Description of the Material
The archives include teaching materials, numerous correspondence, field notebooks and 35mm slides of his research in the Carribean, California and Indian Ocean as well as research materials accumulated during his career,
Dates
- 1953-1994
Creator
Language of Materials
In English.
Extent
100 Linear Feet
Persistent URL
Abstract
The archives of Willard D. Hartman accumulated durings his time at Yale..
Biographical Sketch
Professor Willard Hartman has spent nearly his entire academic and professional life at Yale University. He arrived as an undergraduate in 1939, eventually earning his B.S. M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale. His dissertation focused on the natural history of New England sponges, and thereafter sponges have been his primary research interest. In 1950 he moved to California and was an Instructor in Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1953 he returned to Yale and began his long professional career as an Assistant Professor of Zoology, and Curator in the Yale Peabody Museum, eventually becoming a full professor in 1973. Appointed Acting Director of the Museum in 1987, he became its Director in 1990 (fall term).
- Title
- Willard Daniel Hartman Archives
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Daniel Jonathan Drew
- Date
- 2014
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Created In Accordance With Manuscripts And Archives Processing Manual
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Repository
170 Whitney Avenue
New Haven CT 06511
(203) 737-4695
(203) 432-9816 (Fax)
peabody.permissions@yale.edu