Materials relating to the personal and professional life of Walter E. Harris, noteworthy Canadian chemist and recipient of the Order of Canada. Including original transcripts in various states, research materials, teaching materials board and conference materials, reports, correspondence, maps, monographs/publications awards/ certificates and diplomas.
Harris, Walter EdgarCorrespondence between Professor Emeritus, W.E. Harris and W.G. Goward, a former graduate student in chemistry.
Harris, Walter EdgarDrafts of "Department of Chemistry - History and Memoir" by WE Harris
Supplemental information to drafts
WE Harris is Professor Emeritus - Dept of Chemistry
Harris, Walter EdgarTheses relating to CKUA and electrical engineering articles
Harris, Walter EdgarRevision copy of the manual with notes and corrections by WE Harris.
Revision copy of the manual with notes and corrections by WE Harris.
File contains lab manuals for: 1962-63; 1963-64; and 1964-65. Two copies of the 1962-63 manual; one is a revision copy with extensive handwritten notes by WE Harris.
First edition of the Chemistry 312 laboratory manual (two copies). One copy has extensive handwritten notes and revisions by WE Harris.
File contains: (1) Early lab manual for Chem 58, Quantative Analysis, dated by WE Harris as 1957-60, probably for 1959-60; (2) Chem 58 lab manual, revision copy, probably for 1960-61. Chemistry 58 was the forerunner to 312.
File contains: (1) 1956 Lab Manual for Instrumental Methods of Analysis, revision copy 1 dated 1957-60 by WE Harris; (2) 1956 Lab Manual for Instrumental Methods of Analysis, revision copy 2; (3) Instrumental Analysis Lab Manual, early 1960s version for Chem. 511 - 611, with annotations and inserts by WE Harris. Many of these experiments were later moved to Chemistry 58, the precursor to Chemistry 312 (Quantitative Analysis); others were moved to Chemistry 511 (Instrumental Analysis).
Correspondence, notes, photographs. Memo addressed to University Archives (BARD) from WE Harris, October 11, 2006, indicates that the material is from the office of Dr. SG Davis. Contents include folders labelled "Gunning"; "Analytical"; "Chemistry Building"; "Chemistry Department"; and "Davis."
Chemical Analysis, by HA Laitenen, published by McGraw-Hill. First edition of book, with notes throughout by WE Harris. Also contains enclosures: index cards with notes for a March 1971 meeting; two pages of comments by WE Harris; review of book by Pilipenko; and revision recommendations by Mc-Graw Hill 1960.
Chemical Analysis, 2nd edition by HA Laitenen and WE Harris, published by McGraw-Hill. Contains notes and corrections throughout by WE Harris. "This copy has all the collated corrections."
International Student Edition of Chemical Analysis, 2nd ed. Includes attached note from Don Jackson, 1978.
Summary of important career events written by WE Harris for family, includes: Timeline Analytical Chemistry; Awards; Symposiums; Publications and Initiations; Lectures; Other.
Chinese edition of Chemical Analysis, 2nd ed. Inscription by translator on cover page, Nov. 23, 1985.
Correnspondence concerning Chemical Analysis 2nd edition.
Correnspondence concerning Chemical Analysis 2nd edition.
A draft with notes by WE Harris.
Notes, etc "probably development for Chemical Analysis book". Includes an envelope with information on nomenclature to be used in 2nd edition of Chemical Analysis.
Various articles written by WE Harris on the topics of PCBs, Dioxins, Risks, Population and Resources, and Bioethanol.
Various articles written by WE Harris on the topics of teaching and academic reviews
Correspondence, notes, and other information about the Chemistry Data Sheet that was organized and copyrighted by WE Harris and SG Davis. File includes negatives and prints of various periodic table designs. File also includes an envelope addressed to University Archives (BARD), containing a memo from WE Harris, October 2006, describing the history of the Chemistry Data Sheet by WE Harris and SG (Stuart) Davis, and copyright registrations.
This large volume was compiled and bound by the secretaries of the Chemistry Department as a gift to WE Harris.
