Ross Granville Harrison papers, 1820-1975 (inclusive), 1889-1959 (bulk) [Text]
- Title:
- Ross Granville Harrison papers, 1820-1975 (inclusive), 1889-1959 (bulk)
- Creator:
- Harrison, Ross Granville
- Summary:
- Resource type: Archival collection
The papers consist of correspondence, administrative and teaching files, and research materials which document the personal life and professional career of Ross Granville Harrison. Correspondence with many academic, medical, and scientific figures is included, as are the records relating to Yale University's Department of Zoology (1920-1938) and Osborn Zoological Laboratory (1919-1938). Drafts of writings, lectures and related visual materials, research files, and photographs are also arranged in the papers. Held by the Department of Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT (United States).
Source type: Print
Named Person: Ross family. Adams, Elizabeth A., 1906- Allen, Edgar, 1892-1943. Alves, Guilardo Martins, 1919- Angell, James Rowland, 1869-1949. Astbury, William Thomas, 1898- Baitsell, George Alfred, 1885- Baltzer, Friedrich, 1884- Bateson, William, 1861-1926. Blumer, George, 1872- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942. Born, Gustav Victor Rudolf, 1921- Boveri, Marcella. Boveri, Margret, 1900-1975. Bowman, Isaiah, 1878-1950. Brachet, Albert, 1869-1930. Bronk, Detlev Wulf, 1897- Brooks, William Keith, 1848-1908. Burns, Robert Kyle, 1896- Burrows, Montrose Thomas, 1884-1947. Cannon, Walter Bradford, 1871-1945. Carrel, Alexis, 1873-1944. Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944. Chittenden, Russell Henry, 1856-1943. Coghill, George Ellett, 1872-1941. Cole, Leon Jacob, 1877- Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1863-1952. Corner, George Washington, 1889- Cramer, William, 1878- Cross, Wilbur Lucius, 1862-1948. Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939. Dalcq, Albert, 1893- De Beer, Gavin Rylands, 1899- De Terra, Helmut, 1900- Detwiler, Samuel Randall, 1890- Dohrn, Reinhard, 1880- Driesch, Hans Adolf Eduard, 1867-1941. Erdmann, Rhoda, 1870-1935. Fauré-Frémiet, Emmanuel, 1883- Fischel, Alfred, 1868- Fischer, Albert, 1891- Fisher, Irving, 1867-1947. Flexner, Abraham, 1866-1959. Flexner, Simon, 1863-1946. Fox, Harold Munro, 1889- Frisch, Karl von, 1886- Fulton, John Farquhar, 1899-1960. Gage, Simon Henry, 1851- Gardiner, John Stanley, 1872-1946. Gatenby, James Brontë, 1892- Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict, 1878-1958. Gregory, Herbert Ernest, 1869-1952. Gurwitsch, Aron, 1901- Hadley, Arthur Twining, 1856-1930. Hall, Edmund Kennard, 1902- Harned, Herbert Spencer, 1888-1969. Henderson, Lawrence Joseph, 1878-1942. Henderson, Yandell, 1873- Hendrickson, George Lincoln, 1865-1963. Hertwig, Richard, 1850-1937. Hill, James Peter, 1873-1954. Hogben, Lancelot Thomas, 1895-1975. Holtfreter, Johannes Friedrich Karl, 1901- Hörstadius, Sven Otto, 1898- Hunt, Reid, 1870- Huntington, Ellsworth, 1876-1947. Hutchinson, George Evelyn, 1903- Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975. Huzella, Tivadar, 1886-1951. Lewis, Warren Harmon, 1870-1964. Jennings, Herbert Spencer, 1868-1947. Jewett, Frank Baldwin, 1879- Just, Ernest Everett, 1883-1941. Kaempffert, Waldemar Bernhard, 1877- Kammerer, Paul, 1880-1926. Keen, William Williams, 1837-1932. Kellogg, Vernon Lyman, 1867-1937. Keogh, Andrew, 1869-1953. Kestner, Otto, 1873- Knower, Henry McElderry, 1868- Kunkel, Beverly Waugh, 1881- Kuo, Zing-Yang, 1898-1970. Lambert, Robert Archibald, 1883-1960. Lehmann, Friedrich Ernest. Levi, Giuseppe, 1836- Lewis, Margaret A. Reed, 1881- Lillie, Frank Rattray, 1870-1947. Lindbergh, Charles August, 1859-1924. Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924. Loeb, Leo, 1869- Lohmann, Carl Albert, 1887- Mall, Franklin Paine, 1862-1917. Mangold, Otto, 1891- Mendell, Lafayette Benedict, 1872-1935. Metz, Charles William, 1889- Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953. Minot, Charles Sedgwick, 1852-1914. Moe, Henry Allen. Mollier, Siegfried, 1866- Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945. Muller, Herman Joseph, 1905-1980. Murray, James Burch, 1886-1918. Needham, Dorothy Moyle, 1896- Needham, Joseph, 1900- Nicholas, John Spangler, 1893- Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971. Nieuwkopp, Pieter Dirk. Nussbaum, Moritz, 1892-1971. Oppenheimer, Jane Marion, 1911- Osgood, Robert Bayley, 1873- Osterhout, Winthrop John Van Leuven, 1871- Painter, Theophilus Shickel, 1889- Parker, George Howard, 1864-1955. Parker, Raymond Crandall, 1903- Parlato, Emilio M. G., 1869- Pasquini, Pasquale, 1901- Paul, John Rodman, 1893-1971. Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940. Petkovic, Vladislav, 1880-1917. Petrunkevitch, Alexander Ivanovitch, 1875- Poll, Heinrich, 1877- Przibram, Hans, 1874- Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 1852-1934. Ruud, Gudrun. Rous, Peyton, 1879- Roux, Wilheim, 1850-1924. Sabin, Florence Rena, 1871-1953. Sarton, George, 1884-1956. Schaeffer, Asa Arthur, 1883- Scharrer, Ernst Albert, 1905-1965. Smith, George Elliott, 1871-1937. Smith, George Hathorn, 1885-1952. Spemann, Hans, 1869- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946. Streeter, George Linius, 1873- Swett, Francis Huntington, 1893- Taylor, Charles Vincent, 1895-1946. Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, 1860-1948. Twitty, Victor Chandler. Vogt, Walther Heinrich, 1878- Waddington, Conrad Hal, 1905- Weidenreich, Franz, 1873-1948. Weiss, Paul, 1901- Wilson, Edmund Beecher, 1856-1939. Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964. Winslow, C.-E. A. (Charles-Edward Amory), 1877-1957. Winternitze Milton Charles, 1885- Woerdeman, Martinus Willem, 1892- Wrinch, Dorothy, d. 1976. Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876- Harrison, Ross Granville, 1870-1959.
Named Corp: Bermuda Biological Station for Research. Germany. Reichsministerium für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung. Johns Hopkins University. Stazione Zoological di Napoli. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Yale University. Dept. of Zoology. Yale University. Osborne Zoological Laboratory. Peabody Museum of Natural History. Yale University. School of Medicine. Yale University -- Faculty. American Institute of Sacred Literature. National Research Council (U.S.)
Genre/Form: Slides.
Geographic: Canada -- Description and travel. Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
Available on microfilm (6, 254 frames on 6 reels, 35mm.), Bio/History: Ross Granville Harrison was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on January 13, 1870. He graduated from Johns Hopkins (A.B., 1889; Ph.D., 1894) and the University of Bonn (M.D., 1899). He taught at Johns Hopkins (1896-1907) and at Yale University (1907-1959). Harrison conducted extensive scientific research in embryonic development and related fields, and produced several publications. At Yale, Harrison's administrative responsibilities included service as director of the Osborn Zoological Laboratory (1918-1938) and chairman of the Department of Zoology (1920-1938). He also served as chairman of the National Research Council (1938-1946). Harrison died on September 30, 1959.
Copyright has not beeen transferred to Yale University.
Organization: Arranged in eleven series and two additions: Series I. General Correspondence, 1907-1955. Series II. Personal Correspondence, 1907-1954. Series III. Selected Correspondence (Personal R.G.H.), 1893-1959. Series IV. Departmental Records, 1907-1938. Series V. Subject File - Correspondence and Records, 1903-1957. Series VI. Writings - Lectures and Research, 1889-1954. Series VII. Manuscripts, 1893-1955. Series VIII. Protocols - Research Records, 1890-1947. Series IX. Course of Study, 1894-1938. Series X. Photographs, 1889-1955. Series XI. Memorabilia, 1914-1955.
Preferred citation: Ross Granville Harrison Papers. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
Unpublished finding aid in repository.
Chiefly the gift of Dr. Elizabeth Harrison, 1959-1981. Other contributions from Ross G. Harrison (1951) Dorothea K. Harrrison (1968), R.H. Alden and Jane M. Oppenheimer (1970), and Paula Dain Wilens-Metzler (1997). - Subject(s):
- Amphibians -- Physiology; Biology; Embryology; Refugees, Jewish; Science -- Study and teaching; Tissue culture; World War, 1914-1918 -- Science; World War, 1939-1945 -- Displaced persons; World War, 1939-1945 -- Science; Zoology
- Language(s):
- English
- Date(s):
- 1820/1975
- Type(s):
- Text
- Identifier(s):
- Find in a Library; embryo:138