Correspondence concerning the National Academy of Sciences, 1913 Feb.-Mar.

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Correspondence concerning the National Academy of Sciences, 1913 Feb.-Mar.

Correspondence between George Ellery Hale, Elihu Root, and Henry Smith Pritchett concerning the future of the National Academy of Sciences (founded 1863) and the development of the National Research Council (founded 1916).

18 sheets in 1 v. : 31 cm.

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Houghton Library

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Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964

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Wolbach, S. Burt (Simeon Burt), 1880-1954

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Wolbach (Harvard, M.D. 1903) was Shattuck Professor of Pathological Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1922 to 1947; pathologist-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham, Boston Lying-in, and Children's Hospitals in Boston, Mass., until 1947; and director of Division of Nutritional Research at Children's Hospital from 1947 until 1954. His research was on infectious diseases, vitamin deficiency, and experimental pathology. From the description of Papers of Simeon Burt Wolbach, 1901-1961 (in...

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