A Guide to the Papers of Henry Bryant Bigelow, 1913-1962
Manuscript Collection MC-20
1 box (.25 lin. ft.)
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution A Guide to the Papers of Henry Bryant Bigelow, 1913-1962 Manuscript Collection MC-20 1 box (.25 lin. ft.) |
Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879 - 1967) became the first Director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1930 and held that position until 1939. In 1927, while Bigelow was Associate Professor of Zoology at Harvard University and Curator of Oceanography at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, he was asked to prepare a report for the Committee on Oceanography of the National Academy of Science. The report was published in 1931 under his name as a book entitled Oceanography; Its Scope, Problems and Economic Importance. It led to the establishment of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, incorporated on January 6, 1930, with a grant from the Rockefeller Institute of $2 million plus $50,000 per year for ten years.
Upon retiring as director in 1939, Bigelow was elected a member and President of the Board of Trustees. WHOI also founded the Henry Bryant Bigelow Chair in Oceanography in 1958. In 1960, recognizing his great service to the Institution, he was named Founder Chairman of the Board. He was also the first recipient of the Henry Bryant Bigelow Medal, an award established that year in his honor.
Henry Bryant Bigelow died on December 11, 1967.
The Papers of Henry Bryant Bigelow consist of correspondence, reports, publications, and drawings by Bigelow.
The custodial history of the papers is undocumented.
Papers of Henry Bryant Bigelow, 1913-1962. MC-20, "Folder Name." Data Library and Archives, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
The correspondence folder was received from the Office of the Director on March 1, 1989. Drawings in folder 4 were received from Mary Sears on May 14, 1990.
First-level processing completed by David Sherman in March 2010.
Open: materials are available for research.
Copyright: Permission to publish material from the collection must be authorized by the Institution Archivist.
See also AC-41, the Records of the Committee on Oceanography, for related material.
See also the Archives at Harvard University for the Papers of Henry Bryant Bigelow, 1906-1964.
Arranged in a single series:
| Subject Files 1913-1962 1 box (.25 lin. ft.) | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content Note | |||||||||||
| The series consists of correspondence, reports, publications, and drawings by Bigelow. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| Folders are arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence of H.B. Bigelow [re: Gulf of Maine survey?] | 1913, 1920 | ||||||||
| 2 | Report on Oceanographic Work Carried on Jointly by Museum of Comparative Zoology and U.S. Bureau of Fisheries | May 1925 | |||||||||
| 3 | National Academy of Sciences Report of the Commission on Oceanography: Report on the Scope, Problem, and Economic Importance of Oceanography | 1930 | |||||||||
| 4 | Drawings published in “Medusae of th Templeton Crocker and Eastern Pacific Zaca Expedition, 1936-1938” | 1940 | |||||||||
| 5 | Phytoplankton and Planktonic Protozoa of the Offshore Waters, Gulf of Maine, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | December 1940 | |||||||||
| 6 | Rapport sur l'activite scientifique des differents services de l'etablissement de Paris et du Musee de Monaco: Reunion du Comite de Perfectionnement, Institut Oceanographique, Monaco | 1962 | |||||||||