JACKON LABORATO RIES ( f a The Jackson Laboratory Douglas T. Macbeth, Librarian The Joan Staats Library 207-288-6164 fax 207-288-6079 - e-mail dtm@jax.org 600 Main Street - Bar Harbor, 1 - ME 04609-1500 http://www.jax.org/library 5/11/29 JLA, RC I ,B73,F12 STATE OF MAINE CERTIFICATE OF ORGANEZATION OF A CORPORATION UNDER THE GENERAL LAW, and under Chapter 62 08 the Revised Statutes and empendments theretic. The undersigned, officers of a corporation organized at Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Naino, 38 a meeting of the signers of the articlea of agree ment thersfor, duly called and hold at said Bar Harbor, in the offices of Lynam & Rodick on the fourth day of May A.D. 1929, hereby certify as follows: The name of said corporation is Roscoa B. Jackson Momorial Laboratory The purposes of said corporation are for literary, scientific, chari- table, educational and bonevolent purposes, to do all & hingo and have all powers necessary and incidental to said purposes, the corporation to be entirely devoted to charity and the welfare of mankind. The amount of capital stock is none The amount of CONLION stock in nono The amount of preferred stock 1s none The amount of capital stock already paid in is none The par value of the shares is none The names and residences of the owners of said shares are as follows: NAMES RESIDENCES NO. OF SHARES Goorge B. Dorr Bar Harbor, No. William McC Sawyer Bangor, Maine William S. Murray Hampdon, Maine Jo Lovell Little Boston, Mass. David O. Rodick Bax Harbor, Mo. Clarence C. Little Azm Arbor, Mich. Lume D. Deasy Bar Harbor, Me. Said corporation is located at Dor Harbor Hancock County, The number of directors is three and their nsmeo are Clarance C. Little, William S. Murray, David O. Rodick. The n. the of the Clork is David 0. Rodbok and his residence is Dar Harbor, Kaine The undersigned, Clerence C. Little 10 president, the undersigned, Williem S. Murray is treasurer; and the undersigned, David O. Rodick, Clarance C. Little and William S. Hurray are a majority of the directors of said COIN poration. Witness our hands this fourth day of May A.D. 1929. Clarence C. Little President William S. Murray Treasurer Clarence C. Little William S. Morray ) David O. Rodicic } Directors Hancock, SS. May 4, A.D. 1929 Than personally appeared Clarence C. little, William S. Murray and David 0. Rodick and severally made oath to t he foregoing certificate, that the same is true. Before no Noterial Seal Sorenue B. Rodick, Notary Public STATE OF MAINE Attorney General's Office, Blay 9, A.D. 1929. I hereby certify that I have examined the foregoing certificate, and the same is properly drawn and signed, and is conformable to the constitution end lams 08 the State. Sanford i. Fogga Deputy Attorney General HANCOCK SS. REGISTRY OF DEEDS Rec'd 11, 1929 It 9h. A.M. and entered in Book 40 Page 240 by, George R. Regix Jackson Laboratory Archives unclanged as 1/6/08 THE C. C. LITTLE PAPERS (1888-1971) Title: C. C. Little Papers (1888-1971) Originator: Clarence Cook Little (1888-1971) Dates: 1929-1956. Accession Number & Location: 96.1.1: Manuscript boxes #28-34, #65-67, #73. Library storage room; 5 linear feet. Arrangement: There are four series in the collection: two alphabetical series, loose papers found in storage boxes at The Jackson Laboratory, and a carton of papers found in 1998. Series I: Correspondence, F1 Adair - F78 Taxes; Boxes 28-31. Series II: Correspondence; F1 "A" - F18 "XYZ"; Boxes 32-33. Series III: Papers; Boxes 33-34. Series IV: Correspondence files of Geraldine Canning, C.C. Little's secretary, Boxes 65-67. Additional papers, found separately, are located in Box 73, including "A" correspondence, 1953-54; correspondence, 1929-32; and a Tobacco Industry Research Committee Report, 1961. Additional papers donated by Beth Whitney relating to the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, 1954 (8 pages). Box 73. Bibliography is located in Box 65D. [TJL Joan Staats Library is in the process of acquiring copies of all Dr. Little's publications.] The folders are numbered consecutively within each series, not per box. Box 73 also contains photocopies of material from the C.C. Little Papers at the University of Maine at Orono. Biography: Clarence Cook Little was born into an established Boston family in 1888, in Brookline, Massachusetts. He attended Noble and Greenough School and Harvard University, eaming his D.Sc. in 1914. After holding several positions at Harvard, and serving in the Army Signal Corps in WWI, Little spent three years at the Experimental Evolution Station at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, where he published numerous papers and established his first inbred strains of mice. In 1922, at the age of 33, Little became President of the University of Maine; he maintained his work in mammalian genetics and established a summer laboratory in 1915 Bar Harbor, Maine. Three years later he accepted the Presidency of the University of Michigan and instituted wide-ranging reforms and program expansions. In 1929, with financial help from the Ford, Webber and Jackson families of Detroit, Little returned to Bar Harbor to establish a. laboratory for the study of mammalian genetics and cancer. In the same year he assumed directorship of The American Cancer Society. He retired from The Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory in 1956, and accepted the position of scientific director of the Tobacco Industrial Research Committee, which he held until he died in 1971. Dr. Little's work and interests covered a wide field; he was a tireless campaigner for greater awareness about cancer and cancer treatments, a strong advocate of birth control, active in church activities, a great supporter of social functions, and a favorite dog show judge. He was a popular man - known by his friends as "Prexy" or "Pete" - always concerned with social relations and harmony. