RAYMUND L. ZWEMER
A REGISTER OF HIS PAPERS
IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Prepared by
Joseph Sullivan with the assistance of Paul Colton
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. 1996
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CONTENTS
[Note: numbers refer to pagination of original WordPerfect text]
Administrative Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Biographical Note. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Scope and Content Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Description of Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Container List
Appointment Diaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
General Correspondence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Professional File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Speeches and Writings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Miscellany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Classified Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
The papers of Raymund L. Zwemer (1902-1981), research
biologist, teacher, scientific administrator, and first head of
the Science and Technology Division in the Library of Congress,
were given to the Library of Congress by Zwemer in 1976 and 1980.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Raymund
L. Zwemer in these papers and in other collections of papers in
the custody of the Library of Congress is governed by the
Copyright Law of the United States
(Title 17, U.S.C.).
Government regulations control the use of classified material
in this collection. Manuscript Division staff can furnish
information concerning access to and use of classified items.
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Linear feet of shelf space occupied: 14
Approximate number of items: 12,000
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
1902, Mar. 30 Born, Bahrain, Persian Gulf
1923 B.A., Hope College, Holland, Mich.
1924-1956 Published nearly one hundred articles on the
structure and function of the adrenal glands,
biological effects of potassium, and focused
ultrasound
1925-1926 Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1926 Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1926-1928 National Research Council Fellow, Cold Spring
Harbor, Long Island, N.Y.
1928-1944 Instructor and assistant professor of anatomy,
Columbia University, College of Physicians and
Surgeons, New York, N.Y.
1929 Married Dorothy Ingebord Bornn
1941 United States delegate, Second Pan American
Congress on Endocrinology, Montevideo, Chile
1941-1942 Lectured before learned societies and university
groups in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and
Brazil
1944-1947 Associate Chief, Division of Cultural Relations,
State Department
Chairman, Interdepartmental Committee on
Cooperation with American Republics and Director
of the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific
and Cultural Cooperation, State Department
1947-1950 Executive Secretary, National Academy of Sciences
Executive Secretary, National Research Council
1950-1955 Chief, Science and Technology Division, Library of
Congress
1955-1957 Chief, Division of International Cooperation for
Scientific Research, UNESCO, Paris, France
Guest Scientist and Consultant in Physiology,
Naval Medical Research Center, Bethesda, Md.
1958-1961 Assistant Science Advisor, International
Organizations, State Department
1961 Associate editor, _American Journal of Physiology_
and _Journal of Applied Physiology_
1961-1962 Director, Biological Information User Survey,
_Biological Abstracts_, Philadelphia, Pa.
1962-1973 Director, Federation of American Societies for
Experimental Biology Translation Project,
Washington, D.C.
1973 Retired
1981, Oct. 5 Died, Silver Spring, Md.
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SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The papers of Raymund Lull Zwemer span the years 1903-1979,
with the bulk of the material from the period 1940-1965. Zwemer,
a prolific researcher who published more than ninety journal
articles, taught anatomy at Columbia University Medical School
for fifteen years, beginning in 1929. Toward the end of World
War II, he left teaching for a career as an administrator with
governmental and scientific organizations. The papers feature
his research and reflect his interest in exploring the adrenal
glands, biological effects of potassium, and focused ultrasound.
They also relate to his employment at the State Department, the
Library of Congress, and various scientific foundations. The
papers contain the following series: Appointment Diaries, General
Correspondence, Professional File, Speeches and Writings, and
Miscellany.
Appointment Diaries list Zwemer's meetings and trips from
the time he became science advisor at the State Department.
Noted are numerous contacts with Verner Clapp, the Associate
Librarian of Congress, at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C.,
throughout the 1960s. Other meetings documented in these volumes
were with members of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
The General Correspondence file is concentrated in the
period after Zwemer became an anatomy professor at Columbia
University. Letters received prior to his appointment at
Columbia include a brief recruitment letter from that institution
in 1928 reporting a newly installed operating room for animal
experimentation. From 1941 to 1942, Zwemer attended meetings,
seminars, and lectures in the field of endocrinology in
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile. Letters from
this period detail acquaintances and friendships formed during
that time. Of interest is State Department correspondence
relating to a possible appointment as cultural attache in the
United States embassy in Argentina. The position Zwemer sought
was denied him because of political unrest there in 1943. There
is evidence from correspondence beginning from the late 1940s of
his interest in securing a patent for the commercial production
of corticone (cortisone) with a colleague at Columbia, Bertrain
E. Lowenstein. Another commercial venture with Lowenstein is
recorded in the correspondence of this period concerning the
separation and production of juice concentrate from liquid. The
General Correspondence file also includes letters regarding
elements of Zwemer's work at the Library of Congress, the State
Department, foundations, overseas employment in Paris, France,
with UNESCO, and personal health issues, and other matters
discussed with friends.
