Darwin, Charles. 1809-1882.
Naturalist. Darwin was independently wealthy and pursued much of his work at home, in Kent. His travels with the Beagle, 1831-36, set the stage for his later studies in geology, zoology, and botany. Subsequent to the publication of The Origin of Species in 1859, he was made an honorary member (1861) of the London Ethnological Society. Darwin did not specifically write upon human evolution until the later 1860s, when The Descent of Man was composed (publ. 1871), followed in 1872 by Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Both books were influential upon later writing and research in anthropology.
Correspondence, Mss.
The American Philosophical Society Library holds an extensive collection of Darwin letters, either in original or photo-copy form. The manuscript letter collection includes approximately 730 Darwin letters (B/D25.m, B/D25.L, B/D25.L1, B/D25.r, B/D25.1-361). The large groups of letters are to Charles Lyell and to George Romanes. The Library also holds photocopy or microfilm copies of almost the entirety of Darwin's known surviving correspondence, listed in A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821-1882, Frederick Burkhardt and Sidney Smith, eds. N.Y.: Garland, 1985. Cambridge University Press is now publishing the letters in a multi-volume series. The correspondence most useful for studies in the history of anthropology includes the letters between Darwin and T.H. Huxley, Charles Lyell, George Rolleston, A.R. Wallace, Armand de Quatrefages, John Lubbock, Karl von Baer, E.B. Tylor, Herbert Spencer, H.W. Flower, and Francis Galton.
Davenport, Charles B. 1866-1944.
Biologist, eugenicist. Instructor, zoology, Harvard Univ., 1892-99; asst. prof., Univ. of Chicago, 1899-91, assoc. prof, 1901-04; director, summer biological lab, of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1898-1923; director, Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, 1904-34; director, Eugenics Record Office, 1910-34 (1920-34, Dept. of Genetics, Carnegie Institution). Davenport was a central figure in American eugenics and, secondarily, in genetics research, from the founding of the Cold Spring Harbor Station in 1904 to the 1930s. He frequently found himself in serious disagreement with Boas and his supporters over the role of environment versus heredity in shaping racial morphology and social behavior.
Correspondence, Mss.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 26 Dec. 1899 to 24 Dec. 1936. 35 Ls. (18 to Boas, 17 to Davenport) + 1 letter from Davenport to Hrdlicka. Anthropometry; comparative racial mental capacities; stature; research funding; publics.
Davenport, Charles B. Papers (B/D27). ca.1892-1944. 41 ln. ft. Professional correspondence and administrative correspondence, from the Station for Experimental Evolution. Correspondents include Franz Boas, A. C. Haddon, M. J. Herskovits, Ales Hrdlicka, Arthur Keith, E. Linton, E. Sapir, F. von Luschan, the American Foundation for Prehistoric Study in France, the Committee for Human Behavior, the Draper Fund for Studying Race Crossings, and others. Notes, paper manuscripts, and lectures are also present. Lecture topics include "Coordinates in Anthropometry", "Comparative Social Traits of Various Races", "Do Races Differ in Mental Capacity", "Factors of Heredity and Environment in Criminality", "How Early in Ontogeny Do Human Racial Characteristics Show Themselves?", "Methods in Comparative Racial Psychology", "Racial Factors in International Relations", etc.
DeLaguna, Frederica. 1906-
Anthropologist, archeologist. Asst., Eskimo archeology, Danish Greenland exped., 1929; asst., American section, Univ. of Pennsylvania Museum, 1931-34; assoc. soil conservationist, Pima Reservation, USDA, 1935-36; lecturer, anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, 1938-41, asst. prof, 1941-42, 46-49, assoc. Prof., 1949-55, prof., 1955-76, emer. prof., 1976-.
Correspondence, Mss.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 11 Feb. 1929 to Dec. 1936. 42 Ls. (31 to Boas, 11 to DeLaguna). Studies and course work at Columbia Univ.; arch. fieldwork in Greenland, Alaska, Yukon; museum collections and work; Eskimo material culture; support for research; prof positions; personal; publcs.
DeLaguna, Frederica. An Arctic Summer (497.3/Am4/23). 1930. 345 lvs. Greenland arch.
... Atna Indian materials.
American Indian Material (Film 1119). ca.1962. 1 reel.