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and many other scientific societies, Dr. Little received numerous honorary degrees and awards. His publications included 188 articles, and The Awakening College, W.W. Norton, 1930; Civilization against Cancer New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. 150pp., 1939. Cancer, A Study for Laymen. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1944.; Genetics, Medicine and Man. Ithaca, Comell University Press. 159pp. 1947.; Genetics, Biological Individuality, and Cancer. Stanford, Stanford University Press. 115pp.,1954. The Inheritance of Coat Color in Dogs. Ithaca, Comstock Publishing Associates. 194pp., 1957. C.C. Little was married twice, first to Katherine Day Andrews and secondly to Beatrice Winifred Johnson, and had five children; Louise, Robert, Edward, Richard, and Laura. Scope and Content: For the most part, the papers cover the last year of C.C. Little's directorship of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, 1954; but also include earlier correspondence and material relevant to continuing issues. His filing system was alphabetical, but not always consistent. As found, there are two alphabetic series, and a third collection of manuscript papers. Some titled folders were found empty (Kean, Mrs. Louis H.; Kerstig, Brown & Co.; 1); papers and correspondence found outside but close to a relevant folder have been placed within that folder. Most of the correspondence consists of letter copies prepared by Geraldine (Gerry) Canning, Little's secretary; some letters contain notes and/or shorthand notes, as well as doodles, and there are letter copies of correspondence from other members of the staff for whom Canning typed. Business and personal letters are intermingled with schedules and routine information. The correspondence of 1954-5 reflects a pivotal year in Dr. Little's life; not only the change in status from Director to President, but his pending retirement from the Laboratory and the intense professional and private criticism for one of his scientific conclusions. (See Tobacco Industry Research Committee Report, 1961; Box 73.) Other papers include C. C. Little - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 1 of 2 C. C. Little From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Clarence Cook Little) Clarence Cook "C.C." Little (October 6, 1888 - December 22, 1971) was an American genetics, cancer, and tobacco researcher and academic administrator. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts and attended Harvard University after his secondary education at the Noble and Greenough School. While studying under W. E. Castle, Little began his work with mice, focused on inheritance, transplants, and grafts. He also was an assistant dean and secretary to the president. His most important research occurred at Harvard, including what some call his most brilliant work, "A Mendelian explanation for the inheritance of a trait that has apparently non-Mendelian characteristics". His observations on transplant rejection became codified into the "five laws of transplant immunology" by George Snell. Little developed the "DBA (Dilute, Brown and non-Agouti)" strain of mice while at Harvard. For his research, he received the 1978 Cancer Research Institute William B. Coley Award. During World War I Little served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, attaining the rank of Major. Following the war he spent three years at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 1921 he helped found the American Birth Control League with Margaret Sanger and Lothrop Stoddard. Little accepted the post of President of the University of Maine in 1922, becoming at age 33 the youngest university president in the country. While there he started a summer laboratory in Bar Harbor. In 1925 he left to become the President of the University of Michigan. His tenure at the university was controversial due to his outspokenness in favor of eugenics, birth control, and euthanasia. He left Michigan in 1929 in order to devote himself to his research at Bar Harbor. With funding from Detroit car manufacturers he was able to improve the facility for year-round use. He renamed it the "Jackson Laboratory" in honor of one donor, Roscoe B. Jackson of the Hudson Motor Car Corporation, who had died in a car accident. Also in 1929 he took on a part-time job as managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer (later became the American Cancer Society (ACS)) and served as President to the American Eugenics Society. Funding for the Jackson Laboratory was extremely limited during the Great Depression, but it received one of the first grants from the newly formed National Cancer Institute in 1938. Little energetically developed both the lab and the ACS, and by 1944 they were shipping 9000 mice a week to other laboratories. A brush fire destroyed the laboratory and all of the livestock in 1947, but it was quickly rebuilt and most mouse strains were recovered from other labs around the world. By 1950 the lab was maintaining 60 inbred strains, and had developed the F1 hybrid that became widely used for chemical