Abbot, Griffith Evans. 1850-
Traveler, photographer. Photographs.
Photographs of Mexican and Central American Antiquities (913.72/Ab23). n.d. 123 photographs. Antiquities and peoples of Mexico and Central America. n.d.
Albright, William Foxwell. 1891-1971.
Archeologist, orientalist. Acting director, Amer. School of Oriental Research, 1920-21, dir., 1921-29,1933-36; W. W. Spence prof, Semitic langs., Johns Hopkins Univ., 1929-58, emer. prof., 1958-71; dir., archeol. expdn., Palestine, 1922-34.
Correspondence, Mss.
American Philosophical Soc. (Archives). 29 June 1970. L. to George W. Corner. Albright's research interests and hobbies.
Albright, William Foxwell. Papers (B/AL15p). ca.1920-71. 56 boxes (49 ln. ft.) of personal and professional correspondence, business papers, records of American School of Oriental Studies, diaries and account books, mss., lectures, misc. records, published papers, family papers, drawings, maps, pictures, field notes on excavations in Palestine and South Arabia. This collection is not at present organized; correspondence is filed very generally by year.
Rous, F. Peyton. Papers (B/R77). 7 to 13 March 1968. 2 Ls. (1 to Rous, 1 to Albright). U.S. Middle East policy.
American Council Of Learned Societies.
Correspondence (506.73/Am72co). 1926-27. 174 items. Subtitled "Project for a Survey of North American Indian Languages by T. Middleton, E. Sapir, and L. Bloomfield. Presented by Section L to the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Endorsed by that body." Includes correspondence to Prof. Edward C. Armstrong of the A.C.L.S., from T. Middleton, Edward Sapir, L. Bloomfield, Franz Boas, Alfred Kroeber, John Swanton, Pliny Goddard, and others. The papers cover the response to the "Survey" proposed by an A.C.L.S. committee, and correspondence organizing a standing body to establish the Survey and attract financial support. The Survey's efforts became the basis for the Franz Boas Collection of American Linguistics (497.3/B63c).
American Eugenics Society.
Archives (575.06/AmS). 1916-73. 9 ln. ft. Committee records, accounts, correspondence, meeting records, membership lists, legislative records, local society records, published and unpublished Society reports and memoranda, history of the Society by Frederick Osborn (1971). Particularly interesting are the records of the Selective Immigration, Legislative, and Research Committees. Most of the material deals with the period of the Society's incorporation after 1926. There is documentation interspersed throughout the collection dealing with the topic of heredity versus environment in producing cultural achievement. Material on mental and physical inheritance, differential cross-cultural fecundity, and race hybridization is also present.
American Indian Ethnology and Linguistics.
Manuscript studies in American Indian ethnology and linguistics (497.3/ Am4). 1960-. 213 + documents. Photo-copies, carbons, typescripts, thesis copies, etc. Most of these studies are the result of research supported by the Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society. Starting in 1960, the reports were grouped together and numbered consecutively. Complete descriptions by author and subject are listed in John E. Freeman and Murphy D. Smith, A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian (1980) and in Daythal Kendall, Supplement to a Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian (1982). Some works are also listed in Whitfield J. Bell and Murphy D. Smith, Guide to the Archives and Manuscript Collections of the American Philosopical Society (1966) and in the forthcoming Manuscript Guide" by Stephen Catlett. Studies include Nicholas N. Smith, "Malecite words pertaining to Natural History" (1960); Charles Marius Barbeau, "The Gwenhout of Alaska" (1960); Eugene Gordon, "Miscellaneous notes of Penobscot words" (1956); John Witthoft, "A Cherokee economic botany from western North Carolina"; H. Christopher Wolfart, "Report and linguistic fieldwork among the Plains Cree" (1968); Robert Howren, "Dongrib field notes" (1970); Dennis Tedlock, "Zuni field notes" (1972); Philip Le Sourd, "Field notes on Passamaquoddy" (1977); Mary A. Druke, "Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century manuscripts in England pertaining to the Iroquois" (1977); Timothy Knab, "Manuscripts concerning the Indians of Mexico" (1972-79); Jimm G. Goodtracks, "Report on Iowa/Otoe Indian Language Dictionary" (1978); Robert Boyd, "Smallpox among the Indians of the Northwest Coast, 1854-63" (1979), etc.
