SCI. Scientific Collections

Scope and Contents Eight-millimeter films documenting the travels of the Means family through North America and Europe.

Online Copies Available http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:meanspapers

Scope and Contents Digital copies of reports, meeting presentations and posters, outreach materials, publications, photos/videos, social media archives, and other organizational documents related to the Deep-C Consortium.

Scope and Contents Ephemera and records from the Biology Department.

Note to researchers: This collection is in process, and portions remain unavailable to researchers at this time. Please contact FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives for more information.

Abstract Documents pertaining to FSU biology professor Dr. Dexter M. Easton's professional and personal life, from his childhood in the 1930s through his death in 2010. Includes documents pertaining to his education, his scientific research, and his work as a university professor.

Abstract The Florida State College for Women Department of Botany and Bacteriology Ledger Book documents equipment purchased for this department.

Abstract This collection includes correspondence, blueprints, cruise information, boat registration, research statistics, maps and photographs related to the Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratory.

Scope and Contents Journal reprints of scholarly writings by leading marine biologists regarding crustaceans. A very large group of invertebrates, comprising of almost 52,000 described species, crustaceans include various familiar animals, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The majority of them are aquatic, living in either marine or freshwater environments, but a few groups have adapted to life on land, such as terrestrial crabs, terrestrial hermit crabs and woodlice.The collection includes typescripts of Dr. Abele's Florida State University M.A. Thesis, The marine decapod crustacea of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico (1970), and his...

Scope and Contents Personal papers, journal publications, and handwritten notebooks of Professor Michael Kasha.

Note to researchers: This collection is in process, and portions remain unavailable to researchers at this time. Please contact FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives for more information.

Abstract The Paul A. M. Dirac Papers consists of the personal and family papers, photographs, manuscripts, galley proofs, and published papers, scientific calculations, lecture notes, and office files of Dr. Paul A. M. Dirac, winner of the Nobel Prize (Physics, 1933). Materials relating to his professorships at St. John's College at Cambridge University where he held the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics chair from his election in 1932 until his retirement in 1969 and then as Professor of Physics at Florida State University from 1972 until his death in 1984, comprise the bulk of the Collection. A small group of audio recordings, certificates, realia, and selected published items transferred from his...

Abstract The Menzel collection contains over 12,000 sources that relates to oceanography and marine biology. Most of the collection consists of reprints of articles Menzel collected during his academic and professional career. Other materials found in this collection are articles, pamphlets, catalogs, student papers, proceedings, notes, and personal documentations.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, subject files, organizational records, and chemical data documenting the research, instruction, and professional service of Shridhar K. Sathe. Subjects documented include food science, nutrition, food allergies, the Department of Nutrition, Food & Exercise Sciences at Florida State University, the Journal of Food Science, and the Institute of Food Technologists.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, speeches, lecture, newsclippings, photographs, geology field notes, and journals from his service in World War II primarily documenting Dr. Winters' distinguished career as a geology instructor at Florida State University and his work as dean of its honors programs.

Abstract The Maurice Givens papers are a collection of manuscripts, research, notebooks, experiment results, and academic course work with a variety of professional and personal correspondence.