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Yerkes and art
While in Chicago, Yerkes became an avid art collector.
Passing through the Mackay, Yerkes, and De la Mare art collections, it was eventually revealed and shown in 1931 at an exhibition in London.

Yerkes and collection
Research is also done utilizing Yerkes ' collection of over 150, 000 archival photographic plates that date back to the 1890s.

Yerkes and also
The American psychologist and primatologist Robert Yerkes was also one of the first scientists to notice major differences between bonobos and chimpanzees.
In addition to the Yerkes refractor, the observatory also houses 102 cm ( 40 inch, referred to as the " 41 inch " to prevent confusion ) and 61 cm ( 24 inch ) reflecting telescopes.
He was later a professor at the University of Chicago ( 1929 – 35 ) and Harvard University ( 1935 – 55 ) and also served as director of the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, Orange Park, Florida from 1942 to 1955.
Whereas Guthnick was not in a position to offer a job to Struve in Germany, he highly recommended Struve to the director of Yerkes Observatory in Chicago, who not only found a job for Struve at Yerkes, but also arranged a visa for him and paid for his travel.
Yerkes raised the funds necessary to build the BS & WR, GNP & BR and the CCE & HR, mainly in the United States, and much of the technology used on the railways was also American in origin.
( Warner and Swasey also built other observatories and telescopes, including Yerkes Observatory near Chicago, Theodore Jacobsen Observatory in Seattle, Washington, McCormick Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia, and ( of course ) the Warner and Swasey Observatory in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Red Sox scored two quick runs in the bottom of the third inning against Mathewson when Hooper led off with a triple, Yerkes also tripled, and Speaker reached on an error by Giants second baseman Doyle, allowing Yerkes to score.
However, White ( 2009 ) also observes that if the work of Robert Yerkes ( 1907 ) is considered in which he reported ' Anxiety improves performance until a certain optimum level of arousal has been reached.
In 1920 Boring was offered a position at Harvard and he was also offered a position to continue working with Yerkes in Minnesota.
Yerkes researchers also are leading programs to better understand the aging process, pioneer organ transplant procedures and provide safer drugs to organ transplant recipients, determine the behavioral effects of hormone replacement therapy, prevent early onset vision disorders and shed light on human behavioral evolution.

Yerkes and works
Because the subject matter was controversial, Yerkes and other collectors turned the works down.
Other works include Trilogy of Desire, which was based on the life of the Chicago streetcar tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes and composed of The Financier ( 1912 ), The Titan ( 1914 ), and The Stoic.

Yerkes and by
The behavioral scientists at Yale, led by President James R. Angell and psychobiologist Robert M. Yerkes, tapped into foundation largesse by crafting research programs aimed to investigate, then suggest, ways to control, sexual and social behavior.
One of Harrison's biggest enemies was Charles Yerkes, whose plans to monopolize Chicago's streetcar lines were vigorously attacked by the mayor.
Caricature from 1899 showing Chicago mayor Carter Harrison, Jr., fighting against the " Allen bill ", signed by Governor John Riley Tanner that gave control of Chicago's intra-city transportation system to Yerkes
In an effort to polish a badly tarnished public image, Yerkes decided in 1892 to bankroll the world's largest telescope after being lobbied by the astronomer George Ellery Hale and University of Chicago president William Rainey Harper.
In one of his last great triumphs, Yerkes managed to thwart an attempt by J. P. Morgan to enter the London Underground field.
Yerkes and his wife Mary were painted by his favorite artist Jan van Beers ( National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC ).
His early career was strongly influenced by the debts Yerkes incurred paying for school.
Along with Edward L. Thorndike, Yerkes was a member and Chairman of the Committee on Inheritance of Mental Traits, part of the Eugenics Record Office, which was founded by Charles Benedict Davenport, a former teacher of Yerkes at Harvard.
Yerkes retired from his position as Director in 1942, where he was replaced by Karl Lashley.
The group was led by Charles Yerkes, whose experience in the United States led him to favour DC, with third-rail pick-up similar to that in use on the City & South London Railway and Central London Railway.
The MDR was later bought by Charles Yerkes, forming part of the " Underground " group until it was nationalised in the 1930s.
The Piccadilly line began as the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway ( GNP & BR ), one of several railways controlled by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ), whose chief director was Charles Tyson Yerkes, although he died before any of his schemes came to fruition.
The GNP & BR was formed from the merger of two earlier, but unbuilt, tube-railway companies taken over in 1901 by Yerkes ' consortium: the Great Northern & Strand Railway ( GN & SR ) and the Brompton & Piccadilly Circus Railway ( B & PCR ).
The Orange Park center, established in 1930 by psychologist Robert Yerkes and Yale University and the Rockefeller Foundation, was the first laboratory in the United States for the study of non-human primates.
Yet, the term “ Monkey Farm ” was ( and still is ) the popular name given to the Yerkes Labs by Orange Park residents.
It was inspired by the Yerkes spectral classification system for describing stars.
Transit magnate Charles Tyson Yerkes thwarted Morgan's effort to obtain parliamentary authority to build an underground road that would have competed with " Tube " lines controlled by Yerkes.
At the start of 1920 he was joined in the Yerkes Band by Alcide Nunez.
Yerkes Observatory is an astronomical observatory operated by the University of Chicago in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
The observatory, which calls itself " the birthplace of modern astrophysics ," was founded in 1897 by George Ellery Hale and financed by Charles T. Yerkes.

