uagray Inventory of the Irving Emery Gray Papers, 1915 - 1980 Processed by: University Archives Staff; machine-readable finding aid created by: Valerie Gillispie University ArchivesDuke University
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 Descriptive Summary Irving Emery Gray Papers, 1915-1980. Gray, Irving E. (Irving Emery), 1897-1980. 12 Linear Feet, 12000 Items University Archives, Duke University For current information on the location of these materials, please consult University Archives, Duke University. Irving Emery Gray (1897-1980) was chair of the Zoology Department at Duke University and helped establish the Duke University Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, North Carolina. His interests included marine zoology and ecology, and biological adaptation. The Irving Emery Gray Papers include correspondence, reports, notes, documents, slides, photographs, and other materials about Gray's personal and professional life. Major subjects include the Zoology Department at Duke, marine biology, Arthur Sperry Pearse, and the National Science Foundation. English. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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 Provenance

The Irving Emery Gray Papers were received by the University Archives as a gift in 1961 (A61-306), 1971 (A71-72), 1972 (A72-61), 1974 (A74-113), 1975 (A75-165), 1979 (A79-92), 1983 (A83-104), and and 1998 (A98-68).

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 Biographical Note

Irving Emery Gray was born on May 23, 1897, in Providence, Rhode Island. He received a BA from the University of Massachusetts in 1921, followed by an MS and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Gray came to Duke in 1931 after holding positions at De Pauw and Tulane. His specialty was the adaptation and ecology of marine life. He helped to develop the Duke University Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, North Carolina, and served as its Acting Director in 1955-1956. He also served as the chair of the Department of Zoology from 1940 to 1956. Gray served on the advisory committees of a number of marine research centers, and was a member of many professional societies. He died in Durham in 1980.

 Collection Overview

The collection includes correspondence, reports, notes, documents, slides, photographs, and other materials related to the professional career and personal life of Gray. His interests in education, zoology, biology, and ecology are represented. The collection features materials generated by his work as chair of the Zoology Department, records of the Duke University Marine Laboratory, copies of Gray's printed works, and correspondence with colleages. The first series, Personal and Family, contains correspondence and other materials related to Gray's personal life. The next series, Publications, Abstracts, and Other Writings, includes both Gray's own publications as well as those of his students. The third series, Zoology Department, Duke University, includes correspondence, minutes, memos and other materials related to Gray's administration of the department. The next series, Correspondence - Personal, Professional, contains correspondence arranged by both individual names and group affiliations. The Course Materials series documents the courses Gray taught, while the next series, Duke University Marine Laboratory - Beaufort, NC, documents Gray's work to establish a research laboratory. The following series, Lists, Keys, Charts, Graphs, Checklists, Bibliographies, includes a variety of reference materials. Field Trips contains notes and other information from Gray's research excursions, and Research Notes and Papers (Titled Folders) features the research used for Gray's publications. The following series, Research Notes and Papers (Unsorted) contains similar materials, but is unprocessed. The final series, Photographic Materials (Positives, Negatives, Slides) contains photographic material related to Gray's personal and professional life.

 Subject Headings

These and related materials may be accessed under the following subject headings in the Duke University Libraries online catalog.

