Preliminary Guide to the Beatrice Marcy Sweeney Papers
Preliminary arrangement and description by Special Collections staff; latest revision A. Demeter.
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Preliminary Guide to the Beatrice Marcy Sweeney Papers, ca. 1916-1991
Collection number: UArch FacP 25
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Preliminary arrangement and description by Special Collections staff; latest revision A. Demeter
- Date Completed:
- Mar. 15, 2011
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
© 2011 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Beatrice Marcy Sweeney Papers
Dates: ca. 1916-1991
Collection number: UArch FacP 25
Creator:
Sweeney, Beatrice M.
Collection Size:
11 linear feet
(11 boxes).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Abstract: The collection contains biographical and research files for Beatrice Marcy Sweeney, UCSB biology professor.
Physical location: Del Sur, University Archives, 29A.
Languages:
English
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Beatrice Marcy Sweeney Papers. UArch FacP 25. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Donation from husband, Paul Lee, 1998; UCSB Biology Lab, 1998; daughter, Beatrice (Poppy) DeMarco Dennis, 2000.
Biography
Beatrice Marcy Sweeney was born August 11, 1914 in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her Bachelor's from Smith College in
1936 and her PhD from Radcliffe College in 1942. After relocating to California, she worked at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography
as a research biologist. She married Paul Lee in 1961. In 1969 she returned to California to teach at UCSB. She is known for
her research in marine biology, particularly on phytoplankton. She died on July 17, 1989.
For more information, see the Office of Public Information Biographical Files, UArch 11.
Scope and Content of Collection
Arrangement
Materials are arranged as received as follows:
- One box of material from Paul Lee.
- One box and one folder from Poppy Dennis.
- Remaining boxes from her laboratory.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Sweeney, Beatrice M.
University of California, Santa Barbara
Related Material
Additional biographical information available in the Office of Public Information Biographical Files, UArch 11.
Box 1: 1
Address books (four small ring notebooks),
ca. early 1980s
Box 1: 2
Bibliography - Papers published during the tenure of NSF Grant No. PCM 77-07099
Box 1: 3
Biographical/Personal (includes passports and visas, extra photos, pilot's license, divorce papers)
Box 1: 4
College of Creative Studies brochures (was a faculty member of CCS)
Box 1: 5
Commencement, 1993 - Program (including text of speech for presentation of the Beatrice M. Sweeney Memorial Award in Biological
Sciences)
Box 1: 6
Costa Rica (UCLA Extension packet and University of Costa Rica material)
Box 1: 7
Honors and Awards (includes article in UCSB Campus about receiving honorary degree from the University of Umea, Sweden,
1986)
Box 1: 8
Professional Organizations (includes article in UCSB Faculty Notes about Sweeney being President of American Institute of
Biological Sciences,
1980)
Box 1: 9
Resarch Notes (including notebook, with heading: Amazon,
1987)
Box 1
PhD, Radcliffe College,
1942
Beatrice (Poppy) De Marco Dennis Donation
Box 2
Biographical/Personal (includes birth certificate, Newton, Massachusetts, 11 Aug. 1914; marriage certificate, 1961; passport;
hand drawn and colored flowers; and some correspondence ca. 1980-1989, including condolences, and a memorial by Poppy Dennis)
Honors and Awards (plaque, in recognition as AIBS President, 1980)
Box 2
Offprints and correspondence
Box 2
Printing blocks (3 zinc plates on wood blocks, depicting graphs)
Box 2
Rhythmic Phenomena in Plants (proof and publicity),
1969
Box 2
Marcy, Eleanor H. Nichols (Mrs. Henry O. Marcy, Jr.; mother of Eleanor Beatrice Marcy Sweeney) - 1 b/w mounted, 7" x 9"
Box 2
Marcy, Henry O., Jr. (father of Eleanor Beatrice Marcy Merwin Sweeney) - 1 b/w, mounted, 7 1/2" x 9 1/2"
Box 2
37 b/w (including childhood shots from ca. 1916 on; graduation from Smith College, 1936; family)
Box 2
4 b/w mounted (including one at Lake Placid, 1920)
Box 2
7 color (family, Lake Placid, house in Isla Vista)
Box 2
1 color slide (house in Isla Vista)
Box 2
Computer Files (2 5 1/4"floppy diskettes, many Wordstar files, contents unknown)
Box 3-11
Laboratory Materials
Scope and Content Note
Mainly research notebooks, files, and photographs
