Helen I. Breed papers, 1947-1992.
Collection Number: 21-18-3415
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Helen I. Breed papers, 1947-1992.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
21-18-3415
Abstract:
Includes student papers and research materials for Hellen I. Breed's doctoral dissertation.
Creator:
Breed, Helen Illick, 1925-2001.
Quanitities:
6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Helen Josephine Illick received her bachelor's (1947) and master's (1949) degrees
from Syracuse University. She received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1953, and
served as a research associate in the Department of Natural Resources with Edward
Raney.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Helen I. Breed papers, #21-18-3415. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Student papers and research materials for her doctoral dissertation: A comparative
study of the lateral-line system on the head of North American Cyprinidae, 1953; student
paper on Anna Botsford Comstock, 1952; research notes, including Lake George research
files; photographs and slides relating to her research on the Cyprinidae (carps and
minnows) family and the genus Hybopsis (chubs); laboratory slides; specimen ledger;
bibliography cards; materials on the Rensselaer County Environmental Council; and
papers and posters from the 1992 United Nations "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Also, correspondence files from 1954 through 1969/70, including consistent
correspondence with Edward Raney; about 3 years of correspondence on her Earth Summit
activity; and 2001 Woman of Distinction poster for Dr. Breed.
See also the Scenic Hudson collections at Marist, https://archives.marist.edu for
material relating to Ethel Burns Breed, one of Scenic Hudson's founding members.
Names:
Raney, Edward C. (Edward Cowden), 1909-
Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930.
New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Natural Resources
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Location of meeting: Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1992 :.)
Subjects:
Women scientists -- United States.
Ichthyologists.
Hybopsis.
Cyprinidae.
Ichthyology.
Form and Genre Terms:
Posters.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 0 |
Biography
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Master of Zoology thesis-Syracuse University
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June 1949 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Paper- Factors Influencing Lapillary Permeability
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Paper- Generalized Description of Cephalic Lateral-Line Canals of the Cyprinidae
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Cephalic Lateral Line Canals of Cyprinidae - Notes, outlines, drafts, glass plates
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Cephalic Lateral Line Canals of Cyprinidae - Figures, plates
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Cephalic Lateral Line Canals of Cyprinidae - Notes by Edward C. Raney, Cornell University
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1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Cephalic Lateral Line Canals of Cyprinidae -Draft
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Doctoral thesis (draft) - Cornell University - Comp of Lateral Line of Cyprinidae
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Sept. 1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Graduate work - Water Metabolism in Mice - Lab notes
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1948-1949 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Use of tape recording in conservation education - Correspondence, pamphlets, clippings,
and meeting notes
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Box 1 | Folder 11-12 |
Bound AA's in Muscles of Fishes
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Reprints - X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Hard Tissues of Verts.
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Bound AA's in Muscles of Fishes - Complete copy - Notes by E.C. Raney
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May 5, 1964 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Bound AA's in Muscles of Fishes -Chromatography manuscript draft 4
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Bound AA's in Muscles of Fishes - Discussion - Copy 4 and carbon copy
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Chromatographic and lab data sheets - Norwegian Fishes
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Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Annual Report European Research
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1959-1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Chromatography reprints
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Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Chromatography laboratory equipment
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Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Cephalic Lateral Line Canals - Rough drafts and original of paper
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Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Notropis baileyi, N. chrosomus, N. lutipinnis (lateral line) - Reprints and original
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Bound AA's Manuscripts
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Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Copies of X-ray diffraction proposal and preparation of tissues
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Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Research grant requests
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Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Hard tissue research
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Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Chromatography lab data
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Box 1 | Folder 28-32 |
Archival copy - Cyprinidae (I-V) - Cephalic Lateral Line diagrams - Natural Resources,
Cornell
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Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Research materials
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Hybopsis manuscript
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Box 2 | Folder 2-4 |
Hybopsis pictures
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Box 2 | Folder 5-6 |
Hybopsis slides
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Box 2 | Folder 7-9 |
Notebook 1
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1959-1960 |
Box 2 | Folder 10-12 |
Notebook 2
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Box 2 | Folder 13-14 |
Notebook 3
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Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Notebook 4
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1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Lake George
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Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Lake George - New York State Conservation Dept.
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Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Lake George - Research proposal
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1968 |
Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Lake George - Proposal - Physics department RPI
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1969 |
Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Lake George - Research proposal - Drafts and carbons
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Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Lake George - Study
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Box 2 | Folder 22-23 |
Lake George - Reprints
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Box 3 | Folder 1-3 |
Rensselaer County Environmental Managment Council
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Exxon Environmental publications
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Science
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Aug.-Sept. 1974 |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Lab Manual for Mammalian Physiology
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Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Articles - Women in Science
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Newsletters and reports
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Appointment to RCEMC
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1971, 1973 |
Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Environmental Council - Dr. Helen I. Breed
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Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Environmental reports
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Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Fisheries newsletters
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1992 |
Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Traveling expense vouchers
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Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Speech - Tamarac High School graduation
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June 25, 1993 |
Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Newspaper clippings
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Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Correspondence - Obstruction of Indian Creek Rd.