testing. Little resigned in 1954. His last major post, from 1954 to 1969, was as the Scientific Director of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Tobacco Industrial Research Committee (renamed Council for Tobacco Research in 1964). In that role he was a leading scientific voice of the tobacco industry and oversaw a USD$1 million research budget that gave grants to hundreds of scientists. [1][2] In 1959 he refuted his earlier assertion, made as Director of the ACS, that inhaling fine particles is unhealthy, and stated that smoking does not cause lung cancer and is at most a minor contributing factor. [3]. A decade later he said, "there is no demonstrated causal relationship between smoking or any disease. "[4] In keeping with his earlier research he believed that the main cause of cancer was genetic, not environmental. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Cook_Little 10/24/2009 C. C. Little - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 2 of 2 He died of a heart attack in 1971 at the age of 83. References C.C.Little, Cancer and Inbred Mice by James F. Crow, "Genetics", Vol. 161, 1357-1361, August 2002. Clarence Cook Little (1888-1971): The Genetic Basis of Transplant Immunology by Hugh Auchincloss Jr* and Henry J. Winn, "American Journal of Transplantation", Volume 4 Issue 2 Page 155 - February 2004 Tobacco Documents Online Tobacco-related documents that mention Little. Academic offices Preceded by President of the University of Maine Succeeded by Robert Judson Aley 1922-1925 Harold Sherburne Boardman Preceded by President of the University of Michigan Succeeded by Alfred Henry Lloyd 1925-1929 Alexander Grant Ruthven Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._ C. Little" - Categories: Presidents of the University of Michigan 1888 births 1971 deaths | American geneticists Deaths from myocardial infarction | Harvard University alumni | People from Norfolk County, Massachusetts Tobacco This page was last modified on 28 April 2009 at 00:44. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Cook_Little 10/24/2009 JLA, is 73,F9 6. C.L. JAX MEMORANDUM January 1, 1967 To: THE STAFF From: DIRECTOR Subj. . : EXCERPT FROM THE BAR HARBOR TIMES WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1929 WILL BE MEMORIAL FOR R. B. JACKSON To Establish Cancer Research Laboratory DR. LITTLE DIRECTOR Relatives and Friends Will Erect Building Near Sieur de Monts Spring for Memorial to Seal Harbor Summer Resident A cancer research laboratory is to be established this summer at Bar Harbor, in memory of Roscoe B. Jackson of Detroit, president of the Hudson Motor Company, a summer resident of Seal Harbor who died last winter on the Riviera. This is made possible through the warm interest of Mrs. Jackson in work which her husband had in process of establishment, together with Edsel Ford and Richard H. Webber of Detroit and George B. Dorr of Bar Harbor, who had offered to contribute land for the purpose. Dr. Clarence C. Little, who has just resigned from the presidency of the University of Michigan, will be president of this Association and direct its scientific work. This work will be devoted as its main object to cancer research, in which Dr. Little will have associated with him Dr. L. C. Strong, who has already done much work on experimental studies of cancer, and Dr. W. S. Murray, who has been associated with him for several years, both at the Univer- sity of Maine and at the University of Michigan. Miss Elizabeth Fekete will act as technical assistant and will also do research work. It is also expected that J. M. Murray, instructor in anatomy at the University of Michigan, A. M. Cloudman, formerly professor of zoology at the University of Vermont, and J. J. Bittner, assistant in cancer research at the University of Michigan, will join the staff within a year. Page 1 of 2 MPAP 90-20 1/1/67 With cancer as its major cause will be included, as opportunity may come, studies in the natural history of Mount Desert Island and its region carried out in connection with the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory at Salisbury Cove. The founders of the new organization are Mrs. Roscoe B. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Webber and George B. Dorr. When Richard W. Jackson, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, now entering Yale University, reaches legal age it is intended that he shall take his father's place in what will now become a distinguished and publicly useful memorial to him. The tract of land selected for this purpose is given by Mr. Dorr, whose father and mother, Charles Hazen Dorr and Mary Gray Ward Dorr of Boston, were among the earliest summer visitors and residents at Bar Harbor and owned the land. With their memory Mr. Dorr associates this gift as well as making it in commemoration of Mr. Jackson's great interest in the matter, as from his own. The land is on the left side of the road leading to the Tarn between the corner of Main Street and Morrell Park. Condacy The site on which the memorial building will be placed is one of great natural beauty which has been in possession of the Dorr family for over half a century. Northward it looks across Frenchman's Bay and its islands 1879. to the Gouldsboro Hills; south and west to the mountains of Acadia National Park, whose land it borders on two sides. There are no disfiguring surround- ings nor possibility of impairment of the natural beauty of the site, which also is supplied with water from the Town gravity supply from Eagle Lake, and