John C. Merriam Papers 1899-1938

Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956

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Robert Mearns Yerkes was an animal psychologist; he became a member of the American Philosophical Society, 1936. From the guide to the Testament: the scientific way, n.d., n.d., (American Philosophical Society) George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981, 1903-1982, (American Philosophical Society) Psychologist. From the description o...

Clark, Bruce L. (Bruce Lawrence), 1880-

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Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

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Elihu Root, born in Clinton, NY, attended Hamilton College (A.B., 1864, A.M. in course, 1867) and University Law School of New York. He served as member Alaskan Boundary Tribunal; United States District Attorney, Southern New York, 1883 - 85; Secretary of War, 1899 - 1904; Secretary of State, 1905 - 09; U.S. Senator from New York, 1909 - 15; Senior Counsel for the U.S., North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration, The Hague, 1910; Ambassador at Head of Special Diplomatic Mission to Russia, 1...

Lillie, Frank Rattray, 1870-1947

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A.B., University of Toronto, 1891. Instructor in zoology, University of Michigan, 1894-1899. Professor of Biology, John P. Girard Chair of Natural History, Vassar College, 1899-1900. Head of the Department of Embryology, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, 1893-1907; assistant director, 1900-1908; director, 1908-1926; president, 1925-1942. Assistant professor of zoology and embryology, University of Chicago, 1900-1902; associate professor, 1902-1907; professor, 1907-1947; chairman of the...

Butler, Ovid, 1880-

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Wright, F. E. (Frederic Eugene), 1877-1953

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Frederic Eugene Wright (1877-1953) was an eminent optician and geophysicist. His various specialties included the physical features of the surface of the moon, and in 1925, he was appointed the chair of the "Committee on Study of Surface Feature of Moon" of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. In addition to Wright, the committee consisted of W.S. Adams and F.G. Pease (Mt. Wilson Observatory), A.L. Day (Geophysical Laboratory of the Institution), John P. Buwalda and Paul S. Epstein (Californi...

King, Vernon L.

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Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935

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Paleontologist, professor of biology at Columbia University, President of Trustees 1908-1933, American Museum of Natural History vertebrate paleontologist. From the description of Henry Fairfield Osborn letter to W. Orton Tewson [manuscript], 1925 April 14. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 213468939 Henry Fairfield Osborn was a member of the Princeton class of 1877, one of the earliest graduates of the School of Science. He returned to Princeton in 1883 after gr...

Drury, Newton Bishop, 1889-

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Conservationist. From the description of Parks and Redwoods, 1919-1971 : oral history, 1972. With introductions by Horace M. Albright and DeWitt Nelson. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122445603 From the description of Reminiscences of Newton Bishop Drury : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309744063 Drury (1889-1978), served as director of the National Park Service from 1940 to 1950. From the descripti...

Brookings, William DuBois, 1873-1950

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National Research Council (U.S.)

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The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of further knowledge and advising the federal government. The Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. From the descriptio...

Bertram, James, 1872-1934

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Merriam, John C. (John Campbell), 1869-1945

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Professor of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley. From the description of John C. Merriam papers, 1904-1934. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 81162069 Paleontologist, educator, and author. From the description of Papers of John C. Merriam, 1899-1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78407628 Biographical Note 1869 ...

Stock, Chester, 1892-1950

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Biography Chester Stock was born in San Francisco on January 28, 1892. At the University of California, where he received a B.S. degree in 1914 and a Ph.D. in 1917, Stock studied geology and vertebrate paleontology under John C. Merriam. In 1918, he began working on the Rancho La Brea (now Hancock Park) collection of ground sloths, saber-tooths, and other fossil bones, housed at the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art, in Expositi...

Hughes, Raymond M. (Raymond Mollyneaux), 1873-1958

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Raymond Mollyneaux Hughes graduated from Miami (Ohio) University (1893), received an M.S. (1897) in chemistry from Ohio State University and an honorary doctorate (1936) from Iowa State College (University). He served in numerous positions at Miami, including professor of physics and chemistry (1898-1904); Dean of the College of Liberal Arts (1908-1911); and was named President (1911-1927). Hughes was named as President of Iowa State College (University) in 1927 and served until his retirement i...

Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971

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Ralph W. Chaney was born in Chicago, Illinois and educated at the University of Chicago. From 1922 he was a research associate at the Carnegie Institution and from 1931 a professor of paleobotany at the University of California, Berkeley. He was known for his ecological approach to paleobotany. From 1943 he was a member of the U.S. National Park Service Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments, and from 1928 a member and officer of the Save the Redwoods League. ...

Hall, Ansel F. (Ansel Franklin), 1894-1962

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A series of Rainbow Bridge/Monument Valley Expeditions were carried out between 1933 and 1938, but the most famous one is possibly the 1933 expedition. The goal of the expeditions was to research the area so that the National Park Service could establish a park in the region from southeast Utah to Northern Arizona. Led by Ansel Hall, the expedition included members from the Explorers Club from New York, researchers from UC-Berkeley, and others from a variety of universities througho...

Smithsonian Institution

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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...

Blakeslee, Howard Walter, 1880-1952

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Leland, Waldo Gifford, 1879-1966

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of Waldo Gifford Leland : oral history, 1955. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309726749 Leland earned his Harvard AM in 1901. From the description of Notes in Government 4, lectures by E. H. Strobel, 1901-1902. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074498 From the description of Notes in Economics 10, 1900-1901. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074440 ...

Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943

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Frederick Keppel was Carl Zigrosser's dean at Columbia University. Keppel took a personal interest in Zigrosser, and their letters cover Zigrosser's employment at Keppel & Co., Zigrosser's stand on conscientious objection during World War I (Keppel was with the War Department at the time), print purchases made by Keppel while he was with the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Zigrosser's books. Included is a 1924 etching by Kerr Eby for Keppel & Co. From the description of...

Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964

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Deceased 1964. From the description of Oral history interview with Edwin Bidwell Wilson, 1963, June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81360299 Physicist (mathematical physics and aeronautics). On faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1907-1917, department chair, 1917-1922; professor of vital statistics, School of Public Health, Harvard University, 1922-1945, and professor emeritus from 1945; president of Social Science Research Council, 1929-1931. From ...

Paton, Stewart, 1865-1942

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Carnegie Institution of Washington.

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White, William Charles, 1874-1947

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Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938

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George Ellery Hale was an astrophysicist. He was the organizer and director of the Mount Wilson Observatory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1904-1923, and was honorary director until his death in 1938. His principal scientific researches were made in stellar spectroscopy. From the description of Papers, 1903-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82798019 From the description of Papers, 1882-1937. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523501...

Eliot, Charles W. (Charles William), 1899-1993

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Landscape architect. Educated at Harvard: A.B. 1920, M.L.A. 1923. Charles William Eliot II was the son of Samuel Atkins Eliot and the grandson of Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard from 1869 to 1909. From the description of Biography of Samuel Atkins Eliot, ca.1885-1956 (inclusive), 1954-1956 (bulk). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 269368155 Charles William Eliot (1899- ) served with other Harvard men in the American Red Cross Ambu...

Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945

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Yard was a conservationist and founded the Wilderness Society in 1935, which promoted the conservation of natural resources. From the description of Papers, 1918-ca. 1942. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 30697567 Robert Sterling Yard (1861-1945) was an American journalist and Sunday editor of the New York Herald Tribune. From the description of Robert Sterling Yard diary, 1893-1906. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record...

Moulton, Harold Glenn, 1883-1965

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Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Howard, Edgar Billings, 1887-1943

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Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940

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Professor of biology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. From the description of Correspondence to Morley Roberts, 1934. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 645650881 Raymond Pearl was a biologist and statistician. He spent most of his academic career (1918-1940) at the Johns Hopkins University, where he was Professor of Biometry and Vital Statistics and Director of the Institute of Biological Research. He was founder of...

Bigelow, Henry Bryant, 1879-

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Bigelow graduated from Harvard in 1901 and taught zoology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Henry Bryant Bigelow, 1906-1964 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972976 ...

Rowe, L.S. (Leo Stanton), 1871-1946

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L. S. Rowe was associated with the University of Pennsylvania and was President of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in Philadelphia. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1916. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884411 ...

Packard, Earl L. (Earl Leroy), 1885-

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Dr. Earl Leroy Packard was known for his study of the fossil records of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic periods along the Pacific coast, as well as his summer geology field camps in Eastern Oregon. He attended the University of Washington from 1907 to 1912, receiving his BA and MA degrees in geology; three years later, in 1915, he received his PhD in paleontology from the University of California at Berkeley. Packard taught geology at the University of Oregon from 1918 through 1932; it was there that ...