Maxwell S. Doty Papers

Dr. Maxwell S. Doty taught at the University of Hawaiʻi‘s Department of Botany for over forty years. During his tenure as Professor and Professor Emeritus he helped to pioneer the farming of the commercially important seaweed Eucheuma. His teachings, publications and research greatly helped to advance the science of marine agronomy worldwide. It is estimated that the commercial seaweed industry that he was primarily responsible for developing in the Philippines is worth approximately $100 million annually.

(This biographical information was provided by David Coleman, former Librarian in the Science and Technology Department at UH Mānoa’s Hamilton Library.)

The Maxwell S. Doty papers were donated to the University Archives by his wife, Mrs. Meng Sung Doty, in 1995. Through the generosity of the Library’s Science and Technology Department, the Archives benefited from the service of Ms. Patricia Brandes, who arranged the papers and prepared the inventory under the direction of the University Archivist.

Inventory of the Doty Papers

Notebooks

(Laboratory and field data; additional field notes can be found scattered throughout the other series)

• Box 1:  Index Folder (pdf)        Contains Small Bound Index and Numbers 1 – 36, 1954-1967
• Box 2:  No.’s 37, 39-70
• Box 3:  No.’s 71-92, 94-105.
• Box 4:  No.’s 106-109, 112, 114-117,125, 128-133, 135-152
• Box 5A:  No.’s 154, 156, 158-180, 185, 186, unnumbered (Ponape Trip ll)
• Box 5B: Seven Small Notebooks on Christmas Island Monitoring Stations and other locations?, 1976-1977

Photographs

• Box 6A, folders 1-3:  #2 Marine Invertebrates of Semporna Sabah
• Box 6A, folders 4-7:  #19 Seaweed Investigations,
• Box 6A, folders 8-12:  #27 Gracilaria data various sites
• Box 6A, folders 13, 14:  #28 Kahuku seafood plantation-Gracilaria,
• Box 6A, folders 15-18:  #29 Kahuku seafood plantation-data and photographs
• Box 6A, folders 19-22:  #30 Coconut Island, 1981-data and photographs
• Box 6A, folders 23, 24:  #31 Coconut Island North Reef
• Box 6B, folders 1-6:  Gracilaria
• Box 7, folders 1-3:  #32 Molokai
• Box 7, folders 4-8:  #33 FAO Penang Photographs, 1983-1984
• Box 7, folders 9-13:  #44 Kahuku and Raceway Experiments
• Box 7, folders 14-19:  *#6 Sabah, 1980
• Box 7, folders 20-24:  Photograph rolls 1-16:31 Herbarium specimens (contains film and photo index 25l (rolls [unnumbered] 31759-32974), contact prints, and negatives)
• Box 7, folders 25-26 Photographs Ponpae [sic]
• Box 8A, folder 1:  Film and photo index, 25 leaves (rolls [unnumbered], 31759-32974)
• Box 8A, folders 2-7:  Photograph Film Rolls 31759-32390 (Photomicrographs), 2 Sept 1981 – 30 Dec 1983 (#31759 taken with Olympus camera and meter on Spencer A/O microscope 667719.)
• Box 8A, folders 8-12:  Photograph Film Rolls 32057-32288, 11 Nov 1982 – 17 Oct 1983             (Color prints)
• Box 8A, folders 13-16:  Photograph Film Rolls 32289-32560, 26 Oct 1983 – 10 Feb 1984              (Color prints)
• Box 8A, folders 17-20:  Photograph Film Rolls 32430-32596, undated, 20 Nov 1984 – 15 July 1985
• Box 8A, folders 21-23:  Photograph Film Rolls 32598-32762, 6 Aug 1985 – Sept 1986
• Box 8B, folders 1-3:  Photograph Film Rolls 32768-32811, undated              (Sheets labeled “JRF Film Roll #1-3, 5, 7-8, 11-12, 14, 16-50”)
• Box 8B, folders 4-7:  Photograph Film Rolls 32816-32944, 31453                 (Date given not written in Doty’s handwriting or style of giving dates.)
• Box 8B, folders 8-11:  Photograph Film Rolls 32898-32977, 6 Jan – 20 May 1987
• Box 8B, folders 12-14:  Photograph Film Rolls 32946-33041, 18 Mar 1987- 16 April 1987 plus undated images           (Some color images; most b/w)
• Box 8B, folders 15-17:  Photograph Film Rolls 33042-33124, one sheet dated 18 Nov. 1987
• Box 8B, folders 18-22:  Photograph Film Rolls 33150-33316, one sheet, fd 16, dated 22 Aug 1984              (Cross reference on sheet says “B&W photos of these are on film roll 33274”)
• Box 8C, folders 1-4:  Photograph Film Rolls 33319-33472, no dates
• Box 8C, folders 5-7:  Photograph Film Rolls 33476-33645, June-July 1990    (Roll #33550 dated.)
• Box 8C, folders 8-9:  Photograph Film Rolls 33660-33692, no dates
• Box 8C, folder 10:  Miscellaneous loose photographs found in various files, no dates

