American Nature Study Society records, 1908-1997.

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American Nature Study Society records, 1908-1997.

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Includes correspondence of society secretary-treasurers Nellie Matlock (1937-1940) and Richard L. Weaver (1943-1949) and the Conservation Committee (1947-1949); correspondence (1947-1948) with the U.S. Department of the Interior, senators and congressmen, Izaak Walton League, Ecologists Union, National Council of State Garden Clubs, and other groups concerning legislation on national parks, grazing lands, irrigation and reclamation projects, and other aspects of forest, soil, and wildlife conservation and national land use policy; letters dealing with annual meetings and with the printing and distribution of CANADIAN NATURE, the official publication of the society. Also, newsletters, membership lists, marked ballots, minutes, reports, memoranda, offprints, pamphlets, programs, accounts, constitutions and other printed items. Also, correspondence, announcements, and membership and mailing lists of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Natural Resources Council of America and resolutions and press releases of the National Parks Association. Also, correspondence of Ephraim Laurence Palmer, professor of rural education at Cornell University, officer and active member of the society, with Bertha Chapman Cady, William L. Finley, George R. Green, Edith Patch, Ellen Eddy Shaw, Otis W. Caldwell, C. Girard Davidson, George Free, Ruth Miriam Gillmore, Samuel H. Ordway, Jr., L.B. Sharp, Dwight E. Solberger, Edwin Way Teale, William Gould Vinal, Richard W. Westwood, and Farida Wiley.

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Caldwell, Otis W. (Otis William), 1869-1947

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Palmer, E. Laurence (Ephraim Laurence), 1888-1970

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United States Department of the Interior

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Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953

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William L. Finley (1876-1953) was a naturalist and photographer. From the guide to the William L. Finley letters and scrapbook, 1946-1962, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) Renowned wildlife conservationist William L. Finley was born on August 9, 1876 in Santa Clara, California. His family moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1887. Finley graduated from the University of California in 1903 and in 1906 he married Nellie Irene Barnhart. The Finleys lived for many years at ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Edmund W. Sinnott was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the time of this correspondence. Walter G. Berl was an editor for the Association. From the description of Letters, 1948-1971, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155878457 ...

Free, George.

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Ordway, Samuel Blanchard, 1844-1916

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American Nature Study Society. Conservation Committee.

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Wiley, Farida A. (Farida Anna)

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Natural resources council of America

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Westwood, Richard W.

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Vinal, William Gould, 1881-

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William Gould Vinal Nature education was in its infancy when William "Cap'n Bill" Vinal entered college at the turn of the twentieth century. A native of Norwell, Mass., (then called South Scituate), Vinal attended Bridgewater State Teachers College, graduating with the class of 1904, before taking a second bachelor's degree (1906) and master's (1907) in the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard. One of the first formal nature educators in the nation, Vinal ...

National Council of State Garden Clubs

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Green, George Rex, 1884-

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Ecologists Union (U.S.)

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Shaw, Ellen Eddy

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Matlock, Nellie F.

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Sharp, L. B. (Lloyd Burgess), 1895-1963

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Davidson, C. Girard (Crowe Girard), 1910-

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Attorney, Democratic politician, businessman, and public official serving as Assistant Secretary of the Interior under President Truman, 1946-1950. From the description of C. Girard Davidson papers, 1934-1980. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 19677016 C. (Crowe) Girard Davidson (b. 1910) was the Assistant Secretary of the Interior from 1946 to 1950. From the description of Davidson, C. Girard (Crowe Girard), 1910- (U.S. National Archives and ...

Patch, Edith M. (Edith Marion), 1876-

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Edith Patch, born in Worcester, Mass. in 1876, received a B.S. from the University of Minnesota in 1901, an M.S. from the University of Maine in 1910 and a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1911. She came to the University of Maine in 1903, organizing the department of entomology at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station there and serving as head of the department from 1904 until her retirement in 1937. An authority on aphids, she was the author of numerous scientific articles, a member of various profes...

Cady, Bertha Chapman, 1873-1956

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National Parks Association (U.S.)

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Teale, Edwin Way, 1899-1980

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Naturalist and photographer, of Hampton, Conn.; d. 1980. From the description of Edwin Way Teale papers, 1799-1995. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28420481 Naturalist, author, photographer. Born Joliet Ill. 6/2/99; died Norwich, Conn. 10/18/80. Staff writer for Popular science, 1928-41; free-lance writer & photographer, 1941-80; contributing editor for Audubon, 1942-80. Winner of John Burroughs Medal (1943), Pulitzer Prize (1966), & numerous other a...

Gillmore, Ruth Miriam.

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Izaak Walton League of America

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The Izaak Walton League was founded in 1922 by sportsmen concerned over the declining wildlife populations. Named after the 17th century British naturalist, the League is devoted to protecting the resources of the natural environment for the use and benefit of both people and wildlife. As one of the earliest conservation organizations, the League set an aggressive course to defend wild America by changing public policy. From the description of Izaak Walton League records, 1902-1996, ...

American Nature Study Society

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Sollberger, Dwight E.

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Weaver, Richard L., 1941-

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