Series 1. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1888-1956, AND UNDATED. ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY.
Series 2. MANUSCRIPTS, 1909-1950, AND UNDATED. ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY
Series 3. ADDRESSES AND REPORTS BY OTHERS, 1909-1938, AND UNDATED. ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY.
Series 4. FIELD NOTEBOOKS, 1887-1945, AND UNDATED. ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY.
Series 5. RESEARCH NOTES, UNDATED.
Series 6. AUCTION CATALOGS, 1891, 1896. ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY.
Series 7. PHOTOGRAPHS AND NEWSCLIPPINGS, 1900-1948, AND UNDATED. ARRANGED BY SIZE AND SUBJECT.
Series 8. EDWARD ALEXANDER PREBLE BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION, 1935-1965. ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY.
Edward Alexander Preble (1871-1957) was a naturalist and conservationist who
conducted major field explorations of the birds and mammals of the northwest
regions of Canada and the United States. Preble was born in Sommerville,
Massachusetts, and developed a strong interest in natural history during his
youth in Wilmington, Massachusetts, and summers in Ossipee, New Hampshire.
Early natural history contacts included Frank Blake Webster and Frank Harris
Hitchcock. Preble graduated from high school in Woburn, Massachusetts, in
1889. Through his acquaintance with Hitchcock, Preble was appointed a field
naturalist with the Bureau of Biological Survey in 1892 under Clinton Hart
Merriam. Preble was appointed assistant biologist in 1902, biologist in 1924,
and senior biologist in 1928. Preble began his field work career with
Vernon Orlando Bailey in Texas, and worked in Georgia, Maryland, Oregon,
Washington, and Utah, conducting life zone samplings. In 1900 Preble began
his major field explorations for the bureau with a trip to the Hudson Bay
region of Canada with his brother, Alfred Emerson Preble. In 1901 the Preble
brothers traveled and collected in the Athabaska-Mackenzie (Canada) regions.
In 1903 and 1904 the brothers continued their explorations of this region with
Merritt Cary, and Edward Preble remained in the Mackenzie River region alone
through the winter of 1903-1904. The results of these explorations were
published by Preble in A Biological Investigation of the Athabaska-Mackenzie
Region, U.S. Department of Agriculture, North American Fauna 27, 1908.
Preble also traveled through the Athabaska-Mackenzie region to the Barren
Grounds with Ernest Thompson Seton in 1907. In 1910 Preble, accompanied
by George and Samuel Mixter, explored the Stikine River in Alaska, as well as
Alberta, British Columbia, Montana, and North Dakota. Preble was sent to
investigate the status of the elk in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 1911. In 1913,
Preble led a big-game hunt in British Columbia for Charles Robert Cross. In
1914 Preble, Wilfred Hudson Osgood, and George H. Parker served on a federal
commission to study and report on the fur seals of the Pribilof Islands,
Alaska. In addition to the report, published in 1915, Preble also compiled
A Biological Investigation of the Pribilof Islands, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, North American Fauna 46, 1923. Preble's last major field
exploration was an investigation of the status of waterbirds of the Athabaska
and Peace River deltas with Luther J. Goldman in 1934. Preble kept
detailed field diaries and notebooks with observations on the animals and birds
he was studying, flora and physical surroundings, weather, routes and
distances traveled, individuals encountered, sketches of trapper and Indian
life, and Indian terms for animals and plants. Most of these trips are
represented in the collection. Preble's research for the Bureau of Biological
Survey resulted in faunal surveys and conservation/wildlife management reports,
with few systematic or taxonomic studies. In addition to field
explorations, Preble always recorded observations of the local flora, fauna
and physical surroundings in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and the Washington,
D.C., area. Preble lived in Washington, D.C., but also owned a cabin in
Fairfax, Virginia, and a farm in Ossipee, New Hampshire. With Waldo Lee
McAtee and Alexander Wetmore, Preble conducted local bird counts for the
Audubon National Society which were published in Bird-Lore. Preble served as chairman of the Editorial Committee for the American
Society of Mammalogists' Journal of Mammalogy from 1930 to 1935, was
made a fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1935, and was a member
of its Bird Protection Committee. In his later years with the Bureau of
Biological Survey as senior biologist, Preble became very interested in
wildlife management and conservation. In 1925 Preble was appointed consulting
naturalist for Nature Magazine, and in 1935 he retired from government
service to become associate editor. Until his death in 1957, he edited,
reviewed, and wrote articles for Nature Magazine, the publication of
the American Nature Association. He maintained contacts with other
conservationists through the American Humane Association, the Emergency
Conservation Committee, the National Parks Association, the Committee on
Wildlife and the Committee on Preservation of Natural Conditions of the
National Research Council, and the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund. Preble published extensively throughout his life. In a bibliography
published in 1965, McAtee credits Preble with 239 published items of 1500
pages in the form of articles, books, reports, annotations, and edits of other
works. Preble published several major faunal surveys for the Bureau of
Biological Survey as well as a few systematic revisions and wildlife management
reports. He published bird counts and observations in The Auk and
Bird-Lore, and wrote many articles for Nature Magazine and other
scientific and conservation journals. He also annotated three narratives of
early explorers in the northwest, Samuel Hearne, David Thompson, and Thomas
Hutchins (unpublished). Although Preble was considered a dilatory
correspondent, the collection contains a large volume of incoming
correspondence, especially from Charles Christopher Adams, Harold Elmer
Anthony, Rosalie Edge, Francis Harper, William Temple Hornaday, Roderick Ross
MacFarlane, Clinton Hart Merriam, Olaus Johan Murie, Wilford Edwin Sanderson,
Ernest Thompson Seton, J. B. Tyrrell, and Richard W. Westwood. There is
little outgoing correspondence since Preble usually wrote letters by hand. This series consists of correspondence documenting the career and personal life of Edward Alexander Preble. Correspondence is primarily incoming, but includes some outgoing, and is arranged alphabetically by correspondent and occasionally by subject. Correspondence documents Preble's career and field work with the Bureau of Biological Survey, his editorship of Nature Magazine, and his activities with many conservation societies. Correspondents include authors, conservationists, family members, hunters, naturalists, systematic biologists and trappers. Includes biographical information on friends, manuscripts by others, maps, newsclippings, and photographs. Additional correspondence may be found with manuscripts in series 2. Box 1 of 17
INTRODUCTION
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the
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HISTORICAL NOTE
DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY
These papers document Preble's personal life and careers with the Bureau of
Biological Survey and the American Nature Association, and include general
correspondence, primarily incoming; published and unpublished manuscripts for
scientific and conservation work; addresses and reports by others; field
notebooks, diaries, lists and checklists for his field explorations and local
observations; research notes for his scientific publications on mammals and
birds of the northwest; auction catalogs for skins; newsclippings and
photographs; and biographical information on Preble.
