Nathan Fasten collection
Language: eng
Number of pages: 5
Subjects: Evolution (Biology)
Description: This collection consists of a copy of Fasten's book, Origin Through Evolution, published in 1930 by F. S. Crofts and Company of New York. The book is annotated inside the front cover with the name of a previous owner, who likely purchase the volume in 1932 while a student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The endsheets near the back cover are annotated with the owner's critique of Fasten's theory of use and disuse in evolution.
Notes: Collection is open for research.

Nathan Fasten Collection, Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.

Biographical information on Fasten is located in the Memorabilia Collection and in the News and Communication Services (RG 203) biographical files. See Harriet's Collection #1812 and the OSU Historical File (P 25:2150-51) for photographs of Fasten. A faculty group photo that includes Fasten is located in the Faculty and Staff Photograph Collection (P 46:6). The College of Science Records (RG 24) include correspondence between Fasten and the Dean's Office.

Nathan Fasten was born in Austria on December 4, 1887, and came to the United States when he was two years old. He grew up in New York City, and graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1910 with a bachelor of science in chemical biology. From 1911 to 1914 he studied zoology, plant physiology, cytology, genetics, evolution, and fisheries as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, earning a Ph.D. in 1914.

Materials in English.

Finding aid available in the University Archives and on its World Wide Web site.