Yerkes National Primate Research Center records, 1929-1980
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Yerkes National Primate Research Center
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The Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center is named for Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, whose early studies of chimpanzees and other apes during the 1920s persuaded Yale University, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation fund the establishment of the Yale Laboratories for Primate Biology. The laboratories opened in 1930 in Orange Park, Florida. In 1941, Dr. Yerkes retired and Yale renamed the institute the Yerkes Laboratory of Primate Biology in honor of his scientific leadership and cont...
National Primate Research Centers Program (U.S.)
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Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956
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Robert Mearns Yerkes was an animal psychologist; he became a member of the American Philosophical Society, 1936. From the guide to the Testament: the scientific way, n.d., n.d., (American Philosophical Society) George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981, 1903-1982, (American Philosophical Society) Psychologist. From the description o...