Data Binder

• Box 9A, folders 1-10 #1 True Blue Survey, 1974
• Box 9A, folder 11:  Sabah Survey,1977
• Box 9A, folders 12a,b-19:  #3 Sabah, 1978-79 Field Data, 1978-1979
• Box 9A, folders 20-28:  #4 Sabah Field Data Forms, 1978-1979
• Box 9A, folders 29-33a:  #5 Sabah, 1980
• Box 9A, folder 33b:  Maps of Eastern Sabah, folder 1 of 2
• Box 9A, folder 33c:  Maps of Eastern Sabah, folder 2 of 2
• Box 9A, folders 33d-33e:  Maps, Northern (Semporna Sabah [?])
• Box 9A, folders 34-36:  #8 Ponape pre-1981 environmental data
• Box 9A, folders 37-44:  #9 Ponape-Paril Correspondence
• Box 9A, folders 44-50:  #10 Ponape-Growth data environmental summaries, photos, site surveys, etc.
• Box 9B, folders 1-7:  #11 Ponape correspondence
• Box 10A, folders 1-8:  #12 Ponape correspondence-R. Croft, etc.
• Box 10A, folders 8-16:  #13 Ponape 1980-81 Environmental data form 1, 1980-1981
• Box 10A, folders 17-24:  #14 Ponape-Growth data
• Box 10A, folders 25-37:  #15 Ponape Forms #1
• Box 10A, folders 38-43:  #16 Ponape Forms 1 3001-3400
• Box 10B, folders 1-6:  #16 Ponape Forms 1 3001-3400, 1982
• Box 10B, folders 7-19:  #17 Ponape Field Data, 1982
• Box 10B, folders 20-26:  #18 Ponape-Alvarez, 1982
• Box 10B, folders 27-37:  #20 Experiments with Gracilaria in Hawaiʻi, 1985
• Box 10B, folders 38-40:  #21 Christmas Island, 1977
• Box 10B, folders 41-51:  #22 Christmas Island Monitoring, 1977
• Box 11A, folders 1-10:  #23 Dyer, John, 1976
• Box 11A, folders 11-19:  #25 Hawaiian Botanical Science Paper
• Box 11A, folders 20-24:  #35 Includes marginalia by Doty, 1967-1968
• Box 11A, folders 25-29:  #36 Introduction Keys, etc.
• Box 11A, folders 30-34:  #37 Productivity Manual
• Box 11A, folders 35-38:  #38 Limu
• Box 11A, folder 39 #39:  Checklist of Hawaiian Algae
• Box 11A, folders 40-42:  #42 Cooperative Gracilaria Project, 1978
• Box 11A, folders 43-51:  #43 Rep “B”, 1989+
• Box 11B, folders 1-6:  Gracilaria misc.
• Box 12, folders 1-7:  #45 Rep “D”
• Box 12, folders 8-10:  # 46 Festbuch
• Box 12, folders 11-16:  #47 Sulu: Eucheuma Experiment vol.13
• Box 12, folders 17-19:  #48 Sulu Data
• Box 12, folder 20:  #49 Sulu
• Box 12, folders 21-28:  #50 Sulu Report
• Box 12, folder 29:  #51 Hawaiʻi Marine Agronomy Program
• Box 12, folders 30-31:  #54 Gracilaria
• Box 12, folders 32-34:  #56 Story of Tambalang
• Box 12, folders 35-37:  #57 Penang Seaweed Project