Bachman, John. 1790-1874.
Natural historian, clergyman, monogenist.
Correspondence.
Bachman, John. Letters. ca.1836-54. 16 Ls. The Bachman correspondence includes letters to Audubon, Samuel G. Morton, and John Torrey, almost exclusively on natural history. Included in the Morton correspondence (B M843) is a letter of 17 March 1837 discussing Indian craniology.
Baker, Frank. 1841-1918.
Anatomist; editor of the American Anthropologist, 1891-98.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 10 Dec. 1898 to 10 March 1902. 6 Ls. (4 to Boas, 2 to Baker). Amer. Anthr.
Bandelier, Adolf F. 1840-1914.
Archeologist, historian. American Museum of Natural History, 1903-; lecturer, American arch., Columbia Univ., 1904-.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional correspondence (B/B61). 20 June 1905 to 7 Jan. 1910. 11 Ls. (8 to Boas, 3 to Bandelier). Employment at Columbia; personal.
Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969.
Anthropologist. Anthr., National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-48, consultant, 1948-69; prof, Loyola Univ., 1945-55, emer. prof., 1955-69; lect., Montreal Univ.; co-ed., Jour. Amer. Folklore, 1916-69.
Correspondence, Mss.
Barbeau, Charles Marius. Catalogue of Indian songs (497.2/C16). 1911-1920. 170 lvs. Iroquois, Huron, Cayuga, Ojibwa, etc.
... Checklist of American Indian antiquities found in European institutions (016.9701/B235c) 1950. 197 lvs.
... The Gwenhout of Alaska (497.3/Am4/2). 1960. 664 Lvs.
... Haida Carvers in Argillite (970.6/B23h). 530 Lvs.
... Indian captivities material.
Calendar of Indian Captivities and Allied Documents (016.9701/B235). 1954. ca.400 Lvs.
Frank Deering Coll. of Indian Captivities (016.9701/D365). 1950-53. 51 + 27 + 364. Lvs.
Arthur Greenwood. Time Stone Farm (016.9701/G842b). Comp. by Barbeau. 1948. 392 Lvs.
... Linguistic material.
Carrier Notes (Hagwilgate) (497.3/B63c/Na4). 1921. 7 Lvs.
Cayuga Dialect of Iroquois (497.2/B235c). 1964. 82 Lvs.
Huron Word List (497.2/B235w). ca.1952. 108 Lvs.
Huron-Wyandot Traditional Narratives (497.2/B235w.2). 416 Lvs.
Mohawk and Cayuga Grammatical Material (497.3/B63c). ca.1949.
Notes on Onondaga and Tuscarora (497.2/B235). 1951. 128 Lvs.
Oneida Dialect
... recorded from John Alexander Ninham (497.3/B63c). 1950. 60 Lvs.
Oneida Text (497.3/B63c). 1950. 2 Lvs.
... Raven-Clan Outlaws of the North Pacific Coast (970.6/B23r). 1963. 447 Lvs.
... Social Organization of the Gitzaxtet Tribe (497.3/B63c). 1915. 28 Lvs.
... TemLarh'am, the Land of Plenty on the North Pacific Coast (497.3/ Am4). 1959. 808 Lvs
Wolf-Clan Invaders from the Northern Plateau among the Tsimsyans
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 12 Feb. 1914 to 5 Aug. 1940. 108 Ls. (70 to Boas, 38 to Barbeau) + 8 Ls to/fr. W. H. Clawson, L. Gouin, H. Andrews, B. C. Edel, A. Boulet, J. Tache, J. C. Brooks.
French-Can. folklore; American Folklore Soc.; Jour. of Amer. Folklore; fieldwork; publcs.
