-21
Folder 104 “Future of Black Walnut,” V, 9 (June, 1896), p. 138
Folder 105 “Future of Forestry in Pennsylvania,” IV, 11 (October, 1894), p. 165
Folder 106 “George W. Childs Park, Pike Co., Pennsylvania,” XV, 6 (December, 1915), pp. 87-88 ff.
Folder 107 “Gypsy Moth,” VII, 4 (August, 1899), p. 53
Folder 108 “Hackberry. Sugar-berry (Celtis occidentalis, L.),” XI, 9 (June, 1908), pp. 136-137
Folder 109 “Hemlock (Tsuga Canadensis, Carr),” IV, 11 (October, 1894), pp. 169-170 and preceding picture
Folder 110 “Hexenbesen,” X, 10 (August, 1906), p. 153
Folder 111 “Hickory–Black Hickory–Bull Nut–Big-Bud Hickory–White-Heart Hickory–King Nut-Switch-Top Hickory. (Carya tomentosa, Nutt.) (Sargent, Silva N. A., Vol. Vii., Hicoria alba, p. 161, t. 350, 351.),” VI, 5 (October, 1897), pp. 88-89
Folder 112 “Honey Locust. (Gleditschia triacanthos, L. Sargent, Silva N. A., Vol. iii., p. 75, t. 125, 126.),” VI, 12 (December, 1898), pp. 201-202
Folder 113 “Illustrations,” Xll, 1 (February, 1909), p. 8
Folder 114 “Illustrations,” XVII, 3 (June, 1919), pp. 39-40 ff.
Folder 115 “Inexhaustible Forest,” IV, 6 (December, 1893), p. 85
Folder 116 “In Memoriam,” V, 4 (August, 1895), p. 50
Folder 117 “In Reply,” V, 9 (June, 1896), pp. 140-141
Folder 118 “Jamaica Views,” XV, 3 (June, 1915), p. 40 ff.
Folder 119 “Jersey Scrub Pine. Scrub Pine. (Pinus inops., Ait.). (Pinus Virginiana, Mill. Britton & Brown. Illustrated Flora, Vol. 1, p. 52.),” VIII, 10 (August, 1902), p. 152
Folder 120 “June Berry, or Shad Bush. Amelanchier Canadensis, T. & G. (Sargent, Silva N. A., Vol. IV., p. 127, t. 194, 195.),” VIII, 1 (February, 1901), p. 8
Folder 121 “Kentucky Coffee Tree,” V, 12 (December, 1896), p. 184
Folder 122 “‘Kinds of Trees’,” 1V, 11 (October, 1894), pp. 167-168
Folder 123 “Larch, Tamarack, Hackmatack (Larix Americana, Michx,” XI, 7 (February, 1908), p. 104
Folder 124 “Largest White Oak in Pennsylvania,” IX, 10 (August, 1904), p. 152
Folder 125 “Laurel Oak, Shingle Oak. (Quercus imbricaria, Michx.),” XI, 11 (October, 1908), p. 168
Folder 126 “Lay Sermon from a Personal Text,” IV, 9 (June, 1894), p. 139
Folder 127 “Lewistown Narrows,” XVII, 10 (August, 1920), p. 157
Folder 128 “Locust Planting by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,” XI, 11 (October, 908), pp. 167-168
Folder 129 “Locust Tree (Robinia Pseuaeacia, L.),” V, 5 (October, 1895), pp. 72-73 and intervening pictures
Folder 130 “Magnolia, Swamp Magnolia, White Bay, Swamp Laurel, Swamp Sassafras. Beaver Tree, Sweet Bay (Magnolia gluca, L. See Sargent, Silva N. A., Vol. I., p. 5. T. 3). Also Magnolia Virginiana L., Vol. II., p. 48, Britton & Brown, Illustrated Flora,” VII, I (February, 1899), pp. 8-9
Folder 131 “Mangrove,” XIV, 11 (October, 1914), p. 168
Folder 132 “Mangroves,” Ill, 1 (April, 1890), pp. 5-6 and preceding picture
Folder 133 “Michaux Free Lecture Course,” II, 2 (February, 1889), pp. 21-22. (Report of JTR lectures)
Folder 134 “Minnesota Forest Reserve,” Vll, 3 (June, 1899), p. 41
Folder 135 “Narrative of the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association,” XIII, 6 (December, 1911), p. 82
Folder 136 “Narrative of the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association,” XIV, 12 (December, 1914), pp. 178-180
Folder 137 “Narrative of the Bushkill Meeting of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association,” XIII, 10 (August, 1912), pp. 146-148
Folder 138 “Narrative of Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association,” X, 9 (June, 1906), pp. 130-134
Folder 139 “National or State Regulation of Pennsylvania’s Forests,” XVII, 12 (December, 1920), pp. 186-191
Folder 140 “New Books,” V, 7 (February, 1896), p. 109
Folder 141 “New Books,” VII, 12 (December, 1900), p. 189-190
Folder 142 “New Publications,” VI, 11 (October 1898), p. 190
Folder143 “New Publications,” VII, 6 (December 1899), p. 93
Folder144 “New Publications,” VII, 7 (February 1900), p. 109-110
Folder 145 “New Publications,” VII, 11 (October 1900), p. 173-174
Folder 146 “New Publications,” VIII, 7 (February 1902), p. 109-110
Folder 147 “New Publications,” VIII, 11 (October 1902), p. 172-174
Folder 148 “New Publications,” XIII, 5 (October 1911), p. 78
Folder 149 “New Publications,” XIV, 7 (February 1914), p. 107-110
Folder 150 “New Publications,” XIV, 8 (April 1914), p. 125-126
Folder 151 “New Publications,” XIV, 9 (June 1914), p. 141-142
Folder 152 “New York State College of Forestry, at Cornell University,” VI, 11 (October, 1898), p. 181
Folder 153 “A Notable Beginning,” IV, 5 (October, 1893), pp. 68-69
Folder 154 “Nyssa Sylvatica, Gum Tree, Tupelo, Pepperidge, Black Gum, Sour Gum,” VI, 1 (February, 1897), pp. 8-9
Folder 155 “The Oil-Field Loblolly Pine (Pinus Taeda, Linnaeus),” III, 2 (June, 1890), p. 25
Folder 156 “One of Our Highlands,” XVI, 1 (February, 1917), pp. 8-9
Folder 157 “Our Illustrations,” XIV, 7 (February, 1914), pp. 103-104 ff.