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
SERIES 1.
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1888-1956, AND UNDATED. ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY.
| Folder | 1 | Aaron - Athey. Correspondents include: S. F. Aaron, 1936-1937; Helmer P. K. Agersborg, 1949; Mary L. Jobe Akeley, 1931; Edward W. Allen, 1939; Francis H. Allen, 1938; Glover M. Allen, 1899; J. A. Allen to Theodore Sherman Palmer, 1897; Clarence L. Andrews, 1936-1937; Lillian Cox Athey, 1940. | |
| Folder | 2 | Charles Christopher Adams, 1929, 1934-1936, 1939. | |
| Folder | 3 | Charles Christopher Adams, 1939-1943. | |
| Folder | 4 | Charles Christopher Adams, 1944, 1946-1948. | |
| Folder | 5 | Rudolph Martin Anderson, 1913, 1919, 1921, 1926, 1933-1934. | |
| Folder | 6 | Harold Elmer Anthony, 1910, 1931, 1936-1937. | |
| Folder | 7 | Harold Elmer Anthony, 1937, 1940-1941, 1943. Includes correspondence relating to the Committee on Preservation of Natural Conditions of the National Research Council. | |
| Folder | 8 | Apelt Armadillo Farm. Includes information on the farm; correspondence with Henry Philemon Attwater and John Kern Strecker, Jr., 1929; and newsclippings. | |
| Folder | 9 | Bacon - Bather. Correspondents include: H. M. Bacon, 1899; Alfred Marshall Bailey, 1939; Florence Merriam Bailey, 1932, 1942; Vernon Orlando Bailey, 1911, 1932; John H. Baker, 1936, 1941; Edward B. Ballard, 1940; W. C. Barlaw, 1939; S. E. Barr, 1930; Charles Foster Batchelder, 1898; F. A. Bather, 1896. | |
| Folder | 10 | Bald Eagle Controversy, 1929. Includes newsclippings and correspondence about alleged killing of a bald eagle by Judge Henry J. Hunt. Correspondents include: E. Lee LeCompte; John A. Neuman; Thomas Gilbert Pearson; Richard W. Westwood; Townsend Whelen. Also includes a photograph of a golden eagle. | |
| Folder | 11 | Outram Bangs, 1897-1900, 1902. | |
| Folder | 12 | Bell - Bensley. Correspondents include: James MacIntosh Bell, 1905-1907; Robert Bell, 1901; William Bonar Bell, 1936; B. A. Bensley, 1922. | |
| Folder | 13 | Arthur Cleveland Bent, 1912-1914, 1928. | |
| Folder | 14 | Bigelow - Boyson. Correspondents include: Edward F. Bigelow, 1932; Louis B. Bishop, 1914; Sherman Chauncey Bishop, 1928; Guy H. Blanchet, 1923-1925; Willis Stanley Blatchley, 1929, 1931-1932, 1939; N. L. Blocher, 1910; Frederick H. Blodgett, 1910; Beecher S. Bowdish, 1928, 1933; J. R. Boyson, 1934. | |
| Folder | 15 | Brabant - Bryan. Correspondents include: A. Brabant, 1913; M. S. Breck, 1929; G. Breymet, 1914; Allan C. Brooks, 1929; Fred E. Brooks, 1931; Maurice Brooks, 1943; Dan Brown, 1915; Edmund K. Brown, 1937; Katharine W. Bryan, 1949. | |
| Folder | 16 | Harold C. Bryant, 1936-1938, 1941. Includes correspondence relating to the Bird Protection Committee of the American Ornithologists' Union. | |
| Folder | 17 | Bumpus - Butler. Correspondents include: Hermon Carey Bumpus, undated; Charles Dean Bunker, 1919; W. A. Burman, 1900-1901; William Henry Burt, 1937; A. Butler, 1928. | |
| Folder | 18 | Devereux Butcher, 1942-1943, 1946. Includes correspondence and reports relating to the National Parks Association. | |
| Folder | 19 | Cadwalader - Churcher. Correspondents include: Charles Meigs Biddle Cadwalader, 1938; William Campbell, 1906, 1908; Edward Albert Chapin, 1949; Frank Michler Chapman, 1901; C. T. Christie, 1905; Lansing Christman, 1939, 1946; Bayard H. Christy, 1933, 1942; Paul Churcher, 1943, 1947. | |
| Folder | 20 | A. F. and Charles Camsell, 1904-1909, 1911. | |
| Folder | 21 | Henry R. Carey, 1930. Includes correspondence relating to the Emergency Conservation Committee of America and the National Association of Audubon Societies. | |
| Folder | 22 | Clark - Clarke. Correspondents include: Austin H. Clark, 1950; William Bullock Clark, 1899; C. H. D. Clarke, 1936; Frances E. Clarke, 1934, 1939-1940. | |
| Folder | 23 | Cline - Cottle. Correspondents include: J. Sperry Cline, 1914; Theodore D. A. Cockerell, 1935; Robert Ervin Coker, 1939, including reference to the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions, National Research Council; Roger Conant, 1947; W. B. Conger, 1936, 1941; Harold Jefferson Coolidge, 1946; Burt R. Cooper, 1939-1941; W. S. Cooper, 1937, including maps; J. A. Cottle, 1897-1898. | |
| Folder | 24 | Sidney H. Coleman, 1928, 1933, 1942. Includes correspondence relating to Wilford Edwin Sanderson and the American Humane Association. | |