Lingelbach, William E. Papers (B/L635). 24 Feb. 1961 + 1 undated. 2 Ls. to Barbeau. Amer. Phil. Soc.; publcs
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 27 Jan. 1941 to 15 July 1954. 16 Ls. (8 to Mason, 8 to Barbeau) + 2 Ls. to Frank Speck, Paul Fejos. Amer. Anthr.; museum collcs.; Northwest coast material culture.
Barton, Benjamin Smith. 1766-1815.
Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; prof of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography.
Correspondence, Mss.
American Philosophical Soc. (Misc. Mss. Coll.). ca. 1788-89. An Essay Towards a Natural History of North American Indians. 16 lvs. Photocopy.
22 Feb. 1796. L. to John Heckewelder. Amer. Indian antiquities and skin color.
Barton, Benjamin Smith. A Comparative Vocabulary of Indian Languages, 1798-1821(497/B28). 221 lvs
... Papers (B/B284). 1790 to 1794. 17 Ls. and 3 printed documents. Includes Ls. to Thomas Pennant concerning color and morphology of Amer. Indians. Also "Proposals for Printing... An Historical... Inquiry into... Remains of Antiquity." 1789.
... Queries Concerning the Northern Indians (497/V85). 31 March 1797. 2 lvs.
... Violetta W. Delafield Collection (B/B284.d). ca.1788 to 1815. ca.5,000 lvs.
Correspondence, mss. Includes notes, vocabulary lists, paper mss., correspondence dealing with American Indian antiquities, ethnography, and physical anthropology. Correspondents include Wm. Bartram, John Heckewelder, Thomas Jefferson, Constantine Rafinesque, John Vaughan.
Letters of Scientists, from the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (509/L56.26). 20 Nov. 1797. L. to John Heckewelder. Photocopy. Nanticoke Indians.
Bastian, Adolph. 1826-1905.
Ethnologist. Founder, Berlin Ethnological Museum, 1868, Berlin Anthropological Soc., 1869; decent, ethnology, Univ. of Berlin, 1868, later professor and keeper of Ethn. Museum; dir., German African Soc., 1873-.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 10 Oct. 1884 to 24 Apr. 1894. 21 Ls. (19 to Boas, 2 to Bastian). Berlin Ethn. Museum; ethnology as a scientific study; prof. congresses.
Bateson, Gregory. 1904-1980.
Ethnologist, researcher in human behavior. Lecturer, Langley Porter Clinic, 1948-50; ethnologist, Veterans Admin. Hospital, Pale Alto, Ca., 1950-62; res. director in ethnology, Communication Res. Inst., 1962-64; assoc. dir. res., Oceanic Inst., 1964-69.
Correspondence, Mss.
Bateson Family Papers (Ms Coll. 2). 1910-22. 2 ln. ft. Ls. to/fr. Bateson family members and friends, including William Bateson, Beatrice Durham Bateson, Martin Bateson. Gregory Bateson's early schooling, family life, travels.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 23 March 1956. L. to Boas. Bateson's marriage to Margaret Mead.
McCulloch, Sturgis. Papers (B/M139). 24 Sept. 1954 to 25 Oct. 1962. 4 Ls. to McCulloch + 2 Ls. fr. Jerome Wiesner and Franklin Long. Ethnology and human behavior.
Bean, Robert Bennett. 1874-1944.
Anatomist. Director, Anatomy lab, Phillips Medical School, Manila, 190710; assoc. prof., anatomy, Tulane Univ., 1910-16; prof, anatomy, Univ. of Virginia, 1916-44. Research on racial differentiation and inheritance.
Correspondence.
Davenport, Charles. Papers (B/D27). 24 Sept. 1909 to 14 Aug. 1930. 23 Ls. (10 to Davenport, 13 to Boas). Mendelian genetics and racial character; anthropometrics.
Bell, Robert. 1841-1917.
