Warren H. (Warren Harmon) Lewis papers, ca. 1913-1964 1913-1964

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Warren H. (Warren Harmon) Lewis papers, ca. 1913-1964 1913-1964

This collection is primarily correspondence and also notes on experiments concerning the cytology research of Lewis and his wife, Dr. Margaret Reed Lewis, at Johns Hopkins University, Carnegie Institution of Washington, and finally at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia. There is significant material relating to his professional society activity in the American Association of Anatomists (President, 1934-1936) and the International Society for Experimental Cytology.

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