finds its entrance on the county road to Seal and Northeast Harbors. Sieur de Monts Spring lies close at hand and the whole surrounding is one of exceptional landscape interest and beauty. Application for incorporation has been made to the State, with the following incorporators: George B. Dorr, Judge Luere B. Deasy, David 0. Rodick, all of Bar Harbor; William MacCrillis Sawyer, of Bangor, Maine; W. S. Murray of Hampden, Maine; J. Lovell Little of Boston, Massachusetts, and Dr. Clarence C. Little of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The work will be continuous throughout the year and represents an organized effort to approach the cancer problem from the point of view of experimental biology. It is hoped that the concentration incident to a small and cooperative group of workers may lead to progress in what may be considered the greatest unsolved cause of suffering and death among mankind. ELG:ims Page 2 of 2 MPAP 90-20 1/1/67 JLA,R61, 873,F12 Re naming of Laboratory: Copied from letter 3-28-29, COL TO Geo. B, Dorr: "It seems to be typically unselfish and fine of you to intimate that your previous suggestion concerning the land as & memorial for your father be disregarded if desirable. I sincerely hope, however, that it may be possible to retain this, to me most welcome and appropriate, relationship while at the same time devi a plan by which Mr. Jackson can receive proper recognition. 11 n OUTLINE OF ORGANIZATION OF TJL ARCHIVES Page 1 of 5 The Jackson Laboratory THE JACKSON LABORATORY ARCHIVES The Jackson Laboratory was founded in 1929 as The Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory by Clarence Cook Little for the purpose of finding a cure for cancer. Today the institution is a world leader in the study of mammalian genetics, and provider of both informational and animal resources to the international scientific community. The archives consists of three major sections: the institutional archives, the personal papers and manuscript collection, and the media and museum collection. Links to finding aids will added later. TJL Time Line TJL Buildings Time Line I. THE JACKSON LABORATORY ARCHIVES COLLECTION: Organized into Record Groups: Records and memoranda, plans and blueprints, publications and documents created by the employees and scientific staff of The Jackson Laboratory. (Alternate titles appear in parentheses.) RG 1 Office of the Director Clarence Cook Little (1888-1971), 1929-1955. Earl Leroy Green (1913-1995), 1956-1975. Richinond T. Prehn (1922- ), 1976-80. Barbara T. Sanford (1927-) ), 1981-87. Kenneth Paigen (1927-), 1988- RG 2 Board of Scientific Directors (Overseers) Independent scientists elected to review on-going scientific work. Minutes; from 1950. RG 3 Board of Trustees Agenda, minutes, reports and plans; from 1947. RG 4 The Jackson Laboratory Association(s) Independent non-employees organized to raise funds and promote the work of The Jackson http://aretha.jax.org/library/libarch.html 4/2/2002 THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS COMMITTEE ON OUTDOOR EDUCATION CHAUNCEY J. HAMLIN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chairman HERMON C. BUMPUS Buffalo, N. Y. Chairman CLARK WISSLER Duxbury, Mass. Vice-Chairman JOHN C. MERRIAM New York, N. Y. W. DEC. RAVENEL ROBERT STERLING YARD CLARK WISSLER Secretary Washington, D. C. CHARLES C. ADAMS HERMON C. BUMPUS Waban, Massachusetts JOHN B. BURNHAM November 30, 1927 LAURENCE V. COLEMAN A. R. CROOK VERNON KELLOGG FREDERICK A. LUCAS FRANK E. LUTZ JOHN C. MERRIAM Mr. Thomas B. Appleget, FRANK R. OASTLER GEORGE D. PRATT 26 Broadway, W. DEC. RAVENEL New York, New York CHARLES R. RICHARDS WILLIAM A. WELCH Dear Mr. Appleget, HERBERT MAIER Executive Agent When Mr. Rockefeller, Jr., , asked me to examine into and report upon the two biological interests at Mt. Desert Island, we con- templated some form of consolidation. Since, at the present moment, as explained to you in mine of yesterday, there appears to JAX be some doubt that a satisfactory consolidation can be effected even if the Maine Laboratory should become rejuvenated, and since the Mt. Desert Laboratory at Salisbury Cove is a pretty husky youth, I venture to make the following suggestions. I believe that from our standpoint these would not be materially affected if Dr. Little's project should suddenly exhibit signs of vitality. Constructive efforts at Salisbury Cove might, indeed, induce a vitalizing influence over the latent enterprise. The points in favor of the Mt. Desert Island laboratory are as follows: It is a "seasoned" institution, founded thirty years ago by a small group of scientists who endeavored to provide simple labora- tory facilities for those who desired to work on problems that could be solved through the use of marine and terrestrial life- abundantly found on the coast of Maine. To this end they and their successors have given generously of their service, influence and money. That the Laboratory has abundantly fulfilled its purpose is tes- tified by the facts that its facilities have been of use to scores of scientiests and more than two hundred scientific papers have been published based in whole, or in part, upon investigations there- in conducted. The type of men of science, now using or desiring to use the Laboratory, is representative of the best in American biology. Leaders, such as Dr. E. B. Wilson and T. H. Morgan of Columbia, E. G. Conklin of Princeton, W. M. Wheeler and G. H. Parker of Mr. Thomas B. Appleget - 2 - November 30, 1927 Harvard, F. R. Lillie of