| Folder | 25 | Couch - Curtiss. Correspondents include: Leo King Couch, 1942; Dorothy Gordon Cox, 1938-1939; James C. Critchell-Bullock, 1927; Delos E. Culver to Cal L. Johnson, 1932; Burton L. Cunningham, 1897; Catharine Curtis, 1933; J. G. Curtiss, 1933. |
Box 2 of 17
| Folder | 1 | Dadisman - Dumm. Correspondents include: A. J. Dadisman, 1928; Samuel S. Dickey, 1948; Richard Dow, 1934; Newton B. Drury, 1943; lone C. Duffy, 1930, including photograph; B. Alfred Dumm, 1938, 1941, including reference to W. W. Simpson. | |
| Folder | 2 | Jay N. Darling, 1934-1935, 1944. Includes letters from Darling to Joseph P. Knapp, 1934; Arthur Newton Pack, 1934; and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1934. | |
| Folder | 3 | Eaton - Ellis. Correspondents include: Warren F. Eaton, 1930; Fannie H. Eckstorm, 1946; W. Elmer Ekblaw, 1931-1932; Daniel Giraud Elliot, 1899, 1905; R. J. Ellis, 1938, including National Parks Association correspondence between Rene DeRouen, Ernest G. Dudley, William P. Wharton, and Compton I. White; Ralph Ellis, 1938. | |
| Folder | 4 | Rosalie Edge, 1931-1932, 1934-1935. Includes correspondence relating to the Emergency Conservation Committee. | |
| Folder | 5 | Rosalie Edge, 1936-1937. Includes correspondence relating to the Emergency Conservation Committee. | |
| Folder | 6 | Rosalie Edge, 1938-1939, 1941. Includes correspondence relating to the Emergency Conservation Committee and biographical information on John Charles Phillips. | |
| Folder | 7 | Rosalie Edge, 1942-1944, 1946, 1948. Includes correspondence relating to the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association and the Emergency Conservation Committee. | |
| Folder | 8 | Ellsworth - Ewing. Correspondents include: Lincoln Ellsworth, 1928; Paul Lester Errington, 1934; F. J. Eugeun, 1943; Barton Warren Evermann, 1902, 1914; Henry Ellsworth Ewing, 1941. | |
| Folder | 9 | Fannin - Fisher. Correspondents include: John Fannin, 1899; Frank L. Farley, 1935; Marcus S. Farr, 1901; Blanche Finley, 1928-1929; Albert Kenrick Fisher, 1929, 1938, 1946; R. T. Fisher, 1933; Walter Kenrick Fisher, 1916; William H. Fisher, 1901. | |
| Folder | 10 | Fleming - Furman. Correspondents include: J. H. Fleming, 1902, 1922, 1924, 1934; James A. Foote, 1939; John Ripley Forbes, see William Temple Hornaday Foundation, box 3, folder 3; Lucile Ford, 1950; Clarence Gordon Fredine, 1937; Herbert Friedmann, 1921; George W. Fry, 1942; Lucy Furman, 1947. | |
| Folder | 11 | Fur Seal Controversy, 1916. Includes correspondence with A. Russell Bond, Henry W. Elliott, and Hugh McCormick Smith relating to the "Fur Seals of the Pribilof Islands." | |
| Folder | 12 | Gabrielson - Govan. Correspondents include: Ira N. Gabrielson, undated; Philip B. Gale, 1939; R. H. Gilbert, 1899; Donald A. Gilchrist, 1935, including reference to Frank Harris Hitchcock; Martin W. Gorman, 1897; Ada Clapham Govan, 1938, 1940, 1942. | |
| Folder | 13 | Wallace Byron Grange, 1933. Includes correspondence relating to poison campaign against snowshoe hares. | |
| Folder | 14 | Grant - Groat. Correspondents include: Madison Grant, 1932; H. Raymond Gregg, 1947; E. S. Green, 1923; H. U. Green, 1937; Joseph Grinnell, 1931-1932, 1936; Frank Lee Groat, 1940-1942. | |
| Folder | 15 | Hague - Hart. Correspondents include: Florence S. Hague, 1936; Lena R. Haight, 1938, 1944; William John Hamilton, Jr., 1937; W. J. Hannah, 1946; Charlotte Wheeler Hardy, 1947; Mary H. Harris, 1924; Clara Hart, 1942. | |
| Folder | 16 | G. Dallas Hanna, 1914, 1916, 1918-1920, 1923. Includes manuscript. | |
| Folder | 17 | Francis Harper, 1918, 1920-1921. See also box 5, folder 7. | |
| Folder | 18 | Francis Harper, 1924-1926, 1928, 1937-1938, 1942, 1946-1948. | |
| Folder | 19 | Joseph B. Haviland, 1927-1928. Includes manuscript and 16 photographs (3 negatives removed from file). |
Box 3 of 17
| Folder | 1 | Heaslip - Huber. Correspondents include: Thomas Heaslip, undated; Edmund Heller, undated; Charles A. Hickcox, 1945; Lawrence E. Hicks, 1938; J. E. Horning, 1932; Alfred Brazier Howell, 1923, 1937; Ernst Huber, 1929. | |
| Folder | 2 | Frank Harris Hitchcock, 1892. Includes biographical sketch. | |
| Folder | 3 | William Temple Hornaday, 1897, 1928, 1932-1934. Includes correspondence relating to the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund. | |
