Wilder gorilla miscellany
Collection — manuscript box: 5 - folder 1
Identifier: 14-25-m.1043
Scope and content
Includes letter from Robert Yerkes to Lauriston Sharp, December 18, 1942, with data sheet concerning the gorilla and his brain; typescript copy of an excerpt from the ITHACA JOURNAL, May 21, 1897, regarding the acquisition of the gorilla by Cornell University; two photographs of gorilla by Elmer Chickering; and an article, "The Ape in Stateroom 10" from NATURAL HISTORY, 1976, by John Whittaker and Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, concerning Burt Green Wilder's interest in gorilla neurological anatomy.
Dates
- 1897-1976.
Creator
- Cornell University. Department of Anthropology (Organization)
- Chickering, Elmer. (Person)
Extent
5 items. (5 items.)
Language of Materials
English
- Brain -- Research
- Cornell University -- : Faculty.
- Gorillas -- Anatomy.
- Kennedy, Kenneth A. R. (Title of work: Ape in stateroom 10..)
- Neurology -- Research.
- Sharp, Lauriston.
- Whittaker, John. (Title of work: Ape in stateroom 10..)
- Wilder, Burt G. (Burt Green), 1841-1925.
- Yerkes, Robert M. (Robert Mearns), 1876-1956.
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)