Helen I. Breed papers
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Scope and content
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.
Dates
- 1947-1992.
Creator
- Breed, Helen Illick, 1925-2001. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
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.
Extent
6 cubic feet. (6 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Includes student papers and research materials for Hellen I. Breed's doctoral dissertation.
Physical Description
Student papers and research materials .
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Katherine A. Talcott
- Date completed:
- April 2005
- EAD encoding:
- Katherine A. Talcott, April 2005
- Date modified:
- Jude Corina, July 2017
- Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930.
- Cyprinidae.
- Hybopsis.
- Ichthyologists.
- Ichthyology.
- New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Natural Resources
- Posters.
- Raney, Edward C. (Edward Cowden), 1909-
- United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Location of meeting: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1992 :.)
- Women scientists -- United States.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Katherine A. Talcott
- Date
- April 2005
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2007-05-29: converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)