Biographies, Autobiographies, & Memoirs
Parent: UC San Diego Library – Scripps Digital Collection
eScholarship stats: History by Item for June through September, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | 2026-09 | 2026-08 | 2026-07 | 2026-06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46t92266 | Cumulated Bibliography of Biographies of Ocean Scientists | 3,539 | 461 | 1,901 | 407 | 770 |
| 3hp6s49w | <em>Scripps Log</em> Obituaries | 2,764 | 660 | 983 | 474 | 647 |
| 9p14d2wh | A Naturalist in Show Business <em>or</em> I Helped Kill Vaudeville | 1,558 | 331 | 727 | 148 | 352 |
| 6mq1h8q3 | Bibliography on the History of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography | 1,053 | 153 | 469 | 117 | 314 |
| 3mf542qn | Again the Scene. Some informal memoirs of my life. | 836 | 50 | 259 | 368 | 159 |
| 6qd9p61w | William Emerson Ritter Biography | 704 | 255 | 210 | 84 | 155 |
| 5nq6709c | More Than Gold in California 1849-1933 | 488 | 169 | 116 | 97 | 106 |
| 1dk505dj | Francis P. Shepard Autobiography | 486 | 45 | 130 | 167 | 144 |
| 8cj0r3gw | Roger Revelle: A Profile | 458 | 93 | 224 | 62 | 79 |
| 8t34k1bv | Lusiad Expedition 1962 | 439 | 61 | 347 | 6 | 25 |
| 5b5829zz | Richard H. Fleming Biography | 403 | 89 | 168 | 80 | 66 |
| 42v7m09s | The Venturesome Voyages of Scripps into the South Pacific Ocean 1950 and 1952 | 309 | 64 | 203 | 17 | 25 |
| 3v48j6sv | Anatomy of an Expedition (Excerpts) | 239 | 89 | 112 | 14 | 24 |
| 85m8r2ks | William Aaron Nierenberg Biography | 215 | 60 | 103 | 19 | 33 |
| 02h5n3gf | Ellen Browning Scripps Biography | 209 | 65 | 69 | 32 | 43 |
| 5vw934j7 | Edward Allan Frieman Biography | 207 | 56 | 113 | 10 | 28 |
| 29g1v902 | Reminiscences of an Oceanographer | 206 | 67 | 58 | 42 | 39 |
| 7fm3w1zc | T. K. Treadwell: An Unauthorized Autobiography, Volume 1 | 190 | 48 | 52 | 35 | 55 |
| 4ww5t1hv | Memoirs of the Danish <em>Galathea</em> Round-the-World Deep-Sea Expedition 1950-1952 | 176 | 44 | 76 | 22 | 34 |
| 82b041db | Carl Henry Eckart Biography | 175 | 49 | 61 | 40 | 25 |
| 7x94h6wc | My Life and Times at SIO | 174 | 67 | 63 | 13 | 31 |
| 9rt4t7wh | Chronology of the Life of Roger Revelle | 169 | 50 | 59 | 23 | 37 |
| 6pr901k7 | Ellen Browning Scripps, 1836-1936 | 166 | 93 | 38 | 18 | 17 |
| 7jd745tw | Seismic Summer: The story of eleven men and one woman sailing across the South Pacific to study the quivering sea floor | 163 | 53 | 48 | 20 | 42 |
| 97d4n850 | Autobiographical Notes | 146 | 38 | 52 | 29 | 27 |
| 1mn0v59d | John Dove Isaacs, March 28, 1913 - June 6, 1980 | 145 | 48 | 43 | 24 | 30 |
| 7th3n6qj | Autobiography | 140 | 58 | 36 | 10 | 36 |
| 9vq0b3pk | Roger Randall Dougan Revelle Biography | 132 | 45 | 41 | 13 | 33 |
| 54c6w0m0 | One American. An Autobiography Dedicated to My Beloved Children Spencer, Barbara and Rey | 130 | 29 | 38 | 17 | 46 |
| 9kv0b7h0 | Biography of Conrad Limbaugh | 130 | 16 | 69 | 19 | 26 |
| 2xw1z8mw | Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865-1947) Biography | 128 | 39 | 26 | 17 | 46 |
| 5bp78997 | Mary Elizabeth Bennett Ritter Biography | 128 | 24 | 63 | 15 | 26 |
| 49q7r7dr | Robert Lester Wisner | 126 | 21 | 62 | 25 | 18 |
| 8fw11775 | Bill and Bob: Where Did You Come From? (LaFond, Gehring, Imes and Greenfield Histories) | 117 | 49 | 45 | 14 | 9 |
| 6rv491bp | Henry William Menard Biography | 116 | 36 | 55 | 11 | 14 |
| 3js5434b | Microbiology and Microbiologists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography | 113 | 26 | 45 | 18 | 24 |
| 1r76h164 | Ellen Browning Scripps, her Life and Philanthropy | 110 | 26 | 61 | 4 | 19 |
| 55x6t5k1 | Helen Hill Raitt Biography | 110 | 26 | 55 | 15 | 14 |
| 0dp3b2xc | Frank Edwin Snodgrass | 109 | 26 | 23 | 24 | 36 |
| 23x8p1mn | The Revelle Years | 107 | 31 | 40 | 16 | 20 |
| 8cb1c0z6 | A Student's Look at SIO During the Very Early 50's | 107 | 23 | 40 | 19 | 25 |
| 302543rj | Affairs of the Sea | 105 | 27 | 41 | 17 | 20 |
| 1jx834kq | My Bubbles Rise in Steps (Free-diving adventures in the tropical Pacific) | 104 | 19 | 42 | 26 | 17 |
| 8d19s1gx | My Yesteryears and Later Days in La Jolla, California | 103 | 25 | 46 | 8 | 24 |
| 0dz0j1zd | Those Were the Days: These Are the People (Oceanographic Medley) | 102 | 25 | 31 | 14 | 32 |
| 2001p8qp | Ellen Virginia Clark Revelle Biography | 99 | 16 | 29 | 18 | 36 |
| 32h9x6fw | Harald Ulrik Sverdrup Biography | 99 | 31 | 34 | 13 | 21 |
| 2dz73578 | Six Years in the Arctic | 98 | 25 | 32 | 14 | 27 |
| 3cs3q570 | Living on the SIO Campus in the 1940s and '50s | 97 | 28 | 35 | 14 | 20 |
| 3rr232gd | The Naga Expedition to South China and Australasian Seas 1959 - 1961 | 94 | 18 | 36 | 14 | 26 |
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