Anthropology and Evolution Courses Collection (Harold H. Plough Papers), 1939-1958
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Plough Anthropology and Evolution Course Materials
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Plough, Harold H., 1892-
Biographical History for: Plough Anthropology and Evolution Course Materials
Historical Note Harold H. Plough (AC 1913) Harold Henry Plough was born on April 5, 1892 in New York City. He attended Amherst College, graduating in 1913, and went on to study at Columbia, receiving his MA in 1915, and his PhD in 1917. After serving as a fellow at Columbia for a year, Plough returned to Amherst where he joined the biology department, and continued to serve as a professor at Amherst until his retirement in 1959. Plough led a distinguished career as a geneticist, publishing over 30 papers on technical subjects in biology over his lifetime. He spent many summers teaching and doing research at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., where he discovered four new species of Ascidians, a specialized phylum of marine chordates. Plough also specialized in radiation-induced mutations, and acted as consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission in the early 1950s. Plough served in the US Army Sanitary Corps in both world wars as a bacteriologist.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The papers consist of lab exercises, lecture topics, outlines, lecture notes, examinations, and correspondence relating to Anthropology and Evolution courses taught at Amherst by Professor Harold H. Plough. Anthropology materials cover a number of courses from the period of 1939 to 1958. Evolution materials cover the course Evolution of the Earth and Man from 1947 to 1957.
Anthropology--Study and teaching--Massachusetts--Amherst.
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Evolution--Study and teaching--Massachusetts--Amherst.
Amherst College--Curricula.
Amherst College. Class of 1913. Plough.
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Series 1: Anthropology Notes
Anthropology labs 1940's
Lecture schedule, laboratory exercises 1939-1940
Lecture topics, examinations 1940-1941
Lecture notes 1940-1941
Lecture notes, second semester 1941
Complete notes, first semester 1941-1942
Arrangements (correspondence) 1942
Laboratory manual 1942-1943
Examinations 1946
Lecture notes, revised 1946
Lecture notes (con.), III, IV, V, VI, VII, revised 1946
Lecture notes 1946-1947
Topical outline of lectures 1946-1947
Forms for record of descriptive characters 1947
Lecture notes, examinations, laboratory exercises 1949-1950
Cultural anthropology, lecture notes 1957-1958
Lecture notes 1958
Outline for the course on Man and his environment by F.B. Loomis n.d.
Series 2: Evolution Notes
Science 23-24. Evolution of the Earth and Man - lectures syllabus, laboratory exercises n.d.
Evolution of the Earth and Man, lecture syllabus, laboratory exercises 1947-1948
Evolution of the Earth and Man, topical outline for the course 1948-1949
Examinations and reading lists 1948-1949
Laboratory exercises. Science 23-24 1947-1941
Lecture outline and quizzes 1952
Lecture notes 1955-1957