Marston Bates papers, 1913-1974.

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Marston Bates papers, 1913-1974.

Correspondence, journals, manuscripts of writings, and class materials, including papers detailing his work with the United Fruit Company in Central America, 1928-1931, his later activities with the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, especially his interest in mosquito research and malaria control programs during the 1930's and 1940's, and his demographic studies of the people of the Ifalik Atoll in the South Pacific in 1953; and photographs. Correspondents include: Donald P. Abbott, Jaime Benitez, Kenneth E. Boulding, Dugald E.S. Brown, John C. Bugher, Edwin G. Burrow, Stanley A. Cain, Vere G. Childe, Raymond E. Crest, Philip J. Darlington, Leland C. DeVinney, Bernard A. Devoto, Lee R. Dice, Paul H. Douglas, Emmet R. Dunn, Ecological Society of America, David Fairchild, Graham B. Fairchild, Marian H. Fairchild, Robben Fleming, Frederick M. Gaige, Lee Gerlach, Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Melville B. Grosvenor, Guggenheim Foundation, William Haber, Lewis W. Hackett, Harlan. Hatcher, Welmer K. Hicks, Theodore H. Hubbell, Theodor Karl Just, John S. Kennedy, Alfred C. Kinsey, Henry W. Kumm, John A. Logan, Margaret Mead, Luis Muñoz Marín, James K. Pollock, Wilson Popenoe, Sheldon L. Rahn, David Rockefeller, James S. Rogers, Dean Rusk, Diarmuid Russell, Carl O. Sauer, Ralph A. Sawyer, Charles Scribner, Everett J. Soop, Harold Trapido, John W. Twente, Frederick H. Wagman, Alva C. Wilgus.

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