Atna Indians, Copper, Alaska (Misc. Ms. Coll.). 1962. 8 lvs.
Atna of the Copper River Valley (Film 1238). 1960, 1968. 2 reels. DeLaguna and M.F. Guedon.
Atna Texts, etc., Recorded in Copper Center, Alaska (rec. 31). 1958. 8 reels. DeLaguna and C. McClellan.
Materials Collected and Recorded at Copper Center, Alaska (Rec. 68). 1968. 17 reels.
Materials Recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, Atna Indians (Rec.41). 1958. 8 reels.
... Tlingit-Yakutat materials.
Classification of All Yakutat-Tlingit Songs Recorded in 1952 and 1954 (497.3/B63c/N2.3c). 1954. 10 lvs.
Field Notebooks on the Ethnology of the Tlingit of Yakutat and Angoon (Film 1127). 1950-58. 5 reels. DeLaguna and C. McClellan. Notes on Tlingit-Yakutat Songs Recorded in 1954 (497.3/B63c/N2.3b). 1954. 126 lvs.
Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska (497.3/B63c/N2.3 and Rec. 19). 1952. 30 lvs. and 7 reels.
Tlingit and Yakutat Songs (497.3/B63c/N.23a and Rec. 30). 1954. 62 lvs. + 10 reels.
Tlingit Recordings (Misc. Ms. Coll. and Rec. 15). 1950-54. 18 lvs. + 1 reel.
Yakutat Songs (Rec. 19). 1952. 7 reels.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 5 Feb. 1930 to 22 Apr. 1949. 62 Ls. (25 to Mason, 37 to DeLaguna) + 5 Ls to/fr. "Virginia", Mr. Jayne, Donald Dickson. Amer. Anthr.; Univ. of Pa. Mus.; Comm. for Int. Coop. in Anthr.; Phil. Anthr. Soc.; F. Boas; course work at Columbia; mus. work; material culture; arch. fieldwork; prof. positions; personal; publcs.
Parsons, Elsie C. Papers (572/P25.1). L. to DeLaguna. 26 Nov. 1941. Amer. Anthr. Ass.
Dixon, Roland B. 1875-1934.
Anthropologist. Member, Jesup North Pacific Exped., 1898; instr., anthropology, Harvard Univ., 1901-06; asst. prof., 1906-15, prof., 1915-34. Curator, ethnology, Peabody Museum; member, Nat. Research Council, 1922, Soc. Science Res. Council, 1926-29.
Correspondence, Mss.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 8 Jan. 1898 to 18 Nov. 1931. 305 Ls. (127 to Dixon, 178 to Boas). Folklore; Amer. Folk-Lore Soc.; prof. employment; research funding; linguistics; graduate ed.; International School of Amer. Arch. and Ethnology; use of anthropometric data for distinguishing physical types within populations; publcs.
Dixon, Roland, Shasta Texts (497.3/B63c/Hlc.2) n.d. 6 notebooks on Shasta linguistics.
... Shasta Texts (497.3/B63c/Hlc.3). n.d. ca.150 lvs. Shasta texts ed, and rev. by Lucy S. Freeland.
... Zague and Xinca Compared with Penutian (497.3/B63c/Mz.1). 1924, 4 lvs.
Dobzhansky, Theodosius. 1900-1975.
Population geneticist, biologist. Researcher, Rockefeller Foundation, 1927-1929; asst. prof., genetics, Cal. Inst. of Tech., 1929-36, prof. 1936-40; prof, zoology, Columbia Univ., 1940-62; adjunct prof., 1962-70; adj. prof., Univ. of Calif. at Davis, 1971-75.
Papers (B/D65). 1927-75. 5 ln. ft., ca.8,500 items. Corr., 1927-75; 54 notebooks and diaries,ca.1917-75. Dobzhansky was one of the foremost population geneticists of this century. His studies on genetics and race, on race and behavior, on culture, cultural achievement, and genetics, on nature and nurture in human heredity, and on human evolution are extremely important for social biology and its relation to both cultural and physical anthropology. Particularly interesting are Dobzhansky's writings on the origin and significance of human races, and on anthropology and the natural sciences. The Dobzhansky papers include a manuscript copy of his last book, Human Culture: A Moment in Evolution (published posthumously in 1983); lectures on "Man in the Light of Evolutionary Biology;" correspondence with numerous scientists (Ashley Montagu, L. C. Dunn, Ernst Mayr, E. W. Caspari, Frederick Osborn, and many others) on social biology and race; and papers relating to symposia, books, articles, speeches, and research topics. There is also Dobzhansky correspondence in the M. Demerec, L. C. Dunn, E. W. Caspari, A. F. Blakeslee, Frederick Osborn, F. P. Rous, and related collections. See also the description in the Bentley Glass Guide to Genetics Collections.
