| 1 | Creator: | Breton, Adela, 1849-1923 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Adela C. Breton Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1915-1923 | | | | Abstract: | Having inherited a fortune from her father, the middle-aged Adela C. Breton (1849-1923) began to indulge her interest in travel and archaeology. Between 1894 and 1908, Breton took thirteen excursions to the Mayan archaeological sites in Yucatan, Mexico, researching the artwork and producing valuable watercolor paintings of the ruins. She died in 1923, during a trip to attend the International Congress of Americanists in Rio de Janeiro.
The Breton Papers consist of one hundred letters written by Adela Breton to her friend and relative Ella Lewis of Philadelphia. Although they offer little insight into Breton's archaeological interests, they do provide a glimpse of her personality and her opinions on everything from American immigration law to the First World War, the malice of Germans, and her experiences traveling in western Canada. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B754 | | | | Extent: | 0.1 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Breton, Adela, 1849-1923 | Canada--Description and travel. | Lewis, Ella | Women archaeologists | World War, 1914-1918 | |
| 2 | Creator: | Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Walter Sydney Adams Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1881-1939 | | | | Abstract: | An expert in stellar spectroscopy, Walter Sydney Adams (1876-1956, APS 1915) made important empirical contributions to the analysis of the physical conditions of stellar and planetary atmospheres, determining the distances to extragalactic objects, and understanding stellar evolution. Adams succeeded his mentor George Ellery Hale as director of the Mount Wilson Observatory, serving in that capacity from 1923 to 1946.
The Adams Papers contains approximately 100 letters addressed to the astronomer Walter Sydney Adams, dating primarily from the period after his move to Mount Wilson Observatory in 1904. Much of the correspondence is relatively perfunctory, however a few letters include interesting scientific content, including Harlow Shapley discussing his photometric study of HV 3435 and interest in Alpha Circini, Arthur Compton's comments on Keener's photoelectric method, Svante Arrhenius on the possibilities of constructing a new observatory for the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Arthur Eddington discussing the implications of the spectrum of the companion to Sirius. Among Adams' other correspondents are J. C. Kapteyn, James H. Jeans, Henry Norris Russell, Elihu Thomson, and Willem de Sitter. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Ad19 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956 | Astronomical spectroscopy. | Astronomy | Mount Wilson Observatory. | St. John, Charles Edward, 1857-1935 | Thomson, Elihu, 1853-1937 | Turner, H. H. (Herbert Hall), 1861-1930 | World War, 1914-1918 | |
| 3 | Creator: | Bateson family | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Bateson Family Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1829-1940 | | | | Abstract: | One of the principle figures of turn of the century anti-Darwinian evolutionism, William Bateson (1861-1926) was a professor at Cambridge University for 23 years before leaving to become first director of the John Innes Horticultural Institute (1910-1926). Developing a unique "vibratory theory" of organismal variability during the 1890s that envisioned evolutionary change as a discontinuous process, Bateson became well known as the first English advocate of the recently rediscovered theories of Gregor Mendel.
