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Records of bird observations in Cayuga Lake Basin Area. Also includes records of vertebrates, mammals, reptiles and amphibians.

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Various reprints, articles, and publications concerning Cayuga Lake.

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Newsletters, news releases, pamphlets, reports of the committee and other groups, hearings, slides and text of slide lecture, correspondence, reprints, articles and clippings documenting the group's successful effort to halt the construction of a nuclear power plant on Cayuga Lake by the New York State Electric and Gas Corporation (NYSEG). Material largely deals with the environmental impact of nuclear power, especially thermal pollution.

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Land survey maps drawn by Cornell Civil Engineering students during summer surveying camps at various locations in New York State, including Cayuga, Cayuta, Canandaigua, Keuka, Owasco, and Skaneateles Lakes; an index showing the location of the camp each year; surveyor's field book, 1934; diary of the Cayuga Lake Survey kept by successive groups of students, 1874-1879; and a "Camp Cascadilla" kitchen inventory, 1908.

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Floyd R. Newman was born in Casnovia, Michigan in 1890 and grew up in Churchville, New York. Newman's papers document his Cornell experience as a student and alumnus, his professional career, family and travels dating 1893-1990. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, programs, menus, broadsides, clippings, pamphlets, Cornell memorabilia and World War I artifacts.

Scope and content Letter to Miss Rhoda E. Mead of Waterbury, Connecticut, in which George White describes the beauties of the Cornell University campus, Ithaca, New York, and Cayuga Lake, and the work that he and Mrs. White did to assist her brother, E.P. Gilbert, in the management of Sage College for Women, and the electrification of the building. White adds that he would not want his daughter, Georgia Laura, then a student at Lake Erie Seminary, Painesville, Ohio, to enter Cornell as an undergraduate...