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Sumner family. Papers, 1875-1960, bulk 1894-1945.

Title: Papers, 1875-1960, bulk 1894-1945.

This collection consists largely of the personal correspondence of Francis Bertody Sumner (1874-1945), and the papers and photographs of his wife Margaret Elizabeth Clark Sumner and their children.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14915097 View

Charles Benedict Davenport Papers, 1874-1946

Title: Charles Benedict Davenport Papers 1874-1946

Founded by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in 1890, the Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., was little more than a languishing outpost until the arrival of Charles B. Davenport in 1898. Over the course of two decades, the ambitious young biologist used his extraordinary administrative skills to transform the institution into the premier center of eugenical study and, as its director, to position himself as the leading spokesman for eugenical research in North America. The Davenport Papers (ca. 43 lin. feet) is a large and nearly comprehensive body of correspondence, lectures, diaries (1878-1942, mostly brief entries of an uneven character), student notebooks and family correspondence pertaining to Charles Davenport and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The collection is divided into two series, the Charles Davenport Papers, which provides valuable documentation of the development of American biology, animal and plant genetics, and eugenics during the period 1898-1942, with some perspective on the international eugenics movement. Series II, the Cold Spring Harbor Records (ca.20 lin. feet), consists largely of administrative correspondence relating to the laboratory, including Davenport's correspondence with Carnegie administrators (esp. Robert Woodward and John Merriam), accounts and reports concerning financial matters, publications, salaries, material relative to the early history of Cold Spring Harbor labs, and records relative to the numerous professional assistants who worked under Davenport. Among the major correspondents are the American Breeders Association, Committee on Eugenics; American Eugenics Society; American Society of Naturalists; Committee on a Study of the American Negro; Galton Society (see also the extensive correspondence with William K. Gregory); Eugenics Education Society (see Mrs. S. Gotto correspondence); International Congresses of Eugenics; International Federation of Eugenic Organizations, Committee on Race Crossing; National Committee on Mental Hygiene; National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor; and the Pan-American Conference on Eugenics and Homiculture. There are correspondence and papers relating to the Station for Experimental Evolution, the Eugenics Record Office, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and a substantial series relating to a long-range study of children carried out at Letchworth Village, Thiles, New York.

ArchivalResource: 63.0 Linear feet

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Merriam, John C. (John Campbell), 1869-1945. John C. Merriam papers, 1904-1934.

Title: John C. Merriam papers, 1904-1934.

Correspondence, manuscripts and reprints of articles, and miscellaneous papers, relating to his career at the University, and to the discovery of fossil remains in the La Brea tar pits.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 8.75 linear ft. (15 boxes, 1 carton).Copies of Letters of J.C. Hawver, d. 1914, one folder from Box 9 : 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 2729) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81162069 View

General correspondence files, [ca. 1887]-1966.

Title: General correspondence files, [ca. 1887]-1966.

Extensive correspondence files of curators and employees and other paleontologists associated with the department concerning field work, identification of specimens, exhibits, acquisition of specimens, research topics, publications, miscellaneous subjects, correspondence with other museums and scientific institutions, and other topics. Hundreds of scientists worldwide are represented by correspondence and include Alexander Agassiz, Glover M. Allen, Florentino Ameghino, Erwin H. Barbour, Franz Boas, Stephen F. Borhegyi, Robert Broom, Barnum Brown, Hermon C. Bumpus, Edwin H. Colbert, Joseph T. Gregory, Claude W. Hibbard, D.A. Hooijer, William T. Hornaday, Remington Kellogg, Charles R. Knight, George Kunz, Bjorn Kurten, Richard Swann Lull, R. Lydekker, James Reid Macdonald, William D. Matthew, John C. Merriam, Charles C. Mook, J.P. Morgan (Sr. and Jr.), Frederick K. Morris, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Alfred Romer, George Gaylord Simpson, Charles H. Sternberg, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

ArchivalResource: 48 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155509148 View

Robert Andrews Millikan collection, 1847-1953, 1847-1953

Title: Robert Andrews Millikan collection, 1847-1953 1847-1953

These documents cover the years 1847 to 1953, the year of Millikan's death, but the core of the collection consists of the official papers generated by Millikan after his move to Pasadena in 1921. The collection includes more than 125,000 pages of letters, notebooks, unpublished speeches, addresses, lecture notes, and family papers.

ArchivalResource: 81.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.H.S.Film.38-ead.xml View

Merle Antony Tuve Papers, 1901-1982, (bulk 1941-1966)

Title: Merle Antony Tuve Papers 1901-1982 (bulk 1941-1966)

Physicist. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, articles, reports, laboratory and personal notebooks, notes, personnel records, printed material, blueprints, diagrams, photographs, and other papers relating to Tuve's administration of government-sponsored scientific projects such as the development of the proximity fuze for the United States Navy during World War II.