For a man inclined to drama and disputation in science, it was Bateson's family life that took on the airs of Greek tragedy. The two linear feet of correspondence, diaries, and photographs that comprise the Bateson Family Papers provide valuable insight into the social milieu of the Batesons and their decidedly unorthodox upper middle class academic life, as well as their responses to the tragic deaths of two of their sons. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.2 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bateson , Beatrice | Bateson, William, 1861-1926 | Biographical and personal data -- Bateson family | Biographical and personal data -- Bateson, William N. | Cambridge University | Charterhouse School, Godalming, England | Durham, Florence | Genetics--Great Britain | Lepidoptera--Great Britain | Natural history--Great Britain | Photographs | Poetry | Rugby School | Suicide | World War, 1914-1918 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Houston, Henry Howard, II, 1895-1918 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Henry Howard Houston, II Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1903-1918 | | | | Abstract: | Henry Howard Houston II (1895-1918) was the son of a prominent Philadelphia family, the Houstons. He enjoyed a privileged upbringing, graduating from Chestnut Hill Academy in 1912 and from the University of Pennsylvania in 1916. Upon his graduation date, he enlisted in Battery C of the First Field Artillery, Pennsylvania National Guard, and was sent to the Texas and New Mexico borders in response to Pancho Villa's raids from Mexico. In January 1917, he volunteered with the American Field Ambulance Service in France during World War I, stationed near Verdun, where he was constantly under fire when performing his duty to pick up wounded soldiers from the trenches. Henry took a commission to serve with the French Army and enrolled in its transportation school. The French government awarded him the Croix de Guerre for gallantry under fire. When the U.S. entered the war, Henry resigned his commission in the French army and rejoined his Pennsylvania National Guard unit, the 53rd Field Artillery Brigade, 28th Division. He returned to the U.S., and received training as an aerial observer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. It seems that, in early 1918, he returned a second time to France. In August 1918, German bombing squadrons attacked nightly, and Henry, then a lieutenant and personal aide to General Price, was killed south of Arcis-le-Ponsart while returning from an air field. He was 23. The bulk of this eight linear feet collection reflects Henry's personal life as a son, soldier, friend and lover, during the last three years of his life 1916 to 1918. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.76.17 | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Battlefields--France--Rheims | Battlefields--France--Verdun | Belgium | Houston, Henry Howard, II, 1895-1918 | Maps | Pennsylvania. National Guard. Infantry Division, 28th.. -- Correspondence | Philadelphia. Citizens | United States. Army--History--Punitive Expedition into Mexico, 1916 | United States. Army--History--World War, 1914-1918 | World War I -- France | World War I -- Germany | World War, 1914-1918 | World War, 1914-1918 --Regimental histories --United States --28th (Iron) division | World War, 1914-1918--France | World War, 1914-1918--Regimental histories--United States | |
| 5 | Creator: | Rivers, Thomas M.(Thomas Milton),1888-1962. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Thomas M. Rivers Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1887-1963 | | | | Abstract: | The bacteriologist and virologist Thomas Milton Rivers spent over thirty years at the Rockefeller Institute as a researcher in the Department of Bacteriology and from 1937-1955, as Director. Working on measles and pneumonia, Rivers discovered the parainfluenzae bacillus and cultivated vaccine virus for human use, and during the 1950s, he played an important role in coordinating research on poliomyelitis as head of the National Institute for Infantile Paralysis. During the Second World War, Rivers led the Naval Medical Research Unit in the South Pacific, rising to the rank of Rear Admiral.
The Rivers Papers contains correspondence, laboratory notes, speeches, and photographs documenting Rivers' activities at the Rockefeller Institute, the development of polio vaccine, and Rivers' Navy experience in the Pacific during World War II. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R52 | | | | Extent: | 10.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Medical Association. | Atomic bomb--Japan--Nagasaki-shi | Bayne-Jones, Stanhope, 1888-1970 | Berry, George Packer, 1898- | Bronk, Detlev W., (Detlev Wulf), 1897-1975 | Cannon, Walter B., (Walter Bradford), 1871-1945 | Chesney, Alan M., (Alan Mason), 1888-1964 | Chinard, Francis P., 1918- | Cohn, Alfred E., (Alfred Einstein), 1879-1957 | Cole, Rufus Ivory, 1872-1966 | Corner, George Washington, 1889-1981 | Dubos, René J. (René Jules), 1901- | Flexner, Simon, 1863-1946 | Gasser, Herbert Spencer, 1888-1963 | Hershey, A. D., (Alfred Day), 1908- | Jackson, Robert H. | Laboratory notes | Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924 | Long, Esmond R., (Esmond Ray), 1890- | Medical administration | Medical sciences | Medicine, Military | National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. | O'Connor, Basil, 1892-1972 | Photographs | Poliomyelitis--Research | Poliomyelitis--Vaccination | Rivers, Thomas M.(Thomas Milton),1888-1962. | Rockefeller Institute. Hospital | Rous, Peyton, 1879-1970 | Sabin, Albert B., (Albert Bruce), 1906- | Speeches. | United States. Navy. Naval Medical Research Unit II | Virology | Welch, William Henry, 1850-1934 | World War, 1914-1918 | World War, 1939-1945 | |
| 6 | Creator: | Robertson, O. H. (Oswald Hope), 1886-1966 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | O. H. (Oswald Hope) Robertson Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1917-1969 | | | | Abstract: | A physician and naturalist, Oswald Hope Robertson worked at the Rockefeller Institute, the Peking Union Medical College, and at the medical school of University of Chicago (1927-1951). With a broad range of research interests, Robertson contributed important work on the transmission of pneumonia, the disinfection of air with glycol vapors, and later in his career, on the physiology and ecology of salmonid fishes. He is best remembered, however, as the creator of the first blood bank, established for use by British and American forces during the First World War.
