Description
This small collection pertains to the early career of microscopist Daniel C. Pease, Ph.D. (1914-2001) at the University of
Southern California (USC) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Pease developed thin-slice histological techniques
for electron microscopy at USC; two tearsheets from magazines in 1949 show him with brains and his microtomes. He was recruited
from USC to teach microscopic anatomy at the new school of medicine at UCLA in 1951; a ca. 1950 mimeographed student-produced
guide to classes, texts, and instructors at USC ("Caput mortuum: worthless residue; the most excellent and lamentable guide
for freshmen, written by sophomores: not for faculty--by some damn fools (sophomores) for some damn fools, amen", [21] leaves)
lauds Pease, "the one and only" as an instructor of neuroanatomy and histology, "Good as ten men put together." Pease's curriculum
vitae and National Science Foundation biographical statement from 1980 are kept in photocopy because of the water-damaged
condition of the originals. Pease's mostly undated, untitled, loose-leaf or spiral-bound laboratory notebooks were discarded
upon receipt because of severe water-damage problems due to their former storage conditions.