WRITINGS AND SPEECHES,, 1890-[1915?] and undated

Summary: Manuscript copies of some of Nelson's many articles and public lectures (termed "speeches" here to avoid confusion with course lectures, contained in the RUTGERS COLLEGE COURSE NOTES), as well as author's proofs, printed articles and separately-issued pamphlets.

Included are several speeches on oyster studies which treat the nutritional value of the oyster, its development and life cycle, and spawning and spatting. Other speeches treat a wide range of interests including Darwinism, the relationship of biology and theology, sex hygiene and educational issues. Included also are a syllabus for zoology at Rutgers College and a high school biology syllabus, papers on other biology topics and proofs for Nelson's 1890 article "Heredity and sex" which appeared in the American Journal of Psychology. Not related to this own work are two proof copies of his translation of his father's An Open Letter to the Clergy, 1907.