Folder 158 “Our Illustrations,” XIV, 8 (April, 1914), p. 120 ff.
Folder 159 “Our Recent Forest Fires,” VII, 9 (June, 1900), p. 138
Folder 160 “Our Shell-bark Hickory,” IV, 4 (August, 1893), pp. 56-57 and pictures
Folder 161 “Our Two Fire Laws,” VII, 2 (April, 1899), pp. 18-19
Folder 162 “Our Waning Water-Power,” IX, 1 (February, 1903), pp. 8-9
Folder 163 “Our Water-Retaining and Our Water-Evaporating Areas,” VI, 8 (April, 1898), pp. 138-142
Folder 164 “Our Winter Forests,” XVI, 7 (February, 1918), pp. 103-104 ff.
Folder 165 “Over-cup Oak-Quereus Macrocarpa (Michx),” IV, 2 (April, 1893), pp. 22-23 and picture
Folder 166 “Pennsylvania National Forest,” XVIII, 8 (April, 1922), p. 121
Folder 167 “Pennsylvania Snakes,” XVI, 8 (April, 1918), pp. 117-118
Folder 168 “Pennsylvania’s Land of Desolation,” IV, 5 (October, 1893), pp. 66-67
Folder 169 “The Persimmon—Deospyros Virginiana, L.,” IV, 5 (October, 1893), p. 72 ff.
Folder 170 “Pin Oak, Spanish Oak. (Quercus palustris, Du Roi.),” VI, 7 (February, 1898), p. 121
Folder 171 “Pinus rigida on the Dune at Cape Henlopen,” II, 6 (August-September, 1889), pp. 83-85 and preceding picture
Folder 172 “Post Oak. Iron Oak. Barrens White Oak. (Quercus stellata, Wang.) (Sargent, Silva N. A., Vol. VIII., Quercus minor, p. 37 to 368, 369). (Britton and Brown. Illustrated Flora, Vol. I., P. 520. Quercus minor (Marsh.) Sargent.),” VII, 7 (February, 1900), p. 104
Folder 173 “Poverty Pine,” IV, 7 (February, 1894), p. 103
Folder 174 “Poverty Pine, Table Mountain Pine, Prickly Pine. (Pinus pungens, Michx., f.),” VII, 8 (April, 1900), p. 120
Folder 175 “Prevent Forest Fires,” XIV, 6 (December, 1913), p. 88
Folder 176 “Price of Land,” XVI, 7 (February, 1918), pp. 108-109
Folder 177 “Prize Essays upon Forestry,” IV, 10 (August, 1894), p. 147
Folder 178 “Protect Cut-Over Lands from Cattle,” VII, 5 (October, 1899), pp. 67-68
Folder 179 “Protection in Another Sense,” IV, 12 (December, 1894), pp. 189-190
Folder 180 “Pruning,” IV, 3 (June, 1893), pp. 36-37
Folder 181 “Prunus Serotina, Ehrh. Wild Cherry, Wild Black Cherry, Rum Cherry,” XIV, 1 (February, 1913), p. 8
Folder 182 “Quantity or Quality,” V, 10 (August, 1896), p. 154
Folder 183 “Red Ash. (Fraxinus Pennsylvanica, Marshall. Fraxinus pubescens, Lam.),” X, 1 (February, 1905), p. 8
Folder 184 “Red Cedar–Savin,” II, 10 (March, 1890), pp. 148-149 and picture
Folder 185 “Red Maple, Swamp Maple. (Acer rubrum, L.),” VI, 8 (April, 1898), pp. 137-138
Folder 186 “Red Oak (Quercus rubra, L.),” VII, 6 (December, 1899), p. 88
Folder 187 “Red Pine, Norway Pine (Pinus resinosa, Aid.),” V, 10 (August, 1896), p. 152
Folder 188 “Red Spruce (Picca nigra, Link. Rubra, Engelm.),” VI, 11 (October, 1898), pp. 184-185
Folder 189 “Relation of Forestry to the State,” VII, 7 (February, 1900), p. 106-108
Folder 190 “Relation of the Forests to the Commonwealth,” IV, 8 (April, 1894), p. 127 (Report of JTR address)
Folder 191 “Relation of Trees to Light and Shade the Basis of Sylvaculture, (Letter to Editor [JTR] from Bernhard Eduard Fernow, [n.d.}), V, 8 (April, 1896), pp. 124-125)
Folder 192 “Remarks Made and Resolutions passed at the Annual Meeting,” XVIII, 7 (February, 1922), pp. 100-101. (Includes JTR resolution and summary of JTR comments)
Folder 193 “Report of Chief Fire Warden of Minnesota,” VII, 4 (August, 1899), pp. 51-52
Folder 194 “Report of Dr. J. T. Rothrock,” IV, 7 (February, 1894), pp. 105-106
Folder 195 “Report of Dr. J. T. Rothrock, the General Secretary of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association,” IV, 12 (December, 1894), pp. 186-187
Folder 196 “Report of General Secretary,” XII, 7 (February, 1910), pp. 100-102
Folder 197 “Report of General Secretary,” XIII, 12 (December, 1912), pp. 182-183