Dunn, Leslie Clarence. 1893-1974.
Geneticist. Geneticist, Conn. Agricultural Station, Storrs, 1920-28; prof., zoology, Columbia Univ., 1928-62, emer. prof., 1963-74; director, Institute for the Study of Human Variation, 1952-58.
Correspondence, Mss.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 5 Aug. 1933 to 20 lan. 1941. 41 Ls. (26 to Boas, 15 to Dunn) + 15 Ls. to/fr. G. Breit, F. D. Fackenthal, E. R. Murrow, Mark van Doren, and others. Columbia Univ. affairs; Columbia Univ. Faculty Fellowship Fund Comm. for Displaced German Scholars.
Dunn, L.C. Papers (B/D917). ca.1915-1974. 18 ln. ft.,ca.12,500 pieces. Dunn was interested in the topic of race and wrote several books and papers on the subject. They include Heredity, Race and Society with Theodore Dobzhansky in 1946; Biology and Race in 1951; and Heredity and Evolution in Human Populations, 1958. His papers contain the manuscript for a 1960 revision of Race and Biology (sic); letters to Franz Boas, 13 June 1934 to 21 Oct. 1941, on the characteristics of races and genetic versus environmental factors ill the determination of population qualities; correspondence and notebooks concerning a genetic study of the Jewish community in Rome; personal correspondence (1945-55) with Gunnar Dahlberg, prof. of race biology, Uppsala, Sweden; and communication with Roger Pineau of the U. S. State Dept. regarding an UNESCO conference on the "Biological Aspects of Race" in 1964. There is extensive correspondence between Dunn and many of the foremost geneticists of this century on many topics. See also the description in the Bentley Glass Guide to Genetics Collections
Dupaix, Guillermo.
Military officer, traveller.
Ms.
Viages de... sobre las antiquedades mejicanas (913.72/D92v). A journal of an 1805 trip throughout Mexico to inventory monuments predating the Conquest. 2 vols. (1 of text, 1 of plates). Reprinted in Edward King, Antiquities of Mexico (1898).
DuPonceau, Peter Stephen. 1760-1844.
Lawyer, philologist. DuPonceau was an emigré to the American colonies in 1777, and served as an aide to Baron von Steuben in the War for Independence. In 1781 he was appointed secretary to Robert Livingston, Secretary for Foreign Affairs. After the declaration of peace, Du Ponceau took up law, specializing in matters of international law and trade. A life-long student of languages, DuPonceau took up the systematic study of American Indian languages while in Philadelphia. Much of his linguistic work was done under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society. He served the Society as councilor, from 1801-16; vice-president, 1816-27; and president, 1828-1844. See Murphy D. Smith, "Peter Stephen DuPonceau and his Study of Languages," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 127 (1983): 143-179.
Correspondence, Mss.
American Philosophical Soc. (Archives & Misc. Mss. Coll.). ca.1801 to 1844. Miscellaneous correspondence and mss., primarily concerning the research and functioning of the APS
... (Historical and Literary Committee Letterbooks). 1815 to 1826. Vols. 1-3. Historical and philological researches and publcs. of the Committee.
... Correspondence (B/D92p). 1786 to 1842. 9 Ls. (3 to DuPonceau, 6 to various correspondents). Correspondents include Samuel Coates, Citoyen Pinchon, Wm. Tilghman, Edward S. Burd, Dr. Demme, Mr. Popham. Philology and misc. topics.
... Correspondence with John G. E. Heckewelder (Film 1162). 1816 to 1822. 18 Ls. Indian languages.
... Indian Vocabularies (497/1n2). 1820 to 1844. 253 lvs. Comparative Amer. Indian vocabularies.
... Letters to Albert Gallatin (Film 541). 1 Feb. 1801 to 28 July 1843. 43 Ls. + 1 L. to Mrs. O'Sullivan. Law, property; philology.
