{"id":1011,"date":"2013-08-05T10:42:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T15:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2013-08-05T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T15:42:44","slug":"19th-century-biology-notes-just-received-in-the-college-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/2013\/08\/05\/19th-century-biology-notes-just-received-in-the-college-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"19th-century Biology notes just received in the College Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1012\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/08\/Starfish-page-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1012\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1012\" alt=\"Maxcy's description of a starfish (accession 2013.023)\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/08\/Starfish-page-small.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maxcy&#8217;s description of a starfish (accession 2013.023)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Curious about what your biology class would have been studying in 1884?\u00a0 Come take a look at the Archives\u2019 newest gift, Carroll Lewis Maxcy\u2019s laboratory notebook.\u00a0 In addition to his beautifully penned notes, the volume is filled with brilliantly-colored illustrations of starfish, frogs, molds, and ferns.<\/p>\n<p>Maxcy did not specialize in science after his graduation in 1887.\u00a0 Rather, he returned to Williams to teach English and Rhetoric for many years, also serving as dean and acting president.<\/p>\n<p>The notebook is the gift of Jean Matthews Halverson, daughter of the late Prof. Samuel Matthews who taught biology at Williams from 1937 to 1970.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious about what your biology class would have been studying in 1884?\u00a0 Come take a look at the Archives\u2019 newest gift, Carroll Lewis Maxcy\u2019s laboratory notebook.\u00a0 In addition to his beautifully penned notes, the volume is filled with brilliantly-colored illustrations of starfish, frogs, molds, and ferns. Maxcy did not specialize in science after his graduation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}