Folder 198 “Report of General Secretary of Pennsylvania Forestry Association,” XV, 6 (December, 1915), pp. 82-84
Folder 199 “Report of New York Forest Preserve Board,” VI, 9 (June, 1898), p. 158
Folder 200 “Report of the Clerk of Forestry for Ontario for 1898,” VII, 2 (April, 1899), pp. 28-29
Folder 201 “Report of the Fire Warden of the Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania,” IX, 11 (October, 1904), pp. 163-164
Folder 202 “Report of the Forestry Division of Pennsylvania for 1897,” VI, 10 (August, 1898), pp. 172-173
Folder 203 “Report of the General Secretary,” V, 6 (December, 1895), pp. 86-87
Folder 204 “Report of the General Secretary,” VIII, 6 (December, 1901), pp. 84-86
Folder 205 “Report of the General Secretary,” X, 6 (December, 1905), pp. 86-87
Folder 206 “Report of the General Secretary,” X, 12 (December, 1906), pp. 182-183
Folder 207 “Report of the General Secretary,” XI, 6 (December, 1907), pp. 85-87
Folder 208 “Report of the General Secretary,” XII, 1 (February, 1909), pp. 11-12
Folder 209 “Report of the General Secretary,” XIV, 12 (December, 1914), pp. 181-182
Folder 210 “Report of the General Secretary of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association for the Year 1898,” VI, 12 (December, 1898), pp. 195-197
Folder 211 “Report of the General Secretary of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association,” VII, 6 (December, 1899), pp. 85-86
Folder 212 “Report of the General Secretary of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association for the Year 1902,” VIII, 12, (October, 1902), pp. 180-182
Folder 213 “Report of the General Secretary of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association,” IX, 6 (December, 1903), pp. 84-86
Folder 214 “Report of the General Secretary of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association,” XII, 12 (December, 1910), pp. 181-183
Folder 215 “Resolutions of the West Chester, Pennsylvania, High School Forestry Association,” VI, 3 (June, 1897), p. 39
Folder 216 “Resolutions re S. B. Elliott and Southern Appalachian and White Mountains National Forests,” XVI, 4 (August, 1917), pp. 51-52
Folder 217 “Respectfully Addressed to Our Pennsylvania Legislaturel,” XVI, 2 (April, 1917), pp. 24- 25
Folder 218 “Review of ‘Notes Collected During A Visit to the Forests of Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and France’ by John Gifford,” VI 4 (August, 1897), p. 70
Folder 219 “Review of the 1897 report of the Tree Planting and Fountain Society of Brooklyn,” VI, 8 (April, 1898), p. 136
Folder 220 “River Birch (Betula nigra, L.),” IV, 12 (December, 1894), p. 185 ff.
Folder 221 “Rock Oak, Rock Chestnut Oak. (Quercus Princus, L.),” VI, 6 (December, 1897), pp. 104-105
Folder 222 “Rothrock Memorial Grove at Caledonia Park,” (JTR remarks summarized), XVII, 3 (June, 1919), pp. 34-35
Folder 223 “Row Farm Walnut Tree,” II, 9 (January, 1890), pp. 133-134 and preceding picture
Folder 224 “Rules for Pennsylvania’s Forest Reservations,” VIII, 11 (October, 1902), p. 163
Folder 225 “Sanitary Relations of our Highlands to the State,” VI, 11 (October, 1898), pp. 186-190
Folder 226 “Sanatorium at South Mountain, Pennsylvania,” IX, 5 (October, 1903), pp. 72-73
Folder 227 “Short-Leaf Pine. Yellow Pine. (Pinus Echinata, Mill.; Pinus Mitis, Mich.),” IX, 2 (April, 1903), p. 24
Folder 228 “Side Issues,” IX, 7 (February, 1904), p. 104
Folder 229 “Silver Maple. White Maple. Soft Maple,” V, 11 (October, 1896), pp. 168-169
Folder 230 “Slippery Elm (Ulmus fulva, Michx.),” VIII, 9 (June, 1902), p. 136
Folder 231 “Some Big Trees of Our Region,” no volume, [II, 1] no number, (November, 1888), pp. 85-86
Folder 232 “Some Facts in the Life of a Copper Beech Tree,” XVII, 1 (February, 1919), pp. 6-7 ff.