... Philological Notebooks (410/D92). 1815 to 1834. 9 vols. Languages of Americas, Asia, Africa, Pacific.
Featherstonhaugh, George William. Correspondence from P.S. DuPonceau, John Vaughan, Mahlon Dickerson, and James Mease pertaining to the A.P.S. (B/F31). 1809-1823. Includes 10 Ls. from DuPonceau. Photocopies. Philology.
Heckewelder, John. Letters to Peter Stephen DuPonceau (497.3/H350). 3 April 1816 to 5 May 1822. 468 lvs. Indian languages.
Jefferson, Thomas. Letters to and from Various Persons; 1791-1840 (B/ J35Le). 7 Ls. to DuPonceau. Indian languages and misc. topics. Also L. to DuPonceau (973.4/135c) on 30 Dec. 1817. Indian langs.
Torrey, John. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, MAV Collection (Film 628). 1812 to 1843. 45 Ls. from various persons to DuPonceau. Philology; misc. subjects.
Vater, Severin. An Enquiry into the Origin of the Population of America (592.97/V45d). 1822. 184 lvs. Draft of a trans. of the 1810 original by DuPonceau.
Evans, Sir John. 1823-1908.
Archeologist, numismatist, businessman. A businessman by occupation, Evans dedicated his spare time to studies of the antiquity of man in Europe and to British numismatics. He was active in numerous learned societies, serving as president of the Geological Society, Society of Antiquaries, the Numismatic Society, the Anthropological Institute, the Egypt Exploration Fund, and the Society of Arts. Evans was elected to the Royal Society in 1864 and made a KCB in 1892.
Correspondence.
American Philosophical Society (Archives). 16 June 1888. L. to APS. Congress for an universal language.
...(Misc. Mss. Coll.). 38 March. L. fr. David Ansted. Geology and archaeology.
Letters of Scientists (509/L56.20). 18 Sept. 1873. L. to unknown individual. Prehistory.
Lyell, Charles. Papers (B/L981.33). 20 May 1865. L. to John Evans. Pubic; on Stonehenge.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan. 1902-1973.
Social anthropologist. Prof, sociology, Egyptian University (Cairo), 193033; Leverhulme Fellow, 1934-35;research lecturer, Oxford University, 1935-40, prof., social anthropology, 1946-73.
Correspondence.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 22 April 1947 to 16 July 1948. 3 Ls. To Mason. Amer. Anthropologist.
Farabee, William Curtis. 1865-1925.
Ethnologist, archeologist. Instructor, Harvard Univ., 1903-13; curator, American anthropology, University Museum, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 191j25. Farabee carried out important ethnological and archeological studies among the Indians of Peru, British Columbia, northern Brazil, and central Chile.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 18 Nov. 1919 to 29 Oct. 1921. 5 Ls. (3 to Boas, 2 to Farabee). Jour. of Physical Anthropologry; the American Anthropological Assn.; misc.
Davenport, Charles. Papers (B/D27). 13 April 1917 to 5 May 1917. 3 Ls. (2 to Davenport, 1 to Farabee). Friedrich Raetzel's anthropogeography and cultural variation.
Fewkes, J. Walter. 1850-1930.
Ethnologist, archeologist. Asst., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univ., 1881-89; ed., Jour. of Ethnology and Archeology, 1890-94; ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1895-1918, chief, 1918-28. Fewkes did much of his professional research on the archeology and ethnology of the Hopi Indians. He was instrumental in the exploration and repair of pueblo ruins, and was an assiduous collector of artifacts for the National Museum.
Correspondence .
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 24 March 1891 to 7 Nov. 1928. 207 Ls. (77 to Boas, 111 to Fewkes) + 19 Ls. to/fr. C. P. Bowditch, W. H. Holmes, F. M. Olbrechts, E. Sapir, H. E. Sargent, and N. Whymant. Southwest archeology and linguistics; Amer. Archeological Inst.; Anthropological Soc. of Washington; publcs.
