COLLECTION DESCRIPTION:
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.
Dates
- 1934-1964.
Creator
- Kellogg, Peter Paul, 1899-1975. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:
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.
Extent
13 cubic feet. (13 cubic feet.)
Abstract
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.
Physical Description
Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, audio recordings, clippings.
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:
- Mary Warren
- Date completed:
- February 1990
- EAD encoding:
- Peter Martinez, January 2002
- Date Modified:
- RMC Staff, November 2015
- Allen, Arthur A. (Arthur Augustus), 1885-1964.
- Bird lore.
- Birdsongs -- Recording and reproducing.
- Brand, Albert R.
- College teachers.
- Cornell University. Laboratory of Ornithology
- Kellogg, Byrl Jorgenson.
- North, Myles E. W.
- Ornithologists.
- Ornithology.
- Photographs.
- Schwartz, Paul.
- Stuart, Lyman K.
- Swanson, Gustav Adolph, 1910-
- Status
- Completed
- 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