Coates, Christopher W. (Christopher William)
Person
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Frog Pregnancy Test, 1941
Item — Container: Unit 2, Shelf: D
Scope and Contents
Short film illustrating laboratory experiments with the "frog test"--ie. using frogs to test for pregnancy in humans. "Produced by A. L. Weisman MD from the Jewish Memorial Hospital. C.W. Coates NY Aquarium. Photography by Murray Spago New York Aquarium." "Over 3,000 tests on 11,000 animals by twelve groups of workers show that this test for early pregnancy is as accurate as the A-Z or Friedman tests but is much more rapid." "The 'frogs' are stored at the Aquarium after their arrival from...
Dates:
1941
Frog Pregnancy Test (Outtakes), 1941
Item — Container: Unit 2, Shelf: D
Scope and Contents
Outtakes from Frog Pregnancy Test film.
Dates:
1941
New York Aquarium. Office of Director. Charles M. Breder and Christopher W. Coates records
Fonds
Identifier: 3009
Abstract
The collection holds records from Charles M. Breder and Christopher W. Coates, who were, respectively, the last Director of the New York Aquarium in its original building in Battery Park on Manhattan (where it was located from 1896 to 1941) and the first Director of the New York Aquarium in its current facility on Coney Island in Brooklyn (where it has been located from 1957 until the present). Breder's records pertain primarily to the work of Myron Gordon at the Aquarium's Fish Genetics...
Dates:
1939 - 1956
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
Trailing the Seahorse, 1936
Item — Container: Unit 3, Shelf: D
Scope and Contents
Film about seahorses, shot at the New York Aquarium at Battery Park. "Dialogue by Christopher W. Coates, Photography by Sam C. Dunton"--Film credits.
Dates:
1936
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- Aquarium animals 2
- Public aquariums -- Design and construction 2
- Electrophorus (Fish) 1
- Ichthyologists 1
- Marine biologists 1
- Marine ecology 1
- Marine laboratories 1
- Xiphophorus 1
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