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Chemistry -- Study and teaching.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Huntington Hooker notebooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-679
Scope and content

Notebooks of lectures and laboratory reports for courses in chemistry, English, geology, law, and industrial organization; unidentified in psychology and the history of philosophy; a treasurer's report for The Hill Club of Cornell University, a register of friends' signatures, a typescript story of class cutting and miscellaneous Cornelliana.

Dates: 1912-1920.

Archibald R. Ward papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6596
Abstract

Scrapbooks, notebooks, and one photograph album kept by Archibald R. Ward from 1910-1914, documenting his studies at Cornell and work in the Philippines, primarily relating to cattle diseases such as rinderpest and contagious bovine pleuropneumonia.

Dates: 1893-1941.

Benjamin Widom papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-8-4556
Content Description

The Benjamin Widom papers (1948-2020) contains teaching materials, lectures and talks, correspondence, research files, professional and administrative files, and Cornell Chemistry Department material relating to the career of Benjamin Widom. The collection also contains reprints of every publication authored or co-authored by Widom.

Dates: 1948 - 2020

Charles Hanford Kendall course notes

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065184966]
Identifier: 37-5-2115
Scope and content

Six course notebooks of Charles H. Kendall for seven courses: Shades, Shadows, and Perspective; Metallurgy; Pen Topography; Economic Geology; General Geology; Chemistry; and Botany.

Dates: 1891-1893.

Chrissy Dedrick papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-4023
Scope and content

Scrapbooks of programs, booklets, photographs and other memorabilia for each of her four years at Cornell. Also, chemistry notes, 1955-1956; sorority photographs from Alpha Omicron Pi; pledge handbook; Commencement programs; "Scriptorium Cornellianum," alumni notes, 1958; and a wedding photograph.

Dates: 1953-1960.

Cornell University Department of Chemistry records

 Collection — Manuscript box 18 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065305561]
Identifier: 14-8-2535
Abstract

Historical material relating to the Chemistry Department includes photographs (including prints, and glass and film slides), articles, lecture notes, memorabilia, correspondence, tape recordings, programs, material on professorial exchanges, and announcements.

Dates: 1865 - 1977

Edwin A. Filmer class notebooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-3001
Scope and content

Bound typescript and manuscript class notes taken by Filmer while attending classes at Cornell University, mainly in geology and chemistry, with professors O. A. von Engeln, L. M. Dennis, T. R. Briggs, F. H. Rhodes, and others.

Dates: 1909-1912.

Franklin A. Long papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 53-12-2460
Scope and content "Memoranda for the Record," relating to Long's professional activities at Cornell University, including the Program on Science, Technology, and Society and the Peace Program; applications for fellowships from the Institute for the Study of World Politics; files relating to the Luce Professorship Program and the Luce Professorship at Cornell, to a Corporation Visting Committee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and to a controversy over an amendment proposed by Senator Mike...
Dates: 1964-1984.

George Chapman Caldwell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-8-271
Scope and content

Diaries, lecture notes, personal accounts, a thesis, photographs, and pamphlets. Includes diaries of Caldwell and his wife, and of George W. Chamberlain, his son-in-law who was a professor of architecture at Cornell; notes kept by Caldwell on Louis Agassiz's lectures; family photographs, clippings, and letters, and an elaborate set of financial accounts kept by Caldwell. Typescript of a vacation journal, 1855.



Dates: 1853-1903.

Heinrich Behrens letters, to Emile Monnin Chamot.

 Collection — Manuscript box 29 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065307906]
Identifier: 14-8-2264
Scope and content

Letters relating to a proposed trip by Chamot to Delft.

Dates: 1897-1898,