Folder 233 “Some Town Trees,” XV, 1 (February, 1915), p. 4-5
Folder 234 “Some Tree Planters,” VII, 4 (August, 1899), pp. 54-55
Folder 235 “State Administration of Roads Upheld,” XVIII, 6 (December, 1921), pp. 84-85
Folder 236 “State ‘Blaze’,” VIII, 8 (April, 1902), p. 120
Folder 237 “State Forestry Academy,” XV, 8 (April, 1916), pp. 119-121
Folder 238 “State Forest Reservation,” 1V, 12 (December, 1894), p. 184
Folder 239 “Sugar Maple. Acer saceharinum, Wang.,” V, 4 (August, 1895), pp. 56-58 and intervening pictures
Folder 240 “Suggested Pennsylvania Forestry School,” VIII, 5 (October, 1901), pp. 68-69)
Folder 241 “Sullivan Military Road,” XVI, 10 (August, 1918), p. 148
Folder 242 “Sullivan Road–Easton to Wyoming,” XVII, 2 (April, 1919), pp. 28-32
Folder 243 “Summarized Remarks,” XV, 4 (August, 1915), p. 58
Folder 244 “Suppression of Forest Fires,” VIII, 1 (February, 1901), pp. 13-14
Folder 245 “Swamp White Oak. (Quercus bicolor.), V, 7 (February, 1869), pp. 104-105
Folder 246 “Sweet Gum, Blisted (Liquidambar Styraciflua, L.),” XI, 8 (April, 1908), p. 120
Folder 247 “To Cut New York State Forests,” VIII, 8 (April, 1902), p. 125
Folder 248 “Tree Diseases,” VII, 4 (August, 1899), pp. 58-59
Folder 249 “Tree Form and Tree Photography,” VI, 4 (August, 1897), pp. 72-73
Folder 250 “Tree Growth as Determined by Location,” 11, 2 (February, 1889), pp. 18-19 ff.
Folder 251 “Tulip Poplar, or Poplar Tree,” Ill, 6 (June, 1891), pp. 85-86 and preceding picture
Folder 252 “Two Historical Trees,” V, 8 (April, 1896), p. 109
Folder 253 “Two Large White-Oak Trees,” VIII, 12, (December, 1902), p. 184
Folder 254 “Untitled, Re: Forestry Photography of Charles Bradford,” V, 2 (April, 1895), p. 29
Folder 255 “Untitled, Re: Leaf Charts of Grace Anna Lewis,” V, 6 (December, 1895), p. 90
Folder 256 “Water Beech, Hornbeam. (Carpinus Caroliniana, Walt.) (Sargent, Silva N. A., Vol. IX, p. 42, t. 447.),” VIII, 3 (June, 1901), p. 40
Folder 257 “White Ash (Fraxinus Americana),” IV, 8 (April, 1894), pp. 120-122 including pictures
Folder 258 “White Birch. American White Birch. Gray Birch. (Betula populifolia, Ait.) (See: Sargent, Silva N. A., Vol. IX., p. 55, t. 450.),” VII, 5 (October, 1899), pp. 72-73
Folder 259 “White Pine (Pinus Stobus, L.),” IV, 10 (August, 1894), pp. 152-153 and picture
Folder 260 “Why Does the Ground Dry Out so Rapidly?,” V, 12 (December, 1896), p. 188
Folder 261 “Wild Yellow or Red Plum. (Prunus Americana, Marshall.), VIII, 6 (December, 1901), p. 88
Folder 262 “Willows Along the Banks of Our Rivers,” V, 5 (October, 1895), pp. 66-67
Folder 263 “Wood Notes from Maine,” XVII1, 1 (February, 1921), pp. 13-15
Folder 264 “Woodlands and Floods,” IV, 10 (August, 1894), pp. 148-149
Folder 265 “Yellow Birch, Gray Birch. (Betula letea Michx., fil.),” VI, 9 (June, 1898), pp. 152-153
B.2 Published Reports, 1897-1911
Box 3
Folder 266 Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Report, 1895. “Report of the Commissioner of Forestry.” Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, 1896, pp. 32-41
Folder 267 Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Division of Forestry, Preliminary Report of the Commissioner of Forestry for 1896. Harrisburg:Clarence M. Busch, 1897, (Note: The final report issued later in 1897 differs only in having a small, almost illegible, typescript. The Preliminary Report is in Series Ill, Chester County Historical Society Rothrock Collection)
Folder 268 “Report of the Committee on Forestry,” Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Part II, 1902. Harrisburg: William Stanley Ray, 1903, pp. 35-42
Folder 269 “Report of Committee on Forestry,” Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 1903. Harrisburg: William Stanley Ray, 1904, pp. 244-251
Folder 270 “Report of the Committee on Forestry,” [1/27-28/04], Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 1903. Harrisburg: William Stanley Ray, 1904, pp. 509-512
Folder 271 “Report of the Committee on Forestry,” Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 1904. Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1905, pp. 467-470
B.3 Published Lectures and Remarks, 1890-1916
Box 3
Folder 272 “Roughing It in Pulmonary Phthisis,” January, 1874 (Reported in Lewis T. Buckman, M.D., One Hundred Years with the Luzerne County Medical Society: A History. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1961, pp. 23-24)
Folder 273 “Trees on Our Roadsides and on Our Grounds.” Philadelphia Public Ledger, and transcription
Folder 274 “Taxation of Timberlands.” Philadelphia Public Ledger, 1/30/90, and transcription
Folder 275 “On the Lessons of Acadia and Louisbourg, And Their Relations to Our National Growth and Prosperity.” Philadelphia Public Ledger, 11/18/92
Folder 276 “Plant Form in Decorative Art.” Philadelphia Public Ledger, 12/2/92
Folder 277 “How Plants and Trees Grow.” Philadelphia Public Ledger, [c 2/19/92]