Yerkes and William
New York's financiers J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and William Waldorf Astor, among others, pledged $ 15 million to finance the fair if Congress awarded it to New York, while Chicagoans Charles T. Yerkes, Marshall Field, Philip Armour, Gustavus Swift, and Cyrus McCormick, offered to finance a Chicago fair.
In collaboration with William Wilson Morgan of Yerkes Observatory, Dr. Keenan helped to create the M-K System of Stellar Classification.

Yerkes and members
The Committee on Inheritance of Mental Traits included among its members Robert M. Yerkes and Edward L. Thorndike.

Yerkes and School
After finishing a two-year course at Philadelphia's Central High School, Yerkes began his business career at the age of 17 as a clerk in a local grain brokerage.

Yerkes and .
After a year of high-school teaching, he entered graduate school with the help of his former professor from the University of Chicago to study astronomy at the Yerkes Observatory of the University, where he received his PhD in 1917.
* Charles Yerkes, an American tycoon with experience of operating electric tramways in Chicago.
Between 1925 and 1940, philanthropic foundations, especially ones connected with the Rockefellers, contributed about $ 7 million to support the Yale Institute of Human Relations and the affiliated Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology.
For example, Yerkes analyzed chimpanzee sexual behavior in hopes of illuminating the evolutionary underpinnings of human development and providing information that could ameliorate dysfunction.
Charles Tyson Yerkes ( June 25, 1837 – December 29, 1905 ) was an American financier, born in Philadelphia.
Yerkes was born in the Northern Liberties, a district adjacent to Philadelphia, on June 25, 1837.
Relying on his bank president father's connections, his political contacts, and his own business skill, Yerkes gained a name for himself in the local financial and social world.
While serving as a financial agent for the City of Philadelphia's treasurer Joseph Marcer, Yerkes risked public money in a colossal stock speculation.
Unfortunately for Yerkes, this speculation ended calamitously when the Great Chicago Fire sparked a financial panic.
Left insolvent and unable to make payment to the City of Philadelphia, Yerkes was convicted of larceny and sentenced to thirty-three months in the dreaded Eastern State Penitentiary, notorious for its system of solitary confinement.
Yerkes was promised a pardon if he would deny the accusations he had made.
Yerkes spent the next ten years rebuilding his fortune.
In 1881 Yerkes traveled to Fargo in the Dakota Territory in order to obtain a divorce from his wife of over twenty-two years.
In 1886, Yerkes and his business partners used a complex financial deal to take over the North Chicago Street Railway and then proceeded to follow this with a string of further take-overs until he controlled a majority of the city's street railway systems on the north and west sides.
Yerkes was not averse to using bribery and blackmail to obtain his ends.

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