F. H. (Frank Henry) Pike Papers, circa 1922-1952

Mss.B.P633

Date: 1922-1952 | Size: 7 Linear feet

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Abstract

This collection contains correspondence (approximately 150 letters), subject files, and notes on various research projects. The various subject areas include the central nervous systems, brains, and physiologies of many animals. Included are some anatomical drawings.

Background note

Frank Henry Pike (1876-1953) was a neurophysiologist who taught for thirty years in the Department of Physiology of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He made significant contributions to the studies of the physiology of the nervous system and physiological psychology.

Pike was born in Aurora, Illinois on January 20, 1876. He was the eighth child of William Dana Pike and Maria Wilmoth Pike. He spent much of his youth on the family farm near Plainfield, Illinois. At age 15, he and a brother drove a wagon west to Montrose, Colorado, where they homesteaded for two years. Afterwards, Pike began his collegiate studies, studying at Valparaiso and Indiana Universities. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the latter institution in 1903.

Pike then pursued a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, specializing in the physiology of respiration. There, he studied under A. G. Mathews. Earning a doctorate in 1907, for the next four years he taught physiology at Chicago.

In 1911, Pike was hired as assistant professor in the Department of Physiology of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. This began a thirty-year official association with Columbia. He retired as a full professor in 1941, afterwards serving as a special lecturer until his death.

In addition to studying and teaching physiology, Pike maintained an interest in physics and was equally at home in all of the sciences. He sought to relate other fields of science to physiology through his teaching. He espoused the importance of comparative physiology. His chief interest was discovering how the nervous system worked.

Pike married Susan Hattie Reece (1871-1943) on June 24, 1907. Together, they had one child, Eugene Wilmoth Pike (1909-1980).

Pike died on November 13, 1953.

Collection Information

Physical description

7 linear feet.

Provenance

Presented by Mrs. Rook Metzger McCulloch and accessioned, 04/29/1970 (1970 657ms).

Indexing Terms

Genre(s)

Drawings.

Personal Name(s)

Adams, Charles C. (Charles Christopher), 1873-1955
Donaldson, Henry Herbert, 1857-1938
Hektoen, Ludvig, 1863-1951
Pike, F. H. (Frank Henry), 1876-1953
Riddle, Oscar, 1877-1968
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972

Subject(s)

Brain.
Central nervous system.
Medical sciences.
Physiology -- Research.
Zoology.

