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O'Flaherty, Edward M.
Institutionalization of the Catholic Church in the Americas: The case of colonial Guatemala, 1524-1563. 400 pp. Photocopy.

Doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1979.

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Olbrechts, Frans M. (1899-1959)
Belgian linguist and anthropologist.
Papers on the Iroquois Indians, ca. 1910-1930. 46 folders and volumes. In Flemish, French, and English.

Materials on the Onondaga, Tuscarora, Seneca, Cayuga, and Oneida Indians, collected under auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies' Committee on Native American Languages; included are field notes, grammars, dictionaries, studies of Handsome Lake religion, medical prescriptions, comparative linguistics, and some correspondence with Franz Boas.

Table of contents (2 pp.).

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Olby, Robert Cecil (1933- )
Historian
Collection, 1951-1963. 0.25 lin. ft. Photocopies.

The historian of science Robert C. Olby is a graduate of University College London and Oxford. Best known for his work on the history of genetics, especially the Bateson school, and for his study of the early history of molecular biology, Olby is currently a Research Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Origins of Mendelism (1966), Charles Darwin (1967), The Path to the Double Helix (1994), and the Norton History of Biology. His current research is focused on the conceptual foundations of modern sensory neurophysiology and an intellectual biography of Francis Crick.

The Olby Collection contains about 150 photocopies of correspondence and documents collected by Olby during research for The Path to the Double Helix. Among these is a copy of a manuscript by F. C. Crick and James D. Watson, "The Complementary Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid," prepared while at Cal Tech.

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

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Olitsky, Peter Kosciusko (1866-1964)
Pathologist.
Papers, 1917-1964. ca. 2,500 items.

Consists chiefly of materials relating to his work in developing vaccines for various viruses and bacteria encephalitides, typhus, rickettsioses, poliomyelitis, meningococcus, trachoma, etc. Also materials on intraperitoneal protection tests; records of experiments on production of intranuclear inclusions by means of chemicals; results of work by Dr. Harold R. Cox on viruses; medical research during World War II; and materials relating to the Rockefeller Institute. There are also corrected proofs of Viral Encephalitides (Springfield, Ill., 1958).

Correspondents include:

• Harold L. Amoss
• A. Ascoli
• Joseph W. Beard
• Alex Blumstein
• Detlev W. Bronk
• Gina Castelnuovo
• Harold R. Cox
• Geoffrey Edsall
• Simon Flexner
• Herbert S. Gasser
• H. C. Givens
• Frank L. Horsfall, Jr.
• Dorothy M. Horstmann
• E. Elizabeth Jones
• K. D. Leung
• Perrin H. Long
• Henry Makower
• Isabel M. Morgan
• Stuart Mudd
• Hideyo Noguchi
• F. F. Russell
• Albert B. Sabin
• Florence R. Sabin
• A. A. Sadow
• Walter Schlessinger
• Henry E. Sigerist
• Carl TenBroeck
• Augustus B. Wadsworth
• Kurt Wagener
• L. T. Webster
• Carl V. Weller
• George H. Whipple
• Ralph W.G. Wyckoff
• Robert H. Yager
• Hans Zinsser

Also described in Lily Kay, Molecules, Cells, and Life

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Olivier, Charles Pollard (1884-1975)
Astronomer.
Correspondence, 1915-1962. ca. 400 items.

This collection pertains almost exclusively to his interest in meteors. Generally there are only a few letters per person and for many only one. They include:

• Cleveland Abbe
• Igor S. Astapowitsch
• E.E. Barnard
• D. Moreau Barringer
• Harry F. Byrd
• Sydney Chapman
• Edwin G. Conklin
• Eric Doolittle
• John A. Fleming
• Edwin B. Frost
• Asaph Hall
• Gaylord P. Harnwell
• Lincoln La Paz
• Donald H. Menzel
• Felix de Roy
• Henry Norris Russel
• Frank Schlesinger
• Harlow Shapley
• Otto Struve

Table of contents (6 pp.).

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Olmsted, Denison (1791-1859)
Astronomer, scientist.
Notes taken from Olmsted's lectures on natural philosophy, Yale College, 1827-1829. 1 vol. (141 pp.).