| Folder | 4 | William Temple Hornaday, 1935-1937. Includes correspondence relating to the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund and a copy of letter from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Hornaday. | |
| Folder | 5 | William Temple Hornaday Memorial Foundation, Inc., 1938-1939, 1945, 1948-1949. Includes correspondence from John Ripley Forbes of the foundation and biographical information on Hornaday. | |
| Folder | 6 | Jasse - Judd. Correspondents include: Robert F. Jasse, 1954; Ethel M. Johnson, 1948, including reference to Rachel L. Carson; H. W. Jones, 1914; William Preble Jones, 1891, 1915, 1943-1944; Mrs. Sylvester Dwight Judd, 1938. | |
| Folder | 7 | Keller - Kubicheck. Correspondents include: Helen Keller, 1936; Samuel Charles Kendeigh, 1943-1944; Florance B. King, 1935; W. C. King, 1901; Frank Coates Kirkwood, 1901; Wesley Frank Kubichek, 1935, 1942. | |
| Folder | 8 | J. H. Keen, 1898-1900. | |
| Folder | 9 | A. Remington Kellogg, 1918-1919, 1948. See also box 7, folder 16. | |
| Folder | 10 | Lambert - Lyon. Correspondents include: Richard Lambert, undated; Gertrude K. Lathrop, 1939; Olive E. Latimer, 1944; Morris Legendre, 1930; Ivey F. Lewis, 1936; O. G. Libby, 1931; James G. Linck, 1942; H. D. Livingstone, 1932; Hoyes Lloyd, 1943. | |
| Folder | 11 | Loring - Lyon. Correspondents include: John Alden Loring, 1903, 1943-1944; Ellsworth D. Lumley, 1947; Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr., 1929-1931, 1935, 1937, 1941. | |
| Folder | 12 | MacNider - McKinlay. Correspondents include: Hanford MacNider, 1927; John M. Macoun, 1915; Romeo John Mansueti, 1947; Florence F. Marshall, 1942; Laura I. Mattoon, 1927; C. L. D. Maxwell, 1914; Ellwood H. McClelland, 1932; James McKinlay, 1905-1906. | |
| Folder | 13 | Roderick Ross MacFarlane, 1913-1914, 1918-1919. | |
| Folder | 14 | Waldo Lee McAtee, 1933-1934, 1937, 1939, 1944-1947, 1950. Includes book of poems, Somewhat Somber. | |
| Folder | 15 | Mearns - Miner. Correspondents include: Edgar Alexander Mearns, 1898; Delbert Meixsell, 1899; Alex Mihie, 1900, 1902; Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr. (see also box 4, folder 13); Anna B. Mills, 1942, 1944, including reference to Vernon Orlando Bailey; J. W. Mills, 1915; Louisa Mills, 1912; Ada O. Miner, 1937; Jack Miner Migratory Bird Foundation, 1944. | |
| Folder | 16 | Clinton Hart Merriam, 1900, 1903, 1913. | |
| Folder | 17 | Oscar E. and Rena McL. Merrow, 1930-1932, 1938, 1941-1943. | |
| Folder | 18 | Mitchell - Myers. Correspondents include: Cornelius von Erden Mitchell, 1914; George Mixter, 1912, 1919-1920; Samuel Mixter, 1913; Marie A. Myers, 1937-1938. | |
| Folder | 19 | Olaus Johan Murie, 1924, 1927, 1930, 1933, 1935, 1938, 1943, 1956. Includes photographs and drawings. | |
| Folder | 20 | Necker - Nutting. Correspondents include: Walter Ludwig Necker, 1941; Tully Nettleton, 1935, including manuscript; Newbold Noyes, 1923; William Nutting, 1948. | |
| Folder | 21 | Nature Magazine, undated. Consists of bill and indexes. | |
| Folder | 22 | Oberholser - Ostlund. Correspondents include: Harry Church Oberholser, 1928; Wilfred Hudson Osgood, 1915, 1942; Ossipee Historical Society, 1943-1944; Oscar Ostlund, 1939, 1941. |
Box 4 of 17
| Folder | 1 | Pack - Phillips. Correspondents include: Arthur Newton Pack, 1927, 1932, 1935 (see also box 2, folder 2); E. Laurence Palmer, 1939, 1944; John Charles Phillips, 1935 (see also box 2, folder 6). | |
| Folder | 2 | Pirnie - Preble. Correspondents include: Miles David Pirnie, 1941; Sid D. Platford, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1946; Cora May Preble, 1938; Marcia Alexander Preble, 1888, 1899, 1907. | |
| Folder | 3 | Radford - Rowan. Correspondents include: Harry V. Radford, 1911; Paul G. Redington, 1931, 1933; Alfred Renfro, 1929-1930, including photographs; Thomas S. Roberts, 1944; William Fleet Robertson, 1913; William Rowan, 1926. | |
| Folder | 4 | Salter - Seymour. Correspondents include: Harold G. Salter, 1929; Elwin R. Sanborn, 1931; W. E. Sanders, 1937, 1942; Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, 1927, 1950; Minnie R. Setz, 1939, 1941, 1943; Edward Seymour, 1932. | |
| Folder | 5 | Wilford Edwin Sanderson, 1928, 1932-1934. Includes correspondence relating to the American Humane Association. See also box 1, folder 24. | |
