Accession No.: 2007-28
PROCESSING RECORD
SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY ARCHIVES
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Bullock, Theodore Holmes 1915-2005
Theodore Holmes Bullock Papers, 1964-1988
Physical Description: 3 manuscript boxes, 1 legal manuscript box
Description: These are additional papers of Theodore Bullock Papers found outside
his DSDP office. The accession includes field records and films. The filed records
consists of data files documenting observations/experiments with sharks, rays,
Sternopygus, sea lions and other marine life. There are also files of meeting notes
for conferences, including a conference at Kotor, Yugoslavia March-May 1973.
The accession includes 3 8mm and 6 16mm films documenting expeditions and lab
experiments. The 8mm color films are labeled: Alpha Helix Amazon Expedition:
Brazil, 1967; Panama Barrio Colorado Is. 1965; and Belem, 1967. The 16mm
films include cans labeled Bullock, 1964; J.A.R. film, 1969; Sloth Panama 70 2 of
2.
Neurobiologist Ted Bullock was born in Nanking, China in 1915, the second of
four children of Presbyterian missionaries. He married Martha Runquist. He
received an A.A. (Associate in Arts) degree from Pasadena Junior College, in
1934. While a student in Berkeley, he worked on the termite research project for
Charles A. Kofoid. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California at
Berkeley in 1940. After serving for 20 years as a professor of zoology and member
of the Brain Research Institute at UCLA, Bullock joined UCSD in July, 1966 and
worked at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography until his retirement. He was
elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1963.
Alpha Helix Amazon Expedition (1967)
Scientific expeditions Amazon River
Comparative neurobiology
Neurophysiology
Neurosciences Research Program