Farish Alston Jenkins, Jr. Papers, ca. 1967-2013

This collection documents Farish A. Jenkins, Jr.’s field and laboratory research and teaching career as a vertebrate paleontologist and as a faculty member at Harvard University. It includes some of Jenkin’s important research, such as his work with respiratory physiology, bird flight, and vertebrate evolution. The bulk of the collection dates from the late 1970s to the 1990s.

The course material in this collection contains handouts, drafts, lecture material, sketches, and notes. The administrative and financial material, on the other hand, primarily includes blank and filled forms required in the running of the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Department, as well as the documentation of office activity through the retention of receipts, invoices, expense reports, and policy descriptions. The bulk of the collection consists of illustrations and other audiovisual material, such as photographs, 16 mm films, negatives, X-rays, sketches, transparencies, diagrams, maps, VHS tapes, cassette tapes, graphs and charts, illustrations, and skeleton specimens.