Professional Correspondence, 1927
Scope and Content
The Reginald Harris Collection consists of biographical documents, professional correspondence, and records of biological research expeditions spanning Central and South America and North Africa. It is divided into three series: Series I: Photographs, 1912-1933; Serires II:
Personal Papers, 1892-1998; Series III: Professional Papers, 1909-1940. Of note, the administrative records of the Long Island Biological Association contain information that relates to this collection.
The collection includes documents, college essays, research notebooks, scrapbooks, and photographs. Most of Harris's personal correspondence is to and from his family, with his brother, Rev. Malcolm Harris, being a major correspondent. Other personal correspondence is with scientists including J. Chester Bradley, and geneticists William E. Castle, George W. Corner, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and H. M. Parshley. There are two years (1924-1925) of Harris's correspondence for the Life Extension Institute, an agency founded to counsel prospective marriage partners on their genetic suitability for marriage.
Harris's professional correspondence is chiefly (though not exclusively) administrative after 1924; it has not been broken out into sent and received, as most of his letters are carbon copies.
The collection contains most of Harris's published writings both in manuscript form and as printed copies, as well as research that was not published. The large number of negatives and loose photographs from the Cornell Entomological Expedition to South America have been identified in this finding aid by markings on the envelopes in which they were held by Harris (numbered A1-D22).
The material from the Second Marsh-Darien Expedition in this collection is extensive. Among other things it includes hair clippings, glass lantern slides, a sheet of picture writing, a research notebook, and many photographs. The photographs, negatives, and lantern slides that are captioned are those that were seen and described by anthropologist James Howe. Howe's captions have been retained because of his knowledge of the Kuna and their history. There is no evidence in Howe's inventory (that accompanied his letter-of-gift) that he saw the Glenn Gift material that relates to this expedition before his donation.
Dates
- Creation: 1927
Creator
- From the Collection: Harris, Reginald G. (Reginald Gordon), 1898-1936 (Person)
- From the Collection: Harris de Tomasi, Jane Davenport, 1897-1984 (Person)
Language of Materials
Bulk of materials in English.
Access Restrictions
No restrictions apply. Access is given only by appointment, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Extent
From the Sub-Series: 31 folders
General
Letters in this folder include:
Jan. 7: Letter from R. C. Leffingwell to R.H. (New York, NY)
Jan. 15: Letter from R.H. to Catherine Brown, his secretary (Rochester, NY)
Jan. 19: Letter from Catherine Brown to R.H. (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
Jan. 25: Letter from Catherine Brown to R.H. (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
Jan. 27: Letter from Catherine Brown to R.H. (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
Jan. 28: Letter from Arthur M. Yudkin to R.H. (New Haven, CT)
Feb. 1: Letter from Catherine Brown to R.H. (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
Feb. 2: Draft of letter from R.H. to Arthur M. Yudkin (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
Feb. 3: Letter from Catherine Brown to R.H. (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
Feb. 8: Letter from Catherine Brown to R.H. (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
Feb. 16: Letter from Catherine Brown to R.H. (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
Feb. 18: Letter from Catherine Brown to R.H. (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
Feb. 23: Letter from Catherine Brown to R.H. (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
Feb. 24: Letter from S. F. Lawson (secretary to Mrs. Otto Kahn) to R.H. (New York, NY)
Feb. 28: Letter from A. A. Shaffer to R.H. (Lawrence, KS)
Mar. 1: Letter from Catherine Brown to R.H. (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
Mar. 3: Letter from R.H. to Catherine Brown (Rochester, NY)
Mar. 7: Postcard from Charles B. Davenport to R.H. (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
Mar. 7: Letter from E. B. Wilson to R.H. (Boston, MA)
Mar. 14: Letter from Nathaniel W. Faxon to R.H. (Rochester, NY)
Mar. 19: Letter of solicitation from Zeta Psi Fraternity to R.H. (New York, NY)
Mar. 25: Letter from J. L. Brakefield to the director of the Marine Biological Station, Cold Spring Harbor, NY (Birmingham, AL)
Apr. 8: Letter from Chas. A. Langill, secretary to Albert G. Milbank, to R.H. (New York, NY)
May 16: Letter from E. B. Wilson to Charles B. Davenport (New York, NY)
May 23: Letter from Phyllis Stanley to R.H. (Iowa City, IA)
May 24: Letter from Sam Woodley to R.H. (Nashville, TN)
May 24: Letter from E. B. Wilson to R.H. (New York, NY)
June 11: Letter from A. M. Banta to R.H. (Minneapolis, MN)
June 14: Corrected carbon of a memoranda to R.H. [from Charles B. Davenport?]
June 18: Letter from Ralph Muckenfuss to R.H. (New York, NY)
June 18: Letter from Halsey J Bagg to R.H. (New York, NY)
July 16: Telegram from Francis N. Balch to Charles B. Davenport (Boston, MA)
July 21: Letter from Francis N. Balch to R.H. (Boston, MA)
July 23: Letter from L. B. Arey to R.H. (Chicago, IL)
July 26: Memo from Henry Hicks to the Long Island Biological Association (S.l.)
July 29: Letter from J. F. Yeager, Jr. to R.H. (New York, NY)
Aug. 6: Letter from H. C. Bumpus to R.H. (Duxbury, MA)
Aug. 13: Letter from H. C. Bumpus to R.H. (Duxbury, MA)
Aug. 20: Letter from Le Roy C. Stegeman to R.H. (S.l.)
Aug. 23: Letter from W. A. Ellison, Jr. to Catherine Brown (Buxton, NC)
Aug. 27: Letter from S. A. Asdell l to R.H. (Rochester, NY)
Sept. 13: Letter from Helen M. Curtis, secretary, to John Lewis Bremer (Boston, MA)
Oct. 4: Letter from S. A. Asdell to R.H. (Rochester, NY)
Oct. 7: Letter from J. L. Bremer to R.H. (Boston, MA)
Oct. 11: Postcard from A. B. Wilson of the Anatomical Record to R.H. (Philadelphia, PA)
Oct. 13: Letter from the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology to R.H. (Philadelphia, PA)
Oct. 13: Letter requesting dues from the American Society of Zoologists to R.H. (Chicago, IL)
Oct. 14: Letter from A. Reinhard, Assistant to Dr. Dean, writing to R.H. in the absence of Bashford Dean (New York, NY)
Oct. 21: Letter from Isaiah Bowman to R.H. (New York, NY)
Oct. 24: Letter from S. J. Lawson, secretary to Mrs. Otto Kahn, to R.H. (New York, NY)
Nov. 13: Letter from Bashford Dean to R.H. (New York, NY)
Nov. 16: Letter from A. J. Goldfarb, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, to R.H. (New York, NY)
Nov. 22: Letter of election from the American Geographical Society to R.H. (New York, NY)
Nov. 25: Letter from Otto Kahn to R.H. (New York, NY)
Dec. 1: Signed memorandum from R.H. to Charles B. Davenport (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
Dec. 10: Letter from S. A. Asdell to R.H. (Cambridge, England)
Dec. 10: Letter from F. A. Crew to R.H. (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Dec. 12: Letter from Russell Leffingwell to R.H. (New York, NY)
Dec. 12: Letter from Magel C. Wilder to R.H. (Providence, RI)
Dec. 15: Postcard from Laurence H. Snyder to R.H. (Raleigh, NC)
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