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Box 2

 Container

Contains 11 Results:

Correspondence -- Electric eel, 1945 - 1951

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Scope and Content From the Fonds: The collection includes correspondence, reports, and financial records from New York Aquarium Directors Charles M. Breder and Christopher W. Coates. Breder's records pertain primarily to the work of Myron Gordon at the Aquarium's Fish Genetics Laboratory. Coates's materials also include correspondence with and about Gordon, but are more varied. Other materials include articles written by Coates, as well as files on electric eels, the operation of the Bronx Zoo’s Penguin House, the...
Dates: 1945 - 1951

Correspondence -- Encyclopedia Britannica, 1948

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Scope and Content From the Fonds: The collection includes correspondence, reports, and financial records from New York Aquarium Directors Charles M. Breder and Christopher W. Coates. Breder's records pertain primarily to the work of Myron Gordon at the Aquarium's Fish Genetics Laboratory. Coates's materials also include correspondence with and about Gordon, but are more varied. Other materials include articles written by Coates, as well as files on electric eels, the operation of the Bronx Zoo’s Penguin House, the...
Dates: 1948

Correspondence -- Penguin House operation, 1948 - 1951

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Scope and Content From the Fonds: The collection includes correspondence, reports, and financial records from New York Aquarium Directors Charles M. Breder and Christopher W. Coates. Breder's records pertain primarily to the work of Myron Gordon at the Aquarium's Fish Genetics Laboratory. Coates's materials also include correspondence with and about Gordon, but are more varied. Other materials include articles written by Coates, as well as files on electric eels, the operation of the Bronx Zoo’s Penguin House, the...
Dates: 1948 - 1951

Correspondence -- Carlisle, Donald, 1945 - 1949

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Content From the Fonds: The collection includes correspondence, reports, and financial records from New York Aquarium Directors Charles M. Breder and Christopher W. Coates. Breder's records pertain primarily to the work of Myron Gordon at the Aquarium's Fish Genetics Laboratory. Coates's materials also include correspondence with and about Gordon, but are more varied. Other materials include articles written by Coates, as well as files on electric eels, the operation of the Bronx Zoo’s Penguin House, the...
Dates: 1945 - 1949

Correspondence -- Earthworm farms, 1946 - 1950

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Platypus food. Includes plans / sketches of earthworm soil beds. Also see memo from Coates to Nigrelli, on a Saturday in 1948, regarding Lee Crandall, David Fleay, and running the platypusary to manage the immense crowds.

Dates: 1946 - 1950

Correspondence -- Miscellaneous, 1939 - 1954

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Includes Oct. 1942 correspondence with NYPD regarding NYA acquisition of electric parts from seized pinball machines.

Dates: 1939 - 1954

Correspondence -- Gordon, Myron, 1950 - 1952

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Genetics Lab correspondence; especially concerning grants and Gordon's collecting expeditions in Mexico and Central America.

Dates: 1950 - 1952