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Box 3 | Folder 17 |
International Council on Metals and the Environment
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Box 3 | Folder 18 |
UN - High-Level Advisory Board on Sustainable Development
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Box 3 | Folder 19 |
The '92 Global Forum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Box 3 | Folder 20 |
UNCED Preparatory Committee (Prep Com IV)
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Box 3 | Folder 21 |
Critiques - Prep Com IV documents bases on Women's Action Agenda 21
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Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Press releases - Rio and Environmental
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Box 3 | Folder 23 |
United Nations press releases
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Box 3 | Folder 24 |
Ad hoc discussion group - BCERF
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February 5, 1999 |
Box 3 | Folder 25 |
UNCED - Agenda 21
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Box 3 | Folder 26 |
Carnegie Council Environmental Seminar
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February 24, 2000 |
Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Council on Foreign Relations - Global warming
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April 2, 1999 |
Box 3 | Folder 28 |
Bella Abzug memorial service
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Box 3 | Folder 29 |
WEDO and WIPAC
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Box 3 | Folder 30 |
World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet - Action 21
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Box 3 | Folder 31 |
Correspondence - Bella Abzug - WEDO, WIPAC
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Box 3 | Folder 32 |
Alicia Barcena - Earth Council
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Box 3 | Folder 33 |
Woman's Caucus
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March 1992 |
Box 3 | Folder 34 |
Environment
|
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Box 3 | Folder 35 |
Nicholas Robinson
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Box 3 | Folder 36 |
Chief Bisi Ogunleye - Africa - Local Initiative: Key to Women's Voice in Global Decision
Making
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Box 3 | Folder 37 |
International organizations - Earth Council, Center for Common Future, etc.
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Box 3 | Folder 38 |
A World Congress for Education and Communication on Environment and Development -
Toronto, Canada
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October 17-21, 1992 |
Box 3 | Folder 39 |
Eastman Kodak Chemical Company "Responsible Care" Member
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Box 3 | Folder 40 |
United Earth and Earth Prize Awards
|
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Box 3 | Folder 41 |
Dunlap, Riley E. "American Environmentalism"
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Box 3 | Folder 42 |
Gallop - "The Health of the Planet Survey"
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Box 3 | Folder 43 |
From Rio to the Capitols - State Strategies for Sustainable Development
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May 1993 |
Box 3 | Folder 44 |
Professional Reports A-C
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Box 3 | Folder 45 |
Professional Reports D-E
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Box 3 | Folder 46 |
Professional Reports G-H
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Box 3 | Folder 47 |
Professional Reports L-M
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Box 3 | Folder 48 |
Professional Reports N-P
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Box 3 | Folder 49 |
Professional Reports R-S
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Box 3 | Folder 50 |
Professional Reports T-U
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Box 3 | Folder 51 |
Professional Reports W
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Carbohydrate metabolism
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Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Steroids from the Adrenal Cortex
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Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Laboratory examination - Muscles
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Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Hour examination - Skeleton and muscle
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Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Hour examination - Nervous system
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Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Hour examination - Circulation
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Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Respiration exam
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Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Outline - Previous course at RS
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Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Physiology 202 - Final exam
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Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Physiology 106A - Final exam
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Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Outline of lectures and laboratories for anatomy and physiology
|
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Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Lecture notes - Human Physiology 136
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Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Vertebrate paleontology
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Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Ichthyology lectures
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Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Nature writings
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Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Endocrinology - Final exam
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Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Physiology 105A - Final exam
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Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Lecture notes - Physiology, 105B
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Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Physiology 105 - Exam
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Box 4 | Folder 20 |
State University Teachers' College
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Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Examinations - Physiology 105 - Vassar
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Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Examinations - Physiology 91 and 136
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Box 4 | Folder 23 |
Tissues
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Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Junior College of Russell Sage College
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Box 4 | Folder 25 |
Physiology 105A - Tentative outline
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1954-1955 |
Box 4 | Folder 26 |
Introduction for the student
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Box 4 | Folder 27 |
Lab outlines - 1st semester - Biology 105B
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Box 4 | Folder 28 |
Physiology 91- Laboratory experiments
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Box 4 | Folder 29 |
Biology - Laboratory outlines
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Box 4 | Folder 30 |
Zoology I - Outline
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Box 4 | Folder 31 |
Russell Sage Quill
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Box 4 | Folder 32 |
Botany - Lab outline
|
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Box 4 | Folder 33 |
Geology - Textbook
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Box 4 | Folder 34 |
Conservation - Classroom material
|
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Box 4 | Folder 35 |
Histology and cytolgoy - Lecture notes
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1948-1949 |
Box 4 | Folder 36 |
Entomology - Lecture notes
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1950 |
Box 4 | Folder 37 |
Vertebrate anatomy - Lab guide and exam booklet
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Box 4 | Folder 38 |
Geology - Lecture outline
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Box 4 | Folder 39 |
Mammology - Lecture notes
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Box 4 | Folder 40 |
Ornithology - Lecture notes
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Box 4 | Folder 41 |
Economic zoology
|
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Box 4 | Folder 42 |
Botany - Lecture notes and lab outlines
|
1950 |
Box 4 | Folder 43 |
General education - National science - Class materials
|
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Box 4 | Folder 44 |
General science - Lecture notes
|
1951 |
Box 4 | Folder 45 |
Entomology
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Box 4 | Folder 46 |
Bibliography cards I
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Box 4 | Folder 47 |
Bibliography cards II
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Box 4 | Folder 48 |
Bibliography cards III
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Box 4 | Folder 49 |
Bibliography cards IV
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Box 5 |
3 metal boxes of bibliography cards
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Box 5 |
5 wooden boxes fixed microscope slides - Histology
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Box 5 |
Red wooden box fixed microscope slides - Various
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Box 5 |
3 metal boxes transparency slides
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Box 5 |
Record of specimens used in Chromatography Studies of Fishes
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
New York State program, Rio, etc.