These classroom notes, taken by an unidentified student, present the state of knowledge in natural philosophy, especially astronomy, during these years. There are mentions of many contemporary scientists, and much on Newton and Newtonian philosophy.

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Olson, Donald
Collector
Cheyenne stories, 1963-1964. Recording. 1 reel.

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Olson, Ronald Le Roy (1895- )
American Indian linguistic materials, n.d. Film. 1 reel.

From originals in the University of Washington libraries, Seattle.

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Opie, Eugene Lindsay (1873-1971)
Pathologist
Papers, ca. 1919-1971. 37 lin. ft.

Eugene Opie spent most of his career as a pathologist at the Rockefeller Institute engaged in research on the influenza, tuberculosis, blood diseases, poliomyelitis, and viruses. His work at Washington University, St. Louis, is documented, as are his efforts to alleviate tuberculosis in Jamaica, among Philadelphia schoolchildren, and in New York City.

The Opie collection contains correspondence, notebooks, lab notes from his days at Rockefeller, articles, reprints, and photographs. Opie's long interest in China is reflected in material on the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, the United China Relief, and Chinese medicine in general There is also significant documentation on the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, the Milbank Memorial Fund, and other institutions. There are also reports of approximately 300 clinical autopsies performed at the Base Hospital, Camp Pike, Ark., of soldiers who died in the flu epidemic of 1918. Also there are notes of Opie's course in pathology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Oppenheimer, Jane M. (Jane Marion) (1911-1996)
Embryologist, Historian of Science, APS 1980
Papers, 1936-1962. (0.25 lin. ft.).

The embryologist and historian of science Jane M. Oppenheimer was a graduate and long term member of the faculty at Bryn Mawr College. Her research centered on the early development of the killifish Fundulus heteroclitus and on the history of embryology.

The Oppenheimer Papers are a small collection consisting of Oppenheimer's correspondence with a small number of colleagues regarding her publications in the history of science and medicine and various other topics. With one exception, all letters in the collection are addressed to Oppenheimer.

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Ord, George (1781-1866)
Naturalist and philologist. APS 1817.
Collection, 1831-1864. 0.25 linear feet.

George Ord made important contributions as an ornithologist and writer but is also famous for his contempt of fellow ornithologist, John James Audubon. Ord devoted most of his scientific endeavors to the study of birds and mammals but also had a fascination for words. Throughout his life he published numerous articles of a scientific nature and assisted in the completion Alexander Wilson's life's work, American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Ord also left his mark as a member of the American Philosophical Society and as the president of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia. The George Ord collection consists primarily of outgoing personal correspondence to Charles Waterton ranging from 1831 to 1866 highlighting his professional as well as personal affairs most notably his hostility towards John James Audubon. The collection is supplemented by correspondence of Ord's to and from various individuals regarding personal and business matters.

Table of contents (4 pp.).

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Ord, George (1781-1866)
Naturalist and philologist. APS 1817.
Extracts from letters on John James Audubon. 1 vol. (75p.).

Extracts, chiefly in an unknown hand, from Ord's letters, 1831-1833, criticizing Audubon as a man and as a naturalist. Ord wrote the last part of the volume, and there are manuscript comments by Charles Waterton.

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Ord, George (1781-1866)
Naturalist and philologist. APS 1817.
Notes on the use of French verbs. 1 vol. (ca. 150 pp.).

Ord presented this volume to his cousin Gregory B. Keen.

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Ord, George (1781-1866)
Naturalist and philologist. APS 1817.
Letters to Titian R. Peale, 1844-1852. Film. 1 reel.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Ordway, John (ca. 1775-ca. 1817)
Explorer.
Journal, 1804-1806. 3 vols.

Kept on the Lewis and Clark expedition; edited by Milo M. Quaife and published in The Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Sergeant John Ordway, Kept on the Expedition of Western Exploration, 1803-1806 (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Collections 22 [1916]).

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O'Reilly, Henry
Collector
Selections from papers relating to the Six Nations, 1789-1820. Film. 1 reel.

