Zurabashuii, A. D., 1965

Correspondence, lab notes, photographs, articles, and reprints document the active research career of Grant L. Rasmussen, an anatomist who spent the majority of his career at NIH. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between Rasmussen and his many professional colleagues during his tenure at NIH.

The correspondence in Series 2 is divided into early letters during his student and teaching careers at the University of Utah, University of Minnesota, Medical College of the State of South Carolina and the University of Buffalo between the years 1943-1954. Series 3 contains letters created after 1954 when Rasmussen came on staff with the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (NINBD/NIH). There is also a file on his travel to Belgium, where he carried out laboratory work with a colleague in Belgium. His foreign correspondence is also here and gives written record of dialogue on research, conferences, and other matters.

Series 4: Research Notebooks and Papers documents his bench research on the auditory system. Rasmussen and his colleagues were especially interested in aural pathways, his experimental subjects being primarily cats. The research notes and photographs in this section are very technical and specific to these experiments. Series 5 contains photographs and slides from these experiments used in publications. The notebooks themselves are undated, but his bench career spanned the 1940s-1960s.

Finally, Series 5 contains journal articles written by Andrew T. Rasmussen, who was a colleague and mentor of Rasmussen.