Fortune, Reo Franklin. 1903-
Social anthropologist. Lecturer, social anthropology, Cambridge Univ. Specialist in Melanesian language and culture.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 14 July 1930 to 1 Oct. 1942. 67 Ls. (54 to Boas, 13 to Fortune). Omaha secret societies; Dobu ethnology; Chinese ethnography; social structure and behavior in Melanesia; linguistics; Margaret Mead; prof. employment; biological basis of social behavior. Included with the correspondence are manuscript copies of some of Fortune's papers, which he sent to Boas for comment.
Mason, John Alden. Papers (B/M384). 10 Sept. 1946 to 18 Oct. 1947. 5 Ls. (3 to Mason, 2 to Fortune). Publcs.
Mead, Margaret. "An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict" (B/B428.mx). Manuscript copy of correspondence not used in published version. Original in Vassar Lib. Corr. between Fortune and Benedict. 10 Jan. 1929 to 5 Jan. 1934. Dobu ethnology; Melanesian social behavior; publcs.
Fougeroux de Bondaroy, Auguste Denis. 1732-1789.
French naturalist. Elected to the AcadTmie des Sciences, 1758. Member of expedition that explored Herculaneum.
Ms.
"Recherches sur les ruines d'Herculanum" (913.377/F823). 1770. 232 lvs. Author's copy with marginalia and interposed notes.
Foulke, William Parker. 1816-1865.
Attorney, philanthropist, amateur geologist. Foulke had a broad interest in the promotion of scientific culture. Besides his exertions in geology and paleontology, he was interested in the history of the American Indians. His papers include essays on the history of the Indians and of Indian culture.
Correspondence, Mss.
Papers (B/F826). ca.1840 to 1865. 2 ln. ft. Papers on American Indians, including "Concerning American History" and "The Indians of Lancaster County." Amer. Indian history, ethnography.
Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics.
Manuscript material on American Indian linguistics and ethnography collected by the Committee on American Languages of the American Council of Learned Societies under the direction of Franz Boas (497.3/B63c). 1927-. ca.97 ln. ft. The Committee was organized in 1927 under the direction of Franz Boas and with initial funds from the Carnegie Foundation of New York. Its objective was to collect materials for the study of Indian languages and dialects, but manuscript sources in folklore and ethnography also were added. Most of the documents were collected between 1927 and 1937, but additions have been made up to the present. They include field notes, dictionaries, grammars, lexical files, and texts. An index (up to 1945) can be found in the "Supplement" to Language, Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, Vol. 21, No.3 (July-Sept., 1945), by C. F. Voegelin and Z. S. Harris. Individual entries, indexed by subject and author, are listed in John E. Freeman and Murphy D. Smith, A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia: APS, 1980), and Daythal Kendall, A Supplement to A Guide... (Philadelphia: APS, 1982). The collection includes manuscripts of M.I. Andrade, Franz Boas, Ella Deloria, Jaime de Angulo, Roland Dixon, Reo Fortune, Leo Frachtenberg, Pliny Goddard, Herman Haeberlin, George Herzog, George Hunt, Robert Lowie, Paul Radin, Gladys Reichard, Edward Sapir, Morris Swadesh, John Swanton, C. F. Voegelin, and others.
Frazer, Persifor. 1844-1909.
Geologist, chemist. Mineralogist and metallurgist, U.S. Geological Survey, 1869-70; instructor and professor, chemistry, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1870-1874; asst., Geol. Survey, Pennsylvania, 1874-82. Frazer was secretary of the American Philosophical Society, from 1896 to 1898. In this capacity, he corresponded with numerous authors about their contributions to the Society's Proceedings. A portion of this correspondence refers to papers on anthropology and archeology.
Correspondence.
American Philosophical Society (Archives). 10 April 1896 to 3 Dec. 1897. 13 Ls. to/fr. Frazer. Correspondents include Sara Yorke Stevenson, Frank Hamilton Gushing, Daniel Garrison Brinton. Publcs. on archeology, Indian langs. prehistory.
Gajdusek, D. Carleton. 1923-
Pediatrician, virologist, medical anthropologist. Senior resident pediatrician, Boston Children's Medical Center, 1949-52; senior investigator in infectious disease, Pasteur Institute, Iran, 1954-55; visiting investigator, Walter & Eliza Hall Inst. for Medical Research, Australia, 1955-57; chief, Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, NIH, 1958-. Gajdusek's research includes the study of evolution in isolated populations and disease patterns in primitive cultures. His field notebooks, from journeys in the Pacific, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, Australia, etc. are on deposit at the Library.