From New-York Historical Society. Letters, bills, accounts, receipts, memoranda, official communications and documents relating to the Iroquois in New York state, selected from vols. 6-15 of O'Reilly's collection, "Mementos of western settlement." Many manuscripts appear to be from the papers of General Israel Chapin, Indian agent; and correspondents include:

• Joseph Brant
• Théophile Cazenove
• Moses Cleaveland
• Joseph Ellicott
• John Jay
• Henry Knox
• James McHenry
• Robert Morris
• Thomas Morris
• Oliver Philips
• Philip Schuyler
• John Sergeant, missionary

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Osborn, Frederick (1889-1981)
Administrator, humanist, scientist. APS 1948.
Papers, ca. 1903-1980. ca. 6,000 items. (9 lin. ft.).

Frederick Henry Osborn was an administrator, humanist, and scientist. This collection includes letters, diaries, reports, speeches, drafts of articles and books, oral history interviews, and photographs. There are diaries and letters for his service in Europe with the American Red Cross during World War I. There are some letters and documents, such as patent applications and plans for inventions, from his "business career" period prior to 1928, after which he became a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History studying anthropology and population. This study led to his later important contributions to the redirection of eugenics study in the U.S. and the reorganization of the American Eugenics Society. His other related organizational work and publications relating to human and population genetics are also documented in this collection.

There is significant material (letters, diaries, reports) related to Osborn's World War II contributions as the chairman of the Civilian Committee on Selective Service in 1940, and as head of the Morale Branch of the U.S. Army (later, the Information and Education Division of Special Services) in 1941. Also included are important documents, especially his diary, from his work as deputy representative on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the U.N. Commission for Conventional Armaments. His letters, writings, and speeches relating to foreign policy are extensive, spanning the period from the 1940s until his death, much of it from the Vietnam War years. The correspondence with Kathleen Harris is particularly rich in this respect. There is family correspondence reflecting his dynamic philosophy of life, with long series of letters to his parents (1917-1945) and to his children and grandchildren. His later civic and regional interests, as a long-time resident of Garrison, N.Y., are evidenced in the work he did on the Palisades Interstate Park Commission.

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Osterhout, Winthrop John Vanleuven (1871-1964)
Physiologist. APS 1917.
Papers, 1894-1961. ca. 2500 items. (3 lin. ft.).

Correspondence, drafts of papers, manuscript of an unpublished book, photographs, are contained in this collection. Osterhout, who was the editor of the Journal of General Physiology, worked primarily on the electrical conductivity of plant cells. His collection documents this, as well as his professional career at the University of California Berkeley, Harvard University, and the Rockefeller Institute.

The major correspondents are:

• Svante Arrhenius
• Lawrence Blinks
• Detlev Bronk
• Luther Burbank
• William J. Crozier
• Hugo de Vries
• Wallace O. Fenn
• Simon Flexner
• Herbert S. Gasser
• John H. Northrop
• George Howard Parker
• Harlow Shapley
• Theodore Shedlovsky
• Eduard Strasburger
• Benjamin L. Wheeler

Also described in Lily Kay, Molecules, Cells, and Life

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Owen, Sir Richard (1802-1892)
English naturalist. APS 1845.
Papers, 1827-1889. ca. 200 items.

Correspondence on natural history, especially mollusks, fishes, and birds, and on medicine and social affairs, with references to the British Museum of Natural History; with a paper by Owen on dinosaurs, and a synopsis of a course of lectures, 1857.

Correspondents include:

• Charles L. J. L. Bonaparte
• William Buckland
• Charles Buxton
• Philip Pearsall Carpenter
• Sir James Clark
• Sir William Fothergill Cooke
• Lady Mary Cooper
• Sir William White Cooper
• Thomas C. Eyton
• William Jackson Hooker
• Richard Hengist Horne
• William Holman Hunt
• Edwin Ray Lankester
• Sir John W. Lubbock
• Sir Charles Lyell
• Henri Milne-Edwards
• Roderick Impey Murchison
• Sir James Paget
• John Richardson
• Adam Sedgwick

Table of contents (5 pp.).

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Owen, Robert (1771-1858)
Socialist, philanthropist.
Correspondence, 1821-1858 Film. 1 reel.

From originals in the Library of the Co-operative Union Ltd., Manchester.

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