Canadian geologist, explorer, folklorist. Asst. dir., Geological Survey of Canada, 1877-1890, chief geol., 1890-91, dir., 1901-06.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 1 March 1886 to 25 June 1908. 51 Ls. (45 to Boas, 6 to Bell). Boas berth on exped. to Hudson Bay (1886); Indian folklore and craniology; museum collcs.; fieldwork in Baffinland and British Columbia; development of School of American Arch. in Mexico.
Benedict, Ruth Fulton. 1887-1948.
Anthropologist. Lect., anthropology, Columbia Univ., 1923-30, asst. prof., 1930-36, assoc, prof, 1936-48, prof, 1948. Helped organize project for Research in Contemporary Cultures at Columbia Univ., 1946. Studied folklore, ethnology, the psychological basis of cultural patterns.
Correspondence, Mss.
Lincoln, Jackson Steward. An Ethnological Study of the Ixil Indians of the Guatemala Highlands (Film 297). Foreward by Ruth Benedict. 1946. ca.48 lvs.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 6 Dec. 1927 to 18 July 1947. 46 Ls. (34 to Mason, 22 to Benedict). Folklore; publcs.; personal.
Mead, Margaret. "An Anthropologist At Work: The Writings of Ruth Benedict" (B/B428.mx). Prepared 1957-58. 175 lvs. Photocopy of first working copy, correspondence only. Includes corr. between Ruth Benedict and Mead. 16 Sept. 1923 to 1934.
Parsons, Elsie Clews. Papers (572/P25.1). 28 Nov. 1936 to 26 Sept. 1939. 9 Ls. to Parsons. Folklore; social org.; ethnol.; "Zuni mythology"; social dynamics vs. historical analysis; employment.
Bey, James Grant. Egyptologist.
Correspondence.
American Philosophical Soc. (Misc. Mss. Coll.). 15 Jan. 1889 to 29 Oct. 1895. 11 Ls. to Bey. Correspondents include Wm. Pepper, J. Cooke, John S. Billings. Egyptian arch.; Pan-Amer. Congress; arch. museum at Univ. of Pennsylvania; personal.
Bidney, David. 1908- Anthropologist.
Correspondence.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 7 Nov. 1945 to 17 June 1947. 15 Ls. (10 to Mason, 5 to Bedney) + 2 Ls. to Helen Hause, Irving Hallowell. Amer. Anthr.
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich. 1752-1840.
Physician, naturalist, comparative physical anthropologist. Curator, natural hist. Coll., Goettingen Univ., 1776, prof, medicine, 1778; professor primarius, medicine, 1816.
Correspondence.
Goettingen. NiedersSchische Staats-und UniversitStsbibliothek. Miscellaneous letters (Hist. of Sci. Film 8). March 1817 to Nov. 1829. 9 Ls. fr. Blumenbach. Correspondents include C. L. Harding, C. F. Michelis, B. S. Barton, John Sullivan, James Cook Richmond, Wm. Richmond, George Tichnor. American Indian langs.; race; phys. Anthro.
Wellcome History of Medicine Library. Papers (509/W44). Photocopies of 2 Ls. fr. Blumenbach. 2 Dec. 1799 to 12 Dec. 1802. To unknown individual and Charles Henry Parry. Phys. anthr.
Boas, Franz. 1858-1942.
Anthropologist. Asst., Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-86; privat-dozent, Univ. of Berlin, 1885-86; dozent, Clark Univ., 1889-92; asst., dept. of anthropology, Columbian Expos., 1892-94; asst. curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-05; lect., anthropology, Columbia Univ., 1896-99, prof., 1899-1936, emeritus prof., 1936-42. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others), Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons.
Correspondence, Mss.
Boas, Franz. Anthropometric Data and Assorted Manuscripts (B/B61.5). 3 boxes. Two boxes of data sheets containing anthropometric measurements of American Indians; one box of assorted field notebooks, diaries, and manuscript copies of Boas papers on assorted topics. 1/3/5/7/9/12
... Family Correspondence (B/B61F). 1862-1932. 17 boxes. Ls. between Boas family members, including Maria, Meyer, Sophie, Toni, Hedwig, Ernst, and Anne Boas. Ls. from Franz Boas have been extracted (see Franz Boas Misc. Papers, B/B6lp).