Mss.
Expedition Journals (B/G13j). 1953-83. 27 journals. 11" by 8.5". Photocopies of originals. Restricted access.
Gallatin, Albert. 1761-1849.
U. S. Representative, Soc. of the Treasury, diplomat, linguist. An immigrant to America in 1780, Gallatin later served as a representative in the U. S. Congress from western Pennsylvania, secretary of the treasury under Jefferson, and U.S. diplomatic representative abroad. Gallatin had a strong interest in the ethnology and linguistics of the American Indians. He was founder of the American Ethnological Society in 1842 and an important contributor to its Transactions.
Correspondence.
American Philosophical Society (Archives). 4 Feb. 1800 to 29 May 1845. 15 Ls. to/fr. Gallatin. Correspondents include John Vaughan and George Ord. Indian languages and grammar; misc.
... (Archives). 8 to 15 April 1826. Historical and Literary Comm. Letterbooks. 2 Ls. from Peter S. DuPonceau. National survey of Indian langs.
... (Misc. Mss. Coll.). 25 May 1807 to 28 May 1846. 5 Ls. fr. Gallatin. Correspondents include Lea & Blanchard, publishers; Robert Patterson; John Vaughan
Barton, Benjamin Smith. Papers (B/B284.d). L. to Gallatin. 14 March 1810. American Indian ethnography
DuPonceau, Peter S. Papers (B/D92p). 20 May 1826 to 12 Feb. 1839. 2 Ls. to DuPonceau. American Indian langs.
... Letters to Albert Gallatin (Film 541). 1 Feb. 1801 to 28 July 1843. 43 Ls. American Indian langs.; philology, philological publcs.
Humboldt, Alexander von. Letters (B/H88.1). 20 Iune 1804 to Aug. 1842. 14 Ls. fr. Humboldt. Photocopies. Various scientific topics, including American Indian languages.
Galton, Francis. 1822-1911.
Explorer, independent scientific writer and scholar, founder of eugenics. Galton was an important participant in the councils of 19th-century British science, and his writings on the inheritance of intellectual skills influenced many human biologists and physical anthropologists. In particular, Galton's researches into the comparative roles of human nature and nurture in shaping social behavior and achievement led to the founding of the eugenics movement.
Correspondence .
Davenport, Charles. Papers (B/D27). 6 April 1897 to 14 Oct. 1910. 12 Ls. (1 to Davenport, 12 to Galton). Correlation statistics; the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor.
Galton, Francis. Correspondence (B/G136.m). 20 Dec. 1873 to 22 June 1877. 9 Ls. fr. Galton. Correspondents include Hyde Clarke, H.G. Jebb, Mrs. Annie Procter, E.G. Ravenstein. Various scientific and personal topics; human intelligence and inheritance.
Moore, E.M. Autograph Collection (B/M781). 19 June 1899. L. from Galton to Miss Goodrich. Eugenics.
Paget, Sir James. Collection of Letters from Various Persons (B/P212). 27 Sept. 1873 to 5 Aug. 1898. 4 Ls. fr. Galton. Human memory; scientific men and inheritance of talent.
Gifford, Edward Winslow. 1887-1959.
Omithologist, anthropologist, museum curator. Asst. curator, ornithology, California Academy ofSciences, 1904-12; asst. curator, director, Museum of Anthropology, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1912-54; lecturer in anthropology, Univ. of California, 1920-38, assoc, prof., 1938-45, prof., 1945-1954; assoc. editor, Anzer. Anthropologist.
Correspondence, Ms.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 19 April 1929 to 2 Feb. 1931. 6 Ls. (3 to Boas, 3 to Gifford). Amer. Anthropologist.
Gifford, E.W. "Vocabulary in Five Yunan Languages." (497.3/B63c/H8.1) 1917. 1 lf.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 6 May 1927 to 8 March 1951. 21 Ls. (7 to Mason, 14 to Gifford) + 2 Ls. to/fr. Froelich G. Rainey and Linton Satterthwaite. Museum collcs; arch. excavations and collecting; verb lists; Amer. Anthropologist.
Gillespie, John D. ca.1930-
Ethnologist.
Correspondence, Mss.
