- Creator
- Mayer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marshall), 1836-1897
- Call number
- MssCol 1922
- Physical description
- .58 linear feet (2 boxes)
- Preferred Citation
- Alfred Marshall Mayer and Alfred Goldsborough Mayor papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
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
Key terms
Names
- Mayer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marshall), 1836-1897
- Mayor, Alfred Goldsborough, 1868-1922
- Carnegie Institution of Washington. Tortugas Laboratory
- Lehigh University
- Stevens Institute of Technology
Subjects
- Marine biology -- Fiji
- Marine biology -- West Indies
- Physics -- Study and teaching
- Zoological illustration
Occupations
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328