Correspondence concerning article, "Low Dose Risks and Authoritative Misinformation."
Personal thoughts by WE Harris written for family; includes: Career and financial topics; Early years in the Nashville [Alberta] district; Graduate school, marriage, career; Career reflections; Uranium; House sale and move; A Sunday analysis [about climate change and energy]; Memorial Raymond [older brother]; Memories of bridge; Personal thoughts on religion and science ; and includes an envelope of photocopies of photographs and one slide.
Correspondence concerning books published.
Book, "Programmed Temperature Gas Chromatography" by WE Harris and HW (Harry) Habgood, 1966, and reviews of book. Copy contains handwritten thanks to Phyllis Harris by Harry Habood and Walter Harris (see first page inside cover). WE Harris: "This is the first book to be published in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Alberta."
Lecture notes on index cards. Topics include: Developments in Teaching Analytical Chemistry; Chemistry class lectures (Chromatography, Separations, etc); Instructions to Teaching Assistants (TAs); Thoughts on Teaching; Teaching and Research; 1974 talk to Dawson College; 1976 meeting with Hon. Drury; Energy; Three Critical Resources; Hazards and Risks; History of Analytical Chemistry; History - Personal.
Announcements, lecture notes, newspaper articles, etc for talks given by WE Harris.
Notes for presentation to Edmonton Planned Parenthood AGM, 29 March 1999, on the topic of birth control, population and resources.
Notes for lecture at Edmonton public library on the topic of Critical Resources.
Correspondence regarding article "Three Critical Resources" by WE Harris.
Correspondence, notes etc regarding article by WE Harris, "Three Critical Resources" which was published in New Trail, 1978.
Notes for course lectures, some on index cards.
Course notes and lecture material.
In 2010 WE Harris wrote a personal summary of his activities on (1) Atomic Energy of Canada Technical Advisory Committee [TAC]; (2) University of Alberta President's Advisory Committee on Campus Reviews [PACCR]; (3) Alberta Environment Hazardous Waste Management Committee.
Student essays.
Essays submitted by students on topics relating to energy and use of resources.
Correspondence, notes etc.
Course outlines, course material, correspondence, notes etc.
Correspondence, notes etc relating to course AGFOR 300.
Assignments, notes and correspondence.
Course outlines, correspondence and notes for AGFOR 300, "Man and Resources".
Articles and notes about energy and resources; includes notes by WE Harris and articles by Dr. F. Bentley and Dr. R. Folinsbee.
Correspondence, notes, articles and reports on teaching by WE Harris. File includes: "A Survey of Teaching Introductory Analytical Chemistry in Canada"; correspondence and notes for 1974 Symposium on Teaching Analytical Chemistry and Instrumental Analysis; and "Constant Load Balances - An Instructional Experiment."
Reports and correspondence; includes thank-you letters from students and Course Guide published by the University of Alberta Students' Union, 1968 (p. 24 has comments on WE Harris' course).
WE Harris submitted three essays to the University of Alberta Association of Professors Emeriti for possible publication in their millennium project. The second essay was accepted and later published in "Echoes in the Halls." File contains "Submissions to the Millennium Project, 1999," with three essays: (1) Personal thoughts on religion and science; (2) President's Advisory Committee on Campus Reviews; (3) Aspects of the life of an analytical chemist. File also contains "Echoes in the Halls" by the Association of Professors Emeriti, 1999, which includes on p. 161 a chapter by WE Harris, "Looking at Ourselves: The President's Advisory Committee on Campus Reviews," along with correspondence, notes etc.
Report "Costs Involved in an Analytical Laboratory Course, Chemistry 312" by D.R. Weir, prepared for WE Harris 1963-64.
Class schedules, teaching notes, class tests, and class records.
Notes on index cards for teaching of courses; includes: black binder "Manual of Operations, Chem 312"; "Unknowns preparation, Chem 511."
Notes and test results; includes envelope "1962 Buret - Pipet (first Time)".
Notes and results of Chemistry 312 lab practical test.
