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Wesley Roswell Coe Archives

 Collection
Call Number: IZAR.001692

Description of the Material

These papers include correspondence, manuscript related material, field notes, and biographical material.

Dates

  • 1895-1930

Creator

Language of Materials

In English.

Extent

5 Linear Feet

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/ypm.izar.001692

Abstract

The archives of Wesley Roswell Coe accumulated over his lifetime, notably including Yale teaching and research materials.

Biographical Sketch

A student of Addison E. Verrill, Wesley Roswell Coe (b. 1869, d. 1960) received his Ph.D. in zoology in 1895, and joined the faculty as an instructor a year later following post-graduate work in Europe. Coe's teaching career spanned 3 decades, and for 16 years he was Curator of Zoology at the Yale Peabody Museum.

Much of Coe's scientific research was devoted to the biology and taxonomy of ribbon worms (nemerteans); he wrote several important monographs on this group and described many new species. In 1899, Coe accompanied other prominent scientists to Alaska as a member of the famed Harriman Alaska Expedition. During the 2-month voyage, Coe collected a wide array of invertebrates that were later documented by himself and other zoologists (including A.E. Verrill and Katharine J. Bush, both of Yale University) in a series of large monographs.

After his retirement from Yale, Coe eventually moved to California and was affiliated with Scripps Institution of Oceanography as a research associate. For many years he continued to publish articles on a variety of topics dealing with bivalves and nemerteans. His last paper, a detailed account of bathypelagic nemerteans, was published in 1954.

Title
Wesley Roswell Coe Archives
Status
Edited Full Draft
Author
Daniel Jonathan Drew
Date
2014
Description rules
Finding Aid Created In Accordance With Manuscripts And Archives Processing Manual
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English.

Part of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Repository

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