Correspondence covers family matters and Franz' personal life and development.
... Miscellaneous Papers (B/B6lp). 1869-1942. 27 boxes. This is a collection of miscellaneous materials concerning Franz Boas' family life and professional career, useful for studies of Boas' general intellectual and social interests and commitments. His teaching career can be partially traced through Columbia Univ. course listings, public and professional addresses and speeches, various committee reports, notebooks, research accounts and budgets, etc. There are folders containing translations of some of Boas' letters to Abraham Jacobi, Marie Boas, Ernst Boas, and other family members, between the years of 1877 and 1931. Professional correspondence (not included in Scholarly Resources' Guide to the Microfilm Collection of the Professional Papers of Franz Boas) is present in this collection. Correspondents include Adolph Bastian, Ruth Bunzel, T. McKeen Cattell, J. Waiter Fewkes, A.C. Haddon, A.L. Kroeber, Robert Lowie, F. von Luschan, William McGee, J. Alden Mason, F. W. Putnam, Paul Radin, Edward Sapir, Karl von den Steinen, John W. Swanton, Alfred W. Tozzer. Other documents include a draft constitution for the "American Anthropologic Ass."; "Report of Committee On Introduction Of Anthropologic Teaching", to Section H, A.A.A.S.; papers relating to Amer. Comm. for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom; Columbia course descriptions in anthropology (various years); research accounts and budgets for 1928, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1941; diary of Arctic Expedition, 1883-84, along with maps, notebooks, photographs, sketchbook; diaries for 1886, 1889, 1890; copies of various lectures, 18851917; curricula vitae, with short autobiographies; collections of notes on various topics; Kwakiutl ethnographic texts and vocabularies; addresses and papers, 1909-1941; catalog of Boas' library; radio addresses and speeches; Boas family genealogies; news clippings; photographs.
... Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 1883-1942. 98 boxes. This collection contains the mass of Boas' professional correspondence and is an important source of material concerning both his own career and American anthropology in the first half of the twentieth century. The correspondence covers many topics, including physical anthropology and anthropometry, race, American Indian linguistics, ethnography and ethnology, fieldwork, anthropological teaching, research funding, international relations in science, the disciplinary and institutional history of American anthropology, and the social relations of science. The number of correspondents is extensive. For an index of names and dates see Scholarly Resources' Guide. The Library holds both original and microfilm copies of the correspondence.
Rukeyser, Muriel. Boas biographical materials (B/B6l.ru). 5 boxes. Material collected by Muriel Rukeyser in the 1940s and 1950s, for her proposed biography of Franz Boas. Included are letters to and from Boas, biographical material, various school records, and reminiscences of him by family members. The correspondence includes both family and professional correspondence. There are notes by Rukeyser, correspondence with publishers, news clippings related to Boas, and publications dealing with him.
Boas, Franziska. 1901-
Dancer, daughter of Franz Boas.
Interview.
The Reminiscences of Franziska Boas, as Recorded by the Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, 1972 (B/B6lre). This is a copy of the written transcription of an interview with Franziska Boas, on the subject of her father. The interview provides useful information regarding Franz Boas' personal life, habits, and attitudes on social issues. There is also information on his professional career at Columbia, his fieldwork, and his relationship with his informants.
Bowers, Stephen. 1832-1907
Minister. Interested in archeology, prehistory, and ethnology, particularly that of southern California.
Correspondence.
Letters (B/B672). ca.1860s to 1900. ca.150 items, of which about one-third deal with archeology, ethnology, and craniology. Correspondents include Spencer F. Baird, John S. Billings, Daniel Garrison Brinton, Frederick W. Putnam, and others. Museum collcs, in geology, Indian artifacts, craniology; California geology and archeology.
