Charles Albert Browne papers, 1783-1947 (bulk 1909-1945).
- 20,000 items. 36 2 containers plus oversize. 14.5 linear feet.
- Arranged in 4 series. Series 1: Correspondence, 1888-1947; Series 2: Subject File, 1783-1947; Series 3: Writings File, 1909-1947; and Series 4: Oversize, 1783-1940.
Open to research.
Correspondence, writings, travel diaries, research material, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Browne's career at the New York Sugar Trade Laboratory and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Subjects include the history of chemistry; role of chemistry in agricultural science; sugar research; the development of the sugar industry in the United States, Latin America, and the South Pacific; and Browne's travels. Includes material pertaining to chemists such as Joseph Priestley, Evan Pugh, Norbert Rillieux, and John Winthrop; organizations including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, History of Science Society, and International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists; and museums and scientific collections of Morris Loeb, Joseph Priestley, Edgar Fahs Smith, and others. Also includes Browne's autograph collection consisting of letters of Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Louis Agassiz, Henri Becquerel, Sophia Bryant, Sir Charles Lyell, George Brinton McClellan, Elwyn Waller, and others. Correspondents include Maurice Bird, Charles E. Coates, Noël Deerr, Rudolf E. Grotkass, Sir John Burchmore Harrison, Arthur Becket Lamb, Edmund O. von Lippmann, Lyman C. Newell, Henry E. Niese, Edgar Fahs Smith, George Sarton, B. Tollens, Browne (Brown) family members, and the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Chemist, food technologist, and science historian.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012142
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Alembert, Jean Le Rond d', 1717-1783 --Correspondence. Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 --Correspondence. Becquerel, Henri, 1852-1908 --Correspondence. Bird, Maurice--Correspondence. Bryant, Sophie 1850-1922 --Correspondence. Coates, Charles E. 1866-1939 --Correspondence. Deerr, Noël, 1874- --Correspondence. Grotkass, Rudolf E. 1886- --Correspondence. Harrison, John Burchmore, Sir, 1856-1926 --Correspondence. Lamb, Arthur Becket, 1880-1952 --Correspondence. Lippmann, Edmund O. von 1857- --Correspondence. Loeb, Morris, 1863-1912. Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 --Correspondence. McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885 --Correspondence. Newell, Lyman C. 1867-1933 --Correspondence. Niese, Henry E. 1848-1929 --Correspondence. Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Pugh, Evan, 1828-1864. Rillieux, Norbert, 1806-1894. Smith, Edgar Fahs, 1854-1928. Smith, Edgar Fahs, 1854-1928 --Correspondence. Sarton, George, 1884-1956 --Correspondence. Tollens, B. 1841-1918 --Correspondence. Waller, Elwyn, 1846- --Correspondence. Winthrop, John, 1714-1779. Brown family--Correspondence.
United States. Department of Agriculture. American Association for the Advancement of Science. American Chemical Society. History of Science Society. International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists. Massachusetts Historical Society--Correspondence. New York Sugar Trade Laboratory.
Agriculture. Autographs--Collections. Chemistry--History. Chemistry--Societies, etc. Food--Analysis. Science--Societies, etc. Sugar. Sugar--Manufacture and refining. Sugar--Research. Sugar trade--Latin America. Sugar trade--Oceania. Sugar trade--United States. Voyages and travels.