Folder 278 “The Forestry Problem in Pennsylvania,” (Speech to: World’s Fair Congress, Chicago, October, 1893, Reprint in: Proceedings of the American Forestry Association, Vol. X, Washington, D.C., 1894)
Folder 279 “On the Growth of the Forestry Idea in Pennsylvania.” Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1894, (Note: Not the same as “The Growth of the Forestry Idea in Pennsylvania and the Necessity for It,” [1892 or later])
Folder 280 “Forests of Pennsylvania.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, XXXIII (March 2, 1894), pp. 114-133 (JTR’s Annotated Copy)
Folder 281 “Pennsylvania.” Proceedings of the American Forestry Association, Vol. Xl, 1896
Folder 282 “Dr. J.T. Rothrock Talks on Trees.” Daily Local News (West Chester, Pennsylvania, 10/19/00, Text of JTR’s Arbor Day speech at West Chester High School)
Folder 283 “Progress in Forest [P]reservation in Pennsylvania.” [1/2 or 3/05], Proceedings of the American Forest Congress, Washington, DC, H.M. Suter, 1905
Folder 284 “Relation Between State and Private Forestry.” 2/4/09, Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters, (1909), pp. 64-71
Folder 285 “Forester’s Relation to His Work and to the State.” 8/10/10, Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Report, 1910-1911. Harrisburg: 1912, pp. 197-202
Folder 286 Address at His Testimonial Luncheon, 5/4/14. Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Report, 1914-1915. Harrisburg: 1916, pp. 209-219
Folder 287 Address at Mont Alto Sanatorium upon the Unveiling of a Memorial in His Honor, 10/9/19. (Chester County Medical Society, The Medical Reporter, 8:10 (October, 1919), pp. 3-6
B.4 Manuscript Essays/Lectures, 1868-1921
Box 3
Folder 288 [Appeal to Purchase Cook Forest], [n.d.] (Probably a speech to the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce)
Folder 289 “Concerning Our Waste Ground!,” [n.d.]
Folder 290 “Pennsylvania Forests in the Development of the Nation,” [n.d.]
Folder 291 “Productive Science,” [n.d.], (Note: page 15 is actually page 5; document is complete)
Folder 292 “Medical Notes from the North West,” 1125/68
Folder 293 “Record of the Times,” (Recollection of his 1856-1866 winter at Lake Tacla, British Columbia), 1/22/76
Folder 294 “Some West Indian Trees,” [after 1890]
Folder 295 “Travelling Companions in Tropical Land and Water,” [after 1890]
Folder 296 “Forestry in Pennsylvania,” Fourth Michaux Lecture, 1891
Folder 297 “Growth of the Forestry Idea in Pennsylvania and the Necessity for It,” [1892 or later], (Note: Not the same as On the Growth of the Forestry Idea in Pennsylvania, 1894)
Folder 298 “On the Growth of the Forestry Idea in Pennsylvania,” [c 1892-1894], (typescript of On the Growth of the Forestry Idea in Pennsylvania, 1894)
Box 4
Folder 1 “Columbus as Navigator,” 10/21/92, (Hand-corrected typescript)
Folder 2 “Forests of Pennsylvania,” [1893], (Published copy enc. WI: JTR to Farquhar, A.B., 11/11/93)
Folder 3 “Forestry Problem in Pennsylvania,” 10/18/93, (JTR’s address at the World’s Colombian Exposition)
Folder 4 Autobiography, [after 1895]
Folder 5 “Some Aspects of the Forestry Problem in Pennsylvania,” 10/12/[1900-1901]
Folder 6 “Forest Fires and Fire Prevention in Theory and Practice,” [1912 or later], (Note: JTR’s page numbering suggests three papers merged into one; clipped together in one of JTR’s “brown bags” found in the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry Library)
Folder 7 “Sketch of the Forestry Movement in Pennsylvania,” [c 1920-1922], (Handwritten draft)
Folder 8 “Sketch of the Forestry Idea in Pennsylvania,” [c 1920-1922], (Typed draft)
Folder 9 “Eminent Domain and Some of Its Consequences,” 6/17/21, (Complete typed draft)
Folder 10 “Eminent Domain and Some of Its Consequences,” 6117/21, (Incomplete typed draft)
B.5 Manuscript Reports and Legal Material, 1874-1908
Box 4
Folder 11 “Dr. J.T. Rothrock’s Collection, Lieut. Wheeler’s Exped. 1874”
Folder 12 Michaux Lecture Ticket Manuscript, 1887-88 (enc. w/: JTR to Price, John Sergeant, 11/22/87)
Folder 13 “Proposed Michaux Lectures for 1892, Fourteenth Course, [c 9/9/92] (enc. w/: JTR to Meehan, Thomas, 9/9/92 and JTR to Price, J. Sergeant, 9/9/92)
Folder 14 State Capitol Fire Damage to Forestry Office, 2/8197 (See: JTR, to Scott, John E., 2/8/97)
Folder 15 Forest Wardens Roster, [c 12/10/02] (enc. w/: JTR to Penneypacker, Samuel Whitaker, 12/10/02)
Folder 16 Articles of Agreement with Little Juniata Water and Water Power Co., [5/4/03-9/15/03], (See: Little Juniata Water and Water Power Co., 1903, File)
Folder 17 Agreement with Little Juniata Water and Water Power Co., [5/4/03-9/15/03], (See: Little Juniata Water and Water Power Co., 1903, File)
Folder 18 Fragment of a water conduit agreement, [5/4/03-9/15/03], (See: Little Juniata Water and Water Co., 1903, File)
Folder 19 “Report Upon Lands in Potter and Clinton Counties…,” 2/7/08 (enc. w/: JTR to Conklin, Robert S., 2/7/08)
