Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, records, 1927-1965 (inclusive).

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Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, records, 1927-1965 (inclusive).

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The records consist of correspondence and subject files documenting the operations of the Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory at Yale University. Topics include faculty and personnel, environmental issues, national biological stations and institutions, and naval reports and research.

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Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory.

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The Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory was formed in 1930 with the gift of the 3,000 item Bingham Oceanographic Collection by Henry Payne Bingham, Yale 1910. This rare and valuable group of oceanographic specimens, collected personally by Bingham, had been at Yale on loan since 1927. With the oceanographic collection came Albert Eide Parr, a young Norwegian who had been working at the New York Aquarium. Parr was Assistant Curator from 1927-1930, Curator of the collection from 1930-194...