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 of Donald Kohrs talking about The Publishing of Between Pacific Tides, 1st Edition (1939)

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 PDF

  Digital 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

• Alberte Edward Galigher
• James Nelson Gowanlock

Ricketts' Personal Interests

• Artists & Art Works
• Books
• Composers & Musicians
• Poets

Other

• Ricketts reading list aboard the Western Flyer
• Joseph Campbell on Ed Ricketts
• Ed Ricketts last letter to John Steinbeck, May 7, 1948
• 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