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Papers of the Chesapeake Bay Committee, Accession #2857-b, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
The collection was given to the University of Virginia Library, probably in 1942, by Benjamin Franklin Dewees Runk (1906-1994) who was also a member of the Chesapeake Bay Committee.
The collection contains correspondence, minutes of three meetings, a report and pertinent appendix by R.V. Truitt, some clippings regarding the Chesapeake Bay .
Committee members included Ivey F. Lewis, chair, Charles Brambel, James S. Bryant, R.P. Cowles, Donald W. Davis, Jackson Davis, F.B. Hanson, Lawrence H. James, J. Brooks Mapp, Curtis L. Newcombe, H. F. Prytherch, B.F.D. Runk, L. Selden Taylor, R.V. Truitt, Edwin Warfield, Jr.,and B.H. Willier.