Merriam, John C. (John Campbell), 1869-1945
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Clarence G. Campbell Collection
Collection
Identifier: CGC
Abstract
The Clarence G. Campbell Collection documents the career of Clarence G. Campbell, noted eugenicist and first president of the Eugenics Research Association. The collection consists of typescripts or reprints of articles, news clippings, ephemera, and letters.
Dates:
1923 - 1939
Found in:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives
Carnegie Institution of Washington at Cold Spring Harbor Administrative Records
Collection
Identifier: CIWA
Abstract
This collection contains the administrative records of the directors of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Station for Experimental Evolution (1904-1921) and its successor, the Department of Genetics (1921-1962), and its final institution, The Genetics Research Unit (1962-1974), which was opened in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, in 1904.
These records document the history of a 20th scientific research center and the development of a modern organizational structure through...
Dates:
1898 - 1977
Found in:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives
Charles B. Davenport Collection
Collection
Identifier: CBD
Abstract
The Charles B. Davenport Collection contains the papers of Davenport and those of his wife Gertrude Crotty Davenport. It consists of family, institutional, and scientific photographs, biographical material, memorabilia, correspondence, photocopies of his articles, and supporting material. It is divided into four record groups: Record Group I: Photographs; Record Group II: Biographical Material; Record Group III: Memorabilia; and Record Group IV: Supporting Material.
Dates:
1809 - 2005
Found in:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives
Retirement Dinner for John Campbell Merriam of the Carnegie Institution, 1938
File — Box 6: Series CBD/2, Folder: 14
Identifier: CBD/2/2/1
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Charles B. Davenport Collection is particulary rich in photographs, both family and scientific. Davenport began visiting the Cold Spring Harbor area in the 1890s, and its environs are the background of many of the photographs. There are nine photographs of Alexander Agassiz's Newport, Rhode Island laboratory, six of which are dated 1893 and three of which are undated, but which are likely of the same date. Of particular note in the collection are cabinet photographs, mostly of...
Dates:
1938
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- Collection 3
- Archival Object 1
- Subject
- Clippings (information artifacts) 3
- Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.) 3
- Correspondence 3
- Memorandums 3
- Pamphlets 2
- Photographs 2
- Reprints 2
- Accessions Registers 1
- Administration 1
- Administrative Records 1
- Autograph albums 1
- Bacteriophages 1
- Biology Scholarships, fellowships, etc. 1
- Blueprints 1
- Brooklyn (N.Y.) 1
- Cabinet photographs 1
- Checks (bank checks) 1
- Community relations 1
- Crotty family 1
- Davenport family 1
- Drawings 1
- Drosophila melanogaster 1
- Employee Fringe Benefits 1
- Employee Selection 1
- Eugenics 1
- Eugenics -- Periodicals 1
- Eugenics Research Association 1
- Exhibition catalogs 1
- Genetics 1
- Graduate students 1
- Grant Proposals 1
- Grants and funding 1
- Great Depression 1
- Harris family 1
- Journals (accounts) 1
- Laboratory Exhibitions 1
- Laboratory Notes 1
- Lantern slides 1
- Laurel Hollow (N.Y.) 1
- Leases 1
- Lectures and lecturing 1
- Ledgers (Account Books) 1
- Letter books 1
- Long Island (N.Y.) 1
- Manuscripts 1
- Manuscripts (document genre) 1
- Maps 1
- Minutes 1
- Penicillin--History 1
- Personnel Records 1
- Philanthropists 1
- Plant biology 1
- Polyploidy 1
- Program Budgeting 1
- Punched Cards 1
- Reports 1
- Science Publishing 1
- Science Study and teaching 1
- Students, Foreign 1
- Typescripts 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- indentures 1 + ∧ less
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