Institute of Marine Sciences of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1937-1999.

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Institute of Marine Sciences of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1937-1999.

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Records include correspondence and other papers relating to the establishment of the Institute of Marine Sciences and to its work, including files documenting pre-1947 plans and efforts to secure support for the institute. Also included is correspondence about the Survey of Marine Fisheries of North Carolina, begun in 1946. The Addition of January 2012 contains files relating to the operation of the Institute of Marine Science and its associated summer program, chiefly from the 1940s to the 1990s. Included are budget files, executive committee files, annual and semi-annual reports, research reports, brochures, correspondence, planning documents, and fundraising materials.

About 10400 items (15.0 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Knapp Foundation.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Institute of Marine Sciences

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The Institute of Marine Sciences was established in 1947 as the Institute of Fisheries Research. It was made possible largely by the efforts of R. E. Coker, chairman of the University of North Carolina Department of Zoology, and by a grant from the Knapp Foundation. The name of the institute changed to Institute of Marine Sciences in 1967. The institute's purpose is to conduct and support research, both basic and applied, in marine science and to promote the conservation and development of marin...

Coker, R. E. 1876-1967.

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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...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Institute of Fisheries Research

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Institute of Fisheries Research

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