Adaptation, Biological. Duke University. Marine Laboratory. Duke University. Zoology Dept. Gray, Irving E. (Irving Emery), 1897-1980. Marine animals--North Carolina--Beaufort. Marine biology. Marine ecology. National Science Foundation (U.S.) Pearse, A. S. (Arthur Sperry), 1877-1956. Photographs. Slides. Zoology--North Carolina. Contents of Collection Personal and Family 1 Clippings, 1927-1969 Correspondence - George M. Gray [father], 1932-1946 Gray, George M. - Publications, 1932-1946 and undated Gray, Virginia - Obituaries, 1964, 1971-1972 Journals in Personal Possession of IEG, ca. 1967 Lists - IEG Students (M.A., Ph.D.) Maps of Photographic Tours, undated Marine Biological Atlas, 1970-1976 Massachusetts Agricultural College - Graduation and Alumni Activities, 1921-1971 and undated Miscellaneous, 1919-1970 and undated Obituaries (IEG), 1980 Poems by IEG, A.S. Pearse, and Anonymous, ca. 1930-1950 and undated Publishing Contracts, 1937-1956 Retirement, 1967-1968 Retirement - Correspondence, 1967 Vitae and Lists of Publications, ca. 1962-1976 and undated Publications, Abstracts, and Other Writings 1 Abstracts, 1939 Lectures, Papers, Miscellaneous, 1963-1971 and undated Obituaries, 1957-1967 and undated Publications [by IEG and students], 1926-1972 Unpublished manuscripts "Feeding Rates of the Seastar . . . ," 1971 "Introducation to the Benthic Ecology of Estuaries," undated "The Major Coastal Communities of NC," 1968 Miscellaneous untitled manuscripts, ca. 1968-1969 [2 folders] Zoology Department, Duke University General Files 1 Budgets - RESTRICTED, 1941-1957 Correspondence, C.S. Brimley to Bert Cunningham, 1925-1927 Curricula and Courses, 1949-1968 and undated Faculty Grants and Proposals Progress Reports, 1954-1962 Progress Reports, ca. 1952-1956 and undated [2 folders] Faculty - Miscellaneous, 1941-1958 and undated Faculty - Research, 1959-1962 and undated General Departmental, ca. 1944-1967 and undated Graduate Studies Director, undated Honors, 1956 and undated Journal Club, 1942-1952 and undated Lists - Graduate Students, Staff, Award Recipients, Alumni, Faculty - RESTRICTED, 1928-1971 and undated Long-Range Planning Committee, Ten Year Projection for, 1961 2 Minutes - Dept. Meetings, ca. 1940-1960 Nursing Curriculum, 1945 Retiring Faculty, undated Science and Mathematics, Laboratory Conference for Teachers of, ca. 1954 World War II, Zoo Dept. in, ca. 1940-1949 Faculty Individual Files 2 Bailey, Joseph R., 1946 Hall, F.G., 1965, 1971 Howell, Thelma, 1954 Johnson, M.W., 1950 Nace, George W., 1949-1956 Odum, Howard, 1953-1955 Sandeen, Muriel I., 1950 Schmidt-Nielsen, Bodil, 1953-1955 and undated Vernherg, John, 1951, 1964 Ward, Calvin, 1952-1956 Individual File - Arthur Sperry Pearse Biography, Obituaries, 1940-1960 Correspondence 1917-1953 and undated Letters on ASP's 70th birthday, 1947 Illness and Death, 1953-1960 and undated Pearse Memorial Committee, 1957-1964 and undated Poems by and about ASP, ca. 1947-1953 and undated Writings, 1928-1953 and undated Correspondence - Department Chairman - Chronological, September 1940-September 1956 and undated [6 folders] Correspondence - Department Chairman - Alphabetical Alumni, 1954-1955 and undated Alumni and Students in Wartime, 1941-1945 Evaluations - General Departmental - RESTRICTED, 1942-1956 Evans, F. Gaynor, 1941 Gross, Paul M. - RESTRICTED, 1947-1956 Jones, Sara, 1945 Summer Session, 1947-1955 Wenger, Karl, 1953-1954 Correspondence and Memoranda, Departmental - Reflections on the Zoology Department - RESTRICTED, 1962-1966 Correspondence - Personal, Professional Chronological and No Date 2 1921-1958 [3 folders] 3 1959-1977 [5 folders] Letter with Message Found in Drift Bottle (from Experminet on Currents), August 1968 Undated letters Alphabetical by Person Allevein, J., 1964-1967 Barnes, Robert D., 1953-1973 Berry, James, 1960-1969 