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Howard C. Howland papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-45-4015

Scope and content

Research files, slides and correspondence.

Dates

  • 1970-1998.

Creator

Language of Material

In English.

Restrictions on Access

Access to boxes 1-23 are restricted to the permission of the Internal Review Board.

Biographical / Historical

Professor of Neurobiology. The research in Howland's laboratory focused on vision, especially physiological optics. He worked for many years on the development of refractive state in infants, children and young adults. Other projects involve emmetropization and eye growth in chickens, measurements of monochromatic high-order aberrations of eyes, and compensation for corneal aberrations by the internal optics of the eye, and measurements of accommodation in a variety of animals.

Extent

28.4 cubic feet. (28.4 cubic feet.)

Status
Completed
Description rules
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Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
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Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
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