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William L. Brown, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-1-3532

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The collection contains galley proofs including original drawings for publications, photographs, subject files, course files, correspondence, notebooks, field books, and metal-etched blocks used in illustrations used in publications.

Dates

  • 1960-1990.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor Brown taught entomology and evolutionary theory in the Department of Entomology in the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University from 1960 until his retirement in 1991. He worked on the reclassification of the family Formicidae, the ant. Before coming to Cornell, he worked with all of the principal museum ant collections in North and South America, Western Europe, South Africa and Australia.

Extent

13.9 cubic feet. (13.9 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

The collection contains galley proofs including original drawings for publications, photographs, subject files, course files, correspondence, notebooks, field books, and metal-etched blocks used in illustrations used in publications.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Personal-Correspondence, CV, Publications Box 1

Series II. Drawings, Galleys, Photocopies, Photographs, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) Shots Boxes 1, 2

Series III. Course Information Box 2

Series IV. Pilot Register of Zoology (PRZ) Box 2

Series V. National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants Box 2

Series VI. Subject Files Boxes 3, 4

Series VII. Manuscripts, Notes, Maps, Articles, Reprints, Correspondence, Studies and Data Box 4

Series VIII. Administrative Records, Committee Reports Box 4

Series IX. Trips Box 4

Series X. Karyotypes and Printing Materials Box 5

Series XI. Notebooks Box 6

Series XII. Oversize Galley Proofs Boxes 7-9

SEPARATED MATERIAL

Books in this collection have been sent to the Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

