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.

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.

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