B.6 Statements on Behalf of Professional/Learned Institutions/Societies, 1877-1905]
Box 4
Folder 20 Comments on: “Declaration of Principles and Policies of the American Forestry Association,” [n.d.] (Includes: JTR, to Drinker, Henry Sturgis, [n.d.]; no cover located)
Folder 21 Comments on: “Declaration of Principles and Policies of the American Forestry Association (Committee’s Revised Draft),” [n.d.] (No cover located)
Folder 22 Comments on: “Declaration of Principles and Policies of the American Forestry Association (Mr. Ridsdale’s Condensation), [n.d.] (No cover located)
Folder 23 “Botany,” University of Pennsylvania, Auxiliary Department of Medicine, Sessions of 1877, p. 3
Folder 24 “Requirements of the Proposed Botanical Laboratory in the Towne Scientific School, [1881], (No cover located)
Folder 25 Pennsylvania Forestry Association, Charter, 1889
Folder 26 “Twelfth Course, Free Michaux Forestry Lectures, [c 10/15/89]
Folder 27 “Towne Scientific School, Sixth Course:-Preparatory to Medical Studies,” [1891]
Folder 28 “Plea for a University Botanic Garden,” [1892]
Folder 29 Syllabus of a Course of Ten Lectures on Elementary Botany, Wagner Free Institute of Science, Spring Term, 1893
Folder 30 American Philosophical Society Resolution Re: Forests of Pennsylvania, 2/17/93
Folder 31 “Three Year Course as Planned by Dr. J.T. Rothrock, August 8, 1904-A Revision of the Four Year Curse,” 8/8/04 (Transcription by Elizabeth H. Thomas)
Folder 32 “Entry for University of Pennsylvania General Alumni Catalogue,” [after 1905]
Folder 33 “Entry for Matriculate Catalogue of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania,” [after 1905]
B.7 Essay/Lecture Notes/Outlines, 1879-1915
Box 4
Folder 34 “Drexel Institute Lecture 1, Plant Form in Art,” [n.d.]
Folder 35 “How to Analyze Plants,” [n.d.]
Folder 36 “How Plants Are Constructed,” [n.d.]
Folder 37 “Management and Mismanagement of City Trees,” [n.d.]
Folder 38 “Park Lecture–How to Analyze Plants,” [n.d.]
Folder 39 “Phoenixville Lecture,” [n.d.]
Folder 40 “Second Drexel Lecture on Artistic Botany,” [n.d.]
Folder 41 “Something about Middle State Trees,” [n.d.]
Folder 42 “Stray Plants,” [n.d.]
Folder 43 “Farming don’t pay as formerly [sic],” [n.d.]
Folder 44 Untitled–Re: Forest Protection, [n.d.]
Folder 45 Untitled-Re: Western Pennsylvania and the Seven Years War, [n.d.]
Folder 46 Untitled-Re: Western Pennsylvania and the Seven Years War, Pennsylvania Roads and Resources, [n.d.]
Folder 47 Untitled-Re: Western Pennsylvania in the Seven Years War, Westward Movement, [n.d.]
Folder 48 Untitled–Re: Tree Planting in Chester County, Pennsylvania, [n.d.]
Folder 49 “Unrecognized Penna. Beauty and Historical along Southern Border, Washington and Braddock Road, Forbes Road,” 3/[?]/[?]
Folder 50 “Lecture on Forestry For Norristown,” [before 1903]
Folder 51 “Lect IV Sch Ind Art,” 12/19/79
Folder 52 “Forestry for Coatesville,” [c 1881-1891]
Folder 53 “Neglected Trees,” [12/11/89], (Includes: “Some Neglected Trees ,Philadelphia Public Ledger, 12/18/89, and transcription)
Folder 54 [“On the Structure of Wood”], [1/8/90], (Includes: “What Professor Rothrock Says about the Structure of Wood,” Philadelphia Public Ledger, [1/8190], and transcription)
Folder 55 “Trees We Are Exterminating,” [1/22/90], (Includes: “Trees We Are Exterminating,” Philadelphia Public Ledger, 1/23/90, and transcription)
Folder 56 “Flowerless Water Plants,” 4/3/91
Folder 57 “Some Productive Orders of Plants,” 4/8/91
Folder 58 “Flowering Plants,” 7/25/91
Folder 59 “Vegetation of Bahamas and Jamaica,” [11/18/91]
Folder 60 “Physical Geography of the Bahamas and Jamaica,” [December, 1891]
Folder 61 “How to Care for Trees,” [January], 1892
Folder 62 “Trees of Pennsylvania,” 11/9/92 (Includes: “The Trees of Pennsylvania,” Philadelphia Public Ledger, [c 11/11/92]
Folder 63 “What is Economic Botany?” [December, 1892]
Folder 64 “How to Plant and Care for Trees,” [12/19/92]
Folder 65 “Plant Structures as Related to Mechanical Arts,” [c 12/9192] (Includes: “Plant Structure Applied to Mechanical Art,” Philadelphia Public Ledger, [c 12/9/92]
Folder 66 “Desolate Pennsylvania,” [c 1904-1915], (Original size followed by photo-enlargement) [Braddock’s Grave], [after 1913]
Folder 67 “[Braddock’s Grave, after 1913]
B.8 Remarks at Conferences/Hearings, [c 18951-1921
Box 4
Folder 68 “Harrisburg—For Bill No. 173,” [c 1895]
Folder 69 “Publications of the Pennsylvania Chestnut Blight Commission, 19111913,” Proceedings of Harrisburg Conference, 2/20-21/12. Harrisburg: 1912, pp. 123124
Folder 70 Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, Fifth Annual Convention of Pennsylvania Foresters, “Stenographic Report of Proceedings,” (Note: Only JTR remarks and context pages filmed)
B.9 Financial Material, 1887-1913
Box 4
Folder 71 [Michaux Lecture Expenses], [n.d.]
