Finding Aid for the Ranson-Windle-Krieg-Arey Neuroscience Reprints Collection Biomed.0144

Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2020 December 16.
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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Ranson-Windle-Krieg-Arey neuroscience reprints collection
Creator: Ranson, Stephen Walter, 1880-1942
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0144
Physical Description: 39.2 Linear Feet (98 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1849-1980
Language of Material: English .

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4435286 

Scope and Contents

Collection consists of approximately 8000 reprints and offprints amassed as a working collection, chiefly 1908-1956, by Stephen Walter Ranson and his colleagues and successors at the Northwestern University Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology and the Institute of Neurology: William F. Windle, Wendell J.S. Krieg and Leslie B. Adey. They represent significant contributions to all aspects of the antecedent fields of neuroscience, including neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, neuroendocrinology, and neurology. Authors include: Cornelius Ariëns Kappers, George H. Bishop, Frédéric Bremer, Henry H. Donaldson, J.G. Dusser de Barenne, Ralph W. Gerard, Charles Judson Herrick, Olaf Larsell, Horace W. Magoun, Giuseppe Moruzzi, Wilder Penfield, A.T. Rasmussen, and Charles S. Sherrington. Also includes Masters theses (12 of 26) and Ph. D. dissertations (12 of 19) of Ranson's students.