Howard B. Adelmann papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 14-26-994

Scope and content

Includes articles; papers; research material for articles and books; photographs; student scrapbook; certificates and diplomas, including a certificate issued to Adelmann as head of the Cornell University Department of Zoology; letters from Cornell to Adelmann regarding salary increments; transcript of grades while at Cornell; and Phi Beta Kappa reunion program and letter to Adelmann.

Scope and content

Includes Adelmann's notebook from an ornithology course given by Arthur A. Allen, Spring 1918; and Adelmann's Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, 3rd class medal (given to people who have made valuable contributions to the reconstruction of Italy). Also, personal correspondence, and obituaries of Adelmann.

Dates

[ca.1912-1988].

Creator

Adelmann, Howard B. (Howard Bernhardt), 1898-1988. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Zoologist, embryologist. Howard B. Adelmann was born in Buffalo, New York on May 8, 1898. He graduated from Cornell University in 1920, received a M.A. in 1922 and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1924, and attended the University of Freiburg in Germany in 1927. He taught histology and embryology and was chairman of the Department of Zoology at Cornell University, and he served as a faculty representative on the Board of Trustees. Memberships include Phi Beta Kappa, the American Society of Zoologists, and several other organizations. He was associate editor of the JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY and wrote THE EMBRYOLOGICAL TREATISES OF HIERONYMUS FABRICIUS; MARCELLO MALPIGHI AND THE EVOLUTION OF EMBRYOLOGY; and scientific papers for professional journals.