Henry Crosby Stetson papers
Scope and Content Note
The Henry Crosby Stetson papers contain correspondence, data, reports and other material related to Stetson's work at WHOI from 1931 to 1958.
Dates
- 1931-1958
Language of Materials
The records are in
English.
Access
Open: materials are available for research.
Use
Copyright: Permission to publish material from the collection must be authorized by the Institution Archivist.
Biographical Information
Henry Crosby Stetson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 10, 1900. He graduated from the Browne and Nichols School, and later received an A.B. (1923) and A.M. (1926) in geology from Harvard University.
Beginning in 1927, Stetson was a lecturer in geology at Harvard. In 1930, Henry Bigelow invited Stetson to join the staff at WHOI as head of its new program in submarine geology and marine sediments. He had also been an assistant curator in paleontology at the Museum of Comparitive Zoology, but changed to assistant curator of oceanography after beginning his association with WHOI. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union.
Stetson died unexpectedly in December 1955 while aboard the Atlantis on a cruise off the coast of Chile.
Extent
3 boxes (1.25 lin. ft.)
Overview
The Henry Crosby Stetson papers contain correspondence, data, reports and other material related to Stetson's work at WHOI from 1931 to 1958.
Arrangement
Arranged in three series:
List of Series:
Custodial History
The custodial history of the papers is undocumented.
Acquisitions Information
The correspondence series was received in 1982 as acc.82-50.
Processing Information
First-level processing completed by Werner Deuser in September 2010.
- Title
- A Guide to the Henry Crosby Stetson papers, 1931-1958
- Author
- David Sherman
- Date
- 2010
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written inEnglish
Repository Details
Part of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Data Library and Archives Repository