Catherine Henley Papers (#4979) 1944-1983

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Catherine Henley Papers (#4979) 1944-1983

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Catherine Henley (1922-1999) received her A.B. from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1943, M.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1947, and Ph.D. in zoology from the University of North Carolina in 1949. She was research assistant or co-investigator with Donald P. Costello of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Zoology Department, 1947-1976. The collection chiefly consists of correspondence between Catherine Henley and Donald P. Costello. Also present is correspondence with other researchers in developmental cytology, cell biology, and electron microscopy, as well as letters to and from several family members, including Catherine Henley's father, John Ralph Henley, a retired colonel in the United States Marine Corps; her mother, Regina Knowles Durant Henley; and her sister, Mary V. Henley. Also included are a research notebook from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., dated May 1974; several offprints of articles by Catherine Henley; and 36 illustrations, mostly photographs made using a scanning electron microscope.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Regina Knowles Durant Henley

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Henley, Catherine, 1922-

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Catherine Henley was born in January 1922. She attended the College of William and Mary, Norfolk Division, from 1939 to 1941, transferring to the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, to earn her A.B. in 1943. Henley received her M.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1947 and returned to the University of North Carolina to complete a Ph.D. in zoology in 1949. Her Ph.D. thesis, Chromosomal Mosaicism and Abnormalities of Mitosis Produced by Experimental Temperature Shock on the...

Marine Biological Laboratory

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John Ralph Henley

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Costello, Donald P. (Donald Paul), 1909-1978

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