ArchivalResource: 147,000 items; 420 containers plus 1 classified; 168 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001043 View

George Sarton additional papers, 1901-1956

Title: George Sarton additional papers

Primarily correspondence of historian of science and Harvard professor George Sarton with professional colleagues about the journal Isis.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (23 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01643/catalog View

Wright, F. E. (Frederic Eugene), 1877-1953. Papers of Frederic Eugene Wright, 1924-1961.

Title: Papers of Frederic Eugene Wright, 1924-1961.

The collection contains material ranging from correspondence to various types of research materials to clippings and reprints of articles of newspapers, magazines, and academic journals. The majority of the collection deals with the history of science and Wright's research of the physical features of the moon. The collection is composed of four sections in accordance with the types of sources: correspondence, manuscripts, research materials, and ephemera. The correspondence is contained in Box 1, while the manuscripts are housed in Boxes 1 and 2. Research materials occupy Boxes 2-5, divided into five sub-sections: unbound research materials, research materials in folders, bound research materials, photographs, and negatives. The Ephemera section is contained in Boxes 5 and 6. The items in each section and sub-section are placed in chronological order. Correspondence indicates the ways in which Wright advanced the research project of the Committee on Study of Surface Feature of Moon as well as in which he shaped his ideas and conducted his research in relation to other scholars; he asked other scholars research questions and was asked by them. Wright regularly corresponded with administrators at the Carnegie Institution, such as W.M. Gilbert and John Merriam, and the committee members in California, updating each other on the project. Also he communicated with other scholars in the field including R.A. Daly at Harvard, W.H. Pickering at an observatory in Jamaica, George Hale at the California Institute of Technology, Harlow Shapley at the Harvard College Observatory, C.P. Oliver at the University of Pennsylvania, Ernest Brown at Yale, Jesse L. Greenstein at the Harvard College Observatory, Otto Struve at the University of California, Berkeley, and Henry Norris Russell at Princeton. Manuscripts and research materials tell us exactly what Wright thought and did in terms of his research project. Manuscripts include the reports of the committee and drafts of talks he gave to various audiences. Research materials are a nice collection of research data (graphs and tables), research notes, and visual sources such as photographs and negatives. The ephemera section also contributes to tracing the trajectory of Wright's ideas, composed of clippings of articles regarding the moon from newspapers and magazines and reprints of his own published papers.

ArchivalResource: 865 items.6 boxes : plus 3 oversize folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/726873121 View

Carnegie-Cal Tech collection, Oct. 1937.

Title: Carnegie-Cal Tech collection, Oct. 1937.

This collection consists of two boxes of archival material arranged in two series and thirteen folders. The materials include three field notebooks in which Sharp recorded his notes and observations regarding aspects of the geology of Grand Canyon. Also included is "The Doggerell Log of a Canyon Trip", an illustrated, handmade and hand lettered booklet of humorous verse by Dr. John Stark commemorating the 1937 expedition.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45896699 View

John Campbell Merriam Papers, 1904-1934

Title: John Campbell Merriam Papers, 1904-1934

Correspondence, manuscripts and reprints of articles, and miscellaneous papers, relating to his career at the University, and to the discovery of fossil remains in the La Brea tar pits.

ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 15 boxes, 1 carton; Linear feet: 8.75

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Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956. Robert Mearns Yerkes papers, 1822-1985 (inclusive).

Title: Robert Mearns Yerkes papers, 1822-1985 (inclusive).

The papers contain correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, research notes, writings, photographs, diaries, and other materials documenting the professional career and personal life of Robert Mearns Yerkes. The papers document the broad range of psychological activities undertaken by Yerkes in the first half of the twentieth century. The papers contain correspondence and other materials on chimpanzee and gorilla behavior, intelligence testing in World War I, eugenics and immigration restriction, sex research under the auspices of the National Research Council's Committee for Research in Problems of Sex, research into the behavior of lower animals, and efforts to establish psychology as an experimental science. The papers include notes on chimpanzee and gorilla research, a complete set of his published writings, professional and personal photographs, and extensive files providing information on family life.

ArchivalResource: 83.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81986071 View

Merriam, John C. (John Campbell), 1869-1945. John C. Merriam papers : additions, 1911-1944.

Title: John C. Merriam papers : additions, 1911-1944.

Relating to his work in paleontology at the University of California, and to the foundation of the Save-the-Redwoods League. Includes correspondence; and manuscripts of his writings and talks, many concerning paleontology and conservation.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes, 4 cartons.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78066278 View

Seares, Frederick Hanley, 1873-. Papers of Frederick Hanley Seares, 1909-1945 (bulk 1909-1940).

Title: Papers of Frederick Hanley Seares, 1909-1945 (bulk 1909-1940).

