The Science and Philosophy of Edward Flanders Robb Ricketts (1897-1948)
"A review of Ricketts’ personal papers - more specifically his extensive inter - referenced card filing system and letters of correspondence - suggests that within the first year of his arrival in Pacific Grove, Ricketts was mixing with the scientists associated with Stanford's seaside laboratory. These interactions with Hopkins scientists involved their helping Ricketts to identity the marine invertebrates he was in the business of collecting; and Ricketts providing marine species the scientists were in the business of taxonomically describing in their scientific publications."
--- Chapter 4 of Donald Kohrs' book on Hopkins early years 1918-1950
YouTube video "A Tidal Odyssey - Ed Ricketts and the Making of Between Pacific Tides"
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Ricketts' Scientific Interests
- Bibliography
- Books
- Survey Cards
- Pacific Biological Laboratories Business Cards
- Pacific Biological Laboratories Business Ledger
- Pacific Biological Laboratories Catalogs
Digital Copy of the 1925 Pacific Biological Laboratories Catalog provided by Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State PDFDigital Copy of the 1929 Pacific Biological Laboratories Catalog provided by the Harold A. Miller Library, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University PDF
Digital Copy of the 1929 -1930 Pacific Biological Laboratories Catalog provided by Pat Hathaway, CA Views PDF - Ed Ricketts contributions to the Smithsonian
- Ed Ricketts specimens in the Smithsonian Collection
- Collecting Trips
Ricketts' Chicago Roommates
Ricketts' Personal Interests
Other
- Ricketts reading list aboard the Western Flyer
- Joseph Campbell on Ed Ricketts
- Ed Ricketts last letter to John Steinbeck, May 7, 1948
- A Tidal Odyssey: Ed Ricketts and the Making of Between Pacific Tides
- Muir's Glaciers & Ricketts' Tidepools
- Vagabonding Through Dixie - An Analysis
- Moulton and Ricketts Catalogue of Loan Exhibit
- The Great Tidepool: the story of Ed Ricketts’ scientific system
- Jack Calvin
- John Steinbeck's Roots
- Monterey Herald Articles 1942, 1947, 1948
- Ed Ricketts specimens in the California Academy of Science Invertebrate Collection
- Interview with Nancy Ricketts
- John Pearse