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CORRESPONDENCE 1913-1941

Box 1

Undated 1893-1912

Box 2

1913-1917

Box 3

1918-1941

 

MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGO AND SCRIPPS INSTITUTION FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Box 4, Folder 1

"Report on hydrographic work, done in connection with the Marine Biological Investigations at San Pedro" 1901

Box 4, Folder 2

"Preliminary report to the President of the University...on the marine biological explorations conducted by the Zoological Department..." 1901

Box 4, Folder 3

Annual reports 1902-1905

Box 4, Folder 4

Notes, "Requirements for making the boat house at Coronado serviceable for a marine biological laboratory" ca. 1903

Box 4, Folder 5

Materials on the Scripps Institution for Biological Research 1906-1916

Box 4, Folder 6

Notes, "Course to be followed" 1907

Box 4, Folder 7

Comments on the culture of the Department of Zoology and the study of biology for the President's Report 1910 April

Box 4, Folder 8

Draft, "Aims of the proposed laboratory to the fulfillment of which the University agrees to be bound" ca. 1912

Box 4, Folder 9

Advertisement for a public Scripps lecture series entitled "Resources of the sea" 1914 August

Box 4, Folder 10

Scientific collecting permits from the CA Fish and Game Commission 1915-1918

Box 4, Folder 11

"Warnock's data showing relation between water temperature and the albacore catch" 1917

Box 4, Folder 12

"Resolutions re an international treaty and an international commission for the study of fishery problems of the North Pacific" 1923 January 27

Box 4, Folder 13

Directions for collecting microplankton by measured water method undated

 

NOTES, WRITINGS AND LECTURES

Box 4, Folder 14

Miscellaneous notes undated

Box 4, Folder 15

Notes on Balanoglossus ca. 1890

Box 4, Folder 16-20

Manuscript and illustrations, Enteropneusta of Pacific coast of North America ca. 1900-1904

Box 4, Folder 21

Notes and drawings on Tornaria 1900-1905

Box 4, Folder 22

Manuscript and notes, "Theoretical phylogenic aspects of Enteropneusta" ca. 1902-1936

Box 4, Folder 23

"Lecture to the citizens of La Jolla," on the expansion of Scripps 1907 July

Box 4, Folder 24

Photographs, sketches and notes on Dermochelys schlegelii (leatherback turtle) caught in La Jolla 1908 June 22

Box 4, Folder 25

"Science for the Millions" reprint from Scientific American Monthly and Science Service ephemera ca. 1921

Box 4, Folder 26

Notes 1921 September

Box 4, Folder 27

Printed booklet, Natural Versus Supernatural 1930

Box 4, Folder 28

Manuscript, "Philosophy of E. W. Scripps" 1944

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Box 5, Folder 1

"Recommendations and suggestions of the Committee on Conservation of Marine Life of the Pacific...relating to the Fur Seal Treaty of December 15, 1911" 1922 February

Box 5, Folder 2

Minutes of the Committee on Zoological Investigations 1917-1918

Box 5, Folder 3

Minutes of the Executive Committee of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1918-1922

Box 5, Folder 4

Minutes and remarks, National Research Council, Division of Foreign Relations 1921-1922

 

PHOTOGRAPHS AND MISCELLANEOUS

Box 5, Folder 5

Guestbook 1910-1923

General note

Guestbook was a gift from Ellen Browning Scripps in 1910. Contains signatures and remarks of guests of the Ritters at their apartment in the Scripps Laboratory from June 24, 2010 to June 23, 1923, including all station staff, members of the Scripps family, University administrators, and distinguished visitors like David Starr Jordan, Clarance Darrow, and Lincoln Steffens.
Box 5, Folder 6

Ritter house plans, Berkeley, Calif. 1908 October 1

General note

Photographic reproductions of plans for the house, never built, designed by Morgan and Hoover, Architects. Originals at UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design.
 

Photographs

Box 5, Folder 7

Portraits of William E. Ritter and Mary Bennett Ritter 1908-1940

General note

One photograph from this folder has been digitized and may be viewed through the link below.
 

William E. and Mary B. Ritter 1908

 

William E. and Mary B. Ritter, 1908

Box 6, Folder 1-2

Oversize portraits of William E. Ritter and Mary Bennett Ritter 1908-1925

General note

One photograph from this folder has been digitized and may be viewed through the link below.
 

William E. and Mary B. Ritter, Mirror Lake, Yosemite 1912 June 23

 

William E. and Mary B. Ritter, Mirror Lake, Yosemite, 1912 June 23

Box 5, Folder 8

Portrait of Ellen Browning Scripps 1919

Box 6, Folder 3

Portrait of E. W. Scripps [?] 1900