Papers, 1832-1947 1880-1947.

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Papers, 1832-1947 1880-1947.

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The collection includes personal correspondence and other papers of zoologist Charles A. Kofoid and his wife, Carrie Prudence Winter Kofoid. Correspondence dated 1832-1890 includes substantial documentation of the Winter family of Connecticut and the Kofoid family of Illinois. It also includes documentation of Oberlin College, the Kofoids' alma mater. Winter family correspondence includes letters of Mrs. Kofoid's parents, Rev. Alpheus Winter and Flora Dameris Thompson Winter, her sister Julia Flora Winter Hatch (1873-1908), a missionary to Rhodesia. Kofoid family correspondence includes letters from Charles Kofoid's father, Nelson Kofoid. The collection includes many letters dated 1890-1893 exchanged by the Kofoids during their courtship, when Carrie Prudence Winter was teaching at the Kawaiahao Seminary in Honolulu and Charles Kofoid was a graduate student at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. His letters describe his relationship with Alexander Agassiz and his work at Agassiz's laboratory in Newport. The collection documents Charles Kofoid's association with the Marine Biological Station at San Diego which became the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The collection includes letters documenting Kofoid's experiences on Albatross Expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, 1904-1905. Letters and photographs document his 1908 tour of European biological stations, and the publication of his book, The Biological Stations of Europe. The collection includes documentation of the Kofoids travels including visits to Europe, Japan, and India. The collection includes documentation of the Kofoid Library, donated to the University of California, Berkeley.

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University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7508914

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Oberlin College

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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 18...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Library. Archives.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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Winter, Flora Dameris Thompson, 1834-1919,

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Kofoed family.

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Albatross Expedition (1904-1905).

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Hatch, Julia Flora Winter, 1873-1908.

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Winters family.

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Winter, Alpheus, 1838-1908,

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Kofoid, Nelson

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Kofoid, Carrie Prudence, 1866-1942.

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Kofoid, Charles A. (Charles Atwood), 1865-1947

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Charles A. Kofoid was a professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. From the description of Charles A. Kofoid correspondence : additions, 1928-1938. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26872497 Charles Atwood Kofoid was born in 1865 in Granville, Putnam County, Illinois. He received an A.B. from Oberlin College in 1890, A.M. Harvard, 1892, PhD Harvard, 1894. He married Prudence Winter, a fellow student at Obe...