Brinton, Daniel Garrison. 1837-1899
Physician, anthropologist. Asst. ed., Medical and Surgical Reporter, 1867, ed., 1874-87; prof., ethnology and archeology, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1884-86; prof., American linguistics and arch., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1886-98. Brinton was an Americanist, concentrating his attention on the linguistics and archeology of North and South American Indians. He was a leader in the systematic classification of American Indian languages and in the analysis of the origin of American Indian mounds.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 1 Sept. 1886 to 1 Dec. 1898. 57 Ls. (51 to Boas, 5 to Brinton) + 1 L. to Brinton fr. Frank Me Gee. Linguistics; folklore; Congress of Americanists; foundation of Amer. Anthr.; Sect. H., A.A.A.S
Bowers, Stephen. Papers (B/B672). 1 Apr. 1884. 1 L. to Bowers. Publcs. 10 Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). ca.1940s. 6 folders. Publ. and distribution of the Brinton Memorial series by the Phil. Anthr. Soc.
Bunzel, Ruth. 1898-
Anthropologist. Assoc. director, Research in Contemporary Cultures, Columbia Univ., 1947-51, lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univ., 195460, adj. prof., 1960-69, senior res, assoc., 1969-.
Correspondence, Mss.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 9 June 1923 to 30 Apr. 1937. 56 Ls. (39 to Boas, 17 to Bunzel). Ethnological Soc.; Zuni life and culture; relations with Zuni sources; Maya Indians in Guatemala; employment; research funding.
Bunzel, Ruth. "Zuni lexicon" (497.3/B63c). n.d. ca.7,000 slips. Arranged alphabetically and in terms of grammatical categories.
Carmichael, Leonard. Papers (B/C212). n.d. 143 lvs. "Tentative Questionnaire for Handbook of Psychological Leads for Ethnological Field Workers." List of subjects for observation and analysis. Subjects include environmental determinants of behavior, food supply, technology, division of labor, use of property, economic stratification, class relations.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 26 June 1930 to 25 Jan. 1933. 6 Ls. to Mason. Fieldwork in Guatemala; Quiche linguistics.
Parsons, Elsie Clews. Papers (572/P25.1). 26 Oct. 1939 to 30 May 1940. 2 Ls. to Parsons. Folklore; Zuni ethnology and fieldwork.
Carmichael, Leonard. 1898-1973.
Psychologist, association executive, Instr., psychology, Princeton Univ., 1924-26, asst. prof, 1926-27; assoc. prof, Brown Univ., 1927-28, prof, 1928-36; dean, faculty of arts and science, Univ. of Rochester, 1936-38; pres., Tufts Univ., 1938-52; Soc., Smithsonian Instn., 1953-64; chmn., museum comm., Nat. Geog. Soc., 1964-73.
Correspondence, Mss.
Papers (B/C212). ca.1917-73. 180 ln. ft. Carmichael was chairman of the Division of Anthropology and Psychology of the National Research Council, from 1941 to 1943. His papers include Division records, from 1941 to 1943 and 1955 to 1962. The earlier documents are interesting for their illustration of the wartime use of anthropology and psychology by the federal government. The records extant in Carmichael's files include various committee and sub-committee reports on routine Division business; they chronicle the marshalling of anthropology and psychology for the war effort. The later records (1955-62) include a history of the Division, membership lists, research proposals, the annual reports of the Division itself, and various sub-committee reports. Also included are reports on symposia supported by the Division, including the "USAF-NRC Symposium On Human Engineering, Personnel, And Training Research" in 1955. Carmichael's papers include records of the U.S. Committee for National Morale, dated 1941 and afterwards, and contain a report on "Cultural Anthropology and Morale," among other documents. He was a member of the applied psychology panel of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1942-45.
Carpenter, Edmund S. 1918-
Archeologist, ethnologist.
Correspondence, Mss.
