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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Barry Commoner papers, 1942-1979 (bulk 1960-1979)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Commoner, Barry</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1917-2012</namePart>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>165,000</extent>
    <extent>549 4 1</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, research files, subject files, organizational files, slides, photographs, and other papers documenting Commoner's career as a biologist, ecologist, and  environmental activist.  Subjects include the physiochemical basis of biological processes and the moral obligations of scientists.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Sound recordings, videocassettes, and filmstrips transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
  <note>Biologist, ecologist, and environmental activist.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Biology</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Ecology</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Environmentalism</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Science</topic>
    <topic>Moral and ethical aspects</topic>
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    <occupation>Biologists</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Ecologists</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Environmental activists</occupation>
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  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</accessCondition>
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