Notes for Chemistry 312 lab practical test.
Notes for Chemistry 312 lab practical test. This test was held in the laboratory every fall for incoming students, to get an indication of where they needed to improve.
Correspondence, notes etc regarding teaching at the Summer Short Course in Chromatography, Drew University, Madison, NJ. Includes notes for a lecture on programmed temperature gas chromatography.
Correspondence, notes etc regarding travel and attendance at the conference. Includes manuscript: "A system for the Identification of Gas-Chromatographic Peaks by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography with High Speed Temperature Programming" by RR Goforth and WE Harris. Few conference materials in Danish.
Correspondence, notes etc regarding travel and attendance at the International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), Prague, 1967. Various materials in German.
Various notes, letter drafts, etc by WE Harris.
Program, correspondence, notes etc regarding the holding of the 1966 ACS symposium. "First one held outside the U.S."
Correspondence, notes etc regarding prepration for the 1966 ACS Symposium. Roy Keller was Program Chair and WE Harris was Local Arrangements Chair. File includes an overhead photograph showing the University of Alberta campus. Film strip with images of the University emblem.
Correspondence, notes, etc regarding planning for the American Chemical Society's 1966 symposium to be held in Edmonton, Alberta.
Correspondence, phamlets, notes etc regarding attendance at the Symposium in Madison, Wisconsin.
Correspondence, notes etc regarding a speaking tour for the Chemical Institute of Canada.
Correspondence, notes etc regarding travel and attendance at the International Symposium on Chemical Effects of Nuclear Transformations. Includes notes for presentation "Some chemical effects of nuclear transformations in the alkyl halides". Program, "International Symposium on Macromolecular Chemistry", 1960 in Russian, French and English.
Notes for presentation "Some Chemical Effects of Nuclear Transformation in the Alkyl Halides," and correspondence regarding manuscript "Chemical effects of the activation of bromine in the alkyl bromides: the halomethanes."
Correspondence, notes etc regarding publication of various scientific papers.
Correspondence, notes etc regarding the paper "Mercaptans in Butadiene - Acrylomitrile Emulsion Cepolymerization: Consumption Data and Effects on Polymerization Rate."
Report, notes, and map regarding a consulting project on marl by WE Harris in the 1950s: "Big Lake Marl Deposit and Summary of Marl Surveys."
Various biographical notes, articles, newspaper clippings etc; includes an envelope with a photograph from Dr. R. (Bob) Crawford.
Gas Chromatography Abstracting Service: punch cards with abstracts; metal sorter; notes and thoughts.
Two M.Sc. Theses supervised by WE Harris in the 1950s: "Water Solubility of Some High Molecular Weight Mercaptans," M.Sc. Thesis of William G. Goward, 1951; "The Diffusion Coefficients of Mercaptans," M.Sc. Thesis of Caurino Cesar Bombardiere, 1952.
"The Memoirs of Herbert August Laitenen, 1915 - 1991" with notes by WE Harris, p. 36-37. Herb Laitenen was a colleague of WE Harris at the University of Minnesota, and co-author of the textbook "Chemical Analysis" 2nd edition.
Correspondence, notes etc: includes correspondence regarding symposium honoring Kolthoff, 1982 and other correspondence about Kolthoff to 2009; various articles about Kolthoff, 1981 - 2008.
Correspondence, notes etc: includes correspondence with Kolthoff 1943 - 1972; newspaper clippings of Kolthoff's visit to Russia.
"The Polarography of Uranium" by WE Harris, Ph.D. Thesis submitted to the University of Minnesota, May 1944. Contains correspondence, including letters from Henry Heal, National Research Council of Canada, 1945.
Various correspondence, notes, transcripts, etc to do with WE Harris' time at the University of Minnesota: Ration coupons; Alien Registration cards; Immigration and Naturalization Service; Two articles about student life; Society memberships; 1943 job offers; Transcripts; Ph.D. degree, 1944; Telegram of congratulation from parents.
