DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY
Richard Eliot Blackwelder (1909- ) is an entomologist specializing in the study of beetles. He was awarded the Walter Rathbone Bacon Travelling Scholarship of the Smithsonian Institution to conduct field work in the West Indies from 1935 to 1938. This accession consists of journals, field notes, and notebooks documenting Blackwelder's career as an entomologist. Included are his journals from the Bacon Scholarship field work in the West Indies; journals of his wife, Ruth M. Blackwelder, from the same trips; notebooks from his research in museums in the United States and England; a notebook listing species in his personal collection; a notebook containing recollections onentomologists met by Blackwelder; a journal kept on field trips to the American west, 1960, 1962, 1964; and an album of photographs from his field work in the West Indies. For field notes from Blackwelder's West Indies work see Record Unit 7156.Box 1 of 1
- Journal of Ruth M. Blackwelder, West Indies, 1935-1937 (5 volumes)
- Journal of Richard E. Blackwelder, West Indies, 1935-1937 (6 volumes)
- Museum Notes (western), 1947-1948 (2 volumes)
- Museum Notes (eastern), 1934-1942
- British Museum Notes, 1937
- Blackwelder Collection, list of species
- Entomologists, 1926-1947. Contains Blackwelder's reflections on fellow entomologists.
- Journal from field trips to the American west, 1960, 1962, 1964
- Photograph album from West Indies field work, 1935-1937
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