Folder 72 “Receipts for Expenditures of Michaux Lectures of 89-1890 Season,” [c 1890], (Folio of eleven items)
Folder 73 Michaux Lectures Expense Receipts, November and December, 1892
Folder 74 “Michaux Lectures for 1894,” (Proposed topics and cost estimate), [1893-1894]
Folder 75 Account Book, 1897-1904.
Folder 76 Adams Express Company, Statement, 61[?]197
Folder 77 State Forest Camp Lease, 11/5/20
B.10 Special Files
Items in these files are individually listed under appropriate headings elsewhere in this index, and they are again listed here. See note for the Forest Academy Case, 1920-1921 file which is an exception.
Box 4
Folder 78 See Inside Folder
Folder 79 “Re-appointment File,” 1898, (Includes: JTR to Stone, William Alexis, 11/15/98; JTR to Birkinbine, John, 11/18/98; JTR to Snyder, W.P., 12/20/98; Stone, William Alexis to JTR, 11/22/98; “Some State Politics,” Press [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania], 5/22/99 with JTR note)
Folder 80 “Little Juniata Water and Water Power Co., 1903, File,” (Includes: [JTR], Fragment of a water conduit agreement; Thompson, John W., “Plan of Conduit”; Brumbaugh, S.L. to Williams, Isaac C., 9/15/03; Agreement between JTR and Little Juniata Water and Water Power Co.; Articles of Agreement between JTR and Little Juniata Water and Water Power Co.; [Brumbaugh, S.L.] to [Pennypacker, Samuel Whitaker], [n.d.].; Brumbaugh, S.L. to Conklin, Robert, 5/18103-5111/03, 5/4/03; Brumbaugh, S.L. to JTR, 5/4/03; Brumbaugh, S.L. to Conklin, Robert, 6/17/03; Brumbaugh, S.L. to Williams, Isaac C., 7/25/03; JTR to Carson, Hampton L., 8/11/03; Carson, Hampton L., to JTR, 919/03; Thompson, John W., “Sketch Showing Proposed Route and Plant of Little Juniata Water and Water Power Co.”)
Folder 81 “Logn Iron and Steel Co.,” 1/8/04, Re: Purchase of Greenwood Furnace and its lands
Folder 82 “Forest Academy Case, 1920-1921”
B.11 Rangers’ Monthly Reports, 1902-1904
Box 4
Folder 83 Bedford State Forest: Sparks, J.H., 11/6/03-6/1/04
Folder 84 Bedford State Forest: Sparks, J.H., 11/11/03
Folder 85 Buffalo State Forest: Moore, S.T., Guyer, George, Reish, George L., Mellick, 0.B., Focht, Benjamin K., [c 7/25/03]-8/1/04
Folder 86 Clearfield State Forest: Miller, N.M. (Alias for Orth, Conrad), 4/19/04-5/25/04
Folder 87 Minisink State Forest: Wilson, Edger, 3/4/01-1/22/03
Folder 88 Miscellaneous Forests and Rangers [Pike County], C-Frankenfield, June 190212/1/02
Folder 89 Miscellaneous Forests and Rangers [Pike County], Miller-Woof; Rake, Hiram; Mosier, Horton; Strunk, Samuel, 7/1/02-6/1104
Folder 90 Miscellaneous Forests and Rangers [Pike County], Frederick-Martin: Frederick, Charles E. and Place, Monroe (Reports suggest an alias for “place” in “Monroe” County bordering Pike County), 4/30/03-4/1/04
Folder 91 Seven Mountains State Forest: Deter, G.D., January 1902-May 1904
Folder 92 Seven Mountains State Forest: Lightner, S.H., 5/25/03-1/2/04
Folder 93 Seven Mountains State Forest: Lightner, S.H., 4/31/03-5/1/04
Folder 94 Seven Mountains State Forest: Fessenden, A.M., 1/1/04-6/1104
Folder 95 Sinnimahoning [Sinnemahoning] State Forest: Larrabee, M.V. and Begell, Mrs. Lottie), 5/1/03-10/12/03
Folder 96 South Mountain State Forest, Caledonia Division, Francis X. Drachbar: Smith, Conrad, 4/7102-[c May, 1904]
Folder 97 South Mountain State Forest: Mededith, D.B., 5127/02-5/30/04
Folder 98 South Mountain State Forest, Kyner-Tracy (Meredith): Meredith, D.B. and Delaney, Charles H., 6/30/02-3/1/04
Folder 99 South Mountain State Forest: Boggs, Joseph H., 3/27/03-4/30/04
Folder 100 South Mountain State Forest: Hassler, Benjamin F., 5/31/03-May 1904
Folder 101 South Mountain State Forest: McElwee, James W., 5/31/03-2/29/04
Folder 102 South Mountain State Forest: Boggs, Joseph 0., 8/31/03-5/31/04
Folder 103 South Mountain State Forest, Kyner-Tracy (Perry and Meredith): Meredith, D.B. and Perry, Charles (Also: Perrie, Charlie), 4/30/04-October 1904
Folder 104 Stone State Forest: Smedley, L.W., 7/30/02-12/1/04
B.12 Newspaper Clippings, 1891-1919
Not included in the collection.