The Robertson Papers contain correspondence, notes, articles, and notebooks on many of Robertson's major research interests, including his work on blood. His early work on salmonid ecology is represented in a journal and eleven notebooks stemming from fieldwork in the lakes of the Wind River Range in northwestern Wyoming, 1942-1951. There is also interesting material on the Research Corporation (New York City) concerning patents on glycol vapors and air sterilizers, as well as notes and manuscripts of papers on morphine experiments, canine pneumococcus, bacteremia, and the effects of hydrocortisone. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R546 | | | | Extent: | 7.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Articles | Bacteremia. | Bayne-Jones, Stanhope, 1888-1970 | Biology | Blake, Francis Gilman, 1887-1952 | Blood banks -- France -- 1914-1918. | Castle, William B., (William Bosworth), 1897- | Cole, Rufus Ivory, 1872-1966 | Disinfection and disinfectants. | Dogs--Diseases | Ecology. | Fishes | Graeser, James B. | Hydrocortisone | Lakes--Wyoming | Loosli, Clayton G., 1905-1976 | Medical sciences | Medicine--Research | Minot, George Richards, 1885-1950 | Morphine | Mudd, Stuart, 1893- | Noguchi, Hideyo, 1876-1928 | Notebooks | Notes | Park, Edwards A., (Edwards Albert), 1877-1967 | Pathology | Peking Union Medical College | Pneumonia | Puck, Theodore T., (Theodore Thomas), 1916-2005 | Research Corporation | Robertson, O. H. (Oswald Hope), 1886-1966 | Rockefeller University. | Rous, Peyton, 1879-1970 | Salmonidae--Research | Smillie, Wilson George, 1886-1971 | University of Chicago. | Van Slyke, Donald Dexter, 1883-1971 | Wind River Range (Wyo.) | World War, 1914-1918 | |
| 7 | Creator: | Robbins, William Jacob, 1890-1978 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Jacob Robbins papers, 1896-1974
| | | | Dates: | 1896-1974 | | | | Abstract: | William Jacob Robbins (1890-1978, APS 1941) was a botanist and physiologist. From 1937 to 1957 he was director of the New York Botanical Garden. His research focused on culture methods of plants in relation to biochemistry and nutrition, especially on the synthetic abilities of fungi. His studies paralleled the scientific agenda of the Rockefeller Foundation, an agency with which he was closely associated for years as adviser and trustee. He was perhaps the most influential botanist in the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) during the early postwar era, and a principal participant in the plans for the global reconstruction of science. Robbins served as president of the American Philosophical Society from 1956 to 1959. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R538 | | | | Extent: | 4.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agricultural ecology. | Agriculture -- Japan. | American Philosophical Society. | Animal Medical Center (U.S.). | Appleman, Charles Orval, 1878- [from old catalog] | Beadle, George Wells, 1903-1989 | Berkner, Lloyd Viel, 1905-1967 | Blakeslee, Albert Francis,1874-1954. | Botany. | Bronk, Detlev W., (Detlev Wulf), 1897-1975 | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Cleland, Ralph E., (Ralph Erskine), 1892-1971 | Coolidge, William David, 1873- | Diaries. | Drinker, Henry S., (Henry Sturgis), 1850-1937 | Du Pont, Henry Francis, 1880-1969 | Enders, John F. | Fackenthal, Frank Diehl, 1883-1968 | Greenleaf, Lewis S., Jr. | Gregg, Alan, 1890-1957 | Harrison, Ross G., (Ross Granville), 1870-1959 | India -- Description and travel. | Ingraham, Mark Hoyt, 1896- | Japan -- Description and travel. | Jewett, Frank B. (Frank Baldwin), 1917- | Lecture notes. | Lectures. | Lehigh University. | Livingston, Burton E., (Burton Edward), 1875-1948 | Lloyd, John T. | Merrill, Elmer Drew, 1876-1956 | National Academy of Sciences. (U.S.) | National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Research in Problems of Sex. | New York Botanical Garden. | Northrop, John Howard, 1891-1987 | Notebooks. | Photoprints. | Plant physiology. | Plants. | Richards, Alfred N.(Alfred Newton),1876-1966. | Robbins, William Jacob, 1890-1978 | Rockefeller Foundation. | Schramm, Jacob R., (Jacob Richard), b. 1885 | Smith College. Genetics Experiment Station. | Tropical plants. | True, Rodney H.(Rodney Howard), 1866-1940 | University of Missouri. | Waterman, Alan Tower, 1892-1967 | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964 | World War, 1914-1918. | Zwemer, Raymund L., (Raymund Lull), 1902- | |