| Folder | 6 | Wilford Edwin Sanderson, 1935. Includes correspondence relating to the American Humane Association. | |
| Folder | 7 | Wilford Edwin Sanderson, 1936-1938. Includes correspondence relating to the American Humane Association. | |
| Folder | 8 | Wilford Edwin Sanderson, 1939-1940. Includes correspondence relating to the American Humane Association. | |
| Folder | 9 | Wilford Edwin Sanderson, 1941-1942. Includes correspondence relating to the American Humane Association and the Audubon National Society. | |
| Folder | 10 | Wilford Edwin Sanderson, 1943. Includes correspondence relating to the American Society of Mammalogists and the Audubon National Society. | |
| Folder | 11 | Wilford Edwin Sanderson, 1944-1945. Includes correspondence relating to the American Society of Mammalogists, Audubon National Society, and the Izaak Walton League of America, Inc. | |
| Folder | 12 | Ernest Thompson Seton, 1914, 1923-1924, 1926, 1930, 1937. | |
| Folder | 13 | Sharma - Slavin. Correspondents include: M. P. Sharma, undated; Grover Sharp, 1911; Charles Sheldon, 1910; H. H. Sheldon, 1943; Victor E. Shelford, 1937; Walter B. Sheppard, 1937, including reference to Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr.; George Shiras III, 1928, 1938; Percy W. Shufeldt, 1934; Mary E. Slavin, 1939. | |
| Folder | 14 | Smart - Spears. Correspondents include: Harry P. Smart, 1943-1944; Harlan Ingersoll Smith, 1914, 1935; Daniel Webster Smythe, 1942-1944, 1946; Joseph Dewey Soper, 1921, 1939; Raymond S. Spears, 1934, 1936. | |
| Folder | 15 | Stansell - Swenk. Correspondents include: Sidney S. S. Stansell, 1928; Russell Stark, 1936, 1946; Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 1912; Witmer Stone, 1921, 1931, 1936, 1938; Clark Perkins Streator, 1895; J. Fletcher Street, 1944; Bradshaw Hall Swales, 1928 (consists of biography); Myron Harmon Swenk, 1931. | |
| Folder | 16 | Taverner - Twitchell. Correspondents include: Percy A. Taverner, 1912, 1914; James Tomson, 1911; Kate Hagood Tobin, undated; G. E. S. Tordt, 1939; A. H. Twitchell, 1936. | |
| Folder | 17 | Thorne. Correspondents are Elizabeth Hardwick Thorne, 1945; Marjorie Elizabeth Preble Thorne, 1945; and Maurice A. Thorne, 1940, 1942-1946. |
Box 5 of 17
| Folder | 1 | Walter Edmund Clyde Todd, 1892-1893, 1911, 1943, 1950. | |
| Folder | 2 | J. B. Tyrrell, 1909-1910. | |
| Folder | 3 | J. B. Tyrrell, 1911-1914, 1926, 1938. | |
| Folder | 4 | Uihlein - Urquhart, Correspondents include: Joseph E. Uihlein, 1917, 1925; Wynn Urquhart, 1930. | |
| Folder | 5 | United States Department of Agriculture, official documents relating to Edward Alexander Preble, 1892, 1894-1896, 1900-1903, 1905, 1907-1908. | |
| Folder | 6 | United States Department of Agriculture, official documents relating to Edward Alexander Preble, 1910, 1913-1915, 1917, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1927-1928, 1934, 1936. | |
| Folder | 7 | Van Hoesen - Vorhies. Correspondents include: Ethel G. Van Hoesen, 1949; Willard G. Van Name, 1933; John Van Schaich, Jr., 1942; William Vogt, 1931, including correspondence relating to the Croton Point, New York, Controversy; Charles Taylor Vorhies, 1942-1943. | |
| Folder | 8 | Frederick K. Vreeland, 1911, 1913, 1916. Includes maps of British Columbia. | |
| Folder | 9 | Waldron - Wetmore. Correspondents include: Jeremy R. Waldron, 1939; Henry A. Wallace, 1937; Richard L. Weaver, 1943; Carroll C. Welch, 1943; Alexander Wetmore, 1911, 1920. | |
| Folder | 10 | Richard W. Westwood, 1931-1932. Includes manuscript on migratory waterfowl and copies of letters to Francis Harper and Frederic C. Walcott. See also box 1, folder 10 and box 8, folder 3. | |
| Folder | 11 | Richard W. Westwood, 1933, 1943-1944, 1949-1950. Includes correspondence relating to the American Nature Association. | |
| Folder | 12 | William P. Wharton, 1938-1940, 1950-1951. Includes correspondence relating to the National Parks Association, and copies of letters to Joel H. Hildebrand and Harold L. Ickes. See also box 2, folder 3. | |
| Folder | 13 | Whelen - Wilcox. Correspondents include: Townsend Whelen, 1911 (see also box 1, folder 10); Edgar Theodore Wherry, 1928; Joseph Whitehead, 1928; F. G. Wickware, 1938; F. Elizabeth Wilcox, 1935, including manuscript by Timothy E. Wilcox. | |
