Morgan, Ann Haven,
Morgan papers,
1910-1966.
Manuscript Collection: MS 0764
3
boxes
Agency History/Biographical note:
Anna Haven Morgan was born on May 6, 1882 in Waterford, Connecticut
to Stanley G. Morgan and Julia A. Douglass Morgan. She attended
Williams Memorial Institute in New London, Connecticut and went to
Wellesley College in 1902 before transferring to Cornell University,
where she received a B.A. in 1906. She worked as an assistant and
instructor in the Zoology Department at Mount Holyoke College from
1906-1909, then resumed her studies at Cornell and earned a Ph.D. in
1912. Around this time she changed her first name from "Anna" to
"Ann." She returned to Mount Holyoke and was a professor of zoology
until 1947, serving as chair of the Zoology Department from
1916-1947. Morgan did research and was a Visiting Fellow at other
institutions including the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods
Hole, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Yale University, and the
Tropical Laboratory at Kartabo, British Guiana. Her teaching and
research interests focused on aquatic biology and the habits and
conditions of hibernating animals. She was also interested in
ecological and environmental issues and was an active member of the
National Commission on Policies in Conservation Education. Morgan
wrote and illustrated three books: "Field Book of Ponds and Streams:
an Introduction to the Life of Fresh Water" (1930), "Field Book of
Animals in Winter" (1939) and "Kinships of Animals and Man" (1955).
In 1949 she collaborated with "Encyclopedia Britannica" on an
educational film entitled "Animals in Winter." She was one of three
women among the two hundred and fifty people listed in the fifth
edition of "American Men of Science" published in 1933. She was a
fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and
a member of the Entomological Society of America, the American
Society of Naturalists, the American Society of Zoologists, the
American Association of Museums, the New York Herpetological Society,
the Association of Social Hygiene, and the Sigma Xi Society. For many
years she lived and traveled with Amy Elizabeth Adams, a 1914
graduate of Mount Holyoke who also was a member of the college's
Zoology Department. Morgan died at age eighty-four on June 5, 1966 in
South Hadley Massachusetts.
Scope and Content:
The Ann Haven Morgan Papers include writings, correspondence,
biographical information, and photographs. The material consists
primarily of Morgan's writings and photographs of or by her. Her
writings date from 1911-1955 and include her books as well as her
scientific articles, some of them co-written with Mount Holyoke
College students. The collection also includes her articles about
zoologist Cornelia M. Clapp, the Mount Holyoke College Zoology
Department and science curriculum, and the selection of Roswell Gray
Ham as the school's first male president. Correspondence, 1924-1960,
chiefly reflects Morgan's efforts to help former students, including
Virginia F. Babcock and Mildred Trotter, find employment.
Biographical information, 1930-1966, consists of newspaper articles,
award and lecture announcements, and material relating to Morgan's
death and funeral. It also contains an article about the Morgan
Adams Graduate Fellowship for advanced study in the biological
sciences that was established at Mount Holyoke with funds from her
estate. Photographs, ca.1910-1955, chiefly consist of formal and
informal pictures of Morgan alone or with Mount Holyoke College
students and colleagues, including Cornelia M. Clapp and A. Elizabeth
Adams. In addition, there are three photographs of the "Chemical
Department" and "Physiological Department" at the Stazione zoologica
di Napoli in 1924, two photographs taken by Morgan during a visit to
the Rocky Mountains in ca.1949, and slides of many of the photographs
relating to her.
Cite as: Ann Haven Morgan Papers, Mount Holyoke College
Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley,
MA.
Access Restrictions: unrestricted
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