  1. Formicina austriaca: Beschreibung der bisher im österreichischen Kaiserstaate aufgefundenen Ameisen, nebst hinzufügung jener in Deutschland, in der Schweiz und in Italien vorkommenden Arten - Mayr, Gustav L. - 1855
  2. Mr. Smith's Catalogue of Hymenopterous Ants - Smith, Frederick - 1858
  3. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenopterous Insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at Celebes (p. 57); Descriptions of Hymenopterous Insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Islands of Batchian, Kaisaa, Amboyna, Gilolo, and at Dory in New Guinea (p. 93) - Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society: Supplemental to Vol. V-Zoology - Smith, Frederick; ("Communicated by") W. W. Saunders - 1860
  4. Die Europäischen Formiciden Nach der analytischen Methode - Mayr, Gustav L. - 1861
  5. Verzeichnifs der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten - Berliner entomologische Zeitschift (Beilage) (7:165) - Roger, Julius - 1863
  6. Formicidae - Novara-Expedition. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II - Mayr, Gustav L. - 1865
  7. Les Fourmis de la Suisse: Systématique, Notices Anatomiques et Physiologiques, Architecture, Distribution Géographique, Nouvelles Expérences et Observations de Mœurs - Neue Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften: Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Helvétique des Sciences Naturelles (Band XXVI. mit II Tafeln) - Forel, Auguste - 1874
  8. Les Fourmis - Bibliothèque des Merveilles - André, Ernest - 1885
  9. Histoire Naturelle des Hyménoptéres - Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar (Volume XX) - Forel, Auguste - 1891
  10. Formicidae (Heterogyna) - Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus (Vol. VII) - Dalla Torre, C. G. de - 1893
  11. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Hymenoptera.-Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-Wasps - Bingham, C. T. - 1903
  12. Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes - Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (Heft II) - Emery, C. - 1908
  13. Die psychischen Fähigkeiten der Ameisen: Mit einem Ausblick auf die vergleichende Tierpsychologie - Wasmann, Erich - 1909
  14. Hymenoptera Fam. Formicidæ Subfam. Dorylinæ - Genera Insectorum (Fasc. 102) - Emery, C. - 1910
  15. Hymenoptera Fam. Formicidæ Subfam. Ponerinæ - Genera Insectorum (Fasc. 118) - Emery, C. - 1911
  16. Hymenoptera Fam. Formicidæ Subfam. Dolichoderinæ - Genera Insectorum (Fasc. 137) - Emery, C. - 1912
  17. Die Insekten Mitteleuropas insebsondere Deutschlands (Band II: Hymenopteren) - Stitz, H. ("Die Armisen (Formicidae)"); Schmiedeknecht, O. ("Die Schlupf- und Brackwespen") - 1914
  18. The Ants of the Baltic Amber - Sonderabdruck aus den Schriften der Physikalisch-ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg i. Pr., LV. - Wheeler, William Morton - 1914
  19. A Monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa - Annals of the South African Museum (Vol. XIV) - Arnold, George - 1915
  20. Hymenoptera Formicidae: Die Ameisen der Schweiz - Fauna Insectorum Helvetiae - Forel, Auguste - 1915
  21. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913: 2. Ameisen - Arkiv für Zoologi utgifvet af K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien (Band 9 / N:o 16) - Forel, Auguste - 1915
  22. Fauna Entomologica Italiana: 1. Hymemoptera.-Formicidae - Estratto dal Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana (XLVII-1916) - Emery, Carlo - 1916
  23. Die Ameise Schilderung ihrer Lebenweise - Escherich, K. - 1917
  24. Les Fourmis de France et de Belgique - Extrait des Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (Vol. LXXXVII) - Bondroit, J. - 1918
  25. Die Gastpflege der Ameisen ihre biologischen und philosophischen Probleme - Abhandlungen zue theoretischen Biologie - Wasmann, Erich - 1920
  26. Les Fourmis de la Suisse: Systématique, Notices Anatomiques et Physiologiques, Architecture, Distribution Géographique, Nouvelles Expérences et Observations de Mœurs (Seconde Édition Revue et Corrigée) - Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Helvétique des Sciences Naturelles - Forel, Auguste - 1920
  27. Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition: A Contribution to the Myrmecology of Africa - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (Vol. XLV) - Wheeler, William Morton - 1922
  28. Keys to the Genera and Subgenera of Ants - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (Vol. XLV, pp. 631-710) (Extracted from 'Ants of the American Congo Expedition. A Contribution to the Myrmecology of Africa.') - Wheeler, William Morton - 1922
  29. Le Formiche della Venezia Giulia e della Dalmazia - Müller, Giuseppe - 1923
  30. Hymenoptera Fam. Formicidæ Subfam. Formicinæ - Genera Insectorum (Fasc. 183) - Emery, C. - 1925
  31. The New World Species of the Genus Solenopsis (Hymenop. Formicidae) - Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Vol. 66, No. 2) - Creighton, William S. - 1930
  32. On the Identity of Smith's Types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with Descriptions of Two new Species - (From the) Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 10, Vol. X. p. 441 - Donisthorpe, Horace - 1932
  33. Colony-Founding Among Ants, with an Account of Some Primitive Australian Species - Wheeler, William Morton - 1933
  34. Studies of Neotropical Ant-Plants and Their Ants - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College (Vol. XC, No. 1) - Wheeler, William Morton - 1942
  35. A List of the Type-Species of the Genera and Subgenera of the Formicidae - (From the) Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 11, Vol. X. p. 617 - Donisthorpe, Horace - 1943
  36. Check List of the Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia - Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology (Monograph 1) - Chapman, James W.; Santiago R. Capco - 1951
  37. Catálago abreviado das Formigas da Região Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) - Studia Entomologica (Vol. 15, Fasc. 1-4) - Kempf, Walter W. - 1972
  38. Les Fourmis et Leur Milieu en France Méditerranéenne - Encyclopédie Entomologique (XLV) - Bernard, Francis - 1983
  39. New Species of the Ant Genus Myopias (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) - (Reprinted from) PSYCHE, Vol. 90, No. 3 - Willey, Robert B.; William L. Brown, Jr. - 1983
  40. Hymenoptera Fam. Formicidæ Subfam. Myrmicinæ - Genera Insectorum (Fasc. 174) - Emery, C. - 1921 (?) ("1922")
  41. The Formicidae of Australia (Vol. 1: Subfamily Myrmeciinae) - Clark, John - 1952 (?) ("Bolton cat. Gives 31-XII-1951")
  42. Catalogo delle Specie di Formicidae d'Italia - Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana (Volume 50) - Urbani, Cesare Baroni - 1971 ("issued 1973")

Physical Description

Galley proofs, photographs, correspondence, subject files, metal-etched blocks.

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:
Guy Smith
Date completed:
2006
EAD encoding:
Dan Sterner, February 2007

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Guy Smith
Date
February 2007
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
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2B Carl A. Kroch Library
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Ithaca NY 14853
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