Content Description Files related to the career of geologist Gilbert Harris. Includes fieldwork from his childhood, his work on the faculty at Cornell, and his time as the founder of the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca New York. Includes research notes, particularly related to Cenozoic mollusks and Louisiana. Correspondence with scientists work related to his time with the United States Geologic Survey. Also files relating to his consulting work in Trinidad and elsewhere with petroleum and oil...

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Collection contains correspondence, publications, research materials, and professional papers of Katherine V.W. Palmer. Also included are: photographs of Palmer's friends and family, mementos, personal correspondence with her father and son; and library accession books as well as historical reports for the Paleontological Research Institute (PRI).