| 8 | Creator: | Swann, William Francis Gray, 1884-1962 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Francis Gray Swann Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1903-1962 | | | | Abstract: | The physicist W.F.G. Swann was a pioneer in high energy physics and the study of cosmic rays. Climbing the academic ranks from the University of Sheffield to the Universities of Minnesota, Chicago, and Yale, Swann was selected as the first director of the Bartol Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute in 1927, and remained there until his retirement in 1959. An able administrator and excellent mentor, he was best known for his popular work on the new physics, The Architecture of the Universe (1934) and for his research on cosmic rays. Avocationally, he was an accomplished cellist and in addition to performing, he helped organize and support the Swarthmore Symphony Orchestra and other local groups. He died at his home in Swarthmore in 1962.
The Swann Papers consist of 41 linear feet of correspondence, class notes, lectures, and photographs documenting Swann's career at the Bartol Research Foundation from 1927 until the end of his life. The collection is wide ranging, touching on atmospheric electricity, particle acceleration, atomic bomb defense, atomic energy, electrets, electrodynamics, magnetism, music, quantum theory, radiation, relativity and Einstein, science and civilization, stratospheric flights (by balloon and airplane), thermodynamics, psychic science, and wave mechanics. It is particularly rich for study of the history of cosmic ray research and the Bartol Institute, and for study of the popularization of modern physical sciences. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sw1 | | | | Extent: | 41.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Alexanian, Diran, 1881-1954 | Atomic bomb | Bainbridge, Kenneth T. | Bartol Research Foundation | Bauer, L. A. (Louis Agricola), 1865-1932 | Beams, Jesse W., (Jesse Wakefield), 1898-1977 | Briggs, Lyman J. , (Lyman James), 1874-1963 | Casals, Pablo, 1876-1973 | Cattell, Jacques, 1904-1960 | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Chatterjee, S. D. | Civil defense--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Clamer, G. H. | Clevenger, S. J. | Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962 | Compton, K. T., (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 | Cosmic rays. | Danforth, William E. | Darrow, Karl K., (Karl Kelchner), 1891-1982 | Ehrenhaft, Felix, 1879- | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 | Eisenberg, Maurice | Eisenhart, Luther Pfahler, 1876- | Erikson, Henry A. (Henry Anton), 1869- | Federer, Charles Anthony, 1909- | Frazer, John A. | Gibbs, J. Willard (Josiah Willard), 1839-1903 | Hess, Victor Francis, 1883- | Hudspeth, Emmett L | Jackson, William F. | Johnson, Thomas H. | Kelly, Mary Isabel | Korff, Serge Alexander, 1906- | Laboratory notes | Lark-Horovitz, K., (Karl), 1892-1958 | Liddell, Urner | McDonald, Ellice, 1876- | McGiffert, James | Motion pictures | Music | Particles (Nuclear physics) | Payne, Melvin M. | Pepinsky, Abe | Pfeiffer, Robert Charles | Photographs | Physics--Study and teaching | Piccard, Jean | Polnauer, Frederick F. | Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972 | Sound recordings | Stromberg, Gustaf, 1882- | Students' notes | Swann, William F. | Swann, William Francis Gray, 1884-1962 | Swarthmore College | Tate, John Torrence, 1889-1950 | Temple University. Department of Physics | Trinity College of Music | Tutwiler, Carrington C. | United States. Navy. | University of Pennsylvania. Moore School of Electrical Engineering | Violoncello | World War, 1914-1918 | Zanstra, H. (Herman) | |
