H. V. Wilson papers, 1903-1956.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Wilson, H. V. (Henry Van Peters), 1863-1939

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H. V. Wilson (1863-1939) was born in Baltimore, Md., and received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University. He joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina in 1891, as a professor of biology and department chairman of zoology. He was also the director of the United States Fisheries Laboratory at Beaufort, N.C. From the guide to the H. V. Wilson Papers, 1903-1956, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collectio...

Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910

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Alexander Agassiz(1835-1910), marine biologist, oceanographer, and industrial entrepreneur, was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, the son of Louis Agassiz. In 1860 Agassiz began a lifetime occupation of administering the business affairs of the Harvard museum, a task made difficult by his father's penchant for excessive collecting and expenditures. After Louis's death in 1873, Agassiz succeeded to the directorship of the Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and completed the physical...

O'Toole, George Barry, 1886-1944

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Zoology Dept.

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