Chicago, Professors Johnson and Lewis of Johns Hopkins are either on the Administrative Board, workers of the Laboratory or advocates of its purposes. The Board itself is a harmonious unit. Dr. H. V. Neal, the Director, and other officers receive as their compensation the consciousness that their efforts have been, are, and will be worth while. The annual budget has been only about five thousand dollars, quite largely contributed by workers in science. This sum has provided laboratory space for from ten to twenty workers, maintained several small buildings, a launch, provided power for producing a flow of salt and fresh water, sustained a library of some two thousand volumes, operated a dining hall and provided for publishing scien- tific papers. When men of science, making personal sacrifices but getting results such as these, proposed that I serve for a time on their Board.as president+and share in their efforts, I could not decline, nor could Mrs. Bowen who, as the newly elected treasurer, promptly guaranteed the budget for the current year. The Laboratory can go on as it has been going - indeed the outlook in certain directions was never more encouraging - but it certainly should be relieved, at least to some extent, of its financial worry and it ought to have more adequate working facilities and better living accommodations. There are, today, requests which we cannot meet for working and living facilities from men whose researches - voluntarily carried on - can add real substance to our fund ofinformation The very modest requests of such men should be met and, therefore, I am submitting the following list of needs: Five small summer cottages, to be located in the grove on the promontory known as the McCagg tract, each to accommodate the family of a research man while he is spending his days at the Laboratory. (If Dr. Neal, for example, could invite certain selected professors of whose ability he is well able to judge, to occupy these cottages, it would be a most practical and inexpensive way of promoting scientific research. The problem of the family too often forces the research man to sacrifice his scientific ambition.) Cottages of a simple and rusticated type could be built and furnished for about $5,000 each. An allowance of $5,000 for roads, water, etc., would mean a total of $ 30,000.00 There should be a new research laboratory building, equipped to accommodate from twenty-five to thirty workers. A building somewhat similar to the Yosemite Museum, with Mr. Thomas B. Appleget - 3 - November 30, 1927 its fireproof stackroom for books, manuscripts in pro- cess and drawings would be a"godsend $ 70,000.00 There should be a complete architectural layout of the Laboratory tract, including an appropriate approach from the highway. It is not likely that the people of Mt. Desert Island will take pride in an institution the surroundings of which are devoid of good taste. If possible the treatment should include pools of flowing salt water contributing to the formation of a small marine garden that would have an attraction for those, particularly the younger, visitors to the institu- tion $ 25,000.00 Concurrent with these improvements to the physical equipment, there should be a developing endowment. An annual income of $5,000 would take care of the extra cost of maintenance and operation. This would mean a fund of approximately $ 100,000.00 According to the above, a total of $225,000.00 would, I think, be very wisely invested. It would materially increase the scientific output. Moreover an institution at Mt. Desert, properly housed and creditably administered would be looked upon by the residents of the Island with approval and would naturally receive their substantial support. Concerning the relation of the Mt. Desert Laboratory and the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole: There is not the slightest feeling of rivalry between these two institutions, While the Board of the Mt. Desert Island Laboratory is amply qualified to manage its own affairs, there are valid reasons why a close union with the institution at Woods Hole would be desirable, Many of the Trustees of the Mt. Desert Island Laboratory are also Trustees of the Marine Biological Laboratory. Speaking as a Trustee of the Marine Laboratory, I believe that a sub-station on the Maine coast, with its charac- teristic fauna and flora and with the growing interest in oceanography, would be a distinct asset. There is at Woods Hole a demand for research rooms quite beyond our capacity. The pressure during the past year Mr. Thomas B. Appleget - 4 - November 30, 1927 has been such as to threaten the continuance of various courses of instruction and, if there is not some relief, it is probable that this important work will have to be discontinued. Several investigators at Woods Hole have told me that - were proper facilities provided - they would prefer to work at Mt. Desert Island, where the summers are cooler, the fauna in some respects richer, and where there are fewer social activities. Certain of the resources, equipment, personnel, boats, etc., when not in use at Woods Hole, might be used with profit at such a sub-station on Mt. Desert Island. Speaking as a Trustee of the Mt. Desert Island Labora- tory, I am confident that every officer and probably every Trustee would look with favor upon a fusion of interests and resources with the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole and that the future of both institutions would be better therefor. If Mr. Rocksfeller should desire