| Folder | 14 | Wilgress - Wright. Correspondents include: G. S. Wilgress, 1904; A. Bryan Williams, 1912; Carl A. Williams, 1931, including photographs; J.L.B. Williams, 1940; Thomas E. Winecoff, 1935; Paul R. Wooster, 1935; W. H. Wright, 1928. | |
| Folder | 15 | Casey Albert Wood, 1924. Includes travelogue. | |
| Folder | 16 | Yard - Zahniser. Correspondents include: Robert Sterling Yard, 1937-1942; Howard Zahniser, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1942. | |
| Folder | 17 | Miscellaneous, fragments of letters and letters with incomplete names. |
This series consists of manuscripts and notes for articles, books, reports, and reviews by Edward Alexander Preble. Included are many of the drafts for Preble's publications, as well as unpublished manuscripts. The main group consists of manuscripts by Preble, many for Nature Magazine, arranged alphabetically by title or subject. The second group consists of a series of articles on each month in nature, arranged in chronologic order. The last group consists of materials for the Hutchins' manuscript. Included are a draft of Observations on Hudson's Bay, by Thomas Hutchins, edited by Miller Christy, annotated by Preble and others, which was apparently never published; and Preble's research notes for his annotation. Also included in this series are related correspondence, drawings, and photographs. Manuscripts sent to Preble by other authors are with correspondence in series 1. For Preble's bibliography, see box 16, folder 46.
Box 6 of 17
| Folder | 1 | John Warren Achorn, article about. Includes review of A Guide to the Winter Birds of North Carolina Sand Hills, by Milton Philo Skinner, a memorial volume to Achorn. | |
| Folder | 2 | Along the Woodland Trail. | |
| Folder | 3 | An American Hunter, by Archibald Rutledge, review of. | |
| Folder | 4 | Anderson and Stefansson. | |
| Folder | 5 | The Arctic Lemming. | |
| Folder | 6 | The Arctic Puffin (Fratercula arctica). | |
| Folder | 7 | Vernon Bailey - Naturalist. | |
| Folder | 8 | Spencer Fullerton Baird. | |
| Folder | 9 | The Bartrams Down South. Review of Diary of a Journey through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida from July 1, 1765 to April 10, 1766, by John Bartram, annotated by Francis Harper, 1942. | |
| Folder | 10 | The Big Pickerel of Pine River. | |
| Folder | 11 | Bird descriptions written by Preble for the Palmer advertising company. Include information on habitat, eggs, nests, physical appearance, and migration. | |
| Folder | 12 | Bird descriptions, continued. | |
| Folder | 13 | Bird descriptions, continued. | |
| Folder | 14 | Bird descriptions. Includes report on endangered status and hunting season for many game birds. | |
| Folder | 15 | Bird of Paradise Flower. | |
| Folder | 16 | A Bird Lovers League. | |
| Folder | 17 | Birdnesting at Dr. George W. Field's. | |
| Folder | 18 | Birds of Hiawatha's Land. | |
| Folder | 19 | Birds of Prey Defended. Review of "Framing the Birds of Prey," by Davis Quinn. | |
| Folder | 20 | The Black-capped Chickadee. | |
| Folder | 21 | The Blood-stained Cockatoo. | |
| Folder | 22 | The Bobwhite in Ohio. | |
| Folder | 23 | Bubo the Great Horned Owl. | |
| Folder | 24 | The Bull-frog and his Cousins. | |
| Folder | 25 | California's Mammals--Past and Present. | |
| Folder | 26 | California's State Bird. | |
| Folder | 27 | A Captive Shark. | |
| Folder | 28 | The Cassowary. | |
| Folder | 29 | The Chachalaca. | |
| Folder | 30 | Children and Small Arms. | |
| Folder | 31 | A Child's First Nature Walk. | |
| Folder | 32 | Chocorua. | |
| Folder | 33 | Comparative Abundance of Geese and Ducks in the Athabaska-Peace Delta. | |
| Folder | 34 | The Conquest of the Northwest Passage by Roald Amundsen. | |
| Folder | 35 | Conservation or Dollars? | |
| Folder | 36 | Conservation Paths. Review of "Paths to Conservation," by James S. Tippett. | |
| Folder | 37 | The Crawfish and his burrow. | |
| Folder | 38 | The Crow - Pro and Con. Review of "Crow Waterfowl Relationships, Based on Preliminary Studies of the Canadian Breeding Grounds," by Edwin R. Kalmbach. | |
| Folder | 39 | The Cruelty Behind the Furs. | |
| Folder | 40 | The Duck Hawk. | |
| Folder | 41 | A Duck Hunter's Viewpoint, by Nash Buckingham, review of. | |
| Folder | 42 | Eastern Chipmunk (Tamas striatus). | |
| Folder | 43 | The Eskimo Dog. | |
| Folder | 44 | The Farmer and the Sportsman. | |
| Folder | 45 | Fate of crippled ducks. | |
