Miscellaneous records, 1931-1935.

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Miscellaneous records, 1931-1935.

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Collection of miscellaneous records concerning the 1931 Matameck Conference on Biological Cycles and grant to Charles Elton, Director of the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford University, to study the records of the Hudson's Bay Company relating to the recurrent cycles of furbearing wildlife in the MacKenzie River District and Labrador, Canada. The records include program notes by W. Reid Blair, incoming correspondence from Copely Amory, host of the Matameck Conference, news clippings, and printed material concerning the conference; and typed manuscripts of Elton's studies.

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University of Oxford. Bureau of Animal Population

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Hudson's Bay Company

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The Hudson's Bay Company began in 1670, and by the 1820s it had expanded to the Pacific Northwest. John McLoughlin served as the head of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia district. In this position, which McLoughlin held for twenty-one years, he oversaw the company's operations throughout the entire Pacific Northwest. Researching the role Dr. McLoughlin played in the history of the Hudson's Bay Company were Robert C. Clark and Burt B. Barker. Both were historians at the University of Oregon wh...

Blair, W. Reid, 1875-1949.

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New York Zoological Park. Office of the Director.

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Elton, Charles S. (Charles Sutherland), 1900-1991

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Charles Sutherland Elton was born on 29 March 1900. He read zoology at New College, Oxford, graduating in 1922. An interest in natural history had been stimulated by his participation in the Oxford University Spitsbergen expedition (leader Francis Jourdain) in 1921, organized to conduct mainly ornithological work along the north-west coast of Spitsbergen and to attempt to sledge across the ice cap of central Spitsbergen. In 1923, Elton was appointed chief scientist on the Merton Col...

Amory, Copely.

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Matameck Conference on Biological Cycles (1931)

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