me to give further attention to any of these matters you, of course, know that I am intensely interested in getting work done and it will be a real pleasure to follow his wishes. Always very sincerely yours, Bumpus I am sending a copy of the last printed report of the Mt. Desert Island Biological Laboratory. JLA, State of Maine HANCOCK, SS. No. 10 EDEN, Bar Harbor to construct and maintain Memorial Happratory Inc. Permission is hereby granted Roscol B. lackson on the East side of Seal Haity Roadstreet, on land next of a lot occupied by Seo B. Dors and of a lot occupied by Said building to be constructed in accordance with application No. 10 , now on file in the office of the Building Department of said town. price circury Selectmen WHiel of Whitake Eden. LM.Millikers. ax abbort Building Inspector. TJLA : Organizational Literature: Eaily Documents t Deeds, Box 12.F6 1929. (Photocopies) University of Maine System / /All Locations Page 1 of 2 Shared Catalog of the University of Maine System, URSUS Bangor Public Library, Maine State Library, Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library Start Over MARC Return to Search Another Request Export Display Browse Info Net Search (Search History) AUTHOR Little, Clarence C. (Clarence Coo View Entire URSUS Catalog System Sorted Search Record 7 of 8 Record: Prev Next Author Little, Clarence C. (Clarence Cook), b. 1888 Title Papers 1910-1976 Click on the following link for electronic access: Link to Finding Aid LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS ORO Special Coll SpC MS 300 LIBR USE ONLY Phys descr 22 boxes (30 linear ft.) Note Correspondence, manuscripts of writings, reprints of publications, periodicals, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Little's career as a biologist and educator, his family, his second wife, Beatrice Johnson Little, Jackson Memorial Laboratory which he directed, cancer research, tobacco industry, genetics, college and universities Materials located in: Special Collections Dept., Raymond H. Fogler Library, Univ. of Maine, Orono Materials accessed through user request to staff; photocopy service available at nominal fee C.C. Little was President of the University of Maine from 1922-25, President of the University of Michigan 1925-29, graduated from Harvard in 1910. Was director of Jackson Memorial Laboratory 1929-1971, and a researcher in the fields of cancer, genetics, and tobacco Available in Special Collections Department Gift of the Little family to Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library in 1976 Subject Roscoe B. 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All rights reserved. http://130.111.64.3/search/aLittle,+Clarence+C.+(Clarence+Cook),+b.+1888/alittle+clarencetctcla.. 8/8/2005 Page 1 of 2 Ronald Epp From: "Ronald Epp" To: "martha harmon" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:55 PM Subject: Re: C.C. Little article Dear Ms. Harmon, My contacting you is prompted by a number of issues. First, I want to thank you for researching the origins of the Jackson Laboratory and composing such an interesting historical essay. It provided me with information regarding Mr. Dorr's relationship with the Laboratory that my research over the last two years had not disclosed. For example, that Mr. Dorr was "an old friend of Little's mother," that he "offered [Little] the use of a cabin on the southern end of the Dorr estate," and that Dorr had withdrawn his proposal to name the facility after Charles Hazen Dorr following the death of Roscoe Jackson. Do you recall the sources for the first two claims? I'll be visiting Ellsworth and Bar Harbor once again in early May. Online searches of the Staat databases did not disclose resources relevant to Mr. Dorr but I wondered whether you came across anything on Mr. Dorr that you did not include in your publication. I've yet to examine the Papers of CCL at the Folger Library. I've made the rounds in the Bar Harbor area: Jessup Memorial Library, FOA, ANP Archives, HCTPR's Joshua Torrance, MDI Historical Society, and the island public libraries (where there is little on Dorr but wonderful histories of the village improvement societies). National Park Service historian Richard Quin and I are collaborating, he emphasizing the administrative side of Mr. Dorr while I focus on the non-administrative. We've weighed through much of what is relevant at NARA College Park and in a week or two I'll begin to examine correspondance at the Rockefeller Archives Center. While I'm discovering voluminous correspondance and administrative documentation, SO far I have not located any moving images of Dorr and ANP, few fixed images, and no audio recordings. Should you be aware of any sources that might help my inquiries, I'd appreciate your assistance. P.S. Do you still have archival responsibilities at Staat? Perhaps we meet one day. 4/2/2002 Page 1 of 2 Ronald Epp From: "Douglas Macbeth" To: "Ronald Epp" Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 1:51 PM Subject: Re: Clarence Little & G.B. Dorr Dear Mr. Epp, Friday morning, May 3, is fine with me. You'll need to sign-in at the Receptionist's desk. They'll give me a call and I'll escort you to the library. See you then. Doug Dear Mr. Macbeath, I am writing to inquire whether it would be possible this Friday morning, May 3rd, for me to access any archival materials relative to George B. Dorr, his relationship with Clarence Little, and the donation of Dorr's property to what would become the Jackson Laboratories? My wife and I will be on MDI for the weekend. In recent weeks I have communicated with Ms. Harmon, following up on her article on the founding of Jackson Laboratory which appeared in the MDI History Journal. As I explained to her, I am researching the personal and professional life of George B. Dorr in the hope of writing an intellectual biography, centered on Dorr's conservation efforts. I've exhausted what textual materials are available in the Park archives, recently returned again to the National Archives, and begun the process at the Rockefeller Archive Center of clarifying the relationship between Dorr and JDR Jr. An opportunity to examine what documentation you have available would be most appreciated. Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Director of the Harry & Gertrude Shapiro Library Southern New Hampshire University 2500 North River Road Manchester, NH 03106-1045 603-668-2211, ext. 2164 603-645-9685 (fax) 4/29/2002 Message Page 1 of 1 Epp, Ronald From: Epp, Ronald Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 9:32 AM To: "dtm@jax.org" Subject: Dr. Little N/R Dear Doug, Several years ago you were kind enough to make available the resources of your library for my research on a biography of George B. Dorr. That work has progressed and several publications and presentations have resulted. I write to you because the current director of the MDIBL asked me-- following my lecture there last month-- to explore the relationship between Dr. Little and the Rockefellers during the first decade of the MDIBL, with special attention to areas of overlap with the JAX. I write with a couple of questions in mind: 1. Has the C.C. Little Papers (1888-1971) inventory or Jackson Laboratory Archive Inventory (mine dated 5/3/02) been updated with new acquisitions? If so, is the new list available electronically? 2. I have just received from the Rockefeller Archive Center a list of correspondence between C.C. Little and J.D.Rockefeller Jr. spanning the years 1926 to 1958 containing about forty items. Some of these I have seen and copied from earlier visits to the RAC but several are quiet suggestive. I'd be willing to share this list if you think it pertinent to your archive--but perhaps you already have this information in hand. 3. From what I have examined, the relationship between Dr. Little and JDR Jr. is a tale of a rather unusual form of Rockefeller philanthropy, one that has yet to be analyzed and published. I wonder whether you have an interest in such matters and if you have the time and inclination to work collaboratively on a publishable article exploring this issue. It mnay be feasible to apply to the RAC later this fall for funding. To your knowledge has anone recently shown an interest in the Rockefeller Family/Little Family relationship? Presently I am very near retiring from my position here and itching to invest myself full-time in the Dorr biography. In many wiays this JDRJr-Little relationship theme is a distraction that I should leave alone for another day but I thought I would at least broach the topic with you to see what you think about the matter. I'll be on MDI October 17th & 18th if you would like to meet and discuss this more fully at that time. Ron Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Director of University Library & Associate Professor of Philosophy Southern New Hampshire University Manchester, NH 03106 603-668-2211 ext. 2164 603-645-9685 (fax) 9/23/2005 Page 1 of 2 Re: Jackson Laboratory Archives: R. Epp From "Douglas Macbeth" To "ELIZABETH and RONALD EPP" Date 01/03/2008 11:01:56 AM Hello Ron, Thanks for thinking of us regarding this letter. I have not heard of this proposal and would very much appreciate obtaining a copy for the Archives. I would be happy to contact the Rockefeller Archive Center and inform them that I will be receiving a copy of the letter. I am pleased to hear your Dorr biography is nearing completion. I look forward to reading it. Best to you in the New Year, Doug Douglas Macbeth The Jackson Laboratory The Joan Staats Library 600 Main Street Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 USA 207.288.6164 tele 207.288.6079 fax http://www.jax.org/library/ douglas.macbeth@jax.org Dear Doug, The message below bounced back to me. I was still using your dtm@jax.org address which proved problematic. ELIZABETH and RONALD EPP wrote: Dear Doug, After a long hiatus, I'm writing to you this morning as I complete revisions on the section of my Dorr biography dealing with the establishment of JAX. I located at the Rockefeller Archive Center a November 5, 1926 five-page typescript letter from R.B. Jackson to Mr. Rockefeller which I do not see listed in the C.C. Little finding aid that you provided me several years ago. In this letter on Hudson Motor Car Company stationary Jackson lays out in detail a plan attributed to C.C. Little for 11 a more comprehensive operation of this work than now obtains at his Bar Harbor station[established two years earlier]." He calls the proposed study of both plant and animal wildlife on MDI the "Mt. Desert Island Natural History Society." He differentiates this organization from the MDIBL and Woods Hole because his Society would get students and researchers interested in the type of field-based science associated with the names of Darwin, Lamarck, Aggasiz, and Audubon. He clearly advocates field studies as contrasted with the kind of laboratory work associated with German universities of his day (and perhaps the JAX today). Since Jean Holstein's First Fifty Years at the JAX seems to be unaware