Biographies, Autobiographies, & Memoirs
Parent: UC San Diego Library – Scripps Digital Collection
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for June through September, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46t92266 | Cumulated Bibliography of Biographies of Ocean Scientists | 3,539 | 124 | 3,415 | 3.5% |
| 3hp6s49w | <em>Scripps Log</em> Obituaries | 2,764 | 232 | 2,532 | 8.4% |
| 9p14d2wh | A Naturalist in Show Business <em>or</em> I Helped Kill Vaudeville | 1,558 | 41 | 1,517 | 2.6% |
| 6mq1h8q3 | Bibliography on the History of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography | 1,053 | 30 | 1,023 | 2.8% |
| 3mf542qn | Again the Scene. Some informal memoirs of my life. | 836 | 782 | 54 | 93.5% |
| 6qd9p61w | William Emerson Ritter Biography | 704 | 405 | 299 | 57.5% |
| 5nq6709c | More Than Gold in California 1849-1933 | 488 | 223 | 265 | 45.7% |
| 1dk505dj | Francis P. Shepard Autobiography | 486 | 453 | 33 | 93.2% |
| 8cj0r3gw | Roger Revelle: A Profile | 458 | 45 | 413 | 9.8% |
| 8t34k1bv | Lusiad Expedition 1962 | 439 | 25 | 414 | 5.7% |
| 5b5829zz | Richard H. Fleming Biography | 403 | 26 | 377 | 6.5% |
| 42v7m09s | The Venturesome Voyages of Scripps into the South Pacific Ocean 1950 and 1952 | 309 | 99 | 210 | 32.0% |
| 3v48j6sv | Anatomy of an Expedition (Excerpts) | 239 | 44 | 195 | 18.4% |
| 85m8r2ks | William Aaron Nierenberg Biography | 215 | 24 | 191 | 11.2% |
| 02h5n3gf | Ellen Browning Scripps Biography | 209 | 54 | 155 | 25.8% |
| 5vw934j7 | Edward Allan Frieman Biography | 207 | 27 | 180 | 13.0% |
| 29g1v902 | Reminiscences of an Oceanographer | 206 | 22 | 184 | 10.7% |
| 7fm3w1zc | T. K. Treadwell: An Unauthorized Autobiography, Volume 1 | 190 | 151 | 39 | 79.5% |
| 4ww5t1hv | Memoirs of the Danish <em>Galathea</em> Round-the-World Deep-Sea Expedition 1950-1952 | 176 | 112 | 64 | 63.6% |
| 82b041db | Carl Henry Eckart Biography | 175 | 33 | 142 | 18.9% |
| 7x94h6wc | My Life and Times at SIO | 174 | 52 | 122 | 29.9% |
| 9rt4t7wh | Chronology of the Life of Roger Revelle | 169 | 47 | 122 | 27.8% |
| 6pr901k7 | Ellen Browning Scripps, 1836-1936 | 166 | 52 | 114 | 31.3% |
| 7jd745tw | Seismic Summer: The story of eleven men and one woman sailing across the South Pacific to study the quivering sea floor | 163 | 109 | 54 | 66.9% |
| 97d4n850 | Autobiographical Notes | 146 | 100 | 46 | 68.5% |
| 1mn0v59d | John Dove Isaacs, March 28, 1913 - June 6, 1980 | 145 | 87 | 58 | 60.0% |
| 7th3n6qj | Autobiography | 140 | 74 | 66 | 52.9% |
| 9vq0b3pk | Roger Randall Dougan Revelle Biography | 132 | 54 | 78 | 40.9% |
| 54c6w0m0 | One American. An Autobiography Dedicated to My Beloved Children Spencer, Barbara and Rey | 130 | 91 | 39 | 70.0% |
| 9kv0b7h0 | Biography of Conrad Limbaugh | 130 | 26 | 104 | 20.0% |
| 2xw1z8mw | Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865-1947) Biography | 128 | 22 | 106 | 17.2% |
| 5bp78997 | Mary Elizabeth Bennett Ritter Biography | 128 | 40 | 88 | 31.3% |
| 49q7r7dr | Robert Lester Wisner | 126 | 44 | 82 | 34.9% |
| 8fw11775 | Bill and Bob: Where Did You Come From? (LaFond, Gehring, Imes and Greenfield Histories) | 117 | 57 | 60 | 48.7% |
| 6rv491bp | Henry William Menard Biography | 116 | 10 | 106 | 8.6% |
| 3js5434b | Microbiology and Microbiologists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography | 113 | 33 | 80 | 29.2% |
| 1r76h164 | Ellen Browning Scripps, her Life and Philanthropy | 110 | 23 | 87 | 20.9% |
| 55x6t5k1 | Helen Hill Raitt Biography | 110 | 43 | 67 | 39.1% |
| 0dp3b2xc | Frank Edwin Snodgrass | 109 | 31 | 78 | 28.4% |
| 23x8p1mn | The Revelle Years | 107 | 48 | 59 | 44.9% |
| 8cb1c0z6 | A Student's Look at SIO During the Very Early 50's | 107 | 22 | 85 | 20.6% |
| 302543rj | Affairs of the Sea | 105 | 47 | 58 | 44.8% |
| 1jx834kq | My Bubbles Rise in Steps (Free-diving adventures in the tropical Pacific) | 104 | 23 | 81 | 22.1% |
| 8d19s1gx | My Yesteryears and Later Days in La Jolla, California | 103 | 14 | 89 | 13.6% |
| 0dz0j1zd | Those Were the Days: These Are the People (Oceanographic Medley) | 102 | 44 | 58 | 43.1% |
| 2001p8qp | Ellen Virginia Clark Revelle Biography | 99 | 21 | 78 | 21.2% |
| 32h9x6fw | Harald Ulrik Sverdrup Biography | 99 | 30 | 69 | 30.3% |
| 2dz73578 | Six Years in the Arctic | 98 | 47 | 51 | 48.0% |
| 3cs3q570 | Living on the SIO Campus in the 1940s and '50s | 97 | 25 | 72 | 25.8% |
| 3rr232gd | The Naga Expedition to South China and Australasian Seas 1959 - 1961 | 94 | 44 | 50 | 46.8% |
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