Description
Papers document his academic career at Stanford and include drawings and notes from science classes, 1903-1907; notes from
a class at Hopkins Marine Station, 1932; and notes, maps, financial accounts, and a diary from his doctoral research on meadow
mice in Benwood Meadows, Eldorado County, California, 1937-1939. Other items include his high school notebook, reprints, maps,
and an abstract of his dissertation.
Background
Hubert Oliver Jenkins, born in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1885, was the son of Stanford. professor Oliver P. Jenkins. He received
his A.B. in zoology from Stanford. in 1907 and his M.S. in biology and public health from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After 1931 he taught in the geology and natural history department at Sacramento Junior College in Sacramento, CA. Jenkins
COIl"pleted his Ph.D. in biology at Stanford. in 1940. In 1958 he published Glaciation in Big Bend National Park, Texas (Sacramento:
Sacramento state College Foundation).
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Availability
This collection is open for research.