Description
Stanford materials in this collection,
1893-1906, include student application materials, notes from a lecture series by Rev.
Charles R. Brown, class papers and exams, letters regarding his teaching position at
Stanford, his Stanford diplomas, invitation from Jane L. Stanford (1905), and three
photographs of the quad. Other papers include correspondence, 1907-1918; Cox's tribute to
John Maxson Stillman; report written while director of the Bureau of Science in the
Philippines, 1917; and a teaching certificate for Mary Amelia Barnett (Mrs. Alvin C. Cox),
1903.
Background
Alvin Joseph Cox earned his a.b., 1901, and M.A., 1902, at Stanford and his Ph.D. in
chemistry at the University of Breslau, Germany, 1904. He was an instructor in the Dept. of
Chemistry at Stanford from 1901-1907 (on leave 1902-04). He then became a chemist for the
Philippine government's Bureau of Science, serving as chief of the chemical laboratory and
then director of the Bureau (1914-19). He returned to San Francisco where he was a
consulting chemist; in 1931 he joined the state agriculture department.
Restrictions
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.
Availability
This collection is open for research.