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Ornithology.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Herbert Friedmann papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064919172]
Identifier: 2674
Scope and content

Correspondence and printed material relating to ornithology and conservation from the files of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

Dates: 1953-1970.

Hope Sawyer Buyukmihci papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065225355]
Identifier: 4123
Scope and content

Includes letters from Hope Buyukmihci to Martha S. Baker [ca.1946-1966], from various addresses including the Adams Unexpected Wildlife Refuge, Newfield, New Jersey. Also, looseleaf notebook of newsletters and clippings from the Adams Unexpected Wildlife Refuge; clippings, pencil sketches, and printed material concerning nature study and ornithology; copy of book, UNEXPECTED TREASURE, inscribed to Martha Baker.

Dates: [ca.1946]-1978.

Hugh Daniel Reed papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064920378]
Identifier: 21-18-33
Scope and content

Includes correspondence, primarily from Burt Green Wilder concerning the operations of the Department of Neurology and Zoology; notes and diagrams; printed material; a volume of zoology notes; three volumes of lists of birds seen from 1900-1902 and 1906; and a diary of Reed's bird watching activities around Ithaca, New York and the Cayuga Lake area, 1901-1906.

Dates: 1899-1909.

James Lindsay Dyson papers

 Collection — Box 9: [Barcode: 31924079336248]
Identifier: 4293
Abstract Student papers, primarily laboratory and lecture notes from Cornell University; documents, notebook, and scrapbook relating to his experiences in the U.S. Army during World War II and in the Army Reserve; subject files relating to his teaching at Lafayette College and his work as a geologist; research files, card files, manuscripts, photographs, reviews, and articles on The World of Ice; research files for a projected work, The World of Water; scrapbooks; geology and ornithology field...
Dates: [ca. 1933-1971]

James Taylor Tanner papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2665
Abstract

Papers relating to James T. Tanner's career as an ornithologist.

Dates: 1935-2012.

John Gould artwork

 Collection
Identifier: 4736
Abstract

Collection contains loose prints by John Gould.

Dates: 1830-1869.

John James Audubon artwork

 Collection
Identifier: 6721
Abstract

Collection includes loose prints from Audubon books, The birds of America (double elephant folio of 1827-1838 and a subsequent octavo edition) and The viviparous quadrupeds of North America (1846-1854), as well as later reproductions of Audubon prints.

Dates: 1829-2002,-1829-1860 (bulk)

Laboratory of Ornithology artwork collection

 Collection
Identifier: 17-2-3522
Abstract

Artwork on deposit from the Lab of Ornithology. Includes works by George Miksch Sutton, Anna Botsford Comstock, Mark Catesby and others.

Dates: 1840-2000.

Laboratory of Ornithology records

 Collection — Manuscript box 21 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065306684]
Identifier: 21-18-2229
Abstract

Records of J.W. Spencer as chairman of the Administrative Board of the Laboratory of Ornithology include Administrative Board minutes, budgets, correspondence, and records about the search for a director. Also includes Bird-Watching Days Calendar and Postcards for Project Feeder Watch.

Dates: 1973-2011.

Lawrence I. Grinnell papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2649
Abstract

More than 70 motion picture films, photographic and written materials regarding ornithological trips taken by Lawrence Grinnell from 1938 to 1971; correspondence and a pamphlet, "The 1957-1958 New Zealand-Australia Expedition of the Laboratory of Ornithology"; materials pertaining to his dissertation A Study of the Common Redpoll, a notebook of Cornell ornithology seminars and Canoeable Waterways of New York State and Vicinity written by Grinnell.

Dates: 1930-1977.