The Professional File, the largest series, reflects Zwemer's
work with foundations and his membership in science associations,
such as The American Institute of Biological Sciences, the
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, and
the American Association of Anatomists. Zwemer maintained an
interest in information science, especially in the biological
field. While on the staff of the Library of Congress and the
State Department, he maintained an active association with many
foundations which is reflected in conference materials, reports,
and abstracts. As an administrator and advisor to various
groups, Zwemer was also interested in the type of data collected
and sought to fund through grants the publication and translation
of these data.
The Speeches and Writings series contains drafts, reprints
of articles and bibliographic lists which serve as guides to the
published works. With the drafts is correspondence with
publishers, coauthors, and others regarding subject content.
Drafts of speeches and two unpublished books along with various
reference materials, mostly charts and notes, are also included
in this file. The books and articles represent Zwemer's studies
of the areas of greatest interest to him, the adrenal glands,
predictive effects of potassium levels in the body, corticone
(cortisone), and focused ultrasound as a tool for destroying
diseased bodily tissue.
The Miscellany contains biographical material, personnel
records from agencies in which he was employed, science reports,
and printed matter. A small group of family papers includes
Zwemer's correspondence with his father, Samuel, and his
children.
Classified information has been placed in a separate series,
and is arranged and described according to the boxes and folders
from which it was removed.
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DESCRIPTION OF SERIES
Container Nos. Series
1-3 Appointment Diaries, 1958-1977.
Diaries containing day-to-day notations of
meetings and events. Arranged by size, and
chronologically therein.
3-5 General Correspondence, 1923-1976, n.d.
Letters received and copies of letters sent with
attached related material. Arranged
chronologically.
5-28 Professional File, 1938-1979, n.d.
Correspondence, memoranda, agendas, minutes of
meetings, lists, reports, notes, messages,
studies, surveys, newsletters, printed matter, and
related material. Arranged alphabetically by name
of organization, project, subject, or type of
material and chronologically therein.
28-34 Speeches and Writings, 1922-1973, n.d.
Drafts of articles, speeches, and books,
reprints of articles, correspondence, a notebook,
notes, reports, and tables. Arranged by type of
material. The articles are arranged in two sets.
Set I contains reprints of research articles
listed by preassigned numbers, a bibliographic
list, and drafts chronologically arranged
thereunder by title. Set II contains reprints of
articles of a more general nature listed by
preassigned numbers, a bibliographic list, and
drafts chronologically arranged and thereunder by
title. Book drafts are arranged by title.
Speeches are arranged chronologically. Reference
material is arranged by relationship to speeches
or articles and therein by type of material.
34-36 Miscellany, 1903-1970, n.d.
Family papers, correspondence, photographs,
notes, biographical and personnel information,
scientific reports and programs, business cards,
and printed matter. Arranged alphabetically by
type of material or subject and chronologically
therein.
CL 1 Classified Material, 1955-1961.
Correspondence. Arranged and described
according to the series, boxes and folders from
which it was removed.
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CONTAINER LIST
Container Nos. Contents
APPOINTMENT DIARIES, 1958-1977
Box 1 Book size
1958-65 (4 folders)
Box 2 1966-71 (3 folders)
Box 3 1972-73
Unbound and pocket size, 1961-66, 1976-77
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1923-1976, n.d.
1923-52 (6 folders)
Box 4 1953-66 (9 folders)
Box 5 1967-76, n.d. (2 folders)
PROFESSIONAL FILE, 1938-1979, n.d.
American Association for the Advancement of
Science, 1948, 1962, n.d.
American Association of Anatomists
Committee on Anatomical Nomenclature,
neuroanatomical nomenclature related,
1973, n.d.
Dinner for John S. Nicholas, 1962-63, n.d.
Erickson, G. E., history of organization, 1975
General, 1970-71
Grants, 1967-74, n.d.
Meetings
Annual, 1965-72 (2 folders)
Committee on Anatomical Nomenclature
1969-72 (2 folders)
Box 6 1972-78 (6 folders)
Wotton, Robert M., 1957-59, 1975-77, n.d.
