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Ornithology -- Study and teaching.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Marie Lavallard papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-3500
Scope and content

Student scrapbook with programs, menus, greeting cards and other memorabilia; "General Ornithology Laboratory Notebook" by Arthur A. Allen, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and Miles D. Pirnie, with notations, identifications of birds, and observation data by Marie Froehlich; diplomas; and letters from students whose work she supported. Also, family photograph album, with identification of some images; 90th birthday celebration album, 2002; and program for a celebration of her life, 2006.

Dates: 1928-2005.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Marie Lavallard papers

Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4047
Abstract

Professional correspondence; photographic negatives of birds; notes and rsearch materials relating to his book.

Dates: [ca. 1895-1990].
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr. papers

Sally Hoyt Spofford papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-18-2374
Abstract Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and memoranda pertaining to the administration of the Laboratory of Ornithology and her other interests in ornithology; rough drafts of Arthur A. Allen correspondence and writings; Edna Lane's Bird and Flying Squirrel field notes; Christmas newsletters with photographs from Peter Paul Kellogg; and J. Southgate Hoyt field notes, manuscripts, drawings, a draft of his Ph.D. thesis, and photographs, primarily relating to the pileated woodpecker. Also, Arthur...
Dates: 1923-1982.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Sally Hoyt Spofford papers

Waldemar H. Fries Audubon research papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3427
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, and other materials relating to the writing and production of The Double Elephant Folio; correspondence, slides, books, notebooks,pamphlets and artwork relating to John James Audubon and his family, and other ornithologists. Also, material concerning Audubon exhibitions, including catalogues, Audubon slides, stamps, and photographs.

Dates: 1805-1980.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Waldemar H. Fries Audubon research papers

Waldo Lee McAtee papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4340
Scope and content Unpublished 1,697 page manuscript and 90 file drawers of 3" x 5" cards, compiled by McAtee on common names of birds. The original publication plans called for a two-volume work; Volume 1 (the manuscript) listed the vernacular names under each species arranged in a check-list sequence. Under each species the common names are grouped in categories designated as "catalogue," "book," and "folk" names, and also those from languages other than English applied to North American birds. Localities...
Dates: 1907-1947.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Waldo Lee McAtee papers

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