Report for the wartime rubber project: "Preliminary Report III. The Determination of Mercaptan in Latex by Amperometric Titration with Silver Nitrate in Ammoniacal Alcoholic Medium" by IM Kolthoff and WE Harris, June 15, 1943.
Expenses and other notes.
Listing of expenses incurred by WE Harris during his undergraduate years at the University of Alberta, 1934-5 and 1936-7.
Various newspaper clippings, articles and photographs about WE Harris, including: - Photo of Technical Advisory Committee members, 1989; Slide of Presidents' Advisory Council on Academic Reviews members, ca. 1985; B&W photo of WE Harris and Harry Habgood (co-author of Programmed Temperature Gas Chromatography), 1964; B&W photo of WE Harris in office, 1977; Color photo of WE Harris, Jed Harrison, Norm Dovichi, and Gary Horlick, Department of Chemistry, 1996; Closeup photo of WE Harris for Folio, 1996. Other Materials include: Brochure, "The Theory of Chromatography", 1968; Program, "19th Annual Summer Symposium Analytical Chemistry", 1966 held at the University of Alberta.
A Study of the Reduction of Uranyl Salts, W.E. Harris, February 1942: "Ph. D. Thesis draft."
Collected examination questions for various courses.
Contains notes from: Analytical Chemistry 105; MicroQualitative Analysis; Quantitative Inorganic Microanalysis; Voltammetry; Anal. Chem. Seminar by Dr. IM Kolthoff; Advanced Volumetric Methods 4/13/42; Calorimetric Statistical Mechanics; Analytical Applications of CuPFerron and Neocupferron; Analytical Review.
Potentiometric Titrations Laboratory Report.
Cardboard box contains slides used by WE Harris in early lectures. Slides made by Department of Extension at the University of Alberta.
Polarizing Microscope Laboratory Report.
"Kodak plates" cardboard box contains slides used by WE Harris in early lectures. Slides made by Department of Extension at the University of Alberta.
KCA 60 videocassette of lecture by WE Harris, "Three Critical Resources, Decisions and Society" for course AGFOR 300 titled "Man and Resources".
KCA 60 videocassette of lecture "The Three Critical Resources, Decisions, and Society with WE Harris", Sept 30, 1976. Harris' critical resources being: time, intelligence and energy.
KCA 60 videocassette of interview of WE Harris: "Questions on The Three Critical Resources, Decisions, and Society with WE Harris", Sept 30, 1976. Questions came from students in his" geography" class and were read by Margaret Harris. List of questions can be found on the inside of the videocassette case, mainly concerning nuclear power. This is the preceeding video to item 247.
VHS Videocassette of talk by WE Harris: "Analyses, Dioxins, Health," recorded July 1990. 15:50 minutes in length.
Audiotape of lectures given by visiting scholars A. Vlcek and Harrison Brown. Audiotape contains: A. Vlcek lecture 1, Polarographic background, Sept 8, 1961; A. Vlcek Lecture 2, Effect of Precoding(?) Reactions, Sept 11, 1961; A. Vlcek lecture, Science and Education in Czechoslovakia; Opening Ceremonies, May 25, 1961 - Future of Industrial Civilization - Brown; HS Brown - Chemistry of Planets; CKUA Interview, HS Brown; Science is an Irish Potato - Brown. A. Vlcek was a visiting chemist from Czechoslovakia; H. Brown is the author of "The Challenge of Man's Future" 1956 and "The Human Future Revisited" 1978.
Audiotape of WE Harris' last lecture for the Chemistry 312 class, April 1962.
16 mm movie projector tape, "Hazardous Waste," a talk given by WE Harris; prepared at the University of Alberta.
"Perrocolor" cardboard box. Section titled "Pyrolysis".
"Perrocolor" cardboard box.
File contains two reports: "Technical Analysis"; and "Indicators" Anal. Chem. 131, Oct 4, 1939.
"Nikor" cardboard box, contains slides on the topic of Energy.
"Kodak Photographic Paper" cardboard box, contains loose slides about Risk Assessment.