Papers of Bernhard Kummel, 1942-1979 (inclusive).

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Papers of Bernhard Kummel, 1942-1979 (inclusive).

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Contains correspondence (original and carbon copies), memoranda, notes, lists, manuscript drafts, reading and comment cards, geological charts and reports, diagrams, field notes, site and specimen photographs, illustrative materials, financial and Geology Department annual reports, grant applications and proposals, lecture notes, laboratory assignments, examinations, syllabi, student notebooks, unbound typed theses, receipts and other materials relating to Kummel's career as teacher and paleontologist, with a life-long focus on investigating the Permian-Triassic boundary. Includes correspondence and materials from his course work as a student, his teaching assignments and administrative duties at Harvard and the Museum of Comparative Zoology, his research, field work (especially in the Salt Range of West Pakistan), extensive analysis of fossil specimens, publications, and writings of the Triassic geological period, and his investigations as a petroleum geologist in South America and Libya. Related publications and reference material available in repository. For information on component parts of collection, see Harvard Archives LOCATION below.

12 cubic feet of manuscripts in 37 containers

Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Teichert, Curt, 1905-1996

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Kummel, Bernhard, 1919-....

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Bernhard Kummel (1919-1980) was a professor of geology at Harvard from 1952-1980. He was Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1963-1980. From the description of Papers of Bernhard Kummel, 1942-1979 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76977273 From the description of Papers, 1941-1977 (bulk 1963-1977) (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 37201957 Bernhard Kummel (1919-1980) was a professor of geology at Ha...