| 9 | Creator: | Osborn, Frederick, 1889-1981 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Frederick Henry Osborn Papers
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1903-1980 | | | | Abstract: | 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. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.24 | | | | Extent: | 8.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Eugenics Society | American Eugenics Society. | Atomic Energy Commission | Atomic bomb | Behavioral genetics, IQ | Biographical and personal data | Brown, Newell Kay, 1932- | Burden, Douglas | Business | Capra, Frank, 1897-1991 | Civilian Committee on Selective Service | Conference on Population (1st: 1968: Princeton, N.J.) | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Diaries. | Dobzhansky, Theodosius | Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 | Eugenics | Galton, Francis | Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986 | Harris, Kathleen | History of biology, especially genetics | Human Genetics Society of America | Human genetics | Human genetics -- Race | Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 | International Congress of Human Genetics | Inventions | Lectures, public speaking | Lectures, public speaking -- Radio broadcasts | Lewontin, Richard Charles | Lindbergh, Charles A., (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 | MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964 | Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959 | Nuclear weapons | Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 | Oral histories | Osborn, Frederick, 1889-1981 | Osborn, William Church, 1862-1951 | Palisades Interstate Park Commission. | Parks--New York | Photographs | Poetry and literature | Political issues | Political issues -- United States | Population genetics | Population, demography | Publication | Publication -- Eugenical News | Publication -- Social Biology | Radiation genetics | Reviews | Rockefeller, John D., (John Davison), 1874-1960 | Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979 | Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 | Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 | Rusk, Dean, 1909- | Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Solicitations for support or contribution | Speeches. | Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 | U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. | United Nations. Commission for Conventional Armaments | United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953 | United States. Army. Information and Education Division | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Vance, Cyrus R. (Cyrus Roberts), 1917- | Vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 | World War I -- Impact on science | World War II -- Dachau | World War II -- Impact on science | World War, 1914-1918 | World War, 1939-1945 | |
| 10 | Creator: | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1880-1980 | | | | Abstract: | Elsie Clews Parsons (1875-1941) was trained as a sociologist at Columbia University, but made her greatest achievements in the fields of anthropology and folklore. Parsons' early works in the field of sociology dealt primarily with gender roles, conventions of society, and the effect of society's pressures on the individual. After a trip to the American Southwest with her husband in 1910, Parsons' interests turned to anthropology. She began making field trips to Arizona and New Mexico and, under the influence of her friend Franz Boas, Parsons recorded in meticulous detail data on social organization, religious practices, and folklore of the Southwest Indians. Concurrently, Parsons conducted research in folklore, concentrating on folk tales of Afro-Americans and Caribbean peoples. She was active in a number of professional associations and was the associate editor of the
Journal of American Folklore from 1918 until her death.
