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[Identification of item], in the Catherine Henley Papers #04979, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from William Burk, Couch Biology Laboratory, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in May 1999 (Acc. 98370).

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• Costello, Donald P. (Donald Paul), 1909- .
• Electron microscopy.
• Henley, Catherine, 1922- .
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of Zoology.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dept. of Zoology.
• Women scientists--North Carolina.
• Women zoologists.
• Zoologists--North Carolina.
• Zoology--Study and teaching.

Catherine Henley was born in January 1922. She attended the College of William and Mary, Norfolk Division, from 1939 to 1941, transferring to the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, to earn her A.B. in 1943. Henley received her M.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1947 and returned to the University of North Carolina to complete a Ph.D. in zoology in 1949. Her Ph.D. thesis, Chromosomal Mosaicism and Abnormalities of Mitosis Produced by Experimental Temperature Shock on the Developing Embryos of Triturus Torosus , was directed by University of North Carolina Kenan Professor of Zoology Donald P. Costello (1909-1978), for whom Henley was research assistant or co-investigator from 1947 to 1976.

Henley, Donald P. Costello, and his wife, Helen M. Costello, were all active in research projects conducted in the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass. From 1951 to 1968, Henley also edited, proofread, and indexed a bi-monthly national professional journal, The Biological Bulletin.

Chiefly correspondence between Catherine Henley and Donald P. Costello, for whom she was research assistant or co-investigator in the Zoology Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1947 to 1976. Also present is correspondence with other researchers in developmental cytology, cell biology, and electron microscopy, as well as letters to and from several family members, including Catherine Henley's father, John Ralph Henley, a retired colonel in the United States Marine Corps; her mother, Regina Knowles Durant Henley; and her sister, Mary V. Henley. Also included are a research notebook from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., dated May 1974; several offprints of articles by Catherine Henley; and 36 illustrations, mostly photographs made using a scanning electron microscope.

Items separated include pictures (P-4979/folder 1).