Box 27

Scope and Content From the Series:

The materials document special projects Nixon Griffis worked on at the New York Aquarium, first in his position as Assistant to the Director and later as a trustee of the New York Zoological Society. Topics primarily include suggestions for Aquarium exhibits and collecting activity, especially of benthic and mesopelagic marine animals. A few files include correspondence and photographs from William Beebe’s former Bathysphere colleague Otis Barton.

Scope and Content From the Series: The personnel materials primarily contain correspondence, grant applications and reports, reprints, and other documents pertaining to the work of the staff of the Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences; the series also includes a few files on New York Aquarium employees. Most material of a personal nature was removed and set aside for Human-Resource Department review; the records retained in the collection largely document the research interests and grants pursued by OLMS scientists....

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Includes photographs and photostats.

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Also see 'Goreau, Thomas'.