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Catherine Henley

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Catherine Henly papers, 1944-1983

Henly, Catherine, 1922- · 1944

Catherine Henly, born 1922, worked in the Department of Zoology at Chapel Hill, and her papers from 1944 to 1983 are collection 4979 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Topics include electron microscopy, the teaching of zoology, and women scientists in North Carolina. Donald P. Costello (1909 to 1978) is the other person named in them.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Henley, Catherine, 1922-.

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