Chittenden, R. H. (Russell Henry), 1856-1943
Person
Russell Henry Chittenden (1856-1943), American chemist and educator
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Address on plant science, n.d.
Part of Collection — Box: 44, Folder: GROUP 1311, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Address, holograph manuscript.
Dates:
n.d.
George Jarvis Brush family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 108
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, lectures, notes, printed material, and other papers, principally of George Jarvis Brush (1831-1912), mineralogist, geologist, and educator; and of his son-in-law, Louis Valentine Pirsson (1860-1919), also a geologist. There are also papers of Brush's wife, Harriet Silliman Trumbull Brush and of other family members. A good deal of the papers are scientific in nature, with some relating to the early history of the Yale Sheffield Scientific School. Important...
Dates:
1834-1960, bulk 1834-1939
Russell Henry Chittenden papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 611
Overview:
Correspondence, writings and memorabilia almost entirely relating to Chittenden's work as a physiologist and expert on nutrition. Also essays documenting his part in the development at Yale University of the Sheffield Scientific School, which he directed from 1898 to 1922. Important correspondents are Willy Kühne, his professor at the University of Heidelberg, and Ira Remsen, chairman of the Referee Board of Consulting Scientific Experts of the Department of Agriculture, of which Chittenden was...
Dates:
1870-1945
Farnam family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 203
Overview:
Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, financial papers, writings, scrapbooks, and memorabilia of the Farnam family of New Haven, Connecticut, 1721-1929. The papers of Henry Farnam (1803-1883), and two of his sons, Henry Walcott Farnam (1853-1933) and William Whitman Farnam (1844-1929) form this collection. The papers of Henry Farnam include personal and professional correspondence concerning his family, life in New Haven, and the building of several canals and railroads in Connecticut and the...
Dates:
1721-1941
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Farnam family papers
Gustav Gruener papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 257
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, professional papers, writings, notes taken as a student in Germany, and teaching materials of Gustav Gruener. Several hundred letters in the correspondence were written from Austria and Germany between 1919 and 1928 in thanks for packages and money sent by Gruener to friends and relatives abroad. The letters provide a description of the economic crisis in these countries and the effect on the academic community. Comments on politics discuss the end of the...
Dates:
1879-1932
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Gustav Gruener papers
Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 25
Overview:
The records contain the official correspondence of Arthur Twining Hadley during his tenure as president of Yale University. The papers document the rapid change and expansion which occurred at Yale during Hadley's presidency. The incoming correspondence contains letters with members of the Yale faculty and administration; requests for personal appearances and speeches and articles; inquiries from educational administrators; and correspondence with alumni relating to fund-raising and class...
Dates:
1899-1921
Ross Granville Harrison papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 263
Overview:
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...
Dates:
1820-1975, bulk 1889-1959
Albert Galloway Keller papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 768
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, student and teaching files, and miscellanea documenting the personal life and professional career of Albert G. Keller, a sociologist, author, and student and colleague of William Graham Sumner. Keller frequently corresponded with individuals on the subject of Sumner, and Yale University figures such as Arthur T. Hadley, James Rowland Angell, and Charles Seymour often felt Keller's displeasure over the University's treatment of the Sumner legacy....
Dates:
1888-1956
Letter : New Haven, Connecticut, to George Parmly Day, 1938 Apr 7
Part of Collection — Box: 44, Folder: GROUP 1311, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS regarding the award of the Bok prize to Dr. Alfred Newton Richards.
Dates:
1938 Apr 7
Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1231
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, writings, research, notes, scrapbooks, and other materials documenting Lounsbury's personal life and professional career as an author and educator of English literature at Yale University. Correspondence with Yale colleagues, students, authors, and officials details his academic and literary interests, and activity in the areas of international language and simplified spelling. Personal materials include letters relating to Lounsbury's Civil War...
Dates:
1829-1915
Lafayette Benedict Mendel papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1146
Overview:
The papers are composed of family and professional correspondence, writings, diaries, scientific notebooks, research files, photographs, and memorabilia which relate to Lafayette Mendel's research on nutrition and growth. Professional correspondents include both Yale colleagues and scientists and nutritionists from around the world. Topical files also document his activities as chairman of the Department of Physiological Chemistry (1920-1935).
Dates:
1879-1941
Wallace Lyman Orcutt student notes from Yale University School of Medicine
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 22
Overview:
The notebooks contain Orcutt's notes from medical school courses including physiology courses by Russell Chittenden and Yandell Henderson, pathology, bacteriology, pharmacology, histology, therapeutics by Oliver T. Osborne, and clinics by George Blumer and Wilder Tileston. The histology notes contain illustrations colored in pencil. The bacteriology notes are in an illustrated notebook printed especially for the bacteriology course at Yale. The physiology notes contain tracings from a...
Dates:
1908-1910
Sargent family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1216
Overview:
Formerly titled the Henry Bradford Sargent Papers. Correspondence, office files, financial papers, printed matter and memorabilia documenting Sargent's close association with Yale University, as member of the Yale Corporation (1902-1920) and as secretary of the class of 1871 of the Sheffield Scientifc School. Having been an oarsman for Yale, he retained an interest in rowing and papers on the building of the Yale boat house and the four-oared crew which went to Philadelphia in 1876 are included...
Dates:
1871-1974, bulk 1871-1927
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Sargent family papers
John Ferguson Weir papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 550
Overview:
Correspondence, addresses and writings, papers relating to the Yale School of the Fine Arts, and other papers of John F. Weir, artist, painter and first director of the Yale School of the Fine Arts, serving from 1869-1913. Correspondents include many persons prominent in the art world between 1870 and 1920. There is also much material on the origins and development of art education in this country and at Yale.
Dates:
1838-1957, bulk 1861-1928
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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John Ferguson Weir papers
Harry Gideon Wells papers
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 23
Overview:
Harry Gideon Wells, pathologist and immunologist, was born July 21, 1875 in New Haven, Connecticut and attended Hillhouse High School. He graduated from Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, in 1895. He was an authority on the chemical aspects of pathology and immunology.
Collection materials include his autobiography, student notebooks, drafts and published writings, reunion books, and obituaries.
Collection materials include his autobiography, student notebooks, drafts and published writings, reunion books, and obituaries.
Dates:
1894-1943