Carpenter, Edmund S. "The Ancient Mounds of Pennsylvania. A Report to the American Philosophical Society Summarizing Archeological Data on Pennsylvania Tumuli Contained in Manuscripts Deposited in the Library" (913.748/C223). 1950. 359 lvs. Sections by T. Dale Stewart and James B. Griffin. See U.S. Work Project Admin.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 10 Feb. 1949 to 8 Dec. 1951. 9 Ls. (1 to Mason, 8 to Carpenter). Penn. arch; Penn. Archeologist; publcs.
Caspari, Ernst W. 1903-
Geneticist. Asst. prof. of zoology and research assoc., Univ. of Rochester, 1944-46; assoc, prof., biology, Wesleyan Univ., 1945-46, prof., 1949-60; prof., biology, Univ. of Rochester, 1965-75, prof. emeritus, 1975-.
Correspondence, Mss.
Papers (Ms. Coll. 1). 1938-80. 3 ln. ft. Caspari's interest in genetics and behavior extended into anthropology, psychology, and sociology. His work has been applied by social scientists to problems in their particular fields. Caspari's papers contain correspondence with the American Psychological and Sociological Associations. Included under the heading of the latter is a copy of his 1963 conference address to the ASA on "Genetic Constitution and Social Factors in Man." There is correspondence (1968-72) with Bernard Campbell on the topic of a published volume dealing with sexual selection in human evolution, to commemorate the centenary of Charles Darwin's Descent of Man, and also with the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Other relevant subject materials include records dealing with Caspari's membership on the Comm. on Genetics and Behavior of the National Research Council; a study on "The Biological Basis of Female Hierarchies" of 1975; and various public addresses and papers dealing with heredity and environment in the determination of human behavior, human origins, and the interactions between biological and cultural evolution.
Combe, George. 1788-1858.
Phrenologist, publicist. Combe was a prominent writer, lecturer, and popularizer of the phrenological movement in 19th-century Great Britain and the United States. Phrenology was the intellectual antecedent of later nineteenthand twentieth-century craniology and anthropometry. Public debates over phrenology's materialist foundations foreshadowed succeeding arguments over the basis and validity of subsequent racial formalisms.
Correspondence, Mss.
American Philosophical Society (Misc. Ms. Coll.). 30 Oct. 1823 to 11 May 1840. 7 Ls. Miscellaneous letters concerning phrenology to the editor of the Edinburgh Literary Gazette, J. C. Holland, John Vaughan, and the reviewer of the Phrenological Transactions in the Edinburgh Literary Gazette.
Combe, George. Papers (Film 1351). ca.1822 to 1836. 3 reels. Film copy of papers in National Library of Scotland.
Morton, Samuel. Papers (B/M843). 4 Apr. 1838 to 4 Nov. 1840. 20 Ls. to Morton. Phrenology; craniology.
Hays, Isaac Minis. Papers (B/H334). 12 Feb. 1839. L. to Hays. Phrenology.
Hutton, William. Papers (B/H978). 23 to 27 Apr. 1836. 2 Ls. to Hutton. Phrenology
Couch, Jonathan. 1789-1870.
British physician, naturalist.
Correspondence, Mss.
Papers (B/C831). ca.1846-70. 1 ln. ft. Couch's papers deal mostly with natural history, but some correspondence and mss. are on the history of language; myth and superstition; and the physical history of man. Included here are manuscripts on "Charms", "Language", "The Cross Buns of Easter", "On the History and Development of Man", and the "Prehistoric in Cornwall."
Cushing, Frank Hamilton. 1857-1900.
Ethnologist, archeologist, member of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1879-1900). Gushing is best known for his studies of the Zuni Indians, including works on Zuni folkore and general ethnography.
Correspondence, Mss.
American Philosophical Society (Archives). 1869-99. 34 Ls. to Persifor Frazer, Isaac Minis Hays, and George H. Horn. A.P.S.; publcs.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence *B/B61). 23 June to 5 Dec. 1894. 2 Ls. to Boas. Folklore; publcs.
Holmes, Barbara. The Zuni Census of Cushing (497.3/Am4/no.194). 1982. 44 lvs. Photocopy of manuscript analyzing the results of Cushing's 1880 census of the Zuni.