Nigrelli, Ross F., (Ross Franco), 1902-1989
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
New York Aquarium. Office of Director. Ross F. Nigrelli Papers
Collection
Identifier: 3053
Abstract
The collection consists of materials from Ross F. Nigrelli, Director of the New York Aquarium and the Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences. It includes correspondence, subject files, manuscripts, reprints, and theses from Nigrelli's students.
Dates:
1929 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1980
New York Aquarium. Senior Staff records
Collection
Identifier: 3054
Abstract
The collection holds correspondence, administrative and operational records, subject files, and other materials from directors, curators, and other senior staff at the New York Aquarium. After a long closure, the New York Zoological Society [NYZS] reopened the New York Aquarium [NYA] in its new location on Coney Island in 1957, with Director Christopher W. Coates at the helm. Coates’s 1964 retirement, however, heralded the start of over a decade of high turnover for the Aquariums directors...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1964 - 1979; 1955-1979
New York Zoological Society. Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences and New York Aquarium records
Collection
Identifier: 3001
Abstract
The collection holds records from the New York Aquarium and the Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences. The New York Aquarium, founded in 1896 and operated by the New York Zoological Society since 1902, was moved from its original Manhattan location in 1941. After an interlude at the Bronx Zoo, a new Aquarium opened in 1957 in Coney Island, Brooklyn. The Aquarium’s research laboratories, which had also been moved offsite, reunited with the public Aquarium a decade later, in 1967. The...
Dates:
circa 1900-1998; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1990
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- Subject: Aquatic animals X