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
- Grinnell, Lawrence I. (Lawrence Irving), 1889-1985. (Person)
- Grinnell, Lawrence I. (Lawrence Irving), 1889-1985. (Title of work: Canoeable waterways of New York State and vicinity..) (Person)
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.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Field Journals of Ornithological Trips Box 1 & 3
Series II. Expedition Materials, Lecture and Film Notes Boxes 2 & 4
Series III. Research, Manuscripts and Printed Materials by and about Grinnell Boxes 2 & 4
Series IV. Photographic Materials Box 3, 5, & 7
Albums Prints 35mm Slides
Series V. Motion Picture Films Boxes 5-8
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
- Cornell University. Laboratory of Ornithology
- Field notes
- Grinnell, Lawrence I. (Lawrence Irving), 1889-1985. (Title of work: New Zealand-Australia expedition of the Laboratory of Ornithology, 1957-1958..)
- Grinnell, Lawrence I. (Lawrence Irving), 1889-1985. (Title of work: Study of the common redpoll..)
- Motion pictures (visual works).
- Ornithologists.
- Ornithology.
- Photographs.
- Scientific expeditions -- Africa.
- Scientific expeditions -- Alaska.
- Scientific expeditions -- Amazon River Region.
- Scientific expeditions -- Antarctica.
- Scientific expeditions -- Australia.
- Scientific expeditions -- Brazil.
- Scientific expeditions -- Colombia.
- Scientific expeditions -- Galapagos Islands.
- Scientific expeditions -- Guatemala.
- Scientific expeditions -- Guiana.
- Scientific expeditions -- India.
- Scientific expeditions -- Manitoba -- Churchill.
- Scientific expeditions -- Mexico.
- Scientific expeditions -- Nepal.
- Scientific expeditions -- New Zealand.
- Scientific expeditions -- Panama.
- Scientific expeditions -- Peru.
- Scientific expeditions -- Saint Lawrence, Gulf of.
- Scientific expeditions -- Tobago.
- Scientific expeditions -- Trinidad.
- Scientific expeditions -- United States.
- Scientific expeditions -- Venezuela.
- Scientific expeditions -- West Indies.
- Slides (photographs).
- 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
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu