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Fontaine, William Morris, 1835-1913. Papers pertaining to an incidence of cheating on a medical school examination at the University of Virginia, 1902.

Title: Papers pertaining to an incidence of cheating on a medical school examination at the University of Virginia, 1902.

The collection contains a copy of a special examination on Infectious Diseases and Neurology, 1902 February 11; the original answers submitted by the accused student; a sheet taken from the accused student's examination tablet during his absence from the room; a sheet taken from another student's tablet and handed to class president H.B. Taylor; a second examination taken by the accused student on February 21, with the signatures of two witnesses; a covering letter from witnessing physician Robert C. Randolph to Taylor, February 21; a letter to Taylor from a faculty committee (Lile, Mallet, Fontaine, Thornton, Minor) unanimously concluding the guilt of the accused, March 13; and three pages of the examination answers that had been torn in pieces and reassembled.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52974121 View

Aylett family. Papers of the Aylett family, 1851-1896.

Title: Papers of the Aylett family, 1851-1896.

Include twenty-one notebooks kept by William Roane Aylett while a student at the University of Virginia, 1850-1854, together with nineteen speeches delivered to various student societies and an essay on University life. Family financial papers chiefly concern the settlement of Philip Aylett's estate, ca. 1852-1855, and Judith P. Aylett's guardianship of minor children. Also include two notebooks kept by William's son Philip at the Virginia Military Institute, 1884-1888; an undated notebook on mesozoic flora, perhaps kept by Professor W.M. Fontaine at the University of Virginia, 1879- 1910; three letters to Fontaine; and a series of clippings and comments on antebellum politics. Correspondents include Lester F. Ward of the United States Geological Survey and President W.W. Smith of Randolph-Macon College.

ArchivalResource: 86 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32958644 View

Fontaine, William Morris, 1835-1913. Proposed revision of the University of Virginia lecture scheme [manuscript], 188?

Title: Proposed revision of the University of Virginia lecture scheme [manuscript], 188?

The collection contains a printed schedule annotated with proposed revisions and a slip of paper with the same changes written out in an unidentified hand. Possibly in the hand of professor William Fontaine Morris as the handwritten changes are on paper with the letterhead of the U.S. Geological Survey with which Morris was associated.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648007941 View

Fontaine, William Morris, 1835-1913. William Morris Fontaine letter to Mr.[Frank Hall?] Knowlton [manuscript] 1895 Mar 12.

Title: William Morris Fontaine letter to Mr.[Frank Hall?] Knowlton [manuscript] 1895 Mar 12.

Fontaine writes regarding his examination of fossil plant specimens from Oregon.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIf, 1866-1886

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIf 1866-1886

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Minor, James Fontaine, 1876-1961. Photograph of University of Virginia faculty [graphic], 1882-1883.

Title: Photograph of University of Virginia faculty [graphic], 1882-1883.

The University of Virginia faculty from the 1882-1883 session, with the exception of Dr. John R. Page, were photographed by the side of Brooks Hall. A label pasted on the mount is inscribed to President Colgate Darden from James Fontaine Minor, 1949 February 22 and identifies all the pictured faculty. The label misidentifies Taylor as Maximilian Schele de Vere.

ArchivalResource: 1 photo.: albumin print; 25 x 42cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648014634 View

Fontaine, James, fl. 1865. Letter of James Fontaine to Eugene Davis Charlottesville, Va. regarding his son William Morris Fontaine, and his trip to Saxony [manuscript] 1870-Sept. 5.

Title: Letter of James Fontaine to Eugene Davis Charlottesville, Va. regarding his son William Morris Fontaine, and his trip to Saxony [manuscript] 1870-Sept. 5.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Lesquereux, Leo, 1806-1889. Leo Lesquereux postcard to William M. Fontaine [manuscript] 1877 Jun 25.

Title: Leo Lesquereux postcard to William M. Fontaine [manuscript] 1877 Jun 25.

