Notes
1. Anna Mary Wells (niece of Emma Carr), interview with author, July 11,
1991; a tape of this interview is in the Mount Holyoke College Library Archives.
2. C. Pauline Burt, "Emma Perry Carr," Nucleus ( June 1957): 214.
3. Helen Wells Smits, M.D. (greatniece of Emma Carr), interview with author, July 18, 1991.
4. Emma Perry Carr, "Chemical Education in American Institutions: Mount
Holyoke College," Journal of Chemical Education 25 ( 1948): 11-15.
5. Margaret Chapin, letter dated December 9, 1923, Chapin files, Mount Holyoke College Library Archives.
6. "Emma Perry Carr," Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly 30 ( August 1946): 54.
8. Emma Perry Carr, "Scientific Research in a Liberal Arts College," Nucleus
( June 1957): 216-220.
9.Awarded three times between 1937 and 1946 and then annually by the American Chemical Society, the Garvan Medal went in 1947 to Mary Sherrill and
in 1957 to Lucy Pickett, another member of the research group at Mount Holyoke.
10. Robert S. Mulliken, Life of a Scientist ( Berlin and New York: Springer Verlag 1989), p. 106.
11. Burt, "Emma Perry Carr," p. 216.
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