Detailed Inventory


I. Correspondence			Request Series
Adams, Charles C. (Charles Christopher), 1873-1955			Request File
American Association of University Women			Request File
Andrus, William De Witt, 1896-1951			Request File
Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease			Request File
Babak, Eduard, 1873-1926			Request File
Bakance, Charles			Request File
Barbour, Henry G. (Henry Gray), 1886-1943			Request File
Behre, Chas. H. (Charles H.), 1896-1986			Request File
Berry, Frank W.			Request File
Birkhoff, George David, 1884-1944			Request File
Blanshard, Brand, 1892-1987			Request File
Bott, Edward Alexander, 1887-1974			Request File
Burchell, Samuel C., 1897-1986			Request File
Cannon, Walter B. (Walter Bradford), 1871-1945			Request File
Carmichael, Leonard, 1898-1973			Request File
Cathcart, John Philip Selby, 1890-1973			Request File
Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944			Request File
Cheney, Clarence Orion, 1887-1947			Request File
Cobb, Stanley, 1887-1968			Request File
Columbia University			Request File
Darby, Hugh H. (Hugh Hackland), b. 1895			Request File
Detlefsen, J. A. (John Adolph), 1883-1936			Request File
Donaldson, Henry Herbert, 1857-1938			Request File
Dresden, Arnold, 1882-1954			Request File
Dusser de Barenne, J. G. (Joannes Gregorius), 1885-1940			Request File
Elsberg, Charles A. (Charles Albert), 1871-1948			Request File
Emerson, Alfred E. (Alfred Edwards), 1896-1976			Request File
Fischer, Martin, 1879-1962			Request File
Gregory, William H.			Request File
Guild, Stacy Rufus, 1890-1966			Request File
Harrington, Milton, 1884-1942			Request File
Hawkes, Herbert E. (Herbert Edwin), 1872-1943			Request File
Hawley, Amos Henry, 1910-2009			Request File
Heilbrunn, L. V. (Lewis Victor), 1892-1959			Request File
Hektoen, Ludvig, 1863-1951			Request File
Hooker, -----			Request File
Hunt, Reid, 1870-1948			Request File
Huskins, C. Leonard (Charles Leonard), 1897-1953			Request File
Hyman, Harold Thomas, 1894-1985			Request File
Indiana University. Alumni Office			Request File
Jones, Isaac H. (Isaac Hampshur), 1881-1956			Request File
Lawton, Shailer Upton, 1894-1966			Request File
Loring, Marguerite G.			Request File
Lyon, Elias Potter, 1867-1937			Request File
MacKinnon, -----			Request File
Magnus, R. (Rudolf), 1873-1927			Request File
Mast, S. O. (Samuel Ottmar), 1871-1947			Request File
Max, Louis William, 1901-1995			Request File
Maxwell, Samuel Steen, 1860-1939			Request File
Miller, Heymen Rudolph, b. 1888			Request File
Morris, Robert T. (Robert Tuttle), 1857-1945			Request File
Moulton, Forest Ray, 1872-1952			Request File
Muschenheim, Carl, 1905-1977			Request File
National Committee for Mental Hygiene			Request File
National Research Council			Request File
National Research Council. Vestibular Research Committee			Request File
National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel			Request File
Nelsen, T. G.			Request File
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940			Request File
Northrop, F. S. C. (Filmer Stuart Cuckow), 1893-1992			Request File
Notkin, J.			Request File
Palmer, W. W.			Request File
Papez, James W. (James Wenceslas), 1883-1958			Request File
Pike, Eugene Wilmoth, 1909-1980			Request File
Price, George McCready, 1870-1963			Request File
Putnam, Tracy Jackson, 1894-1975			Request File
Radachy, Esther, 1904-1985			Request File
Rappleye, Willard C. (Willard Cole), 1892-1976			Request File
Renner, D. S.			Request File
Riddle, Oscar, 1877-1968			Request File
Rough, Roberts			Request File
Salway, Elizabeth			Request File
Shand, S. James (Samuel James), 1882-1957			Request File
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972			Request File
Sinnott, Edmund W. (Edmund Ware), 1888-1958			Request File
Sollman, Torald Herman, 1874-1965			Request File
Stefano, James J., 1893-1955			Request File
Stewart, John Quincy, 1894-1972			Request File
Tati, John			Request File
Terman, Lewis M. (Lewis Madison), 1877-1956			Request File
Tilney, Frederick, 1875-1938			Request File
Trueblood, Charles K.			Request File
Wendt, G. Richard (George Richard), 1906-1977			Request File
Williams, N. B.			Request File
Wilson, J. Gordon, 1858-1948			Request File
Winker, Cora S.			Request File
Wolff, Harold G. (Harold George), 1898-1962			Request File

