Douglas G. Chapman Papers - Special Collections, UW Libraries

Guide to the Douglas G. Chapman Papers
1949-1988

Creator:	Chapman, D. G. (Douglas George), 1920-, creator
Title:	Douglas G. Chapman Papers
Date Span:	1949-1988
Quantity:	11.84 cubic ft. (13 boxes)
Accession No.:	4581-001
Languages:	Collection materials are in English.

Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical Note

Douglas Chapman was a professor of mathematical statistics and an expert on wildlife statistics. He was born in 1920 and died in 1996. Chapman served as Dean of the University of Washington College of Fisheries from 1971 to 1981 and directed the UW Center For Quantitative Science In Forestry, Fisheries, and Wildlife from 1980 to 1982. His area of expertise was in estimating marine mammal populations and population dynamics. He chaired the International Whaling Commission's Scientific Committee from 1965 to 1974. Chapman was one of the scientific advisors to the International Whaling Commission who warned in the 1960s that the number of whales being taken by the whaling industry was far in excess of what the population could stand. He also chaired the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission's Scientific Committee from 1973 to 1976 and the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission from 1976 to the early 1980s.

Scope and Content

The Chapman papers span the years 1949 to 1988. They primarily document Chapman's work with the International Whaling Commission and the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, as well as his research and consulting work on marine mammals.

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Restrictions on Use

Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info

The Chapman papers were given to the Libraries in 1996 by his widow, Isobel Chapman.

Processing Info

The Chapman papers were partially processed in 1998. Papers clearly identifiable as records of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission or the International Whaling Commission were separated as subgroups. Scientific literature and related material was arranged by broad category in Subject Series. Some of this material may relate to Chapman's work with one of the commissions. Other overlap may be found in the records series, Teaching Material, which includes some of Chapman's research data and writings. Original order was maintained in these files.

Inventory



Box					Date
	Personal Papers
1		Biographical Features			1949, 1968, 1983, etc.
1		Incoming Letters			1951-1988
1		Outgoing Letters			1982-1986, n.d.
		General Correspondence
1			Tim D. Smith		1981-1982
1			Publishers		1979-1988
1		Interdepartmental Correspondence - U. W.			1961-1988
1		Speeches and Writings			1951, 1966, 1987, n.d.
1		Certificates			1957, 1966, 1970-1972, 1984
1		Notes			n.d.
1		Statistical Reports and Papers			1946, 1960, 1971-1988
1		Statistics Newsletters And Directories			1979-1986
1-2		Teaching Materials			1959-1988
			Scope and Content: Includes notes, statistics, charts, writings research data and transparancies.
1-2		Photographs			1977-1980, n.d.
1-2		Ephemera And Miscellany			n.d.
		Subject Series
			Scope and Content: Includes writings, reports, research data, correspondence, statements.
1-2			Biostatistics Program (UW)		1965-1983
1-2			Bowhead Whales		ca. 1976-1987
3			Fish and Fisheries		ca. 1972-1988
3-5			Fur Seals		ca. 1959-1988
5-6			Mammals Collectively		ca. 1972-1988
5-6			Marine Debris		ca. 1984-1988
5-6			OAF Offshore Coho Salmon Release Experiments		1983
5-6			Oregon Production Index, Study of Coho Salmon		1982-1983
5-6			Other Marine Mammals		ca. 1975-1987
				Scope and Content: Seals, sea lions, manatees, otters.
6-8			Tuna, Porpoise and Dolphin		ca. 1975-1986
6-8			Walrus		ca. 1960-1988
9			Whales and Whaling		ca. 1961-87
9		Grant File - NSF "Assessment of Regulation In Natural Populations"			1982



Box				Date
	U.S. Marine Mammal Commission
10		Organizational Features		1976, 1981, n.d.
10		Incoming Letters		1981
10		Intra-organizational Correspondence		1976-1988
			Scope and Content: Correspondents include: Carmen J. Blondin, L. Lee Eberhardt, Robert Eisenbud, William E. Evans, William W. Fox, Daniel Goodman, Robert J. Hoffman, Murray L. Johnson, David W. Laist, Terry L. Leitzell, James Nofziger, and John R. Twiss, Jr.
10-11		Reports		1974-1988, n.d.
11		Testimony		1977-1988
11		Conference and Convention Files		1977, 1980
11		Permit Applications		1988
11		Legislation		1978, 1981, 1983, 1988
11		Bibliographies		1979, 1988, n.d.
		Subject Series
11			Killer Whale Group	1975-1978
11			Marine Entanglement Research Program	1986-1988
11			Optimum Sustainable Population	1975-1988



Box				Date
	International Whaling Commission
11		Organizational Features		1972, 1988, n.d.
11		Intra-organizational Correspondence		1965, 1979-1988
			Scope and Content: Correspondents include: Donald C. Baur, Robert L. Brownell, and Ray Gambell, Jr.
11		List of Scientific Committee Documents		1977
		Reports
12			General	1980-1988, n.d.
12			Comprehensive Assessment of Whale Stocks	1984-1988
13			Minke Whaling	1979-1985
		Conference and Convention Files
13			IWC in Seattle, 1962	1962
13			Cetacean Reproduction. Proceedings.	1981
13			IWC 38th Annual Meeting, Malmo, Sweden, 1986	1986
13			Other	1981, 1983, 1988
13		Newsletters		1981-1986
13		Publications		1960, 1983, 1987
		Subject Series
13			Revised Management Procedures Project	1980, n.d.
13			Scientific Committee Working Group on Progress Reports	1988



Box		Date
13	U.W. Center For Quantitative Science In Forestry, Fisheries, and Wildlife	1980-1988



Box				Date
	U.W. Fisheries College
13		Interdepartmental Correspondence		1978-1981
		Subject Series
13			Paulik Fund	1972

Subject Terms

Personal Names:

Chapman, D. G. (Douglas George), 1920- --Archives.

Organizations:

International Whaling Commission.

United Sates. Marine Mammal Commission.

University of Washington. University Archives.

University of Washington. Center for Quantitative Science in Forestry, Fisheries, and Wildlife.

University of Washington. College of Fisheries.

Subjects:

Biometricians--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives.

Biometry--Study and teaching.

Cetacea populations--Statistical methods.

College teachers--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives.

Fishery law and legislation.

Marine mammals--Law and legislation.

Marine mammalogists--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives.

Marine mammals--Research.

Marine mammals--Statistics.

Whaling--Law and legislation.

Genre Headings:

Photographs.

Guide to the Douglas G. Chapman Papers 1949-1988