Ivan Rexford Tomkins papers, 1911-1966.

Georgia Historical Society

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In the spring of 1839, three Savannahians—Episcopal divine William Bacon Stevens, renowned autograph collector Israel K. Tefft, and educator, scientist, and American Medical Association founder Dr. Richard D. Arnold—hatched the idea of an organization whose mission would be to “collect, preserve, and diffuse the history of the State of Georgia in particular, and of America generally.” In May of that year they held the first meeting of what was christened the Georgia Historical Society, the te...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a bureau within the Department of the Interior. Its mission is to work with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. A 1940 reorganization plan in the Department of the Interior consolidated the Bureau of Fisheries and the Bureau of Biological Survey into one agency to be known as the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife was created...

Pettingill, Olin Sewall, 1907-2001

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Olin Sewall Pettingill was born in Maine on October 30, 1907. He received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1933. He was a college instructor of biology and ornithology and in 1960 was appointed Director of the Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University, a post he held until his retirement in 1973. For 35 summers, beginning in 1938, he taught ornithology at the University of Michigan Biological Station. He was secretary, vice-president, and president of the Wilson Ornithological Society an...

National Audubon Society.

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BIRD-LORE later became AUDUBON MAGAZINE. From the description of Account book for Bird-lore, 1901-1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155507194 Callison was Executive Vice President of the National Audubon Society, 1966-1970s. From the description of Charles H. Callison records, 1969-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155507203 The Finley and Davis families, related through marriage, lived in Marshall County, Mississippi; in 1834, Mary Ja...

Howell, Arthur H. (Arthur Holmes), 1872-1940

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Arthur Holmes Howell (1872-1940) developed an interest in natural history, especially birds, as a boy in New York State. He later joined the Linnaean Society of New York and the American Ornithologists' Union. Through his membership in these groups, he came to know many of the naturalists of the day, particularly Harry C. Oberholser, the ornithologist. On the advice of Oberholser, Vernon Bailey of the United States Department of Agriculture, Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy, later the Burea...

Cottam, Clarence, 1899-

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Mormon author, educator, ecologist, and conservationist. He died in 1974. From the description of Clarence Cottam papers, 1924-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367553609 From the description of Papers, 1924-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79693655 From the guide to the Clarence Cottam papers, 1924-1974, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Bent, Arthur Cleveland, 1866-1954

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Ornithologist; author of Life Histories of North American Birds and other titles; fellow and active member of American Ornithologists' Union. From the description of Arthur Cleveland Bent ornithological papers, 1880-1942. (University of Massachusetts Amherst). WorldCat record id: 50008444 Bent inspecting a golden eagle's nest, California, 1929 A life-long resident of Taunton, Massachusetts, Arthur Cleveland Bent (1866-1954) was only six when his mot...

Palmer, Ralph S. (Ralph Simon), 1914-2003

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Harper, Francis, 1886-1972

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Francis Harper, native of Massachusetts, was a zoologist and author affiliated with many universities. He was the author of Mammals of the Okefinokee Swamp Region of Georgia (1927). He retired in Chapel Hill, N.C. From the guide to the Francis Harper Papers, ., 1902-1968, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Henry Weed Fowler was an ichthyologist. From the guide to the Reminiscences on old naturalists, 1959, (Ame...

Johnson, Charles, 1948-

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Charles Johnson is an American novelist and fiction writer, winner of the 1990 National Book Award in fiction for his work, Middle Passage, and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 1998. He served as a director of the creative writing program at the University of Washington and went on to hold the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Professorship for Excellence in English. From the description of Charles Johnson papers, 1973--1976. (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat ...

Harper, Roland M. (Roland McMillan), 1878-1966

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Roland Harper was born in Farmington, Maine in 1878. He studied engineering at University of Georgia, 1894 – 1897, during which time he became interested in botany. He completed his PhD at Columbia University in 1905. He then began his career at the Alabama Geological Survey in 1905 as a botanist and geographer. He published over 500 papers, many on botany and also including some on more sociological topics such as “Significance of bachelors and spinsters” and “Corn bread, appendicitis, and the ...

