Ritter, William Emerson, 1856-1944 (Personal Name)

NUCMC data from Univ. of Calif., San Diego. Scripps Instit. of Oceanography, La Jolla for His Papers, 1893-1941 (William Emerson Ritter, 1856-1944; zoologist and director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

LC data base, 12-18-85 (hdg.: Ritter, William Emerson, 1856-1944; usage: William E. Ritter; Wm. E. Ritter)

Dedicatory addresses (Scripps Institution for Biological Research), 1916: page 1 (William Emerson Ritter) page 2 (Wm. E. Ritter, scientific director, Scripps Institution)

Wikipedia, Nov. 21, 2018 (William Emerson Ritter (November 21, 1856 - January 10, 1944) was an American biologist. Ritter initiated and shaped the Marine Biological Association of San Diego (now Scripps Institution of Oceanography of UC San Diego); born in Hampden Township, Columbia County, Wisconsin)

Guide to the William E. Ritter Papers, 1879-1944 online finding aid, Nov. 21, 2018 (William Emerson Ritter, professor of zoology at the University of California, was born on a Wisconsin farm on November 19, 1856; After graduating from the Oshkosh Normal School, he continued his studies at Harvard in 1890 ... and came to the University of California at Berkeley in 1893 as a biology instructor; By 1904 Ritter had begun working in San Diego on what he hoped would be an exhaustive study of marine life focused on a limited area; He was hence for many years to divide his time between Berkeley and La Jolla where he spent his summers. It was on his return from a trip to Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines in 1906 that Ritter actively sought to interest Andrew Carnegie, Edward Harriman and others in the financing of a biological station at La Jolla. Only in 1912, after much negotiation, were final arrangements between benefactor Edward Wyllis Scripps and the University of California completed, and Ritter named first scientific director of the new Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a position he held until 1922; Ritter died in Berkeley on January 10, 1944) http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/berkeley/bancroft/m71_3_cubanc.pdf