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Call Number: SC0390
Creator:
Jenkins, Hubert Oliver.
Title: Hubert Oliver Jenkins papers
Dates: 1902-1948
Physical Description:
1.75 Linear feet
Summary: Papers document his academic career at Stanford and include
drawings and notes from science classes, 1903-1907; notes from a class at Hopkins Marine
Station, 1932; and notes, maps, financial accounts, and a diary from his doctoral
research on meadow mice in Benwood Meadows, Eldorado County, California, 1937-1939.
Other items include his high school notebook, reprints, maps, and an abstract of his
dissertation.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
This collection is open for research.
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.
Hubert Oliver Jenkins Papers (SC0390). Department of Special Collections and
University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Hubert Oliver Jenkins, born in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1885, was the son of Stanford.
professor Oliver P. Jenkins. He received his A.B. in zoology from Stanford in 1907 and
his M.S. in biology and public health from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After 1931 he taught in the geology and natural history department at Sacramento Junior
College in Sacramento, CA. Jenkins completed his Ph.D. in biology at Stanford in 1940.
In 1958 he published Glaciation in Big Bend National Park, Texas (Sacramento: Sacramento
State College Foundation).
Papers document his academic career at Stanford and include drawings and notes from
science classes, 1903-1907; notes from a class at Hopkins Marine Station, 1932; and
notes, maps, financial accounts, and a diary from his doctoral research on meadow mice
in Benwood Meadows, Eldorado County, California, 1937-1939. Other items include his high
school notebook, reprints, maps, and an abstract of his dissertation.
Jenkins, Hubert Oliver.
Stanford University--Students.
Benwood Meadows (Eldorado County, Calif.).
Maps.
Microtus.
Zoology--Study and teaching.