J. Chester Bradley papers
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes Bradley's A Manual of the Genera of Beetles, North of Mexico; manuscripts for papers; lecture notes and teaching materials; field notebooks, drawings, and typed and handwritten notes; personal and professional correspondence; bibliographies; glass slides and mounted photographs of entomological subjects and expeditions, including the First Cornell University Biological Expedition to the Okefenoke Swamp in Georgia and a later expedition through Arizona and California, as well as a few Ithaca area scenes; photograph albums; includes much material on wasps. Also, correspondence with J. Henry Comstock and others.
Dates
- 1905-1962.
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
James Bradley was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1884. He showed an early interest in natural history, especially insects, and published his first scientific paper at age 15. He obtained degrees at Cornell University (A.B. 1906, Ph.D. 1910) and the University of California (M.S. 1907). He served as an assistant professor of entomology at Cornell, 1911-1920, and professor and curator of invertebrate zoology, 1920-1952. As a field biology, Bradley joined or led several expeditions ranging from Canada to South America, including the joint Cornell-Harvard transcontinental motor car trip in 1917. He co-authored Insect Life, an insect manual for Boy Scouts, and was chairman of the committee that secured the site for Camp Barton (a Boy Scout camp near Ithaca, New York).
Extent
32.8 cubic feet. (32.8 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Includes Bradley's A Manual of the Genera of Beetles, North of Mexico; manuscripts for papers; lecture notes and teaching materials; field notebooks, drawings, and typed and handwritten notes; personal and professional correspondence; bibliographies; glass slides and mounted photographs of entomological subjects and expeditions, including the First Cornell University Biological Expedition to the Okefenoke Swamp in Georgia and a later expedition through Arizona and California, as well as a few Ithaca area scenes; photograph albums; includes much material on wasps. Also, correspondence with J. Henry Comstock and others.
Physical Description
A monograph, manuscripts, lecture notes and teaching materials, field notebooks, drawings, typed and handwritten notes, personal and professional correspondence, bibliographies, glass slides and mounted photographs, and photograph albums.
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:
- P. McCray
- Date completed:
- December 1986
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, May 2003
- Arizona -- Aerial views.
- Arizona -- Pictorial works.
- Biology -- Study and teaching.
- California -- Aerial views.
- California -- Pictorial works.
- College teachers.
- Comstock, J. Henry.
- Entomologists.
- Entomology -- Study and teaching.
- Georgia -- Aerial views.
- Georgia -- Pictorial works.
- Insects.
- Natural history.
- Negatives.
- New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Entomology
- Photographs.
- Wasps.
- Zoology.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by P. McCray
- Date
- May 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
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