Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

RS 21/7/30
Joseph Charles Arthur (1850-1942)
Papers, 1876-2002, n.d.


Descriptive summary

creator:

Arthur, Joseph Charles (1850-1940)
title:

Papers
dates:

1876-2002, n.d.
extent:

1.05 linear feet (2 document boxes and 1 half-document box)
collection number:

RS 21/7/30
repository:

University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access:

Open for research
publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department
preferred citation:

Joseph Charles Arthur Papers, RS 21/7/30, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Biographical note

Joseph Charles Arthur was born January 11, 1850 in Lowville, New York. When he was a young boy the family moved to Charles City, Iowa. In 1869, Arthur enrolled at the Iowa Agricultural College (Iowa State University), where he received a B.S. (1872) in Botany and was a member of the first graduating class of the college. He also earned an M.S. (1877) in Botany, the first M.S. degree conferred at the Iowa Agricultural College. He received his Sc. D. (1886) in plant pathology and mycology from Cornell University.

Dr. Arthur studied at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University before becoming an instructor (1879-1881) at the University of Wisconsin and instructor (1882) at the University of Minnesota, and botanist (1884-1886) at the Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York. Shortly after he graduated from Cornell University, Arthur accepted a position to form and head the Department of Botany (1887-1915) at Purdue University.

Arthur devoted his career to studying plant rust fungi (Uredinales). On this subject, he published numerous articles and books, including The Plant Rusts (1929) and Manual of the Rusts in the United States and Canada (1934). While at Purdue University, Arthur founded the university's herbarium (the Arthur Herbarium), which continues to be a leading research institution for the study of plant rust fungi.

Dr. Arthur belonged to several scientific organizations, including the Indiana Academy of Science (president, 1893), the Botanical Society of America (president, 1902;1910), the American Phytopathological Society (president, 1933), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Philosophical Society. He was also active in the International Botanical Congresses.

In 1901, Joseph Charles Arthur married Emily Stiles Potter, of Lafayette, Indiana. He passed away April 30, 1942 in Brook, Indiana.

 

Collection description

The collection contains biographical information and correspondence. The bulk of the collection consists of numerous publications mostly on plant rust fungi (Uredinales), including the manuscript for The Plant Rusts (1929).

 

Organization

The collection is arranged in alphabetical order.

 

Container list

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

1

1

Biographical information

2002, n.d.

1

2

Correspondence

1925-1934

1

3

Professional associations – Madison Botanical Conference

1893

1

4

Publications – "Aecidium of Maize Rust"

1904

1

5

Publications – "Additions to the Cryptoganic Flora of Indiana"

1896

1

6

Publications – "Annotated Translations of the Part of Schweintz's Two Papers Giving the Rusts of North America"

1917

1

7

Publications – "Baeodromus Holway Arth., a New Uredineous Fungus from Mexico"

1905

1

8

Publications – "Botany"

1883

1

9

Publications – " Common Ustilago of Maize"

1897

1

10

Publications – "Corn Smut"

1904

1

11

Publications – "Cultures of Uredineae in 1899"

1899

1

12

Publications – "Cultures of Uredineae in 1900-1901"

1902

1

13

Publications – "Cultures of Uredineae in 1903"

1904

1

14

Publications – "Cultures of Uredineae in 1904"

1905

1

15

Publications – "Cultures of Uredineae in 1905"

1906

1

16

Publications – "Cultures of Uredineae in 1906"

1907

1

17

Publications – "Cultures of Uredineae in 1907"

1907

1

18

Publications – "Cultures of Uredineae in 1908"

1909

1

19

Publications – "Cultures of Uredineae in 1910"

1912

1

20

Publications – "Delayed Germination of Cocklebur and Other Paired Seeds"

1896

1

21

Publications – "Descriptions of American Uredinea, II"

1898

1

22

Publications – "Descriptions of Iowa Uromyces"

1883

1

23

Publications – "Descriptive Circular and Pricelist of Physiological Apparatus for the Use of Botanical Students in Investigators"

1895

1

24

Publications – "Die neue Klassifikation der Uredineen and ihre Kritiker"

1908

1

25

Publications – "Directions for Laboratory Work"

1882

1

26

Publications – "Edible Fungus"

1902

1

27

Publications – "Fern Rust and their Aecia"

1924

1

28

Publications – "Flora of Iowa: a Catalogue of the Phaengamus Plants"

1876

1

29

Publications – "Formalin for Grain and Potatoes"

1899

1

30

Publications – "Generic Nomenclature of Cedar Apples"

1901

1

31

Publications – "Genus Puccina"

1902

1

32

Publications – "Germination of Seeds"

n.d.

1

33

Publications – "Laboratory Exercises in Vegetable Physiology"

1897

1

34

Publications – "Las Royas de los Vegetales (Uredinales) del Peru"

1929

1

35

Publications – "Leguminous Rusts from Mexico"

1905

1

36

Publications – "Loose Smut of Oats and Stinking Smut of Wheat and their Prevention"

1910

1

37

Publications – "McAlpine's Studies of Australian Rusts"

1907

1

38

Publications – "New Classifications of the Uredinales"

1906

1

39

Publications – "New Species of Uredinea, I"

1901

1

40

Publications – "New Species of Uredinea, II"

1902

1

41

Publications – "New Species of Uredinea, III"

1904

1

42

Publications – "New Species of Uredinea, IV"

1906

1

43

Publications – "New Species of Uredinea, V"

1906

1

44

Publications – "New Species of Uredinea, XI"

1919

1

45

Publications – "New Species of Uredinea, XIV"

1922

1

46

Publications – "New Species of Uredinea, XV"

1924

1

47

Publications – "North American Rose Rusts"

1909

1

48

Publications – "North American Species of Peridermium on Pine"

1914

1

49

Publications – "On the Nomenclature of Fungi Having Many Fruit-Forms"

1905

1

50

Publications – "Paired Seeds of Cocklebur"

1906

1

51

Publications – "Part Taken by Teleutospores and Aecidia in the Distribution of Maize and Cereal Rusts

1905

1

52

Publications – Plant Rusts – typed manuscript pages I-286

1929

2

1

Publications – Plant Rusts – typed manuscript pages 300-476

1929

2

2

Publications – Plant Rusts – typed manuscript pages 500-663

1929

2

3

Publications – Plant Rusts – typed manuscript pages 700-943

1929

2

4

Publications – Plant Rusts – typed manuscript pages 944-1130

1929

2

5

Publications – "Reasons for Desiring a Better Classification of the Uredinales"

1906

2

6

Publications – "Right and Wrong Conceptions of Plant Rusts"

1909

2

7

Publications – "Sub-Watering and Dry Air in Greenhouses"

1899

2

8

Publications – "Syndow's Monographia Uredinearum with Notes upon American Species"

1905

2

9

Publications – "Taxonomic Importance of the Spermogonium"

1904

2

10

Publications – "Terminology of the Spore-Structures in the Uredinales"

1905

2

11

Publications –"Two Weeds: Horse Nettle and Buffalo Burr"

1902

2

12

Publications – "Violet Rusts of North America"

1901

2

13

Publications – "Wheat Scab"

1891

3

1

Publications Correspondence – "Rust Project"

1925

3

2

Publications Correspondence – Orton, C. R. regarding "On Rust Flora"

1926, n.d.

3

3

Publications Correspondence – Orton, C. R. regarding Manual of the Rusts in the United States and Canada

1927

3

4

Publications Correspondence – Orton, C. R. regarding Manual of the Rusts in the United States and Canada

1928

3

5

Publications Correspondence – Orton, C. R. regarding Manual of the Rusts in the United States and Canada

1929