Charles F.W. McClure correspondence, 1852-1944 (bulk 1891-1929).

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Charles F.W. McClure correspondence, 1852-1944 (bulk 1891-1929).

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Contains approximately 1200 letters sent to McClure (Class of 1888), professor in the Princeton biology department, by some 440 biologists and anatomists of the academic community in the United States and throughout the world. The collection also contains a large amount of correspondence between McClure and George Sumner Huntington, professor of anatomy at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In addition, there is an essay, "The Monastery," in which McClure describes the living arrangements of various groups of junior faculty at Princeton from the 1880s until 1937, and a valentine sent by his father to his mother in 1852. Other papers include lecture notes, a diary McClure kept while at Woods Hole (Mass.) in 1888, and a journal of a trip to Greenland in 1899 (Peary Relief Expedition).

3.8 linear ft. (9 archival boxes)

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Princeton University

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The collection documents the physical expansion of the University from its earliest period through the acquisition of large tracts of land in the 20th century, including the properties around Carnegie Lake and numerous farms. Early records document transactions with such Princeton University notables as Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, John Witherspoon, Walter Minto, John and Richard Stockton, and John Maclean. For the most part, the papers consist of standard legal documents with detailed descriptions ...

Princeton University. Dept. of Biology.

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McClure, Charles F. W. (Charles Freeman Williams), b. 1865

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Huntington, George S. (George Sumner), 1861-1927

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Comparative anatomist, professor at Columbia University, and surgeon at Roosevelt and Bellevue hospitals; of New York, N.Y. From the description of Huntington collection, 1895-1935. (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Association Library). WorldCat record id: 70943921 ...