Lesquereux sends Fontaine the address of B. Westermann & Co.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647922672 View

Fontaine, William Morris, 1835-1913, recipient. Letters to William Morris Fontaine, 1874-1878

Title: Letters to William Morris Fontaine, 1874-1878.

The letters, written to Fontaine while he was a professor of chemistry and geology at West Virginia University, are chiefly from geologists and concern the study of plant life, minerals, fossils, and the strata of West Virginia and Virginia. The correspondents, several of whom were with the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania and the United States Geological Survey, include Charles A. Ashburner, Persifor Frazer, Jr., William S. Glenn, Hilary Jones, Washington C. Kerr, J. Peter Lesley, Fielding B. Meek, William Barton Rogers, Eugene A. Smith, John J. Stevenson, and Israel C. White.

ArchivalResource: 27 items.

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/vivadoc.pl?file=viu03251.xml View

Thomley, Julian. Julian Thomley letter to William M. Fontaine [manuscript] 1890 Jan 12.

Title: Julian Thomley letter to William M. Fontaine [manuscript] 1890 Jan 12.

Thomley requests a letter of recommendation from Fontaine for a position on a geological survey.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Dunnington, F. P. (Francis Perry), 1851-1944. Papers of Francis Perry Dunnington [manuscript], 1867-1928.

Title: Papers of Francis Perry Dunnington [manuscript], 1867-1928.

The majority of papers in the collection pertain to the University of Virginia and Dunnington's decades as a student and chemistry teacher and include a syllabus and inserted notes for his industrial chemistry lectures; a report of the Chapel committee, 1895; material pertaining to the renovation of the YMCA reading room; math notes taken as a student; and a list of subscriptions given in honor of Dwight Lyman Moody, ca. 1886/87. University of Virginia related printed and miscellaneous materials include include an invitation to the installation of President Alderman, a letter regarding Jedediah Hotchkiss's request to host a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the University of Virginia, and a solicitation appeal for $1000 to field a "worthy foot ball team" in 1894.

ArchivalResource: 30 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647864088 View

Fontaine, William Morris, 1835-1913. Correspondence with Edgar Fahs Smith, 1877.

Title: Correspondence with Edgar Fahs Smith, 1877.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63554509 View

Fontaine, William Morris, 1835-1913. William M. Fontaine papers 1836-1902.

Title: William M. Fontaine papers 1836-1902.

Included is correspondence to Jedediah Hotchkiss of the United States Geological Survey on topics concerning geology in Georgia, Virginia, and Washington State (Washington materials from Fred. G. Plummer). Included are numerous reports, notebooks, and lecture notes by Fontaine and others on the natural sciences including geology, botany, and paleontology in Virginia, North Carolina, Oregon, Maryland and elsewhere. Geology of the Mesozoic Era is covered in several reports. Notable are extracts from an 1836 report by William B. Rogers, "Geological Reconnaissance of Virginia" and an 1894 report by Robert B. Hay, "Geology and Mineral Resources of Kansas" submitted by Hay to Jedediah Hotchkiss. Included is a diary kept by Maury Fontaine (1866-1928) at Rochelle Farm (7 miles west of Wytheville) for the period 1883-1886. Included is the "Catalogue of Fossils & Minerals in Cabinet of G.A. Williamson, M.D." The catalogue includes a biographical note on Williamson written by William M. Buck around the time of Williamson's death (ca. 1879).

ArchivalResource: ca. 75 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60358667 View

Fontaine, William Morris, 1835-1913. Papers of William Morris Fontaine [manuscript] 1845-89.

Title: Papers of William Morris Fontaine [manuscript] 1845-89.

Letter, 1869 July 19, Freiburg, Saxony to his father James Fontaine about his tour. [2 pp. 26 cm. holograph signed.]--Subscription list for support of the minister of St. Martin's Parish (Hanover County, Va.) 1845. [2 p. 23 cm. holograph].

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647937817 View