Heinrich Ries papers, 1889-1951.

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Heinrich Ries papers, 1889-1951.

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Mainly personal and professional correspondence, especially concerning Cornell Geology Department administration and conflicts; correspondents include Henry Platt Cushing, Edmund Ezra Day, Livingston Farrand, Adam C. Gill, Gilbert D. Harris, Charles W. Merriam, Charles S. Prosser, Floyd K. Richtmyer, Ralph S. Tarr, Oscar D. von Engeln, Henry Shaler Williams, and others. Also, one diary kept by Ries (ca.1914-1939) and one by Henry S. Williams (1889-1892, 1904-1908) concerning departmental affairs, typescript departmental minutes (1904-1914), laboratory notes (1904-1909), memoranda, enrollment statistics, reports, notes, condolence letters, and other items relating to Ries, Williams, and the Geology Department at Cornell University.

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Harris, G. D.

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Richtmyer, F. K. (Floyd Karker), 1881-1939

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Cushing, Henry Platt, 1860-

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Henry Platt Cushing was a member of the New York State Geological Survey from 1893. In 1890, Cushing made an expedition to Glacier Bay, Alaska. This party was organized by Dr. H. F. Reid of the Case School of Applied Science and saught to explore and map the basin of Muir Glacier. From the guide to the Henry Platt Cushing Notebooks, 1890-1917, (Western Reserve Historical Society) Geologist and member of the New York State Geological Survey. From the description o...

Merriam, Charles Warren, 1905-....

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Engeln, O. D. von (Oscar Diedrich), 1880-1965

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Professor of geology, Cornell University. From the description of Oscar Diedrich von Engeln papers, 1896-1964. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63939176 ...

Williams, Henry Shaler, 1847-1918

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Geologist and paleontologist, who taught at Cornell University from 1879-1892, then at Yale until 1904, and then at Cornell again from 1904-1912. He retired in 1912. From the description of Henry Shaler Williams anatomical drawings, 1912. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 70687042 ...

Cornell University. Geology Dept.

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Day, Edmund Ezra, 1883-1951

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This dispute arose over the application of security regulations and economic demands during the renegotiation of the contract. A strike ensued and the company secured an injunction to restrain the mass picketing. Violence resulted in the arrest of some of the strikers. The Commissioner of Labor, Mr. Edward Corsi, appointed a fact-finding board consisting of Edmund Ezra Day, Chairman; DR. Samuel P Copen, Mr. Charles Garside, Mrs. Elinore Herrick and Paul S. Andrews. From the guide to ...

Cornell University

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Gill, A. C. (Adam Capen), 1863-1932

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Ries, Heinrich, 1871-1951

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Professor of geology, Cornell University. From the description of Heinrich Ries papers, 1889-1951. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073288 Heinrich Ries was professor of geology at Cornell University. From the guide to the Heinrich Ries papers, 1889-1951., (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) ...

Prosser, Charles S.

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Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939

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Livingston Farrand was born in 1867 in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton University in 1888, and took an M.D. degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He was an instructor in psychology at Columbia University, and later adjunct professor. Interested in primitive psychology, he joined expeditions to the Pacific northwest with Franz Boas and others, and was appointed professor of anthropology at Columbia in 1903. Farrand was deeply concerned with public health ...

Tarr, Ralph S. (Ralph Stockman), 1864-1912

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Professor of geology. From the description of Ralph Stockman Tarr papers, 1883-1961, 1883-1912 (bulk). (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63939269 Tarr was a professor in the Department of Physical Geography at Cornell University who conducted some studies in Greenland. From the description of Letters : Ithaca, New York, to Albert Operti, New York City, 1896-1898. (Natural History Museum Foundation, Los Angeles County). WorldCat record id: 23366682...