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Burt Green Wilder hygiene lecture petitions

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 14-26-523

Scope and content

Printed and manuscript petitions from Cornell University seniors and others, each year from 1879-1894, requesting that Professor Wilder deliver for them his customary lecture to male seniors on hygiene and morality. The printed petition, to be filled out and signed by one student per copy, also allowed each student to express his opinion as to whether stamping was appropriate in the classroom. Also included are letters and other manuscript comments concerning the lecture.

Dates

1879-1894.

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Burt Green Wilder was a neurologist, professor of anatomy, comparative neurology, and zoology at Cornell University.

Extent

.2 cubic feet. (.2 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Gift of Albert Hazen Wright and Perry W. Gilbert, who found the collection in McGraw Hall as its Vertebrate Museum was being dismantled..