Chester Ittner Bliss papers

Collection

Call Number: MS 1165

Scope and Contents

Writings and research materials, primarily in the field of biometry. The papers also include lecture notes, committee files, and printed matter.

Dates

1885-1998
Majority of material found within 1918 - 1976

Creator

Bliss, C. I. (Chester Ittner), 1899-1979

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Chester I. Bliss estate, 1979.

Arrangement

Collection is arranged as received.

Extent

43.54 Linear Feet (44 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1165

Additional Description

Abstract

The Chester Ittner Bliss Papers comprise writings and research materials, primarily in the field of biometry. The papers also include lecture notes, committee files, and printed matter.

Biographical / Historical

Chester Bliss was born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1899. B.A., Ohio State U., 1921; M.A., Columbia, 1922, Ph.D., 1926; asso. entomologist, U.S. Dept. of Agri., New Orleans, 1926-1929, entomologist, Mexico City, 1928, Whittier, Calif, 1930-1933; mem. Inst. Plant Protection, Leningrad, 1935-1937; biometrician Conn. Agr. Exptl. Station, New Haven, 1940-1971; biometrician Storrs, Conn. Expt. Sta., 1940-1953; lecturer at Yale, 1942-1967, 1972. Bliss died in 1979.