Source Collection
This digital collection comprises selected materials from the following archival collection at Duke University Archives:
Henry J. Oosting papers 1919-1968
Collection #UA.29.02.0021 | 7 Linear Feet
ABSTRACT
Correspondence, field notes, writings,photographs and other subject files of Henry J. Oosting, Professor of Botany and Chairman of the Department of Botany at Duke University from 1931 to 1962. Major subjects include the ecology of virgin forests, vegetation on bare rocks, maritime vegetation in the Southeastern United States, North Carolina vegetation, the 1937 Louise A. Boyd expedition to Greenland with the American Geographical Society, the Victory Garden project in Durham, N.C., the Ecological Society of America, and the serial Ecological Monographs.
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