Francis Harper papers 1899-1973

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Francis Harper papers 1899-1973

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/4163822551

The Francis Harper Collection consists of the scientific and personal papers of the naturalist, Francis Harper (1886-1972). It includes correspondence, scientific field notes and photographs, historical research materials, manuscripts and published works, as well as personal and family records, etc. The papers reflect his wide-ranging interests, but the major research topics represented are the animals and people of the Okefinokee [i.e. Okefenokee] Swamp and of northern Canada, as well as the 18th-century naturalists John and William Bartram.

79 linear ft (79 cubic foot boxes), 67 small boxes of varying size, 1 Q-size box, 1 QA-size box, 22 oversize folders

University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Department of Special Collections

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Harper, Francis, 1886-1972

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Francis Harper, native of Massachusetts, was a zoologist and author affiliated with many universities. He was the author of Mammals of the Okefinokee Swamp Region of Georgia (1927). He retired in Chapel Hill, N.C. From the guide to the Francis Harper Papers, ., 1902-1968, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Henry Weed Fowler was an ichthyologist. From the guide to the Reminiscences on old naturalists, 1959, (Ame...