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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Mayer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marshall), 1836-1897
- Title:
- Hyatt and Mayer Collection
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/44558d325
- Dates:
- 1804-1921
- Size:
- 9 boxes, 46 folios, 8 Volumes, and 5.1 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-9
- Language:
- English
Abstract
The Hyatt and Mayer Collection consists primarily of correspondence between Alfred Marshall Mayor (1836-1897), physicist, his son Alfred Goldsborough Mayor (1868-1922), biologist, and Alpheus Hyatt (1838-1902), zoologist and paleontologist, and colleagues in their various fields. Also included are eight volumes of photographs taken by Alfred M. Mayer during scientific expeditions to the islands of the Pacific Ocean.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists primarily of correspondence between Alfred Marshall Mayer (1836-1897), physicist, his son Alfred Goldsborough Mayor (1868-1922), biologist, and Alpheus Hyatt (1838-1902), zoologist and paleontologist, and colleagues in their various fields. Correspondents include Louis Agassiz, Frederick A. P. Barnard, Francis Blake, John Alfred Brashear, William Cullen Bryant, Timothy Cole, Edwin Grant Conklin, Charles Darwin, Thomas A. Edison, William M. Evarts, Michael Faraday, John Thomas Gulick, Edward Everett Hale, Abram S. Hewitt, John Grier Hibben, Henry Holt, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Julia Ward Howe, William James, A. A. Michelson, Moses Taylor Pyne, John Tyndall, and Henry Van Dyke. Also included is a ledger of Alpheus Hyatt, containing various accounts (1865-1903), printed articles by Alfred G. Mayor, genealogies and photographs of the Mayer and Goldsborough families, 1865-1903, and eight volumes of photographs taken by Alfred M. Mayer during scientific expeditions to the islands of the Pacific Ocean.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Mayer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marshall), 1836-1897
Alfred Marshall Mayer (1836-1897) was a physicist; his son Alfred Goldsborough Mayer (1868-1922) a biologist, and Alpheus Hyatt (1838-1902) a zoologist and paleontologist. The three corresponded among themselves and with other colleagues in the field about their expeditions in the Pacific, which included voyages to Japan, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia, New Guinea, Tonga, and Samoa, among other places.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of A. Hyatt Mayor and Harriet Hyatt Mayor. Transfered from Mudd Library.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Alexandra Lee Brandon and Matthew Fisherin 2004. Finding aid written by Alexandra Lee Brandon and Matthew Fisherin 2004.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Hyatt and Mayer Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/44558d325
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-9
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- Subject Terms:
- Biologists -- United States -- 19th century.
Biology -- Experiments -- 19th century.
Biology -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Physicists -- United States -- 19th century.
Physics -- Experiments -- 19th century.
Physics -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Scientific expeditions -- Pacific Ocean -- 19th century -- Photographs. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 19th century
Photographs -- 19th century. - Names:
- Hyatt, Alpheus, 1838-1902
Mayer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marshall), 1836-1897
Mayor, Alfred Goldsborough, 1868-1922
