NTDMG342.xml Guide to the Lambert Cornelius Erickson Papers 1940-1980 Erickson (Lambert Cornelius) Papers Finding aid prepared by Judith Nielsen Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives ©1991 Encoded by ArchProteus2003 Finding aid is in English Overview of the Collection University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives MG342 Lambert Cornelius Erickson, 1910-1986 Lambert Cornelius Erickson Papers 1940-1980 1.5 cubic feet Class notes from courses taken at the Universities of Minnesota and Wyoming, publications on weeds, articles authored by Erickson, and photographs of weed and seed experiments and test plots. English

Lambert Cornelius Erickson was born May 30, 1910 in Goodridge, Minnesota the youngest of the 11 children of Johan and Anna Udstrand Erickson. He received his B.S. degree in agronomy and agricultural botany from the University of Minnesota in 1940, his M.S. in botany from the University of Wyoming in 1943, and his Ph.D. from Minnesota in 1962. He came to Moscow as associate agronomist in 1945 and retired August 15, 1975. In Moscow he was active in professional and civic affairs. He became an associate member of the FarmHouse fraternity in 1958, and in 1978 was elected "Master Builder of Men," the highest honor bestowed by the International FarmHouse Fraternity. He was also associated with the Campus Christian Center, Lions Club, First Presbyterian Church and United Fund. He was a member of the Weed Science Society of America, Idaho Academy of Science, American Society of Agronomy, and American Men of Science. In 1970 he held Fulbright lectures on weed science in Europe. He married Hazel Marie Markuson on October 19, 1940; they had one son. Erickson died on July 9, 1986 following a heart attack.

The papers of Lambert Erickson span the years 1940 to 1980, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1940 to 1950. They were left in their received order and all folder headings were retained. The papers include abstracts of papers given at conferences, mimeographed "Weed Letters," class notes from Minnesota and Wyoming, and articles by Erickson. There are also many photographs of seed and weed experiments. Some of the material related to research conducted after Erickson's retirement, but it may be connected to projects he was working on. The papers are organized in two series: papers and photographs.

The papers of Lambert C. Erickson were donated to the University of Idaho Library in March 1987 by Dick Auld of the Plant Science Department.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Idaho Agriculture Photographs Erickson, Lambert C.--Archives. Weeds Lambert Cornelius Erickson (1910-1986) was a professor of plant science at the University of Idaho, 1945-1975. Detailed Description of the Collection Series I. Papers 1940-1980 1/1 Phon, D.J. "Factors affecting the infection of skeleton weed by rust fungus" 1973 1 item 1/2 College of Agriculture, "A reference manual for staff members" 1979-80 1 item 1/3 Correspondence of Bonnie Blanchette 1979 13 items 1/4 Lab supplies 1979 9 items 1/5 Scanning electron microscope 1976-1978 8 items 1/6 P. chondrillina undated 4 items 1/7 Blanchette, Bonnie L. & Dick L. Auld. "Screening field peas for resistance to white mold" 1978 1 item 1/8 American Phytopathological Society meeting, Abstracts 1979 1 item 1/9 Graphs undated 11 items 1/10 Field diary of Lambert Erickson undated 1 item 1/11 Weed seeds in crop seeds 1946 4 items 1/12 "Weeders Readers" 1948-1959 3 items 1/13 Wetting agents 1947-1949 4 items 1/14-15 Weed Letters - Stahler 1948-1951 18 items 1/16-17 Weed Letters - Timmons 1948-1954 17 items 1/18 Weed workers in the U.S. 1954 1 item 1/19 Willard Wiltumuth weed plots and correspondence 1948-1950 11 items 1/20-21 Seed and Weed Conference 1943-1944 9 items 1/22 Western Weed Conference 1946-1944 9 items 1/23 North Central Weed Conference 1947-1948 8 items 1/24-25 Idaho Noxious Weed Association 1946-1950 11 items 1/26 Idaho Weed Control Association 1973 1 item 1/27 Unified Agricultural program 1945-1950 4 items 1/28 Rules for testing seeds 1944 1 item 1/29 Idaho Farm Defense Program. Defense circulars 1941-1942 25 items 1/30 Fertilizer 1949 1 item 1/31 Longevity of weed seed 1940 6 items 1/32 Game management 1939 13 items 1/33 Crop problems 1940 8 items 1/34 Plant microchemistry, Minnesota undated 1 item 1/35 Weed research problems, Minnesota undated 1 item 1/36 Agricultural biochemistry notes undated 5 items 1/37 Botany theory, Wyoming undated 1 item 1/38 Chemistry undated 2 items 1/39 Weed class, Wyoming undated 17 items 1/40-42 Taxonomy lab 1941-1942 18 items 1/43 Agronomy 18 tests 1941 4 items 1/44 Agronomy 201, U of Wyoming 1944 7 items 1/45 Wyoming weeds, class material 1943 6 items 1/46 Wyoming seed laboratory 1944 2 items 1/47 Noxious weed laws for Wyoming 1942 4 items 1/48 Weed bulletin, Wyoming 1944? 5 items 1/49 Bibliography on seed morphology 1944 5 items 1/50 Screening of genotypes undated 6 items 1/51 Articles by Lambert Erickson 1969-1970 5 items 1/52 Seed morphology and anatomy (Agronomy 106) 1951 4 items 1/53 Weed problems undated 1 item 1/54 Other papers undated 4 items Series II. Photographs 1948-1970 2/55 Agronomy laboratory and unidentified undated 6 items 2/56 Amino triazole on potatoes and storage undated 4 items 2/57 CMU and soil sterility undated 77 items 2/58 Dodder study 1959-1962 33 items 2/59 Fort Hall report 1963 4 items 2/60-61 Halogeton and quackgrass infestations 1956-1957 21 items 2/62 Perennial groundcherry 1961-1962 46 items 2/63 Plant Science 1972 7 items 2/64 Seed studies: infrared effects on germination 1959 23 items 2/65 White top studies undated 6 items 2/66-69 Other photographs and negatives 1948-1979 250 items