II. Subject Files			Request Series
Abstracts of Papers			Request File
Adaptional Factors in the Origin and Development of the Lungs			Request File
Afferent Conduction in the Cranial Nerves			Request File
Afferent-Efferent Relationships in the Central System			Request File
Afferent Nerve Notes			Request File
Afferent System			Request File
Afferent System, Analysis Of			Request File
American Medical Association Questionaire	1934		Request File
Anatomical Drawings			Request File
Anxiety Neurosis is of Automatic Origin			Request File
Apparatus for Studying Visual Pattern Discrimination in the Cat			Request File
Approach to Symbiosis or Parasitism in Nerve Cell and Sheath Cell			Request File
Approach to the Study of the Physiology of the Central Nervous System of Vertebrates			Request File
Aristotle Pneuma (Jaeger and von Bonn)			Request File
Atrophy and Degeneration in Inactive Cells			Request File
Bibliography			Request File
Biographical Material			Request File
Bromides in Experimentally Produced Convulsions			Request File
Can any Mechanism be Devised			Request File
Cerebellum Lesions			Request File
Chemistry			Request File
Combined Lesions of the Decussations of the Pyramidal Tracts			Request File
Concepts			Request File
Carmichael Leonard, 1898-1973. Concerning Functional Organization of Nervous System			Request File
Conduct of Impulses within the Central Nervous System			Request File
Conduction in the Central System			Request File
Cranial Nerves			Request File
Decerebrate Rigidity			Request File
Definition of Life			Request File
Development of the Ideas of Functional Organization of the Nervous System of Vertebrates in More Recent Years			Request File
Development of the Various Theories of Functional Organization of the Nervous System Subsequent to the Early Work of Jackson			Request File
Diaphragmatic Hernia in Cats			Request File
Diary Notes and Pictures of Cats			Request File
Disorderly Movements of Chorea and Convulsions			Request File
Effect of Potassium and of Cardiac Glucosides on the Vagus Reactions of the Turtle's Heart and Stomach			Request File
Encephalon			Request File
Epilepsy			Request File
Equipment Design Drawings			Request File
Ethics and Scientific Thought			Request File
Evolution and Saving of Work as Shown in the Respiratory Mechanism			Request File
Evolution - Nervous System in Deuterostomia			Request File
Evolution of the Nervous System			Request File
Experimental Convulsions			Request File
Experiments, Results of			Request File
Foerster, Otfrid, 1873-1941. Gage, O.. On the Clinico-Patho-Physiologico-Anatomical Studies...Column in Man			Request File
Formulas			Request File
From Goltz to Steiner: The Period of the Ascendancy of Schock			Request File
Functional Origin of the Nervous System			Request File
Fundamental Adjustments of Living Organisms to the Formal Conditions of Existence			Request File
General Data of the Physiology of the Nervous System			Request File
General Status of Constructive Scholarship and its Needs in America			Request File
Ground Work of Physiology			Request File
Hybernation			Request File
Hypotheses: Some Comments and Some Characteristics			Request File
Influence of Parathyroid Hormone on Certain Joint Disturbances and Other Conditions			Request File
Journal of Comparative Neurology			Request File
Last Illness of Sue R. Pike			Request File
Laws of Physiology			Request File
Limitations of the Method of Conditioned Reflex			Request File
Lipschutz, Alexander, 1883-1980. Sexual Glands and their Action			Request File
Longet's Treatise on Physiology			Request File
Mechanism and the Biological Sciences			Request File
Memory			Request File
Metabolism of a Nerve Fiber			Request File
Mimicry			Request File
Mind and the Conservation of Energy			Request File
Miscellany			Request File
Moll Galvanometer			Request File
Morphology			Request File
Nature of a Law of Science			Request File
Nature of Mind			Request File
Nature of Nervous Reactions			Request File
Nerve Cells			Request File
Nerves, by Various Writers			Request File
Nervous Reactions			Request File
Nervous System			Request File
Neural Bases of Behavior	1952		Request File
Neurological Experiments and Notes			Request File
Neuroses			Request File
Neurosis			Request File
Newspaper Clippings			Request File
Notkin, J.. Intravenous Pharmacodynamic Study of the Vegetative Nervous System in the Cryptogenic Group of Convulsive State			Request File
Ocular Muscle Imbalance and Afferent Impulses from the Muscle: Fatigue in Reading			Request File
Olivary System Material			Request File
Organization of the Mind			Request File
Origin and Evolution of Polyzoa			Request File
Origin and Evolution of the Nervous System - Bryozoa			Request File
Origin of the Central Nervous System		2 folders	Request File
Origin of the Nervous System of Vertebrates			Request File
Origin of Vertebrate Nervous System			Request File
Outlines and Notes on Physiology			Request File
Perception			Request File
Personality			Request File
Physical Basis of Mind			Request File
Physiological Properties			Request File
Physiology and Experimental Science			Request File
Physiology of the Central Nervous System of Vertebrates		5 folders	Request File
Physiology of the Central Nervous System of Vertebrates			Request File
Physiology of the Central Nervous System of Vertebrates ... of Organic Evolution			Request File
Physiology of the Central Nervous System of Vertebrates. Outline			Request File
Physiology of the Central Nervous System of Vertebrates. Preface			Request File
Physiology of the Central Nervous System of Vertebrates. Rough Notes			Request File
Physiology: Thermodynamic Aspects			Request File
Point and the Line			Request File
Possible Relationship between the Current of Injury and the White Blood Cell in Inflammation			Request File
Problem of Functional Organization in the Central Nervous System of Vertebrate Animals			Request File
Problems of Organic Evolution Considered from the Point of View of Physiology			Request File
Procedures Used in Semantic Conditioning			Request File
Pruritis Ani			Request File
Psychogenic Origin			Request File
Psychology			Request File
References on the Nervous System			Request File
Relation of the Atmosphere to Plants, Animals, and to Man			Request File
Relation of Man to his Environment			Request File
Reprints			Request File
Respiration and Oxidation			Request File
Role of Certain Hormones in Organic Synthesis			Request File
Rose: Balance and Disturbance of Balance in the Autonomic Nervous System			Request File
Some Considerations from General Biology which Affect the Study of the Nervous System			Request File
Spinal Column Sketches			Request File
Spinal Cord of Plagiostomea			Request File
Stars		2 folders	Request File
Surface Tension			Request File
Thermodynamics		2 folders	Request File
Turck, Fenton B. (Fenton Benedict), 1857-1932. Breakdown of Metabolism and the Organs of Metabolism in the Alimentary Tract			Request File
Type of Nerve Cell Concerned in a Particular Function			Request File
Underlying Thermodynamic Factors in Evolution			Request File

III. Notes		3 boxes	Request Series

IV. Graphics		1 box	Request Series