Young, M. Wharton, 1965-78, n.d.
American Association of Physical Anthropology,
1962-67
American Cortex Conference Group, 1938-39
American Documentation Institute, 1955-61, n.d.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Biological Sciences Communication Project
Grant requests
1961
Box 7 1962
Miscellaneous material, 1958-65, n.d.
Project proposal, 1960
General, 1959-72, n.d. (3 folders)
Handbook of biological data, 1949, n.d.
Meetings, 1960-68 (4 folders)
Box 8 Twenty-fifth anniversary
Brochures, statements, and newsletters,
1971-72, n.d.
Correspondence, 1971-72
American Library Association, 1948-49
American University, Washington, D.C., 1958-65,
n.d.
_Biological Abstracts_
Candidates for director, 1963-65, n.d.
Conferences, 1958, 1965 (2 folders)
Correspondence
"Basic," 1961-62
General, 1960-68
Editorials, 1963-74
Box 9 Financial, 1961-66, n.d. (2 folders)
Meeting, 1964
Miscellany, 1963-71, n.d.
Reports, 1949, 1962-66 (2 folders)
Biological Information User Survey
Correspondence
Ninety percent or more increase in
membership, 1961
Survey letters, 1961
Data, 1958-62, n.d. (2 folders)
Finances, 1961-63, n.d.
Box 10 List of societies with ninety percent increase,
1961
Miscellaneous, 1959-62, n.d.
Reports, 1961-62
Trips
Chicago, Ill., 1961-62
Gulf Coast, U.S.A., 1962, n.d.
New England, 1961
North Central States, U.S.A., 1961
Pacific Coast, U.S.A., 1961
Canadian Association of Anatomists, 1973
Carnegie Fund Conference, 1960-61
Central Treaty Organization, science mission
Background documents, 1959-62, n.d.
Correspondence, 1962-63, n.d.
General, 1962-63, n.d.
Box 11 Communications study for biology, 1965
Conference of Biological Editors
Constitution and bylaws, 1964-66, n.d.
General correspondence, 1965-66
Meetings, 1962-67 (5 folders)
Newsletters, 1961-73
Reports
European editors meeting, 1964
(1 folder)
Box 12 (1 folder)
Various, 1962
Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C., 1959-62
Council of Biological Editors
Committee on quality control, 1969-70, n.d.
Meeting, 1970, n.d.
Council on Biological Sciences Information,
1964-69, n.d. (3 folders)
Box 13 Council on Library Resources
Correspondence, 1958-59, 1969-71
Finances and contracts, 1969-70, n.d.
General, 1959-70, n.d.
Meetings, 1969-70, n.d.
Press releases, 1963-70
Reports and quality control, 1969-71, n.d.
Federation of American Societies for Experimental
Biology
_Beaumont Bugle_, newsletter, 1967-72
Biological Sciences Communication Project,
American University, Washington, D.C., 1965
Committee on Biology Handbooks, 1959-60, n.d.
Copyright, 1939, 1965-73, n.d.
Box 14 Correspondence
Chronological, 1966-73 (12 folders)
General
1961-66 (2 folders)
Box 15 1967-73, n.d.
Encyclopedia of Problems of Alcohol Project,
visit to Stanford University, 1963
_Federation Proceedings_, 1958-67, n.d.
(2 folders)
_Federation Proceedings, Translation Supplement_
1960-67 (3 folders)
Box 16 Czechoslovakia, 1962-65, n.d.
George Washington University Medical School,
Washington, D.C., 1969
Gordon Research Conferences, 1962-72 (2 folders)
Handbook citation list, n.d.
International Congress of Physiological Sciences
Tokyo, Japan, 1964-65
Washington, D.C., 1968
International Council of Scientific Unions,
Codata meeting, 1970
International Federation for Documentation, 1963
(2 folders)
Journal lists
1969-70
Box 17 1970, n.d.
Library acquisitions, 1967-68
Machine assisted translations, 1965-72
(6 folders)
Meetings
Analysis of, 1961-71
Atlantic City, N.J.
1961-62 (2 folders)
Box 18 1965-70 (3 folders)
Chicago, Ill., 1960-67 (3 folders)
Kansas City, Mo., 1969, n.d.
Miscellaneous publications, 1953-67, n.d.
(2 folders)
National Federation of Science Abstracting and
Indexing Services, 1963-67, n.d.
_Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology_
1962-70
Box 19 1971-73 (7 folders)
Box 20 1974, n.d.
_Neuroscience Translations_, Correspondence,
1966-68, n.d. (2 folders)
Proposal for oral communications studies,
1961-62
Public Affairs Office, 1961, 1968-69, n.d.
Questionnaire tabulation and report, 1970
Toxicology information program, 1968, n.d.
Trips
Bulgaria, 1963-64, n.d.
Hungary, 1963-64, n.d.
USSR, 1962-64, n.d.
USSR exchange program, 1964
Vouchers, 1964-71
Box 21 Federation of American Societies for Experimental
Biology/Council on Library Resources Project
Biological handbooks, n.d.
Correspondence, 1967-71, n.d.
Gordon Research Conference, 1969-72, n.d.
(2 folders)
Meetings, 1965, 1970
Miscellany, 1963-68, n.d.
Press release, ca. 1970
Reference material, 1967-70, n.d. (4 folders)
Reports
"Development...of criteria for control of
input..., " 1969
"Identification of journal characteristics
useful in improving input and output...,"
1970 (2 folders)
"Selection of quality material...," [1969]
Box 22 Fifth International Congress on Nutrition
Correspondence, 1958-60
Minutes of meetings and related papers, 1958-60
Foreign Service Institute, State Department,
1960-61
Hope College, Holland, Mich., 1952-59
International Anatomical Nomenclature Committee
Correspondence
General
1966-72 (5 folders)
Box 23 1973-79, n.d. (3 folders)
Mitchell, G. A. G., 1965-75 (5 folders)
Box 24 Council for International Organizations of
Medical Science, 1963-67, n.d. (2 folders)
Financial, 1967-77
Histology Subcommittee, 1967-73, n.d.
(2 folders)
Honorary secretary election, 1970
International Congress of Anatomists
Leningrad, USSR, 1970
Wiesbaden, Germany, 1965
Meetings, 1971-76
Membership lists, 1967-76, n.d.
Box 25 Miscellany, 1968, 1976, n.d.
_Nomina Embryologica_
Corrected copy, 1970
Draft
Final
London, England, meeting, 1967-68
Mailing lists and requests, 1967-73, n.d.
Revision, 1969-72 (2 folders)
_Nomina Embryologia_ and _Nomina Histologica_,
1971-72 (2 folders)
Reports and reviews, 1967-75
International Anatomical Nomenclature
Committee/American Association of Anatomists,
joint meeting on nomenclature, 1971
Box 26 International Conference on Scientific
Information, 1958
Library of Congress, 1950-54, n.d.
Life sciences and communication, chapter report,
1970
National Academy of Sciences
Africa study group, 1959
Committee to Assist London Mission on Science,
1947
Food and nutrition board, 1960
Miscellany, 1948-49
National Research Council, 1949, n.d.
Pan American Congress, 1970-72, n.d.
Pan American Health Organization
Advisory committee on medical research, 1961-67
_Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutricion_, 1966,
n.d.
Correspondence, 1964-66 (2 folders)
Documents on primary journals, 1962-64, n.d.
Box 27 Literature searches, 1963-64, n.d.
Quality selection of materials, 1958-69, n.d.
Reports, 1962-66 (2 folders)
Travel
Argentina, 1963-64
Brazil, 1964, n.d.
Chile, 1963-64, n.d.
General, 1964, n.d.
Mexico, 1964, n.d.
Uruguay, 1964, n.d.
Venezuela, 1962-66, n.d. (2 folders)
Box 28 Pan American Union, 1959-67
UNESCO
General, 1950-60
Management related, 1958
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1922-1973, n.d.
Articles, 1924-73, n.d.
Set I, "Research"
Bibliography and reprints, 1924-56
(5 folders)
Box 29 Drafts
1938
"Blood Potassium During Experimental
Shock"
"Cerebrospinal Fluid Potassium in
Neurological Disorders"
"On the Role of Certain Hormones in
Organic Synthesis"
"Some Effects of Acetyl-Beta-Methyl-
Choline (Mecholin) on Potassium in
Cats"
"Studies on Direct and Visible Ingestion
of Fat by Differentiated Body Cells of
the Cat"
"A Study of Corticoadrenal Cells"
1939, "The Serum Potassium Level in
`Trypanosoma Equiperdium' Infection in
Rats..."
