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Preliminary Guide to the Beatrice Marcy Sweeney Papers
UArch FacP 25
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Title: Beatrice Marcy Sweeney Papers
Dates: ca. 1916-1991
Collection number: UArch FacP 25
Creator:
Sweeney, Beatrice M.
Collection Size:
11 linear feet
(11 boxes).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: The collection contains biographical and research files for Beatrice Marcy Sweeney, UCSB biology professor.
Physical location: Del Sur, University Archives, 29A.
Languages:
English
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Beatrice Marcy Sweeney Papers. UArch FacP 25. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Donation from husband, Paul Lee, 1998; UCSB Biology Lab, 1998; daughter, Beatrice (Poppy) DeMarco Dennis, 2000.
Beatrice Marcy Sweeney was born August 11, 1914 in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her Bachelor's from Smith College in
1936 and her PhD from Radcliffe College in 1942. After relocating to California, she worked at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography
as a research biologist. She married Paul Lee in 1961. In 1969 she returned to California to teach at UCSB. She is known for
her research in marine biology, particularly on phytoplankton. She died on July 17, 1989.
For more information, see the Office of Public Information Biographical Files, UArch 11.
Scope and Content of Collection
Arrangement
Materials are arranged as received as follows:
- One box of material from Paul Lee.
- One box and one folder from Poppy Dennis.
- Remaining boxes from her laboratory.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Sweeney, Beatrice M.
University of California, Santa Barbara
See also the Beatrice M. Sweeney collection at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Diversity (CCBER), Ms-12.
The guide is available online through the Online Archive of California (OAC):
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt987036r6/ .
Additional biographical information available in the Office of Public Information Biographical Files, UArch 11.