The Parsons Papers were acquired as two separate accessions and remains organized in two distinct subcollections. Subcollection I (572 P35), acquired in 1949, contains approximately 12 linear feet of materials focused on Parsons' career in anthropology. Subcollection II, acquired in 1985, consists of 26.25 linear feet of materials divided into ten series, covering a larger scope of Parsons' life, including family and personal correspondence. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.29 | | | | Extent: | 38.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Anthropological Association. | American Folklore Society. | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Balch, Ernesto | Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon), 1901-1985 | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 | Birth control. | Blacks--Jamaica--Folklore | Boardman, Ruth | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bourne, Randolph | Bovey, Charles | Brice, Kirkpatrick | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898- | Camody, Mary | Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-1961 | Culture, community, organizations | Day, Clarence | Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 | Eggan, Fred, 1906-1991 | Feminism. | Fitz, Reginald | Folklore | Folklore--Jamaica | Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911 | Gelatin silver prints | Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928 | Goldenweiser, Alexander, 1880-1940 | Greece--Description and travel--20th century | Hackett, Francis | Hallowell, A. Irving , (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Hare, Peter | Herskovits, Melville J. , (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 | Hopi Indians | Hughes, Larry | Illustrations. | Indians of Central America | Indians of Mexico | Indians of North America--Arizona | Indians of North America--British Columbia | Indians of North America--New Mexico | Indians of South America--Ecuador | Isleta Indians | Johnson, Alvin | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kroeber, A. L., (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Kwakiutl Indians | La Farge, G. Grant | La Farge, Oliver, 1901-1963 | Law, George | Lewis, Margaret | Looking Elk, Albert | Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957 | Luhan, Mabel Dodge | Nitrate negatives | Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-1996 | Pacificism | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 | Parsons, John E. | Peace movements--20th century | Phillipine Islands--Description and travel--20th century | Pueblo Indians | Quechua Indians | Redfield, Robert, 1897-1958 | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Sketches. | Southwest Indians | Spier, Leslie | Stephen, Alexander M. | Taft, William Howard, 1857-1930 | Taos Indians | Tewa Indians | Thompson, Stith | Titiev, Morris | True, Clara | University of California, Berkeley. Anthropology Department. | Watercolors | White, Leslie A. | World War, 1914-1918 | Young, George | Zuni Indians | |
| 11 | Creator: | Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Raymond Pearl Papers
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1895-1940 | | | | Abstract: | Raymond Pearl spent the majority of his academic career (1918-1940) at Johns Hopkins University, where he was Professor of Biometry and Vital Statistics and Director of the Institute of Biological Research. Founder of the
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Human Biology, he made significant contributions in the areas of biology, genetics, eugenics, and statistics. The Pearl Papers includes correspondence as well as notebooks, scrapbooks, diplomas, photographs, and 33 volumes of diaries. There is significant correspondence with his wife, Maud (ca. 500 letters), and mother, Ida May (ca. 300 letters), particularly for the years 1895-1934. Of special note is Pearl's correspondence with his friend, colleague, and fellow Baltimoreian, H. L. Mencken (ca. 500 letters). The collection contains important information on the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, The Baltimore
Sun, the Birth Control Federation of America, Dartmouth College, the International Institute of Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, and the National Academy of Sciences. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P312 | | | | Extent: | 19.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Academic freedom | Aeronautics | American Association of Physical Anthropologists. | American Philosophical Society | Anthropology | Anthropology -- Anthropometry | Ants | Baker, William E., Jr. | Baltimore Sun | Behavioral genetics, IQ | Bell, James F. | Berkson, Joseph, 1899- | Bernard, Léon, b. 1877 | Bibliographical matters | Biochemistry and organic chemistry | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Dublin, Louis I. | Biographical and personal data -- Fisher, Ronald Aylmer | Biographical and personal data -- Pearson, Karl | Biographical and personal data -- Wilson, Edwin Bidwell | Biological Survey of the Great Lakes | Biology | Biology publishing | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Biology--Periodicals | Biometry | Birth Control Federation of America. | Birth control. | Botany and plant genetics | Business | Business -- Williams and Wilkins Company | Campbell, James A., 1917- | Cancer, chemotherapy | Climate -- Arctic Ocean | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Columbia University | Committee activities | Committee activities -- Advisory board | Committee activities -- Population, demography | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Cox, Eugene A. | Culture, community, organizations | Cytogenetics | Dartmouth College | Dartmouth College | Deafness | Diaries. | Displaced German scholars | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | Drosophila genetics | East, Edward M., (Edward Murray), 1879-1938 | Ecology | Economics | Editorial matters | Editorial matters -- Human Biology | Editorial matters -- Quarterly Review of Biology | Educational matters | Embree, Edwin R., (Edwin Rogers), 1883-1950 | Embryology, developmental genetics | Eugenics | Evolution | Evolution (Biology) | Evolution -- Scopes trial | Fellowships, assistantships | Fisher, Arne | Galton Laboratory | Genetics | Genetics -- Cattle | Genetics -- Disease resistance | Gini, Corrado | Gini, Corrado, 1884- | Graduate study | Graduate study -- University of Michigan | Greenwood, Major, 1880- | Harrison, Ross G., (Ross Granville), 1870-1959 | Harvard University | Harvard University -- Bussey Institute | Harvard University -- Pearl, Raymond | History of biology, especially genetics | Hitler, Adolph | Honors | Honors -- Chinard, Gilbert | Honors -- Hrdlicka, Ales | Honors -- Pearl, Raymond | Howard University | Human evolution | Human evolution, physical anthropology | Human evolution, physical anthropology -- Race | Human genetics | Indiana University--Patten Lectures | International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Science -- Committee on Standardization of Technique of Anthropometry | International Congress of Eugenics -- Second Congress | International Congress of Genetics -- Fifth Congress | International Congress of Genetics -- Seventh Congress | International Statistical Institute. | International Union for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems | Invitations | Johns Hopkins University | Johns Hopkins University -- Institute for Biological Research | Jones, Bassett, 1877-1960 | Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station | Korzybski, Alfred | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Lectures, public speaking | Maine Agricultural Experiment Station | Mallet, Bernard, Sir | Massachusetts Department of Agriculture | Medical research | Mencken, H. L., (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 | Meyer, Adolf | Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945 | Mouse genetics | National Academy of Sciences | National Academy of Sciences. (U.S.) | National Research Council | Needham, Joseph | Pearl, Ida May McDuffee | Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940 | Pearson, Karl | Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936 | Philosophy of science | Physiology | Physiology -- Alcohol, tobacco | Physiology -- Longevity | Poetry and literature | Political issues | Political issues -- Birth control | Political issues -- Sterilization | Population biology | Population genetics | Population, demography | Poultry genetics | Protozoan genetics | Protozoology | Publication | Publication -- Baltimore Sun | Publication -- Biological Abstracts | Publication -- Dial | Publication -- Encyclopedia Britannica | Publication -- Human Biology | Publication -- Journal of Experimental Zoology | Publication -- Quarterly Review of Biology | Race, race relations, racism | Recommendations | Recommendations -- Gause, Georgii Frantsevitch | Recommendations -- LeBlanc, Thomas J. | Recommendations -- Park, Thomas | Recommendations -- Weinstein, Alexander | Referee's report | Requests for aid in finding positions | Research support | Reviews | Reviews -- Flexner, Simon | Reviews -- Gowen, John W. | Ritter, William Emerson, 1856-1944 | Rockefeller Foundation | Russell, E. S. (Edward Stuart), 1887-1954 | Russian politics and science | Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966 | Saturday Night Club | Science publishing. | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Agendas | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Committees | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Finances | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Minutes | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Newsletters | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Statutes | Scientific refugees | Shull, George Harrison | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Solicitations for support or contribution | Statistics | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics -- Japan | Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 | Stopes, Marie C. | Sweeney, James Shirley, 1896- | Teaching | Teaching -- Johns Hopkins University | Teaching -- University of London | Teaching -- University of Michigan | The Quarterly Review of Biology. | Thomas, Charles C., 1925- | Travel -- Europe | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- Japan | United States Fish Commission | University of Iowa | University of Maine | University of Michigan | University of Pennsylvania | University of Wisconsin | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Walcott, Frederic Collin, 1869-1949 | Wheeler, William Morton | Wheeler, William Morton, 1865-1937 | Wildlife management | Willcox, Walter Francis, 1861-1964 | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964 | World War I -- Food Administration | World War I -- Impact on science | World War II -- Impact on science | World War, 1914-1918 | Yale University | Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956 | Zea (maize) genetics | Zoology | Zoology -- Animal behavior | |
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