of this letter I bring it to your attention as a possible missing link in the pioneering first years of https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/hwebmail/mail/message.php?index=57 10/24/2009 Page 2 of 2 JAX. While it proposes an institutional model not adopted several years later it is important to see it as part of an intellectual process to establish an organization that will benefit scientific research and contribute to our understanding of the natural history of the Island. It also offers much earlier evidence of Jackson's interest. Whether Mr. Rockefeller responded to this letter I cannot say but the archivists at the Rockefeller Archive Center can assist. If you would like a copy for your files let me know. I think that since the Rockefeller Archive Center provided me with this copy it would be appropriate for you to inform their Archivist Michele Hiltzik (email hiltzim@mail.rockefeller.edu or 914-366-6342) that I passed along this copy to you. Wishing you the very best for the New Year, I look forward to hearing from you. Ron Epp Ronald H. Epp , Ph.D. 47 Pond View Drive Merrimack, NH 03054 (603) 424-6149 eppster2@verizon.net https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/hwebmail/mail/message.php?index=5 10/24/2009 8 SCIENTIFIC FACILITIES GENERAL INFORMATION 9 with wastes and oils, thus allowing prolonged observations building, a dining hall, and tents with wooden floors. All of on sensitive organisms in the laboratory. A stock room sup- the buildings are supplied with running fresh water and plies the equipment and reagents commonly required for electricity. The laboratory is equipped for elementary work ordinary experimental work in biology. All special and un- in biology. All optical apparatus and all special and unusual usual pieces of apparatus and equipment must be requested supplies must be requested well in advance or brought by well in advance or brought by the investigator. A second the investigator. building with two research rooms is supplied with salt water shelves and a laboratory especially equipped for chemical GENERAL INFORMATION studies. A third building, also supplied with salt water, is arranged as a dark room for experimental and photo- During 1937 the laboratory will be open from June 15th graphic work. A fourth building provides space for a shop, to September 15th. and for storage. The fifth building serves as an office and Applications for use of the laboratory facilities by in- library, containing many of the American biological jour- vestigators at the Weir Mitchell and Dorr Stations will be nals, several thousand reprints and about 1000 bound vol- considered on May 1st, and assignments made according to umes. It is hoped that biologists will place the laboratory on order of receipt and special needs. Requests received after their exchange lists. Books not found in the library may be that date may have to be denied due to lack of space. Ap- borrowed by arrangement with the Boston Society' of plication blanks will be sent to anyone interested. They Natural History and the Boston Medical Library. should be returned to Prof. William H. Cole, Rutgers Uni- For collecting and dredging in deep water a thirty foot versity, New Brunswick, N.J., before May 1st, 1937. cabin power boat, the Dahlgren, with equipment for haul- The fees for use of research rooms during the summer ing, towing, and dredging at moderate depths is available. season including ordinary glassware, chemicals and sup- For work near shore a small motor boat and several row plies is $100 at the Weir Mitchell Station, and $50 at the boats are supplied. Dorr Station, payable July 1st, 1937. In special cases the On the McCagg tract, about one-quarter mile distant, a Executive Committee may remit part or all of such fees. small dwelling has been equipped for such research as does Applications for remission should be made as early as not require sea water. Six or eight investigators can be ac- possible. commodated in that building. Board for those connected with the laboratory and their immediate families will be provided in the laboratory dining THE DORR STATION hall in Salsbury Cove at $8.00 per week. For others the The Dorr Station is located one and one-half miles south charge will be $10.00. of Bar Harbor, and about seven miles from Salsbury Cove. Rooms may be found in the neighboring village at rea- It abuts on the Acadia National Park which is available for sonable prices. exploration and study. The land and buildings, which are Salsbury Cove is an old fishing and farming hamlet on now the property of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory and the north shore of Mount Desert Island, about five miles from Bar Harbor and on the main road between Bar Har- which are available through the courtesy and cooperation of that institution, were originally provided by the generous bor and Ellsworth on the mainland, the terminus of the gift of George B. Dorr, Superintendent of the Acadia Na- Boston and Mame Railroad. The village of Salsbury Cove tional Park. is a quiet market-gardening and farming community with The station offers facilities for the study of plants and its own post office and general store. Bar Harbor has good animals (exclusive of marine forms) in their natural en- stores of every sort, an excellent hospital, express, tele- vironment. No instruction is offered. graph, cable facilities, bus and boat service. The physical equipment consists of a wooden laboratory Those wishing to come to the Laboratory by rail may