Richard E. Scammon papers circa 1920s-1950s
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University of Minnesota. Medical School
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The 1851 territorial legislative act establishing the University of Minnesota provided for a Department of Medicine. This department, as originally instituted, was not an educational department but rather a credentialing board that provided examinations and conferred degrees upon physicians who had learned to practice medicine by studying with a preceptor. In April 1887, Percy Millard, Charles Hewitt, D. Hand, and President Cyrus Northrop petitioned the Board of Regents to abolish t...
Scammon, Richard E., 1883-1952
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Richard Everingham Scammon was born in Kansas City, Missouri on July 9, 1883. He earned his B.A. in 1904 from the University of Kansas, his M.A. in 1906 and Ph.D. in 1909 from Harvard University. Before joining the faculty at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Scammon was an instructor in zoology and anatomy at the University of Kansas (1906-1907, 1910-1913) and Harvard University (1907-1910). Dr. Scammon accepted a position as professor of anatomy at the University of Minnesota in 1914. In 1930, ...