The collection consists of the correspondence files of Frederick Hanley Seares. While roughly one half of the papers deal with administrative matters of the Mount Wilson Observatory, the remainder cover his scientific work. There are also some manuscripts, notes and notebooks (Boxes 19-21) related to Seares's research activities.

ArchivalResource: ca. 10,000 items.21 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122443796 View

Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938. Papers, 1882-1938.

Title: Papers, 1882-1938.

Correspondence and documents (1904-37) relating to Hale's role in planning and developing major observatories in the U. S., including Mt. Wilson, Palomar, Yerkes and Kenwood; in founding the California Institute of Technology and the Huntington Library, in the organization of the National Research Council, and in promoting international cooperation among scientists; correspondence and notebooks (1926-36) relating to Hale's work on the spectrohelioscope; family correspondence, diaries, autobiographical notes, fundraising appeals, and honors. Correspondents include Giorgio Abetti, C. G. Abbot, J. A. Brashear, Gano Dunn, Albert Einstein, E. B. Frost, Herbert Hoover, Sir James H. Jeans, John C. Merriam, A. A. Michelson, R. A. Millikan, Arthur A. Noyes, Ernest Rutherford, Robert S. Woodward, The Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology (1967-1968), International Astronomical Union. Additional donation of a diary written by Hale from the year 1901, with transcription by the donor, Professor Wallace Sargent.

ArchivalResource: 80 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84276268 View

Merriam, John C. (John Campbell), 1869-1945. Two memoranda on the protection of the primitive at Point Lobos reserve, by Dr. John C. Merriam ...

Title: Two memoranda on the protection of the primitive at Point Lobos reserve, by Dr. John C. Merriam ...

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214781232 View

George Sarton additional papers, 1901-1956

Title: George Sarton additional papers

Primarily correspondence of historian of science and Harvard professor George Sarton with professional colleagues about the journal Isis.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (23 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01643/catalog View

Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956. Papers, 1822-1985

Title: Robert Mearns Yerkes papers 1822-1985

The papers contain correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, research notes, writings, photographs, diaries, and other materials documenting the professional career and personal life of Robert Mearns Yerkes. The papers document the broad range of psychological activities undertaken by Yerkes in the first half of the twentieth century. The papers contain correspondence and other materials on chimpanzee and gorilla behavior, intelligence testing in World War I, eugenics and immigration restriction, sex research under the auspices of the National Research Council's Committee for Research in Problems of Sex, research into the behavior of lower animals, and efforts to establish psychology as an experimental science. The papers include notes on chimpanzee and gorilla research, a complete set of his published writings, professional and personal photographs, and extensive files providing information on family life.

ArchivalResource: 83.75 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0569 View

William E. Castle Papers, Bulk, 1950-1961, 1930-1961

Title: William E. Castle Papers Bulk, 1950-1961 1930-1961

A modest Midwesterner who became one of the most influential geneticists of the first half of the 20th century, William E. Castle spent his career at Harvard and the University of California working on patterns of inheritance in mice, horses, and a variety of other mammalian taxa. An early proponent of Mendelian theory, Castle was director of the Bussey Institution at Harvard for almost thirty years, helping to train a number of important geneticists. The Castle Papers contain one linear foot of correspondence dating primarily from the period after Castle's "retirement" to Berkeley in 1936 until his death in 1962, dealing almost exclusively with his research on horse breeding and the inheritance of coat coloration in horses. Castle's correspondence with his former student L. C. Dunn is an exception, focusing on mouse genetics and ranging to a variety of topics from the conduct of scientific research during the Second World War to Castle's interests in the early history of genetics.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.14-ead.xml View

Berkeley Club Papers, 1873-1960

Title: Berkeley Club Papers, 1873-1960

Letters from members addressed to the secretary; minutes of meetings, 1873-1960; by-laws, names of members, etc.; copies of papers read at meetings.

ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 1 box, 3 cartons

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf296n991s View

Save the Redwoods League. Save the Redwoods League records, ca. 1920-1944.

Title: Save the Redwoods League records, ca. 1920-1944.

Includes correspondence, subject files, publicity materials, and files on related organizations. Subjects include various park and conservation projects, such as Yosemite National Park, Del Norte Coast Park, and materials relating to California state highways. Also includes records of officers and committees, including records of John C. Merriam, Duncan McDuffie, Stephen T. Mather, the Institute of Pacific Relations, Educational Committee, and the Council of the League.

ArchivalResource: 10 cartons, 3 v., (15.6 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83688510 View

Robert R. Williams Papers, 1911-1981, (bulk 1934-1961)

Title: Robert R. Williams Papers 1911-1981 (bulk 1934-1961)

Chemist, nutritionist, and developer of vitamin B1. Correspondence, diaries, affidavits, reports, subject files, laboratory notebooks, speeches and writings, printed matter, and other papers relating to Williams's research in nutritional chemistry.