• Box 12, folders 38-39:  #59 Waikīkī Seaweed Project
• Box 12, folders 40-44:  #60 Waikīkī Study II
• Box 13A, folders 1-4:  #61 Fertility of a site for Eucheuma
• Box 13A, folders 5-7:  #63 Kāneʻohe: Raw Data, etc.
• Box 13A, folders 8-9:  #64 Eucheuma Data, 1975-1977
• Box 13A, folders 10-13:  #65 Eucheuma Raw Data, 1975-1977
• Box 13A, folder 14:  #66 Eucheuma Raw Data: Kāneʻohe growth and coincident environmental monitoring, 1976-1977. (Data collected June-August 1977)
• Box 13A, folders 15-20:  Eucheuma Farm Corp [File size=9.4 MB]. & environmental monitoring vol.XVIII pgs. 5413-5634 Philippines
• Box 13A, folders 21-23:  #80 Marine Phaeophyta of Hawaiian Islands
• Box 13A, folders 24-25:  #81 Current Status of Carbon-14 Method of Assaying Productivity of the Ocean
• Box 13A, folder 26a:  #82 A Study of the Botanical Research Resources and Facilities of Indonesia at the Invitation of the Indonesian Government.
• Box 13A, folder 26b:  [bound book, 128, 2, 7, leaves ], 1986
• Box 13A, folders 27-34:  #84 Hawaiian Gracilaria Study, 1985-1987
• Box 13B, folders 1-6:  #85 Ponpae[sic] Enviromental Data-Daily Logs
• Box 13B, folders 7-10:  #90 Jania
• Box 13B, folders 11-15:  #91 Gelicidiaceae
• Box 13B, folders 16-18:  #92 Caulerpa
• Box 13B, folders 19-23:  Brown Algae
• Box 13B, folders 24-29:  Limu o Hawaiʻi
• Box 13B, folders 30-34:  Eucheuma Binder 1
• Box 13B, folders 35-39:  Eucheuma Binder 2
• Box 13B, folders 40-46:  Eucheuma Binder 3
• Box 14, folders 1-5:  Eucheuma Misc.
• Box 14, folders 6-12:  Kahuku Fertilizer Experiment 9 yellow notebooks, 1989
• Box 14, folders 13:  Loose Papers
• Box 14, folders 14:  Misc. Subject Files, 1968
• Box 14, folders 15:  Algal Herbarium: Wet Collection Survey @ Bishop Museum,1984
• Box 14, folders 16-30:  Marine Colloids, Inc. files
• Box 14, folders 31-34:  Gift of books, etc. to Bishop Museum
• Box 14, folders 35-40:  Correspondence, 1974-1984, 1994-1996, + n.d.
• Box 14, folder 41:  Aurea Marine, Inc. (Kahuku, Oʻahu)
• Box 14, folders 42-44:  ARDP Hawaiʻi, Inc.
• Box 14, folders 45-48:  Brewer – L.R. Maurina
• Box 14, folders 49-62:  Airport Runway Pond, Honolulu             (File includes correspondence with Brewer Chemical Co.; U.S. Dept. of Transportation; U.S. Dept. of Defense; Hawaiʻi State Dept. of Land & Natural Resources; Hawaiʻi State Dept. of Agriculture among others.)