Carter, William, 1959-1973 Cerame-Vivas, Maximo, 1961-1969 [2 folders] Cerame-Vivas, Maximo - Copper Mining in Puerto Rico, 1970-1971 Culver, Starr, 1958-1968 Davis, Donald M., 1966-1968 Davis, Huckett, 1958-1969 [2 folders] Godfrey, Melinda, 1967-1969 Grassle, J. Fred, 1964-1967 Hall, F.G., 1930-1944 Howard, Kenneth, 1965 Hutchison, Victor, 1955-1970 Kirby-Smith, John, 1955 Knight, C.B., 1954-1961 Krause, J.B., 1940-1955 and undated McCloskey, Lawrence R., 1960-1971 and undated [2 folders] Maturo, Frank, 1956-1969 Potts, Mary, 1964-1968 Roberts, Henry S., 1940-1974 Robertson, Clyde H., 1954-1961 and undated Scarboro, Betty P., 1963-1966 Schmitt, Waldo, 1970 Schultz, George, 1960-1968 and undated Strasburg, Donald, 1953-1955 Wainwright, Stephen, 1956-1963 Wegener, Barbara, 1968 Wells, Harry, 1953-1967 [2 folders] Willmon, Karl, 1948-1971 Wirtenson, Mary E., 1962-1966 Alphabetical by Organization, Project, Event, etc. 4 Estuarine Study Project, 1968-1970 [2 folders] Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 1969 Grants and Grant Proposals Atomic Energy Commission, 1952-1956 Duke University Research Council, 1935-1971 Estuarine and Oceanic Bottom Communities, 1957 Office of Naval Research, 1948-1956 U.S. Department of Commerce - US Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1964 Hatteras Cape - US Department of Interior - National Park Service Corespondence, 1957-1964 Institute of Fisheries Research, 1949-1951 and undated Lenal Bottom Conference, 1956 National Science Divisional Committee, 1935 NC Academy of Science, 1947-1966 NC Wesleyan College, 1969 Puerto Rico, Univ. of - Visiting Professor, 1965-1966 Research Program Statements - General, 1944, 1959 Society for the Study of Evolution, 1970 Southern Association for the Advancement of Science, 1941-1942 Woods Hole Marine Biological Lab, 1942-1962 National Science Foundation Conference on Distribution of Specimens, 1963 Correspondence and Other Papers, 1956-1968 Evalutions of Other Proposals, 1963-1965 Grant Proposals, 1957-1965 Grants Progress Reports, 1959-1967 Institutes for Science and Math Teachers, 1952-1957 Radiation Biology Course for Teachers (with Atomic Energy Commission, 1956-1957 [3 folders] Undergraduate Research Participation Awards, 19637, 1971 Undergraduate Research Participation Award - Susan Carol Adams, 1971 Course Materials 4 Ecological Distribution of Marine Animals, 1963 and undated Laboratory Directions for Bryozoa, ca. 1940 Lectures Biotic Communities, undated Ecosystem, undated Ocean, 1957-1958 and undated Plankton - Ocean, 1963 and undated Research Problems, undated Teaching and Lab Guides, 1910, 1933-1936 Test Questions, Notes, etc., 1931 and undated Zoology 12, undated Zoology 203 - Marine Ecology, Misc., ca. 1949-1958 [5 folders] Zoology 225-226 - Field Zoology Zoology 341 - Historical Zoology, 1952 and undated [2 folders] Zoology 355 - Marine Benthic Ecology, 1964 Zoology 355 - Marine Dimertebnate Zoology, 1963 Duke University Marine Laboratory - Beaufort, NC 4 Administration, 1972 Clippings, ca. 1938-1967 Correspondence, Memoranda, Reports, 1938-1971 Eastward: Design, Dedication, Cruises, Other Papers Eastward: Research Facility Requests, 1957-1967 Evaluations - Thoughts on DUML by IEG - RESTRICTED, 1964-1965 Executive Committee - Minutes and Other Papers, 1962-1963 Executive Committee - Great Lakes Colleges Association Cooperative Program, 1962 Grades - RESTRICTED, 1955 5 Grant Proposal - Cooperative Research and Training Program in Biological Oceanography at DUML, 1961 Gray Building Dedication, 1974 Hatteras Project, undated Hatteras Project Publications, 1960-1967 Humorous, undated Lists - Graduates, Class Lists, Candidates, Personnel, 1929-1967 Long Range Planning, 1958-1961 Manpower Symposium, 1967 Miscellaneous, 1964 and undated Printed Matter - Bulletins, Booklets, 1939-1974 Proposals and