| Folder | 46 | A Fisherman of the depths. | |
| Folder | 47 | Fishermen of the Far North. | |
| Folder | 48 | Flappers and Furs. | |
| Folder | 49 | The Flower-pot Bird House. Includes photograph (2 negatives removed from file). | |
| Folder | 50 | Edward H. Forbush Passes. | |
| Folder | 51 | The Friendly Skunk. |
Box 7 of 17
| Folder | 1 | Fur Seals. Includes notes and manuscript. | |
| Folder | 2 | Fur Seals of the Pribilof Islands. | |
| Folder | 3 | Further Persecution of Sea Lions. | |
| Folder | 4 | Grasshopper gray. | |
| Folder | 5 | The Great Anteater (myrmecophaga tridactyla). | |
| Folder | 6 | Elizabeth Hanson and her captivity by the Indians. Includes notes. | |
| Folder | 7 | Harvest mites. Includes 2 drawings of mites. | |
| Folder | 8 | Heath Hen Biography. | |
| Folder | 9 | A Hemlock Spray. | |
| Folder | 10 | The Hermit Thrush. | |
| Folder | 11 | A Home Made of Paper. | |
| Folder | 12 | Hunters' Luck. | |
| Folder | 13 | The Hunting Season. | |
| Folder | 14 | The Insistent Katydid. | |
| Folder | 15 | The Jabiru, An American Stork. | |
| Folder | 16 | The Jamaican Iguana. Includes letter from A. Remington Kellogg to Preble. | |
| Folder | 17 | Journey of Thomas Drummond to the Rocky Mountains and Columbia. | |
| Folder | 18 | Jumping Mouse. | |
| Folder | 19 | Killing Our Eider Ducks. | |
| Folder | 20 | The Kiwi or Apteryx. | |
| Folder | 21 | The Lover of Nature. | |
| Folder | 22 | Mammals of North America. Includes short sketches of species. | |
| Folder | 23 | Massachusetts Bird Refuges. | |
| Folder | 24 | Memorandum for the Secretary on the Report of the President's Committee on Wild Life Restoration, 1934. | |
| Folder | 25 | Memorandum on Waterfowl Situation. | |
| Folder | 26 | Memorandum on wild life, 1933. | |
| Folder | 27 | Metamorphosis of the Spring Frog. | |
| Folder | 28 | More protection needed. | |
| Folder | 29 | Mourning Dove. Articles include: The Mourning Dove; Court Decisions Help Migratory Birds; The Dove in Colorado; The Mourning Dove; More Dove Season Changes; Open Seasons on Mourning Doves. Also includes maps. | |
| Folder | 30 | Mourning Dove. Includes drafts and notes for articles. | |
| Folder | 31 | Mouse Opossums. | |
| Folder | 32 | The Mud-skipper. | |
| Folder | 33 | Musk-oxen, Cattle of the Arctic. | |
| Folder | 34 | Mussels of the shore. | |
| Folder | 35 | Nature's Calendar, January - May. | |
| Folder | 36 | Nature's Calendar, June - December. | |
| Folder | 37 | A New Crow Trap. | |
| Folder | 38 | North American Mosquitoes. | |
| Folder | 39 | Notes on Waterfowl of the Athabaska-Peace Delta Region, May 18 to June 14, 1934, E. A. Preble and Luther J. Goldman. | |
| Folder | 40 | Notes on Waterfowl of the Athabaska-Peace Delta Region, continued. | |
| Folder | 41 | Notes on Waterfowl of the Athabaska-Peace Delta Region, continued; Annotated list of Waterfowl Observed in the Athabaska-Peace Delta Region, May 18 to June 14, 1934 by E. A. Preble and Luther J. Goldman. |
Box 8 of 17
| Folder | 1 | The Odorous Squash-bug. | |
| Folder | 2 | Official Vandalism, An Editorial. Includes correspondence and newsclippings relating to removal of trees from the Mall. Correspondents include: E. C. Auchter, 1930; Ovid Butler, 1932; Hortense Davis, 1932; Watson Davis, 1932; Mr. Eisenhower, 1930; A. H. Hanson, 1932; Carl Hartley, 1930; Charles Lester Marlatt, 1930; M. C. Merrill, 1930; William Middleton, 1930; Katherine Owen, 1932; Theresa Russell, 1934; William A. Taylor, 1930; Richard W. Westwood, 1932. | |
| Folder | 3 | Official Vandalism, continued. | |
| Folder | 4 | Our Attitude Toward Wild Life. | |
| Folder | 5 | Our Disappearing Fur Bearers. | |
| Folder | 6 | Our Largest Crystal Ball. Includes 2 photographs of crystal ball (1 negative removed from file) and letter from Louise M. Pearson, 1930. | |
| Folder | 7 | Our Owls in Fable and Fact. Includes photograph of screech owl (negative removed from file). | |
| Folder | 8 | Our singing Wood-snipe. | |
| Folder | 9 | Our Woodcock and his Cousins. | |
| Folder | 10 | An Overgrown Bracket Fungus. Includes photographs of bracket fungii. | |
| Folder | 11 | Owls. Includes miscellaneous notes and drafts. | |
| Folder | 12 | Penguins, Birds of the Antarctic Seas. | |
| Folder | 13 | The Peregrine Falcon. | |
| Folder | 14 | A persistent fungus. Includes photograph of fungus. | |