Papers (497.3/G41). ca.1949-61. 1 ln. ft. Manuscripts, photographs, correspondence. Approx. 350 ms., 75 photographs, 75 newspaper clippings, 30 printed items.
Materials deal primarily with the Cherokee, but there are also some papers covering the Seminoles, Iroquois, and Sioux. Music; dance; linguistics; material culture; folklore; archeology; ceremonial behavior. Correspondents include George Herzog, A.R. Kelly, Gertrude Ruskin, W.W. Keeler, Floyd Lounsbury, Anthony Wallace, Ira Padelford, Gertrude Kurath, and others.
Gliddon, George Robbins. 1809-1857.
Egyptologist, controversialist. Gliddon was co-author of Types of Mankind (1854) with Josiah Nott and wrote several other essays on race and ethnology. While serving as American vice-consul in Cairo in the late 1830s and early 1840s, he collected skull specimens for S.G. Morton, described in the latter's published works.
Correspondence, Mss.
Gliddon, George R. Analecta Hieroglyphica (493.1/G491). 1839-41. 259 lvs. Reproductions and translations of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Morton, Samuel G. Papers (B/M843). 31 March 1839 to 24 May 1840. 2 Ls. to S. G. Morton. Egyptian craniology; skull collcs.
Goddard, Pliny Earle. 1869-1928.
Ethnologist. Instructor, anthropology, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1901-1906, asst. prof, 1906-09; asst. curator, anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1909-10, assoc. curator, 1910-14, curator, 1914-28; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univ., 1915-28.
Correspondence, Mss.
American Council of Learned Societies. Correspondence (506.73/ Am72co). 1926-27. 174 lvs. Subtitled "Project for a Survey of North American Indian Languages by T. Middletown, 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." Goddard was appointed chairman of the ACLS committee to investigate and report on Section L's proposal. The correspondence includes 5 letters from Goddard to Professor Edward C. Armstrong of the ACLS, between 1926 and 11 Feb. 1927. The committee report is also included.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 11 Dec. 1903 to 18 Nov. 1927. 116 Ls. (58 to Boas, 58 to Mason). Handbook of American Languages; Hupa linguistics; Amer. Archeol. Institute; Amer. Folklore Soc.; 23rd Int. Congress of Americanists; National Research Council; Columbia Univ. and the Amer. Museum of Nat. Hist.; museum exhibits, collcs; teaching; publcs.
Davenport, Charles. Papers (B/D27). 2 Dec. 1920 to 30 June 1921. 2 Ls. to Davenport. Amer. Anthro. Ass.; skulls.
Goddard, Pliny Earle. American Indian Linguistic Mss. (497.3/B63c/ Na(0.2-31.4). ca.1902-08. ca.112 notebooks, 80 lvs. of text, 512 lexical cards. Linguistic field notes on Chilula, Hupa, Kato, Mattole, Nongatl, Sinkyone, Tolowa, Wailaki, Whilkut. Lexical files on Apache languages.
Mason, John Alden. Papers (B/M384). 1 Jan. 1926 to 13 June 1928. 25 Ls. (13 letters to Mason, 12 to Goddard). 23rd. Congress of Americanists; museum collcs; arch.; publcs.
Goldenweiser, Alexander. 1880-1940.
Anthropologist. Asst., lecturer, and instructor, anthropology, Columbia Univ., 1910-19; lect., Rand School of Social Science, 1915-29; lect., New School for Social Research, New York, 1919-26; instr., sociology, Univ. of Oregon Extension, Portland, 1930-32, prof. of thought and culture, 1932-39.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 27 June 1905 to 2 Aug. 1937. 49 Ls. (24 to Boas, 25 to Goldenweiser) + 2 Ls. to/fr. F. W. Hedge. Iroquois culture and social structure; primitive law; totemism; race and culture; folklore; general ethnology; anthropometrics; Encycl. of the Social Sciences; employment; teaching; personal.
Graebner, Fritz. 1877-1934.
Ethnologist. Asst., Museum fuer Voelkerkunde, Berlin, 1899-1906; asst., Rautenstrauch-Joerst-Museum, Cologne, 1906-25. director, 1925-28.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 1 July 1912 to 4 July 1920. 6 Ls. (5 to Boas, 1 to Graebner). Folk psychology; culture circles; Australian and Pacific ethnology; science in post-WWI Germany.