Tomkins, Ivan Rexford, 1893-1966.

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Ivan Rexford Tomkins (1893-1966) was born in Ellington, Pennsylvania. He served in World War I, first in the Infantry (1917), and later with the 56th Engineers (1918). He moved to Georgia in 1922 to work with the Public Health Service and was assigned to the U.S. Quarantine Station on Cockspur Island, Savannah River. Soon after, around the year 1925, he accepted the position as Dredging Inspector with the Corps of Engineers. He rose to the position as Chief of the projects Branch of the Savannah...

Smithsonian Institution

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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...

Burton, E. Milby

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Robbins, Chandler S.

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Bailey, Harold H. (Harold Harris), 1878-1962

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Greene, Carleton

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Lowery, George H., Jr., 1913-1978

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Cockspur Island Lighthouse (Ga.)

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Pictures Incorporated

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Henry, Vernon J.

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Pough, Richard H. (Richard Hooper), 1904-

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Erskine, Anthony J.

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Grimes, S. A. (Samuel Andrew), 1906-

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Sprunt, Alexander, 1898-1973

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Lattimore, Ralston B.

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Griscom, Ludlow, 1890-1959

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Ornithologist and botanist, of New York, N.Y., and Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1907-1959. (Peabody Museum). WorldCat record id: 28416231 Ludlow Griscom, an ornithologist, was Research Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. From the description of Ludlow Griscom papers, 1922-1961. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64071759 From the guide to the Ludlow Griscom papers, 1922-1961., (Division of ...

Beecher, W. J. (William John), 1914-

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Hopkins, Milton N.

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Cornell University. Laboratory of Ornithology.

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Hoxie, W. J. (Walter John), 1848-1934

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Walter John Hoxie was born in Rochester, New York, graduated from Putnam Free School, served for a short time in the Astronomical Division of the U.S. Coast Survey, and then became a school teacher. He taught, in chronological sequence, at Tyng Academy, Tyngsboro, Massachusetts; Bridgewater Normal School, Bridgewater, Massachusetts; Plantation School and the Normal School for Freedmen, both on Lady's Island, South Carolina; Boston Farm School, Boston harbor, and various other places in Massachus...

Grimm, William Carey, 1907-

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Odum, Eugene P. (Eugene Pleasants), 1913-2002

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Eugene Odum (1913-2002) was an influential University of Georgia instructor from 1940 until his retirement in 1984. He is considered to be the "Father of Modern Ecology" and was the author of the pioneering book Fundamentals of Ecology. Odum was instrumental in the creation of the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia, the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory near Aiken, S.C., and the Sapelo Island Marine Science Institute. From the description of Eugene Odum papers-Institut...

Vogt, William, 1902-1968

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Vogt was an ornithologist and ecologist. He wrote about the relationship between population growth and the depletion of natural resources. He was the director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1951-1961. From the description of William Vogt papers, 1913-1967 1940-1949. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 40253591 ...

Logan, Herschel C., 1901-

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Stoddard, Herbert L.

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Parnell, James F.

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Wharton, Charles H.

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Dr. Charles H. Wharton was a conservationist and field biologist who worked at the University of Georgia's Institute of Ecology. Dr. Wharton died in 2003. From the description of The natural enviroments of Georgia, xerox, 1977. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 316883362 ...

Hanson, Robert P. (Robert Paul), 1918-1987

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McAtee, W. L. (Waldo Lee), 1883-1962

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Biologist and ornithologist. From the description of Papers of W. L. McAtee, 1803-1963 (bulk 1900-1960). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77708968 Waldo Lee McAtee was a principal biologist and technical adviser at the Bureau of Biological Survey, US Dept. of Agriculture. From the description of Pamphlets, 1931-1956. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 38515019 W. L. McAtee was a zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist. ...

Van Tyne, Josselyn, 1902-1957

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Ornithologist and curator of birds in the Museum of Zoology, and professor of zoology at University of Michigan. From the description of Josselyn Van Tyne papers, 1917-1957. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418664 Josselyn Van Tyne was born on May 11, 1902 in Philadelphia, PA. Following graduation from Culver Military Academy, he received his AB degree from Harvard University in 1925 and his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Michi...