|
1993 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Letters of recommendation and invitation
|
1992 |
Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Governor Mario Cuomo
|
1993 |
Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Dr. Martin Smith - NiMo [Niagara-Mohawk] Environmental Affairs
|
1993 |
Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence - Joseph Martens, Deputy Secretary to the Governor
|
1992-1993 |
Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence - Langdon Marsh, Executive Deputy Commissioner New York State Environmental
Conservation
|
1992-1993 |
Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence - Maurice Hinchey
|
1992 |
Box 6 | Folder 8 |
New York State Environmental Summit, Rye, N.Y., 12/2-12/4/1992
|
1992 |
Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Rio/etc.
|
1991-1992 |
Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Notes
|
1991-1992 |
Box 6 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence - Henry Eltinge Breed III [son]
|
1998 |
Box 6 | Folder 12 |
WEDO [Women's Environment and Development Organization] Comments
|
1992 |
Box 6 | Folder 13 |
Economic impact
|
1990 |
Box 6 | Folder 14 |
Rensselaer Health Department
|
1978 |
Box 6 | Folder 15 |
Resources study
|
1978 |
Box 6 | Folder 16 |
RPI [Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute] publications
|
1975-1978 |
Box 6 | Folder 17 |
Environmental Conservation Commission
|
1975 |
Box 6 | Folder 18 |
Environmental publications
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1972-1975 |
Box 6 | Folder 19 |
Publications
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1972-1973 |
Box 6 | Folder 20 |
Biological Congress News
|
1971 |
Box 6 | Folder 21 |
Correspondence
|
1969 |
Box 6 | Folder 22 |
Correspondence
|
1968 |
Box 6 | Folder 23 |
Alumni newsletter
|
1968 |
Box 6 | Folder 24 |
Publications
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1959-1960 |
Box 6 | Folder 25 |
Scientific collecting
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1966-1967 |
Box 6 | Folder 26 |
Summer 1966 appointment: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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1966 |
Box 6 | Folder 27 |
Business correspondence
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1966 |
Box 6 | Folder 28 |
Correspondence
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1965 |
Box 6 | Folder 29 |
Letter of appointment R.P.I.
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1964 |
Box 6 | Folder 30 |
Correspondence
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1964 |
Box 6 | Folder 31 |
Correspondence
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1963 |
Box 6 | Folder 32 |
Correspondence
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1962 |
Box 6 | Folder 33 |
Correspondence
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1961 |
Box 6 | Folder 34 |
Correspondence
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1960 |
Box 6 | Folder 35 |
Correspondence
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1959 |
Box 6 | Folder 36 |
Correspondence
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1958 |
Box 6 | Folder 37 |
AIBS [American Institute of Biological Sciences] Bulletin
|
1958 |
Box 6 | Folder 38 |
Correspondence
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1957 |
Box 6 | Folder 39 |
N.S.F.
|
1957 |
Box 6 | Folder 40 |
Publications
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1956, 1969 |
Box 6 | Folder 41 |
Correspondence
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1956 |
Box 6 | Folder 42 |
Correspondence
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1955 |
Box 6 | Folder 43 |
Correspondence
|
1954 |
Box 6 | Folder 44 |
Position offers and letters of acceptance for teaching or research
|
1946-1957 |
Box 6 | Folder 45 |
Graduate School
|
1946-1953 |
Box 6 | Folder 46 |
Vita and personal credentials
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1952-1956 |
Box 6 | Folder 47 |
Biology, general science, hygiene class: quizzes and exams
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1950 |
Box 6 | Folder 48 |
The Log
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1946 |
Box 6 | Folder 49 |
Correspondence
|
2005 |
Box 6 | Folder 50 |
Manual for an Introduction to Geology, by Robert O. Bloomer
|
1946 |
Box 7 |
Additional material
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Mapcase Folder 1 |
Posters of forums and events, etc
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Manuscript Box 40 |
Photocopies of newspaper clippings and other material on Joseph S. Illick and Hellen
J. Illick; Helen J. Illick paper on Anna Botsford Comstock
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1952-1992 | |
Box 8 |
A copy of Breed's thesis "A Comparative Study of the Lateral-line System on the Head
of North America Cyprinidae" and five volumes of the of hand drawings included in
the thesis.
|
1953 |