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Leonard Jimmie Savage papers

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Call Number: MS 695
Abstract: The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, writings, notes, teaching materials, subject files, audio tapes and other papers of Leonard J. Savage (1917-1971), mathematician, statistician, author, teacher, and professor at Yale from 1964-1971. The papers relate primarily to Savage's work in the field of statistics, especially Bayesian statistics, and includes extensive correspondence with many of his professional colleagues from around the world. Also included is a large...
Dates: 1935-1998

Charles Schuchert papers

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Call Number: MS 435
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, financial papers, diary, a manuscript autobiography, photographs and memorabilia. The major part of the papers is made up of Schuchert's professional correspondence while curator of the geological collections at the Peabody Museum at Yale (1904-1923). Subsequent correspondence is related to his work in the field of paleontology. Also in the papers is the incoming correspondence of Charles Emerson Beecher, Schuchert's predecessor at the Peabody Museum....
Dates: 1859-1943, bulk 1884-1943

Paul Bigelow Sears papers

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Call Number: MS 663
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence; writings; topical research files; minutes, agendas, and other organizational papers; and teaching files, which document Paul Bigelow Sear's career as an educator, conservationist, author, and spokesman for the environment. The papers focus on Sears's activities on behalf of professional scientific organizations and civic groups interested in conservation, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Ecological Society of America,...
Dates: 1910-1969

Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, records

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Call Number: RU 819
Abstract:

The records consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, student records and papers, photographs and memorabilia, grade books, clippings, class records, memoranda, notes, a copy of the 1944 charter and by-laws of the Board of Trustees of the Sheffield Scientific School and administrative files documenting the history and operations of the Sheffield Scientific School and relate to virtually every aspect of its activities.

Dates: 1846-1970

Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, student records

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Call Number: RU 709
Abstract:

The records consist of student files and dean's files documenting academic performance of students in the Yale Sheffield Scientific School.

Dates: circa 1906-1965

Silliman family papers

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Call Number: MS 450
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, lectures, notebooks, diaries, journals, and other material documenting the personal lives and professional careers of the Silliman family, including Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) and Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (1816-1885). Personal material details family life, relationships, social activities, and cultural pursuits. Professional material details the academic and literary interests of the Sillimans, particularly in chemistry, physics, and geology. The...
Dates: 1717-1977, bulk 1717-1911

Edmund Ware Sinnott papers

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Call Number: MS 452
Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence, lectures, speeches, writings, notes, clippings, and printed material, primarily relating to Edmund Sinnott's professional career as a botanist.

Dates: 1904-1968

Society of the Sigma Xi chapter, Yale University, records

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Call Number: RU 744
Abstract:

The records consist of correspondence, president's files, by-laws, constitution, minutes, and printed material documenting the operations of the Yale Chapter of the Sigma Xi.

Dates: 1895-1983

E. Tappan Stannard papers

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Call Number: MS 890
Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia. The correspondence (1939-1949) is entirely devoted to Stannard's participation in the development of the sciences at Yale University and as a member of various university committees. A photograph album depicting the construction of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway in Alaska (ca. 1909-1910) is also included.

Dates: 1909-1949

Stephanie Spangler, deputy provost for biomedical and health affairs, Yale University, records

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Call Number: RU 1057
Abstract:

The records consist of correspondence, committee and planning documents, and project and procedure files maintained by Dr. Stephanie Spangler as deputy provost for biomedical and health affairs at Yale University.

Dates: 1986-2007

William Graham Sumner papers

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Call Number: MS 291
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes and research materials, clippings, memorabilia, photographs and financial records of William Graham Sumner, a sociologist, professor at Yale University, and advocate of free trade and the gold standard. The correspondence (over 13,000 items) documents many of Sumner's interests including the Yale College curriculum and economic and political issues. It also includes substantive accounts from friends in the South about Reconstruction, the...
Dates: 1863-1946

Malcolm Rutherford Thorpe papers

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Call Number: MS 491
Abstract:

Correspondence, reports, manuscripts and research material relating to Thorpe's geological surveys in Utah, to his work on vertebrate paleontology, to his directorship of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, and to his work for the H. Emerson Tuttle Memorial Fund.

Dates: 1913-1952

Frank Pell Underhill papers

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Call Number: MS 514
Abstract:

Research material including data on poison gas collected during World War I by the Chemical Warfare Services and for his book: The Lethal War Gases (1919). Included also are experimental data on food and diet and correspondence relating to his teaching career at Yale University as well as on his publications.

Dates: 1899-1932

William Weldon Watson Papers

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Call Number: MS 828
Abstract:

The papers reflect William W. Watson's career as a physicist and include correspondence, subject files, writings, and reports on professional conferences and writings, largely for the years 1950 to 1963. Best documented is his work as science advisor to the Philippine government, his involvement with the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, and his participation on the Atomic Energy for Connecticut Committee.

Dates: 1924-1983

William Dwight Whitney family papers

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Call Number: MS 555
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, journals and diaries, writings, legal and financial papers, and miscellanea of the William Dwight Whitney family, including William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894), his wife Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin Whitney (1824-1912), his brother Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896), and his father Josiah Dwight Whitney (1786-1869). William Dwight Whitney material includes several hundred letters with his wife, journals and diaries (1843-1893), and a small quanity of...
Dates: 1778-1951, bulk 1814-1912

George Reber Wieland papers

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Call Number: MS 750
Abstract:

The papers include professional and family correspondence, periodicals and pamphlets, books annotated by George Reber Wieland and scientific and personal photographs. The professional correspondence deals with his scientific expeditions and with negotiations on his proposed gift to the United States of a tract of land in South Dakota known as the "Fossil Cycad National Monument."

Dates: 1889-1953

Rupert Wildt papers

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Call Number: MS 800
Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes and offprints documenting Rupert Wildt's career as a professor in the Yale University department of astronomy (1946-1976), president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (1965-1968) and as visiting lecturer at universities in the United States and abroad.

Dates: 1876-1981

Arnold Oscar Wolfers papers

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Call Number: MS 634
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, topical files, and writings which document Wolfers's academic and administrative career in economics and international relations. Wolfers destroyed his files in 1949, upon retiring as Master of Pierson College, in 1957, when he became professor emeritus at Yale, and again in 1966 when he retired from the Center for Political Research. The files which remain, therefore, are not representative of the full scope of Wolfers's activities and collegial and...
Dates: 1903-1973

Yale Peruvian Expedition papers

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Call Number: MS 664
Abstract: Correspondence, administrative records, scientific reports, writings, and illustrative material on the three expeditions to Peru sponsored by Yale University between 1911-1915. The most celebrated discoveries, the finding of Machu Picchu and of Vitcos, the last capital of the Incas, were studied during the expeditions by scientific specialists who were drawn principally from the Yale faculty. The papers include their diaries, manuscripts, and published reports of their work, as well as the...
Dates: 1908-1948

Yale Scientific Monthly board of editors minutes

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Call Number: RU 1103
Abstract:

The materials consist of meeting minutes of The Yale Scientific Monthly board of editors.

Dates: 1899-1902