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Papers consist largely of Allen's professional correspondence and his work in the field of ornithology.

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Field notes and research files relating to her graduate work on starlings, with some correspondence with Arthur A. Allen on her publications and the building of Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology.

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Papers written by students taking Conservation 133 in 1953, taught by William C. Dilger. Each student was required to briefly treat on zoogeographic region or subregion from the standpoint of geology, topography, climate, flora, and fauna with particular reference to birds.

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Correspondence, photographs, employment and retirement records, a bibliography, biographical and autobiographical information, honors, association records, and manuscripts of talks. Also, transcript of an oral history interview conducted by Sharon Zane with Dr. Amadon for the American Museum of Natural History's Oral History Project, 7 November 1966.

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Photocopies of memoranda relating to the ichthyology collection, August 1963 (3 pp.); proposal for a systematics facility, August 1, 1963 (3 pp.); to the ornithology collection, December 16, 1968 (9 pp.) and memo from A. R. Weisbrod to A. W. Morrison re the status of the ornithology collection, February 7, 1969 (2 pp.).

Scope and content Index cards and wall charts containing information about spring first arrival dates and fall last departure dates for migrating birds, with related observations about those species of birds reported from the Cayuga Lake Basin. 28 wall charts documenting the bird count and spring first arrival dates for migratory birds in the Cayuga Lake Basin in detail. Charts are missing for the following years: 1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1970,1984 and 1989. 2 charts of breeding records for various species of...

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Memorabilia includes photograph album with snapshots of campus, Sage College, roommates, and classmates; room and board receipts; china plate with Cornell seal; china plate with scene of the College of Agriculture buildings; Edna Peck's Field Note-Book of Birds (by A. H. Wright and A. A. Allen); and two Cornell pennants.

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Two printed looseleaf volumes, "Field Book of Nature Study with Classroom Outline and Helps" by Ephraim L. Palmer, and "General Ornithology Laboratory Notebook" by Arthur A. Allen, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and Miles D. Pirnie, with notations, identifications of birds, and observation data by Miss Davidson.

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Letters written to friends and family about classes, social life, and other experiences at Cornell University; Nature Notebook, Spring 1951; Conservation 9 Notes from a class given by Arthur A. Allen, Spring 1951; and printed Ornithology Laboratory Notebook, by Allen, annotated by Janet Hamber.

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The papers of Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927), an ornithologist and a painter of birds. Includes student notes, notebooks, journals and sketchbooks; diaries; journals from expedition, many including sketches; notes; articles by and about Fuertes. The collection also contains artwork.