JOHN W. LARNER COLLECTION ON JOSEPH TRIMBLE ROTHROCK

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

RepositoryChester County History Center, West Chester, PA

Language: English

Project Archivist: E. Richard McKinstry

Biography:

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.

Abstract:

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.

Collection Scope:

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. 

Information For Researchers:

  • Access: Collection is open for research. 
  • Publication Rights/Terms of Use: The Chester County History Center makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational, and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions.  CCHC makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions, and it is the user’s responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce, and publish materials from the collections.
  • Preferred Citation: John W. Larner Collection on Joseph Trimble Rothrock, 1987-1999. MS Coll 259. Chester County History Center Library. West Chester, Pennsylvania.
  • Acquisition Information: In 2011, the John W. Larner Collection on Joseph Trimble Rothrock was donated by William G. Gamble, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota and husband of Katherine Cleves Rothrock, the daughter of Dr. Henry Rothrock, Joseph Rothrock’s grandson.  John Larner, a faculty member at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, was the editor of the 38 reel microfilm edition of the Joseph Trimble Rothrock Papers, published in 1999 by Scholarly Resources.  In the course of compiling materials for this project, Larner received publication permission and encouragement from the Rothrocks, and may have transferred a copy of Series IV of the Papers to the family.
  • Processing History: The collection was processed and a finding aid was prepared by E. Richard McKinstry in June 2022.  Letters in the collection that were chronologically arranged for microfilming were rearranged and collated by correspondent to reflect the order of materials as presented in Larner’s Guide and Index (see Box 1, Folder 1).
  • Available Formats: The collection has been microfilmed and is available in the Joseph Trimble Rothrock Papers, published by Scholarly Resources, Wilmington, Delaware (1999).

Names and Subject Terms:

  • Subjects:
    • Botony
    • Botanists
    • Forest management
    • Foresters–Pennsylvania
    • Forests and forestry–Pennsylvania
    • Forestry
  • Types of Materials:
    • Articles
    • Correspondence
    • Essays
    • Lectures
    • Reports
  • Names, Personal:
    • Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
    • Brumbaugh, Martin Grove, 1862-1930
    • Dock, Mira Lloyd, 1853-1945
    • Engelmann, George, 1809-1884
    • Fernow, Bernhard Eduard, 1851-1923
    • Gray, Asa, 1810-1888
    • Larner, John W. (John William), 1937-
    • Pennypacker, Samuel W. (Samuel Whitaker), 1843-1916
    • Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946
    • Rothrock, Joseph T., 1839-1922
    • Wirt, George H. (George Hermann), 1880-1961

Collection Arrangement:

Manuscripts are arranged in 2 Sections:

  • Section A: Correspondence, 1864-192 (1.8 linear feet; Box 1 – Box 2)
  • Section B: Non-Correspondence, 1868-1938 (2.2 linear feet; Box 2 – Box 4)
    • B1: Non-Correspondence, Published Articles, [1871]-1938
    • B2: Non-Correspondence, Published Reports, 1897-1911
    • B3: Non-Correspondence, Published Lectures and Remarks, 1890-1916
    • B4: Non-Correspondence, Manuscript Essays / Lectures, 1868-1921
    • B5: Non-Correspondence, Manuscript Reports and Legal Material, 1874-1908
    • B6: Non-Correspondence, Statements on Behalf of Professional / Learned Institutions / Societies, 1877-after 1905
    • B7: Non-Correspondence, Essay / Lecture Notes / Outlines, 1879-1915
    • B8: Non-Correspondence, Remarks at Conferences / Hearings, circa 1895-1921
    • B9: Non-Correspondence, Financial Material, 1887-1913
    • B10: Non-Correspondence, Special Files, 1898-1921
    • B11: Non-Correspondence, Rangers’ Monthly Reports, 1902-1904
    • B12: Non-Correspondence, Newspaper clippings, 1891-1919 [not in collection]
    • B13: Non-Correspondence, Miscellaneous, 1896-circa 1921
    • B14: Non-Correspondence, Fragments, after 1890-after 1904
    • B15: Non-Correspondence, Transcriptions of Joseph T. Rothrock Essays, Lectures, and Reports, by George Wirt, circa 1892-[1920]
    • B16: Non-Correspondence, Non-Joseph T. Rothrock Authors [not in collection]

Related Material:

Collection Contents:

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.