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Hugh E. Morrison Papers, 1937-1964
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Morrison, H. E. (Hugh Engle), 1905-
- Title
- Hugh E. Morrison Papers
- Dates
- 1937-1964 (inclusive)19371964
- Quantity
- 0.70 cubic feet, (1 box)
- Collection Number
- MSS Morrison
- Summary
- The Hugh E. Morrison Papers document Morrison's research on vegetable crop and hop pest control, symphylids, and the application of pesticides including DDT. Morrison was a research entomologist with the Oregon State University Agricultural Experiment Station from 1937 until his death in 1967.
- Repository
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Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu - Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Hugh E. Morrison was a research entomologist with the Oregon State University Agricultural Experiment Station from 1937 until his death in 1967. Hugh Engle Morrison earned a B.S. degree from Franklin and Marshall College in 1927 and a M.S. degree from the Ohio State University in 1936. He joined the faculty of Oregon State College as an Assistant in Entomology with the Agricultural Experiment Station in 1937; in the mid-1950s, he was promoted to Associate Entomologist. Morrison's research focused on hop pests; life, habits, and control of symphylans; injurious soil arthropods; and development of soil insecticides for control of pests affecting crops such as potatoes, corn, carrots, and mint.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Hugh E. Morrison Papers document Morrison’s research on vegetable crop and hop pest control, symphylids, and the application of pesticides including DDT. The collection includes research reports on symphylids, red hop spiders, and cabbage maggots as well as communications between Morrison, other researchers, chemical companies, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the methods employed in the research and the results. In addition to reports, the collection includes brochures, correspondence, conference papers, newspaper clippings, research data, photographs, and a documentary film script. An instructional notebook for the course “Method of Insect Investigations” (Entomology 816), correspondence between Morrison and other entomologists about pesticide applicators, and abstracts of research papers presented at Pacific Northwest vegetable conferences are also included.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
Hugh E. Morrison Papers (MSS Morrison), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Acquisition Information
These materials were transferred in two accesssions to the former University Archives. The initial accession was received from the Entomology Department in 2002; the second accession was transferred by the Oregon State University Library in 2007. It is not known how or when the Library received the materials.
Processing Note
This finding aid was prepared under remote working conditions in 2020 without access to the original collection; consequently, the number of original photographs in the collection could not be determined by the finding aid author and is not included in this finding aid.
Related Materials
The Special Collections and Archives Research Center's holdings include additional materials pertaining to entomology research in the Agricultural Experiment Station Records (RG 025), the Entomology Department Records (RG 027) and Photograph Collection (P 055), and the Ralph Berry Papers (MSS Berry) and to symphylid research in the Charles H. Martin Papers (MSS MartinC). A 1958 film "Symphylids and Their Control" from the Extension and Experiment Station Communications Moving Images (FV 120) is available streaming online. Images of symphlyan and cabbage maggots are part of the Ken Gray Photograph Collection (P 256).
Many reports of Morrison's research on hop pest control are available in the Agricultural Experiment Station Records (RG 025) and are available online in Oregon Digital. Photographs from the reports are also available in Oregon Digital.
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Arthropod pests
- Entomology--Research--Oregon.
- Entomology--Study and teaching (Higher)--Oregon--Corvallis.
- Hops--Diseases and pests--Oregon.
- Insect pests--Control--Oregon.
- Pesticides--Oregon.
- Symphyla--Control
Personal Names
- Morrison, H. E. (Hugh Engle), 1905-
Corporate Names
- Oregon State College. Agricultural Experiment Station.
- Oregon State University. Agricultural Experiment Station.
- Oregon State University. Department of Entomology.
Form or Genre Terms
- Photographic prints.
Other Creators
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Corporate Names
- Oregon State College. Agricultural Experiment Station. (creator)
- Oregon State University. Agricultural Experiment Station. (creator)
- Oregon State University. Department of Entomology. (creator)
Finding Aid Authors: Elizabeth Nielsen.
2020
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