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Lawrence I. Grinnell papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2649

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Field journals; reports; lecture notes; data; films, photographs, an audiotape, and photograph albums; correspondence; financial records; maps; printed materials; and bird guides regarding ornithological trips taken by Lawrence Grinnell from 1938 to 1971: St. Lawrence Gulf, Churchill (Manitoba), Alaska, Southern and Western United States, Trinidad, Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, West Indies, Tobago, British Guiana, Panama, Africa, New Zealand, Australia, the Amazon region, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, the Antarctic, India, and Nepal; also, correspondence and a pamphlet, "The 1957-1958 New Zealand-Australia Expedition of the Laboratory of Ornithology"; materials pertaining to his dissertation A Study of the Common Redpoll a notebook of Cornell ornithology seminars and Canoeable Waterways of New York State and Vicinity.

Dates

  • 1930-1977.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Lawrence I. Grinnell was an ornithologist. He earned an M.S. in 1943 and a Ph.D. in 1947, both from Cornell University.

Extent

7.3 cubic feet. (7.3 cubic feet.)

Abstract

More than 70 motion picture films, photographic and written materials regarding ornithological trips taken by Lawrence Grinnell from 1938 to 1971; correspondence and a pamphlet, "The 1957-1958 New Zealand-Australia Expedition of the Laboratory of Ornithology"; materials pertaining to his dissertation A Study of the Common Redpoll, a notebook of Cornell ornithology seminars and Canoeable Waterways of New York State and Vicinity written by Grinnell.

RELATED MATERIAL

Lawrence I. Grinnell, "A Century of Unitarian History in Ithaca, 1865-1965." Pamphlet, #1525.

Correspondence and other material related to Lawrence Grinnell appears in the Arthur Augustus Allen papers, #21-18-1255 with whom he worked at the Laboratory of Ornithology.

Physical Description

Field journals; reports; lecture notes; data; films, photographs, and photograph albums; correspondence; financial records; maps; printed materials; bird guides; and audiotapes.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
M. Moran
Date completed:
November 1986
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, January 2002
Date modified:
RMC Staff, December 2013
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by M. Moran
Date
January 2002
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
ENG

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)