Photographs of birds taken and compiled by Arthur Lane and his wife Edna Lane. Also some publications including an obituary of Edna Lane. Some photos are marked as being taken by or showing Arthur Allen. A focus of the work is chickadees. Photographs most likely taken near Sapsucker Woods, Ithaca, New York.

Field notes and bird lists compiled by Evelyn Kramer, article mentioning her, obituary, photographs, and papers of Quintin Kramer.

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.