Peter Paul Kellogg papers, 1934-1964.

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Peter Paul Kellogg papers, 1934-1964.

Correspondence, reports, manuscripts of articles, photographs, clippings, notes, memoranda, and printed material relating to Kellogg's career in the Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University; the history of the Laboratory; the Albert R. Brand Bird Song Foundation; ornithological expeditions to central Africa, Manitoba, and elsewhere; and bird clubs. Much of the correspondence is with other ornithologists, education and conservation groups, departments, institutions, record companies, film producers, and manufacturers of technical equipment concerning the procedures and problems of taping bird calls; correspondents include Arthur A. Allen, Albert R. Brand, Myles E. W. North, Paul Schwartz, Lyman K. Stuart, Gustav A. Swanson, and various members of the Laboratory. Also, 245 phonograph records of bird songs, some with handbooks; five recordings made at Professor Allen's retirement party (1950); and handwritten notes (22 pages, 1961) made by Professor Kellogg's wife, Byrl Jorgenson Kellogg, keying recordings in the Cornell Library of Natural Sounds to references made by Louis Agassiz Fuertes in six papers on tropical bird songs published (1913-1914) in BIRD LORE.

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Cornell University Library

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Swanson, Gustav Adolph, 1910-

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Professor of conservation, Cornell University. Gustav A. Swanson was head of the Department of Conservation, Cornell University, from its founding in 1948 until 1966. From the description of Gustav Adolf Swanson photograph album, 1948-1969. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074566 ...

Schwartz, Paul M., 1959-

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Allen, Arthur A. (Arthur Augustus), 1885-1964

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Ornithologist. Arthur Augustus Allen graduated from Cornell University in 1907, received an M.A. in 1908, and a Ph.D. in 1911. He served as professor of ornithology at Cornell University from 1916 until his appointment as professor emeritus in 1953. In 1919, he taught the first wildlife conservation course in the United States. Allen wrote for magazines and journals, and authored several books, including THE BOOK OF BIRD LIFE, 1930; AMERICAN BIRD BIOGRAPHIES, 1934; ORNIT...

Brand, Albert R. (Albert Rich)

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Ornithologist. Research associate, Cornell University; ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History. Brand was born in 1889 and died in 1940. From the description of Albert Rich Brand papers, 1928-1940. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63934236 ...

Kellogg, Peter Paul, 1899-

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Professor of ornithology and biological acoustics, Cornell University. Peter Paul Kellogg was appointed assistant professor of ornithology at Cornell University in 1938 and professor of ornithology and biological acoustics in 1953. He studied bird sounds and the vocal apparatus of birds, and pioneered the recording and study of songs of wild birds. From the description of Peter Paul Kellogg papers, 1934-1964. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: ...

Kellogg, Byrl Jorgenson.

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Cornell University

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Cornell University. Laboratory of Ornithology.

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North, Myles E. W.

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Stuart, Lyman K.

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Lyman K. Stuart (1898-1964) attended Cornell and became a businessman in Newark, N.Y. He became interested in ornithology in the early 1950s and won first place in a national photo-essay contest sponsored by Life Magazine. He served as a member of the Council of the Laboratory of Ornithology for many years, purchased the original Sapsucker Woods land for Cornell, and provided funding for the original headquarters of the lab, which was named for him. From the description of Lyman K. S...