Thomas Wayland Vaughan Papers, 1901-1951 (SMC 14)

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Extent: 1 Linear feet (2 archives boxes, 1 half box)

Digital Content

Selected photographs from this collection have been digitized and can be viewed through links in the container list.

The collection consists of professional correspondence, photographs, and manuscripts relating to the research interests of Thomas Wayland Vaughan.

Thomas Wayland Vaughan (1870-1952) was a geologist and oceanographer. He earned his B.S. from Tulane and completed his Ph.D. in biology at Harvard in 1903. Vaughan was an associate geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1894-1903, and an Associate in Marine Sediments (1924-1942) and Associate in Paleontology (1942-1952) at the United States National Museum. From 1894 to 1923 Vaughan contributed to geological surveys of the West Indies, Panama Canal Zone, and the Atlantic and Gulf Coast Plains, among other areas. In 1924 Vaughan became Director of the Scripps Institution for Biological Research, which was renamed the Scripps Institution of Oceanography to reflect the organization's narrowed focus on physical, chemical, and geological oceanography under his tenure. His research interests included corals and coral reefs, larger foraminifera, and oceanography. He retired in 1936.

The collection consists of professional correspondence with colleagues, photographs, and manuscripts relating to the research interests of Thomas Wayland Vaughan. Items of particular note include photographic portraits, letters from zoologist Addison Emery Verrill, gardening journals documenting plantings on the Scripps campus grounds, and a 3-volume manuscript entitled Catalogue of Institutions Engaged in Oceanographic Work compiled by Vaughan for the National Academy of Sciences.

Additional Vaughan materials may be found in the following collections:

SIO Office of the Director Records, SAC 1. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

SIO Biographical Files, SAC 5. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Container List

THOMAS WAYLAND VAUGHAN PAPERS

Correspondence

Box 1 Folder 1-5
Miscellaneous, 1901-1951
Box 1 Folder 6
John B. Harrison, Director, Science and Agriculture Dept., Georgetown, British Guiana, 1919-1921
Box 1 Folder 7
Addison Emery Verrill, 1901-1902
Box 1 Folder 8
Jay B. Woodworth, "Relating to the geology of Cape Cod and the islands south of Rhode Island and Massachusetts" , 1915-1916

Photographs

Box 1 Folder 9
Portrait, Dorothy Quincy Upham Vaughan, undated
Box 1 Folder 10
Rarotonga, Cook Islands and Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 1913
Box 1 Folder 11
William Wallace Campbell and T. Wayland Vaughan, 1927
Box 1 Folder 12
Portraits, T. Wayland Vaughan, ca. 1923-1936

Selected photographs from this folder have been digitized.

Box 1 Folder 13
Andrew P. Orr, Vaughan, and others. Millport Marine Biological Station, Great Cumbrae Island, Scotland, 1936

Individuals pictured include Vaughan, Orr (chemist), Richard Elmhurst (director of the Station), and Sheina M. Marshall (naturalist).

Manuscripts and research materials

Box 1 Folder 14-15
Gardening and grounds-keeping journals, 1924-1925
Box 1 Folder 16
Bio-bibliography and appointment file, ca. 1930
Box 2 Folder 1-3
Manuscript, Catalogue of Institutions Engaged in Oceanographic Work, Volumes 1-3, 1937-1938
Box 2 Folder 4
Report on Oceanography at the Fifth Pacific Science Congress, Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia, 1933 June
Box 2 Folder 5
International Committee on the Coral Reefs of the Pacific - Report of the Chairman, Thomas Wayland Vaughan, 1929
Box 3 Folder 1
Coral specimen photographs, "Duchassaing and Michelotti's types of symphylliai", ca. 1924
Box 3 Folder 2
Scrapbook of the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, Australia. Vaughan's Trip around the World , 1923