Projects - Courses and Facilities, 1961-1963 Publications - Bibliography, 1939-1961 Publications - DUML-related, 1957-1967 [7 folders] Radiation Biology Course, 1953-1960 Reference Collection, ca. 1968-1972 Southern Regional Education Board - Regional Program for Marine Sciences, 1952 Taxonomy, Specialists in Marine, 1967 Lists, Keys, Charts, Graphs, Checklists, Bibliographies 5 Amphibians and Reptiles of NC Asteroidea of NC [2 folders] Bibliography - References, History Checklist Checklist of Common Marine Animals of Beaufort, NC Checklist - Ecology I, II, III [3 folders] Checklist - Invertebrates, 1953 [2 folders] Checklist - Marine Invertebrates Climatographic, 1957 Crustacea of Beaufort Durham Spiders Distribution Maps - NC Gastropod Genera of Beaufort, NC Keys to Amphibians and Reptiles to Beaufort Amphipods to Hausterid Amphipods of NC to Hydromedusae of Beaufort to Polychaete Families to Polychaetes of Woods Hole to Freshwater Fishes of NC List of Marine Fishes and Fish-like Vertebrates of NC Lists of NC Animals [2 folders] Lists, Species Maps Maps, Beaufort Maps, Distribution of NC Amphibians and Reptiles 6 Marine Gastropods of Beaufort Miscellaneous Molluska of NC Mud Crabs of Chesapeake Bay North American Distribution of Mutabilia found in NC Pelecypoda of Beaufort Stomatopods of NC Field Trips 6 Chronological, 1933-1935, 1955-1967 [18 folders] By Location or Type Bogue Sound - Dredging, 1955-1967 Bottom Hand - Highway St., 1958-1959 Cruises, ca. 1965-1966 Eastward Cruise, 1965 Lake Michie, 1960-1962 Miscellaneous, undated New Hope Creek - Hollow Rock, ca. 1949-1959 Old Reservoir - Eno River, ca. 1951-1963 Piney Mountain Pond, ca. 1953-1967 Plankton, 1959-1963 Shackleford Banks, 1955-1967 Soil Fanna, 1951-1962 Travel - Offshore, 1955-1967 Travel - River, 1955-1967 Research Notes and Papers (Titled Folders) 6 Brief Study of the Blood in Triturus Viridescens Commercial Crabs of Chaetopterus Commensalism Comparative Anatomy [2 folders] Eggs, Dehydrated Embryologists, Articles on Linuhus [4 folders] Problems Profile: Hatteras, N.C. March 4-5, 1963 Profile: Lookout, September 14, 1962 Sand Dollar Data Scallop Data Research Notes and Papers (Unsorted) 6-7Unsorted research notes and papers Photographic Materials (Positives, Negatives, Slides) Large Card File Box (Positives and Negatives) 8 Sailing and other ships, ca. 1920-1929 Sharks and other fish, undated Snakes and Insects, undated Collecting - on boat, shore, etc., undated People - many unidentified, 1922-1926 Maryland (Shore), undated Louisiana (New Orleans, etc.), undated Waveland, Mississippi, 1928 Greater Boston, undated Mt. Vernon and unidentified, undated Key West, 1915 Woods Hole, Mass (includes Marine Biological Lab, undated North Carolina mountain scenes, undated Wisconsin, undated Miscellaneous, 1920-1930, undated A.S. Pearse, undated Acid Free Envelopes Identified people and places, ca. 1920-1959 Unidentified places, undated Unidentified people and groups, undated New Orleans and Environs, undated Woods Hole, Gloucester, Cape Cod, Mass, 1926, 1941, undated Personal and Immediate Family, undated Regular Slides Large Box Beaufort, 1958-1968 Duke University Marine Laboratory, 1959 and undated Massachusetts (W. Hole, Cape Cod, Plymouth), 1959-1960, undated Hatteras Lighthouse, undated Hatteras - Ocracoke, 1958 and undated Puerto Rico, 1965 Gulf of Mexico, Tuna Cruise, 1956 Hurricane Donna, 1960 Miscellaneous, 1961-1966 and undated Small Slide Boxes Beaufort, 1958-1966 and undated [5 boxes] Hatteras - Dunes, 1959-1961 and undated Hatteras, 1958-1959 and undated Shackleford - Dunes, 1958-1963 Outer Banks, 1961-1963 Eastward Cruise, November 1965 Glass Slides, including Beaufort, Hatteras, and Woods Hole [2 boxes] Related Material Marine Laboratory records Duke University Archives Dept. of Zoology records Duke University Archives