Miscellaneous Files

• Box 15, folders 1-2:  Ambulong, 1971
• Box 15, folders 3-4: Animals in Caulerpa and Eucheuma, 1971
• Box 15, folders 5-6:  Caulerpa, 1970-1971
• Box 15, folders 7-11: Misc. Correspondence
• Box 15, folder 12:  Euchema spinosum
• Box 15, folder 13:  Field Notes-Asst., 1983
• Box 15, folders 14-15:  General Algae-Misc.
• Box 15, folder 16:  Gracilaria Experiment Data, 1983
• Box 15, folder 17:  Hakuho Maru, 1969
• Box 15, folder 18:  Jack Fisher
• Box 15, folder 19:  Japan, 1986
• Box 15, folder 20:  Kappaphycus alvarezii
• Box 15, folder 21:  Koko Crater
• Box 15, folder 22:  Lombok/Pali, 1984
• Box 15, folder 23:  Malaysian Field Record
• Box 15, folders 24-29:  Itineraries-Doty
• Box 15, folder 30:  Makassar, Sulawesi, 1984
• Box 15, folder 31:  Personnel
• Box 15, folder 32:  Personnel and Marine Colloids Inc.
• Box 15, folder 33:  Philippine Exp., 1966
• Box 15, folder 34:  Pre-Export Treatment (Gracilaria)
• Box 15, folder 35:  Project Johnny Appleseed
• Box 15, folder 36:  Seaweed Agronomy
• Box 15, folders 37-40:  Studies of Organics and /inorganic Solubility in Seawater
• Box 15, folder 41:  The Tambalang Story: Madagascar Eucheuma
• Box 15, folder 42:  Xerox Copies of Misc. Data

Grants

• Box 16, folders 1-4:  #24 Sea Grant, Hawaiʻi, 1970-71
• Box 16, folders 5-14:  #86 Caulerpa Literature
• Box 16, folders 15-23:  #87 Caulerpa Book II
• Box 16, folders 24-27:  Bibliography of Algae
• Box 16, folder 28:  Cholesterase in Poryphora
• Box 16, folders 29-30:  Drier
• Box 16, folders 31-38:  FAO Penang, Final Report, 1984
• Box 16, folders 39-44:  Hawaiʻi International Biological Program, 1970
• Box 16, folders 45-53:  Hawaiʻi Terrestrial Biology Subprogram Proposal of April 1969, 1969
• Box 16, folders 54-58:  Hawaiʻi Terrestrial Biology Subprogram Proposal of November 1969, 1969

Class Notes

• Box 17, folders 1-8:  #68 Botany Classes
• Box 17, folders 9-15:  #69 Botany 480: Phycology, 1975
• Box 17, folders 16-22:  #70 Chloro’s
• Box 17, folders 23-30:  #71 Botany 480: Phycology, 1977
• Box 17, folders 31-40:  #72 Botany 201 & 480: Phycology, Spring 1984
• Box 18, folders 1-5:  #73 Botany 631 & Oceanography 631: Marine Phytoplankton, 1966
• Box 18, folders 6-13:  #74 Botany 631 & Oceanography 631: Marine Phytoplankton, Fall 1967
• Box 18, folders 14-22:  #75 Botany 631 & Oceanography 631: Marine Phytoplankton, Fall 1965
• Box 18, folders 23-33:  #76 Botany 684: Rodophyta, Fall 1973
• Box 18, folders 34-42:  #77 Botany 631: Taxonomy of Marine Phytoplankton, Spring 1972
• Box 18, folders 43-52:  #78 Botany 631: Taxonomy of Marine Phytoplankton, Fall 1972
• Box 18, folders 53-61:  #88 Botany 631: Marine Phytoplankton, 1976
• Box 18, folders 62-76:  Botany 651: Marine Agronomy, Spring 1977

Bibliography

• Box 19:  (Notes on published resources on various algae, arranged alphabetically)

Miscellaneous Materials

• Box 20:
  • Master’s Thesis, Oregon State College
  • Doctoral Dissertation, Stanford University

Maps and Drawings

(also see ‘Data Binder’ series for additional maps)

• Flat Box 1, folders 1-3:  Graphs and charts, Ponape [Pohnpei].
• Flat Box 1, folder 4:  Map, Kahuku Seafood Plantation.
• Flat Box 1, folder 5:  Charts, Gracilaria, Coconut Island, Oahu.
• Flat Box 1, folder 6:  Large format charts and transparencies, Heterosiphonia.
• Map Case C, drawer 1:  Maps, Ponape [Pohnpei] and Kahuku.