Department of Zoology records

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Identifier: 14-26-966

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes personnel files and records of applicants for positions, including correspondence of Howard D. Adelmann and letters and grade transcripts of applicants; information concerning fellowships, scholarships, and assistantships; examinations; student grade cards; reports; memoranda; news releases; inventory book of equipment; slides, photographs, and demonstration materials in the Zoology Department, and formulas and instructions for use in a zoological laboratory; seminar, conference, and committee records; report on room estimates for a new building, entitled "Space Requirements in Proposed New Animal Biology Building"; photographs of lampreys, eels, and toads; letters from Professor Edward Bradford Titchener to Professor Simon Henry Gage; a one volume record of zoological specimens, including a partial list of the brain collection of Burt Green Wilder; and other records of the Cornell Zoology Department. Also includes material pertaining to buildings and grounds, the University Policy Committee, the National Science Foundation, and other topics.

Dates

1873-1965.

Creator

Cornell University. Department of Zoology (Organization)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

13 cubic feet. (13 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Includes personnel files, records, photographs, inventories and other departmental records.

RELATED MATERIALS

See also the Burt Green Wilder papers, #14-26-95, http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/EADresolver?id=RMA00095

See also the Albert Hazen Wright papers, #14-26-1382, http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/EADresolver?id=RMA01382

Physical Description

Correspondence, photographs, printed material, publications.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: RMC Staff
Date completed:: June 2012
EAD encoding:: RMC Staff, June 2012Anne Jones, January 2013
Date modified:: Marcie Farwell, July 2018