1940
"The Action of Insulin on Blood Sugar
After Certain Lesions of the Central
Nervous System"
"The Chemical Constitution of the
Hormone of the Adrenal Cortex"
"Cortin-like Effects of Steroid
Glycosides on Potassium"
"Effects of Steroid Glycosides and
Cortin on Insulin Convulsions and
Blood Sugar"
"An Experimental Study of the
Similarities Between Cortin and Some
Cardiac Glycosides"
"Plasma Potassium Level during Malaria
Infection in Monkeys and Man"
Correspondence, 1940
Drafts and reference material
Box 30 1941, "The Effects of Anaphylactic Shock
Upon Blood Potassium and Concentration"
(galley)
1942
"The Biological Applications of Focused
Ultrasound"
"A New Method for the Generation and Use
of Focused Ultrasound in Experimental
Biology"
1943
"Fatal Loss of Plasma Volume after Lymph
Heart Destruction in Toads"
"Resistance of Rats to Potassium
Poisoning..."
"A Study of Cytogenesis of
Corticoadrenal Cells in the Cat"
1944
"Fat Excretion in the Guinea Pig Kidney"
"Studies on Experimental Bartonella
Anemia in the Albino Rat"
"Valoracion de las Funcionas
Endocrinologicas Durante el Embarazo"
1953
"Plasma Potassium Curves in the Rabbit,
Following Single and Repeated
Injections of Potassium Chloride"
"Water and Electrolyte Metabolism"
Correspondence, 1951-53
Drafts
Box 31 Set II, "General"
Bibliography and reprints, 1929-71
(3 folders)
Drafts
1936, "History of Anatomy"
1948, "National Academy of Sciences and the
National Research Council"
1949, "Science and Government"
1950, "International Science Policy Survey"
1952, "Sinkiang Province" (Introduction)
1955, Book review
1960
"Science Program in Department of State"
Trip summary
1967, "Select Translation from Medical-
Related Science"
1969, "Bio-medical Journals of Latin
America: A Critique"
1970
"Critically Evaluated Data in the
Biological Sciences"
"Identification of Journal
Characteristics Useful in Improving
Input and Output..."
1972, "Anatomical Nomenclature 1972"
Box 32 1972-73, "What Biological Research Has Done
for Your Welfare and Mine"
Undated, "Selection of Quality Material in
Electronic Data Banks"
Reprints requests, 1960-73
Books, 1940-44, n.d.
"Potassium," 1940-44, n.d. (not published)
"Superadrenals," 1942 (not published)
Reference material
Articles
Notebook re `Adrenal Cortex of Cats,' 1924-26
Notes, miscellaneous, 1937-70, n.d.
Parasitic diseases, World War II conference,
1943
Reports to Schieffelin Co. re potassium,
1939-40
Tables re adrenals, 1938
Speeches
Notes
Miscellaneous, 1931-64, n.d.
Seminar, 1938
Box 33 Speeches
Invitations to speak, Argentina, 1941
Texts
1922, 1941-61 (10 folders)
Box 34 1962-63 (2 folders)
MISCELLANY, 1903-1970, n.d.
Academic course notes, Yale University,
New Haven, Conn., 1923
Argentina, n.d.
Bio-Astronautics, 1959
Biographical information
General, 1924-73, n.d. (2 folders)
Personnel records, 1942-60
Business cards, n.d.
Drawings, n.d.
Family papers
Calendars, pamphlets, notes, 1950-54, n.d.
Box Correspondence, 1903, 1947-70, n.d.
Military research projects, 1959
NATO Science Committee, 1959
Notes, n.d.
Personal, 1933-70, n.d. (2 folders)
Box 36 Photographs
Family, 1906-66, n.d.
Groups, 1926-70
Miscellaneous, ca. 1949-1950
Non-Zwemer, 1959
Portraits, n.d.
Scientific, n.d.
South America, ca. 1941
Printed matter
Miscellaneous, 1947-67, n.d. (3 folders)
Research monographs, 1931-41, 1957
Science related, 1946-66, n.d.
South America trip, U.S. Science Mission,
notebook, 1959
Swingle, Wilbur W., bibliography, 1917-58
CLASSIFIED MATERIAL, 1955-1961
CL 1 General Correspondence, 1961 (Container 4)
CL 1 (cont.) Professional File
American Documentation Institute, 1955-61
(Container 6)
Central Asian Treaty Organization, science
mission
Background documents, 1959-62 (Container 10)
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