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Revised: November 15, 2005 HISTORICAL NOTE
Elmer Darwin Ball (1870-1943) was born in Vermont. After attending Iowa State
College and Ohio State University, Ball became Dean of the Utah Agricultural
College in 1907. In 1916, he became State Entomologist of Wisconsin and in
1918 joined the faculty of Iowa State University. While on leave from Iowa
State, Ball served as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in 1920 and 1921. He
left Iowa State in 1921 to serve as Director of Scientific Work in the
Department of Agriculture and held that position until 1925. While at the
Department, he organized the Graduate School and served as its Director. From
1925 to 1928, Ball was in charge of an investigation of celery pests for the
Florida State Plant Board. In 1928 he joined the University of Arizona as Dean
of the College of Agriculture and later served as Professor of Zoology and
Economic Entomologist.
DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY
These papers include correspondence between Elmer Darwin Ball and his
colleagues including requests for specimen identification or specimen exchange
for the 1920s and 1930s; requests for Ball's evaluation of papers about to be
published; voluminous correspondence between Ball and Dwight Moore DeLong
concerning their joint Thamnotettix project; and personal correspondence and
professional gossip.
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
SERIES 1.
ELMER DARWIN BALL CORRESPONDENCE, 1914-1938.
Anderson, W.E.
Andre, Floyd
Baker, Arthur Challen
Berger, Edward William
Beckwith, Charles F.
Beckwith, Charles S.
Blackman, W.M.
Borodin, D.M.
Bozier, H.L.
Brandt, J.G.
Bruner, Stephen Cole
Bryant, Owen
Caudill, A.N.
Cecil, Rodney
Chittenden, F.H.
Colcord, Mabel
Clarke-MacIntyre, William (see M)
Cooley, Robert Allen
Craighead, Robert Allen
Crisson, Jr., Ezra Townsend
Crosby, C.R.
Cushman, Robert Asa
Davidson, Ralph Howard
Davis, John June
Dean, George Adams
Dietrich, Henry
Duggar, John Frederick
Essig, Edward Oliver
Evanson, (Miss)
Fawcett, G.L.
Flick, Walter
Fraser, Roy
Fullaway, David Timmin
Garrett, Albert Oshun
Goodwin, J.C.
Gorsuch, David Major
Griffith, Melvin Eugene
Guyton, Thomas Lee
Hamilton, Clyde Carney
Headlee, Thomas J.
Herrick, Glenn Washington
Herrick, M.T.
Johnson, Dorothy M.
Jones, Wyatt Wagner
Karlovich, John
McBride, Orville Clark
Clarke-MacIntyre, William
McDunnough, James Halliday
Mills, Harlow Burgess
Nelson, E.W.
Parker, Frank H.
Pettit, Rufus Hiram
Sanderson, Milton William
Schwars, E.A.
Seal, J.L.
Severin, Henry Herman Paul
Shaw, John Gilbert
Stoner, Dayton
Tanner, Vasco Myron
Tatman, E.C.
Weidner, H.
Wetmore, Frank Alexander
Wilcox, E. Mead
Zoologische Staatsinstitute
SERIES 2.
NOTES.
SERIES 3.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
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