Guide to the Donald P. Abbott papers
Jenny Johnson
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
March 2012
Copyright © 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Overview
Call Number: SC1096
Creator:
Abbott, Donald Putnam, 1920-1986
Title: Donald P. Abbott papers
Dates: circa 1955-1982
Physical Description:
3.25 Linear feet
Summary: The papers consist primarily of notes and photographs created by Abbott for use in the classroom.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
This collection was an administrative transfer from Hopkins Marine Station, 2012.
Information about Access
Files in series 3 are restricted until January 1, 2050. Otherwise, the materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials
are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Ownership & Copyright
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Cite As
[identification of item], Donald P. Abbott papers (SC1096). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical note
Donald Putnam Abbott was born in 1920, and raised in Chicago. After Don graduated from University High School, he headed west
to Hawaii where he attended the University of Hawaii, earbubg a degree in Zoology in 1941. After the attack on Pearl Harbor,
he enlisted in the Army, serving in the Chemical Warfare Service through the war. When the war was over, he earned a PhD in
Zoology from Berkeley in 1950. After 1950 he spent his entire career at the Hopkins Marine Station (with excursions to the
Pacific and Indian Oceans). He retired in 1982, going back to Hawaii.
Don Abbott's courses at the Hopkins Marine Station were alway very popular, and the classroom was always full of students.
For ten years Abbott also offered a field course on the invertebrates on campus. He received the Dean's Award for teaching
in 1978 and that at the 1982 Commencement, he received the Dinkelspiel Award for Outstanding Service to Undergraduate Education.
A considerable part of Don's research was done at sea, or on tropical islands. Abbott's teaching extended to "Stanford at
Sea", established in 1963 by the gift of Harold Miller's yacht, Te Vega, which was refitted as a marine biology facility and
operated by Hopkins Marine Station from 1963 to 1970. Don was on many of these cruises: to the Indian Ocean (Mombasa to Singapore
in 1964), to Hawaii in 1967, the Eastern Pacific in 1968, and on Proteus to British Columbia in 1970.
Abbott died in 1986.
Scope and Contents
The papers consist primarily of notes created by Don Abbott for use in class lectures, talks, and seminars. Also included
are photographs of Abbott's blackboard illustrations used in the classroom, and other course-related material. Papers related
to student grades and identification numbers are restricted.
Access Terms
Hopkins Marine Station--Curricula.
Hopkins Marine Station--Faculty.
Hopkins Marine Station
Marine biology--Research
Marine invertebrates.
Series 1
Teaching/Lecture Notes
Box 1, Folder 1
Superphyla Pseudocoelomata
Box 1, Folder 2
Priapulids, Kinorhyncha, Tardigrada
Box 1, Folder 4
Phylogeny of Lower Metazoa
Box 1, Folder 12
Coelenterata general; Hydroida-Lec & Lab
Box 1, Folder 15
Evolution of Coelent., esp. Hydrozoa
Box 1, Folder 17
Outline of classification 111-112h
Box 1, Folder 18
Older version of talk and paper
Box 1, Folder 19
Phylogeny of the Mollusca
Box 1, Folder 20
General and introdution (slides)
Box 1, Folder 32
Extra pix (not used at UBC)
Box 1, Folder 33
[Planktoshpaera?}] with Mike Hadfield
Box 1, Folder 35
Origin of Molluscan Characters
Box 1, Folder 42
Mollusca-general; Gastropods-I; Protostomes-general
Box 1, Folder 44
Gastropoda-Opisthobranchia
Box 1, Folder 50
Arthropoda-general; Crustacea-general
Box 1, Folder 51
Crustacea-Diagrams lecture
Box 1, Folder 55
Euphausiids & Decapods I; Crustacea IV
Box 2, Folder 1
Arthropods other than crustacea
Box 2, Folder 2
Annelids and lab sketches
Box 2, Folder 8
Origin of vertebrates seminars-slides
Box 2, Folder 11
Phylogeny: E-C complex-evidence, evolution
Box 2, Folder 15
Tunicates and other Chordata
Box 2, Folder 16
Larval ecology-direct development
Box 2, Folder 21
Ophiuroids, evolution of Asterozoa
Box 2, Folder 26
Ecoelomate superphyla phoronida
Box 2, Folder 28
Marine invertebrates (biology 11h-112h)
1981
Box 2, Folder 35
Chondrophora; Siphonophora; Evolution Coelenterata
Series 3
Restricted Files