General Drafting Company

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Burleigh, Thomas D. (Thomas Dearborn), 1895-

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Thomas Dearborn Burleigh (1895-1973) was born on November 24, 1895, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He developed an interest in birds at a young age. During World War I, he served with the American Expeditionary Force in Europe, where he learned forestry practices. This led to a master's degree in forestry from the University of Washington in 1920. He then went on to the University of Georgia in Athens where he founded and served as the chairman of the School of Forestry until 1930. During that tim...

Chamberlain, E. Burnham (Edward Burnham), 1895-1986

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Golley, Frank B

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Hailman, Jack Parker, 1936-

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Quay, Thomas L.

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Thomas L. Quay received his Ph.D. in animal ecology from North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) in 1948 and then joined the faculty in the Department of Zoology. From the description of Thomas Lavelle Quay diploma, 1948 June 14 [manuscript] (North Carolina State University). WorldCat record id: 642329809 Thomas L. Quay was born on August 23, 1914 in Mt. Holly, New Jersey. He received a B.S. degree in z...

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...

Meanley, Brooke

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Johnston, David W., 1926-

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Ivan Rexford Tomkins (1893-1966) was born in Ellington, Pennsylvania. He served in World War I, first in the Infantry (1917), and later with the 56th Engineers (1918). He moved to Georgia in 1922 to work with the Public Health Service and was assigned to the U.S. Quarantine Station on Cockspur Island, Savannah River. Soon after, around the year 1925, he accepted the position as Dredging Inspector with the Corps of Engineers. He rose to the position as Chief of the projects Branch of...

Todd, W. E. Clyde (Walter Edmond Clyde), 1874-1969

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Hamilton, William John, 1902-

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Georgia Society of Naturalists

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Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-1996.

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Duncan, Wilbur Howard, 1910-

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Wilbur H. Duncan, University of Georgia Professor Emeritus of Botany and retired Curator of the GA Herbarium. Wilbur Duncan was born on October 15, 1910 in Buffalo, New York and received an A.B. (1932) and M.A. (Botany, 1933) from Indiana University. After earning a Ph.D. from Duke University under forest ecologist Clarence F. Korstian in 1938, he began his distinguished 40-year career at the University of Georgia, Department of Botany (now Department of Plant Biology) as faculty member and cura...

Bishop, Louis B.

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Caldwell, David Keller, 1928-

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David Caldwell was a clergyman from Virginia. From the description of David Caldwell letter, 1844 Mar. 26. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 70203774 ...

Cate, Margaret Davis, 1888-1961.

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Margaret Davis Cate (1888-1961), Georgia historian, poultry business owner, resident of Sea Island, Georgia. From the description of Margaret Davis Cate papers, 1890-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477300 ...

Georgia Ornithological Society

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The Georgia Ornithological Society was organized in 1936. From the description of Georgia Ornithological Society records, 1896-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38478209 ...

Murie, Olaus Johan, 1889-1963

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Biologist and field naturalist Olaus Johan Murie (1889-1963), the son of Norwegian immigrants, was born and raised in Moorhead, Minnesota. On completing his studies in zoology and wildlife biology at Oregon's Pacific University in 1912, he became an Oregon state conservation officer. In 1914-1917 he participated in scientific explorations of Hudson Bay and Labrador for the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh. He subsequently joined the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey as a wildlife biologist. He spent...

Brown, Barnum

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Curator of Fossil Reptiles in the Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History. He lived from 1873 to 1963. From the description of Expeditions, 1898-1915. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155509515 Curator of Fossil Reptiles in the Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History. He lived from 1873 to 1963. From the description of Dinosaur materials, 1924-1940. (Unknown)...

Eyles, Don E. (Don Edgar), 1915-

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Hall, George (Auctioneer)

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Auctioneer and estate administrator, Salem County, N.J. From the description of Papers, 1829-1852. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70940217 ...