ArchivalResource: 11,000 items; 35 containers; 15.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008013 View

Smith, Erminnie Adele Platt, 1836-1886. [Peabody Museum director records, Frederic W. Putnam (1839-1915), 1870-1923].

Title: [Peabody Museum director records, Frederic W. Putnam (1839-1915), 1870-1923].

These director records reflect the wide scope of not only Putnam's individual activities, but the museum collections themselves, the global community in which these activities took place, and the museum's prominent role in establishing American archaeology and anthropology as an academic discipline. Thus, the records contain a mixture of curatorial, administrative and professional subjects, often in the same individual items, or groups of materials.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear feet (9 boxes) ; c. 12 oversize rolled maps and plans.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223346479 View

Records of the California State Parks Council

Title: Records of the California State Parks Council

Relating to the campaign for a comprehensive state park program. Included are copies of letters written by Newton B. Drury and staff, incoming correspondence, interoffice memoranda, minutes of meetings, press releases, articles prepared for newspapers and magazines, speeches and statements, lists of speakers and speaking engagements, clippings, and reference materials, particularly relating to parks in other states.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes, 1 carton.

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1x0n98k6 View

American Philosophical Society Library. Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection. 1668-1983.

Title: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science.

ArchivalResource: 25.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.200-ead.xml View

Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956. Robert Mearns Yerkes papers, 1822-1985 (inclusive).

Title: Robert Mearns Yerkes papers, 1822-1985 (inclusive).

The papers contain correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, research notes, writings, photographs, diaries, and other materials documenting the professional career and personal life of Robert Mearns Yerkes. The papers document the broad range of psychological activities undertaken by Yerkes in the first half of the twentieth century. The papers contain correspondence and other materials on chimpanzee and gorilla behavior, intelligence testing in World War I, eugenics and immigration restriction, sex research under the auspices of the National Research Council's Committee for Research in Problems of Sex, research into the behavior of lower animals, and efforts to establish psychology as an experimental science. The papers include notes on chimpanzee and gorilla research, a complete set of his published writings, professional and personal photographs, and extensive files providing information on family life.

ArchivalResource: 83.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702154096 View

John C. Merriam Papers, 1899-1938

Title: John C. Merriam Papers 1899-1938

Paleontologist, educator, and author. Correspondence, articles, memoranda, notes, reports, speeches, drawings, maps, photographs, memorabilia, printed matter, and other materials mainly concerning Merriam's work as chairman of the National Research Council, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and regent of the Smithsonian Institution.

ArchivalResource: 70,000 items; 237 containers; 94.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013040 View

Literary Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.). Records of the Literary Society of Washington, Washington, D.C., 1873-1987.

Title: Records of the Literary Society of Washington, Washington, D.C., 1873-1987.

Correspondence, minutes of meetings, papers presented, poems, financial records, clippings, and printed matter relating to the development and business of the society, which included among its members many leading cultural and literary figures of Washington, D.C. Members represented include Albert W. Atwood, Alexander Graham Bell, Clifford K. Berryman, George F. Bowerman, Katherine Garrison Chapin, Tyler Dennett, Edward Miner Gallaudet, Frederick R. Goff, Gilbert H. Grosvenor, David Jayne Hill, Margaret Landon, Waldo G. Leland, Julia Ten Eyck McBlair, David C. Mearns, John C. Merriam, Charles Moore, Helen Nicolay, Theodore W. Noyes, Robert Lincoln O'Brien, William E. Safford, Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Florence P. Spofford, Henry White, Robert S. Woodward, and Robert Sterling Yard.

ArchivalResource: 2100 items.17 containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71131045 View

Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953. Robert Andrews Millikan collection, 1847-1953.

Title: Robert Andrews Millikan collection, 1847-1953.

These documents cover the years 1847 to 1953, the year of Millikan's death, but the core of the collection consists of the official papers generated by Millikan after his move to Pasadena in 1921. The collection includes more than 125,000 pages of letters, notebooks, unpublished speeches, addresses, lecture notes, and family papers.

ArchivalResource: 81 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122539914 View

Frances Benjamin Johnston Papers, 1855-1956, (bulk 1890-1945)

Title: Frances Benjamin Johnston Papers 1855-1956 (bulk 1890-1945)

Photographer and illustrator. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, financial papers, family papers, clippings, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting Johnston's career as a photographer of national figures and events, her photography of gardens and estates, compilation of a photographic record of Southern colonial architecture, participation in international exhibitions, travels and personal life, and the emerging role of women in the profession of photography

ArchivalResource: 19,000 items; 50 containers plus 1 oversize; 21.2 linear feet; 37 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010298 View