- Additional Authors
- Mayor, Alfred Goldsborough, 1868-1922.
- Description
- .58 linear foot (2 boxes)
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Illustrations.
- Access (note)
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- Call Number
- MssCol 1922
- OCLC
- 693589038
- Author
Mayer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marshall), 1836-1897.
- Title
Alfred Marshall Mayer and Alfred Goldsborough Mayor papers, 1864-1922.
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- Summary
Alfred Marshall Mayer was a noted American physicist born in Baltimore in 1836. His son, Alfred Goldsborough Mayor (1868-1922) was a noted marine zoologist and entomologist who changed the spelling of his last name to Mayor during World War I. Alfred Marshall Mayer's papers include correspondence, notes on physics and astronomy maintained as a student in Paris and as a teacher at Lehigh University and Stevens Institute of Technology. Material from Alfred Goldsborough Mayor includes academic papers, and notes on his studies at Harvard and on his expeditions to the Fiji Islands and the West Indies. Also included are drafts and colored illustrations for reports on zoology as director of the Totugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, Tortugas, Florida.
- Occupation
Naturalists
Physicists
Zoologists
- Added Author
Mayor, Alfred Goldsborough, 1868-1922.
- Research Call Number
MssCol 1922