B.13 Miscellaneous, 1896-[c 1921]
Box 4
Folder 105 General Federation of Women’s Clubs, “Inform yourself upon the forestry conditions of your State…,” [n.d.] (Includes: JTR’s check marks)
Folder 106 Photographs, Alpine Scenes, (6), [n.d.]
Folder 107 JTR’s Annotations In: Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 1896 Report, Chapter XII, “Catalogue of the Forest Trees of Pennsylvania Having Commercial Value,” Filmed by page numbers; topic index follows:
Arbor Vitae, pp. 285-287
Ash, White, p. 226
Buttonwood, Sycamore, p. 238
Chestnut, p. 260
Crab-Apple, American, p. 215
Hickory, Shell-Bark, Shang-Bark, p. 242
Locust Tree, Black Locust, Yellow Locust, p. 210
Locust, Honey, p. 213
Oaks, General Preliminary Statement Concerning, p. 246
Oak, Pin, Swamp, Spanish, p. 256
Pine, Jersey, Scrub, Jersey Scrub, p. 279
Pine, Red, plate 36
Pine, Spruce, Yellow, p. 280
Pine, White, pp. 276-278
Sassafras, p. 232
Spruce, Black, p. 282
Spruce, Red, p. 281
Walnut, Black, pp. 140-141
Willow, p. 272
Folder 108 Foreword to Wirt, George Hermann, Propagation of Forest Trees. Harrisburg: William Stanley Ray, 1902
Folder 109 American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Health League Certificate, [c 2/15/08] (Attached to: JTR, Dues Check, 2/27/08)
Folder 110 “Herbarium and Botanical Library of Dr. J.T. Rothrock, West Chester, Pennsylvania,” [April, 1909]
Folder 111 Post Office and Express Offices of Foresters, [c 2/2?/15]
B.14 Fragments, [after 1890]-[after 1904]
Box 4
Folder 112 Fragment Re: West Indies, [after 1890]
Folder 113 Fragment Re: S.B. Elliot, [after 1904]
B.15 Transcriptions of JTR Essays, Lectures, and Reports by George Herman Wirt
George H. Wirt, from JTR’s hometown of McVeytown, Pennsylvania, became deputy in the Forestry Department in 1903. A devoted JTR protégé, he prepared the following transcriptions. They are chronologically arranged with undated items first under the headings: essays, lectures, and reports. Multiple items of no date or same date are arranged alphabetically by the first key words of titles.
Box 4
Essays
Folder 114 “Two sides to a Leaf,” [n.d]
Folder 115 “Growth of the Forestry Idea in Pennsylvania,” [c 1892-94]
Folder 116 “Water Supply,” [c 1897]
Folder 117 “Why a State Should Acquire Land and Exploit It For Forestry Purposes,” [c 1897]
Folder 118 “What Forestry Is,” [c 9/28/97], (Includes: JTR to Harr, [C.C.], 9/28/97)
Folder 119 “What Forestry Can Do for Pennsylvania,” [c 1897-1899]
Folder 120 Essay Re: An authoring the purchase of not less than 120,000 acres…,” [c 1899]
Folder 121 “Relation of the Teachers to Forestry in this Commonwealth,” [c 1899]
Folder 122 “History of Pennsylvania Forestry for Gifford Pinchot’s History of Forestry in the United States, 11/6/99
Folder 123 “Forest Cover,” 1899
Folder 124 “Statement about Sanatorium in Forest Reserve,” [1906]
Folder 125 “Synopsis of Facts Relating to Pennsylvania State Forest Reserve Work,” [c 1907]
Lectures, [c 1897]-1900
Folder 126 “Removal of Fertile Soil From The Farm by Water,” [c 1897]
Folder 127 “A Plain Statement of an Important Problem,” [after 10/15/97]
Folder 128 “Lecture by JTR,” — Re: Forestry — Fires and Droughts, [c 1899]
Folder 129 “Dr. Rothrock’s Address,” — Re: Forests and Their Roles in Nature and Economics, 2/21/99
Folder 130 “Annual Address on Hygiene,” [1900]
Report, [1898]
Folder 131 “Extract From Report of the General Secretary of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, [12/15/98]
B.16 Non-JTR Authors, [1898]-[c 1921]
Not included in the collection.
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