Archival Collections

Abir-Am, P.G. and Elliott, C.A., Eds., Commemorative Practices in Science Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Collective Memory, University of Chicago Press for History of Science Society, Cambridge, 2000. 

Emerson, A.E., Park, O., Park, T, and Schmidt, K.P., Principles of Animal Ecology, W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, 1949. 

Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century, John Wiley 8c Sons, New York, 1975. Anderson, E., Introgressive Hybridization, John Wiley 8c Sons, New York, 1949. 

Anonymous, Programs of the AAAS sections and the societies. Science, 106, 558-566, 1947. Anonymous, The Systematics Association Annual Report VI. (1946-1947), Proc. Linn. Soc., Lond., 160, i-iv, 1948. 

Shaping Biology The National Science Foundation and American Biological Research, 1945-1975, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2000. 

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Profiles in Science Offering the archival collections of prominent twentieth-century biomedical scientists to the pubhc through modern digital technology http yywww.profiles.nlm.nih.gov/... 

A. E. Hitchcock, The practical use of root hormones, Horticulture 15 (1937) 239-240. See advertising campaign for Hormodin A in Horticulture from 1937-1939, e.g., advertisements in Horticulture 15 (1937) 224, and Horticulture 16 (1938) 242. R.R. Williams to A.N. Richards, 16 April 1936, University of Pennsylvania Archives collection UPT50/R514 (hereafter, Richards Papers), box 16, folder 19. 

Data for this project derive from various sources. I have consulted numerous published documents, including scientific journal articles, editorials, insider histories, newsletters, conference proceedings, government reports, transcripts from congressional hearings, trade magazines, newspapers, and scientific information databases. Documents from archive collections, administrative records, departmental or program files, and scientists personal files have also been indispensable sources of primary data. In-depth interviews with the scientists themselves provide the other main source of information for this study. 

T he problem of deteriorating books in library and archival collections has been described by many authors the severity and the urgency of the problem have long been apparent, but more detailed information is available in articles by Lowe (J) and Williams (2). Several useful deacidification processes are available which can be applied to sheets of paper or to single book pages, but the labor-intensive nature of such page-at-a-time procedures limits their use to relatively small numbers of the more valuable books. 

The fact that post-1800 narratives were crafted with reference to earlier ones is, however, indicated by the fact that later statements are found in the archive collected together... 

MCA Manufacturing Chemists Association minutes, www.ewg.org. NCI Archival collection in director s office, National Cancer Institute. 

In order to place on permanent record the precise contribution to this book (and it is, of course, the major one) made by the late Professor Coulson, copies of the actual recordings will be deposited with the Coulson papers in the Contemporary Scientific Archives Collection of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, and it is hoped that the transcripts will also be available, either in the above Collection or via Mrs Coulson s personal archives. 

CHF, Archive Collection, GB98.09, Williams-Miles Reprint Collection, WiUiam Williams, Notebook US Gas School, 1918. 

Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF), Archive Collection Chalmer G. Kirkbride, Transcript of an Interview conducted by James J. Bohning in Washington, DC, 15 July 1993... 

Coulson, C. A. Personal communication to R.B.M., 1973 (now in File No. B. 41.27 of the Coulson Papers in the Contemporary Scientific Archives Collection, Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, U.K.). 

National Museum of History and Technology. 1978. Guide to Manuscript Collections in the National Museum of History and Technology. Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press. Volume 3 of the series Archives and Special Collections of the Smithsonian Institution. The Museum of History and Technology holds important archival collections. One can find in their collections both fundamental source materials and illustrative material not found elsewhere. Most of the entries in this guide concern personal papers, business records, or document files however, one can also find graphic material, trade literature, and information and reference files. 

Deutsches Museum http //www.deutsches-museum.de/ (accessed September 21, 2010). The archives of the Deutsches Museum are the leading collections for the history of science and technology in Enrope. They hold currently 4.3 kilometers of archival material, sources, and documents. The archival collections focus on transportation, aeronautics, and astro-nantics, the history of physics and chemistry. The library offers literature that primarily relates to the history of the natural sciences and technology, ranging from nonfiction titles to scientific mannals or specialist essays and papers from the invention of the letterpress to the present day (from Web page). 

C.F. Biggert to Alexander Legge, May 23, 1923. Letter in the Appalachian Archives Collection, Southeast Kentucky Community College. 

The need for paper deacidification is enormous. It is reckoned that between 70% and 80% of the Hbrary and archive collections consist of add paper and are therefore exposed to a dynamic deterioration process. The reaction is self-accelerating because the add deterioration is an autocatalytic process. This means that in the course of the deterioration process more and more acids are produced. The acids in the paper can be neutralized and an alkaline reserve can be deposited. With that the acid conditioned deterioration reaction in paper can be stopped effectively but caimot be cancelled. If the deterioration is too far advanced, more complex preser-... 

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