Personal Papers 1929-1994

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Personal Papers 1929-1994

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Robert Mengel came to the University of Kansas in 1953 to work on a bibiliography of the Ellis Collection of Ornithological Books in the Department of Special Collections, Spencer Research Library, and completed manuscripts for three volumes of the bibliography. He was a research associate at the Museum of Natural History at KU from 1953 until he became curator of ornithology in 1967. The collection includes research, field notes, and correspondence, as well as course plans and museum notes, family photographs, and medals and pins, some of which are military.

13 ln. ft. (13 boxes)

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University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library University Archives

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Mengel, Robert Morrow, 1921-

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Robert M. Mengel was born in 1921 in Glenview, Kentucky. As a young child Mengel was interested in nature and birds, writing and illustrating his own bird books. Mengel served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1942 to 1946, serving in the Army Airways Communications System overseas from April 1944 to December 1945. Mengel received a B.S. from Cornell University in 1947. He went on to receive his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. His resear...