Alfred Marshall Mayer and Alfred Goldsborough Mayor papers

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{"value"=>"Alfred Marshall Mayer was a noted American physicist born in Baltimore in 1836. His son, Alfred Goldsborough Mayor (1868-1922) was a noted marine zoologist and entomologist who changed the spelling of his last name to Mayor during World War I. Alfred Marshall Mayer's papers include correspondence, notes on physics and astronomy maintained as a student in Paris and as a teacher at Lehigh University and Stevens Institute of Technology. Material from Alfred Goldsborough Mayor includes academic papers, and notes on his studies at Harvard and on his expeditions to the Fiji Islands and the West Indies. Also included are drafts and colored illustrations for reports on zoology as director of the Totugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, Tortugas, Florida"}

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1864

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1922

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{"value"=>"Mayer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marshall), 1836-1897", "type"=>"persname"}

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1864

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{"value"=>"Alfred Marshall Mayer and Alfred Goldsborough Mayor papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}

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.58 linear feet (2 boxes)

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1864

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1922

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