Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
Office of the Dean for Research
Administrative policy
records, 1905-1962; bulk 1950-1957
4 16mm microfilm reels
Subseries.
Subseries 90a
consists of selected files from the Office of the Director of the Agricultural
Experiment Station (now Dean for Agricultural Research). Most of
the files were created in the 1950s during the tenures of Directors Willard
Merwin Fifield and Joseph Reilly Beckenbach. However, earlier documents
from previous directors also exist. These include discussion of potato
experiments in 1905, speeches and papers delivered at annual Citrus Seminars
and Livestock Roundups, and records of the State Plant Board of Florida
(1924-1945). The Plant Board, later renamed the Division of Plant
Industry and now part of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer
Services, was originally administered through the Station. More recent
files include extensive documentation on state and federal regulation of
pesticides, fungicides, and fertilizers, files on spreading decline in
Florida citrus, cooperative research with the Servicio Interamericano de
Cooperacion Agricola (STICA) in Costa Rica, records of the Advisory Committee
to the Everglades Research Program, records related to a Mediterrean Fruit
Fly infestation in 1956--including "daily infestation reports"--and records
related to Florida's water resources.