| Folder | 15 | Pie For Breakfast. | |
| Folder | 16 | A Plea for our Hawks. Includes short sketches on hawk species. | |
| Folder | 17 | Poison Danger. | |
| Folder | 18 | Predatory Birds and Game. | |
| Folder | 19 | Previous Natural History Explorations, of the Stikine region. | |
| Folder | 20 | The Prong-horned Antelope. | |
| Folder | 21 | Protect the Woodcock. | |
| Folder | 22 | The Recent Occurrence of Passenger Pigeons in West Virginia. | |
| Folder | 23 | Refuges for Waterfowl. | |
| Folder | 24 | Relief and Rodent Control. | |
| Folder | 25 | Reorganized Wildlife Committee; on the Committee on Wildlife of the Division of Biology and Agriculture of the National Research Council. | |
| Folder | 26 | Routes of Biological Survey Field Parties, Wyoming, 1888-1915. | |
| Folder | 27 | The Ruffed Grouse in 1930. | |
| Folder | 28 | School Children of the Far North. | |
| Folder | 29 | The Sea Horse. | |
| Folder | 30 | Seasons for Killing Doves. | |
| Folder | 31 | Shall We Exterminate our Fur-bearers? | |
| Folder | 32 | Shelf fungus. | |
| Folder | 33 | Shelford on Ecology. Review of Laboratory and Field Ecology, by Victor E. Shelford. | |
| Folder | 34 | The Sheltering Oak. | |
| Folder | 35 | The silent cave cricket. | |
| Folder | 36 | The Silver Fox, Prince of Fur-bearers. | |
| Folder | 37 | The Smithsonian Institution. | |
| Folder | 38 | The Snapping Turtle. | |
| Folder | 39 | Snowy Owls Come South. | |
| Folder | 40 | Songs of birds. Review of Songs and Other Sounds of Birds, by Alexander V. Arlton. |
Box 9 of 17
| Folder | 1 | The Southern Sea Elephant. | |
| Folder | 2 | Spittle insects. | |
| Folder | 3 | Sportsman and Farmer. | |
| Folder | 4 | The Sportsman and the Woodcock. | |
| Folder | 5 | The Spring Migration of Waterfowl - 1932. | |
| Folder | 6 | A Stranded Whale. | |
| Folder | 7 | To Nature Lovers. | |
| Folder | 8 | Trapping by Milkweed. | |
| Folder | 9 | A Triple Robin's Nest. Includes letter from J. Marbury Offley, 1927, and photograph of nest (negative removed from file). | |
| Folder | 10 | Twin babies of the White-tailed Deer. | |
| Folder | 11 | Two-toed Sloth. | |
| Folder | 12 | The Vanishing Woodcock. | |
| Folder | 13 | Violations of Waterfowl Regulations. | |
| Folder | 14 | Waterfowl and Shooting. | |
| Folder | 15 | The Waterfowl Breeding Grounds of Northern Canada from a Continental Viewpoint. | |
| Folder | 16 | Waterfowl, closed season. | |
| Folder | 17 | Waterfowl, effects of shooting. | |
| Folder | 18 | Waterfowl, public works projects for. | |
| Folder | 19 | West Pennsylvania Birds. Review of Birds of Western Pennsylvania, by Walter Edmund Clyde Todd. | |
| Folder | 20 | A Whip-tailed Lizard. | |
| Folder | 21 | The White Cobra. | |
| Folder | 22 | The White-crowned Sparrow. | |
| Folder | 23 | Who Is a Conservationist? | |
| Folder | 24 | Why Not Keep Our Waterfowl. | |
| Folder | 25 | Witches' Brooms. Includes photograph. | |
| Folder | 26 | The Woodchuck as a den-digger. | |
| Folder | 27 | The Woodcock and His Hunting; and The Woodcock's Journey. | |
| Folder | 28 | The Yellow Swallow-tailed Butterfly. | |
| Folder | 29 | Miscellaneous, fragments of articles and notes. |
The Months in Nature. Consists of a series of sketches of each month's special characteristics in nature.
| Folder | 30 | January in Nature. | |
| Folder | 31 | February in Nature. | |
| Folder | 32 | March in Nature. | |
| Folder | 33 | April in Nature. | |
| Folder | 34 | May in Nature. | |
| Folder | 35 | June in Nature. | |
| Folder | 36 | July in Nature. | |
| Folder | 37 | August in Nature. | |
| Folder | 38 | September in Nature. | |
| Folder | 39 | October in Nature. |
Box 10 of 17
Hutchins Manuscript. Consists of chapter drafts, drafts for annotations, and rough notes on species for Preble's annotation of Observations on Hudson's Bay, by Thomas Hutchins, written in 1773, and edited by Miller Christy in 1909. It appears that this manuscript was never published. Other contributors were Robert Bell, F. W. Hodge, and John M. Macoun.
| Folder | 1 | Hutchins manuscript. Includes correspondence with Miller Christy, 1909, concerning the Thomas Hutchins manuscript, Observations on Hudson's Bay. Also includes draft of the Table of Contents, Editor's Preface, Editor's Introduction. | |
| Folder | 2 | Chapter I. - General Remarks on the Geographical and Physical Features, Climate, Soil, etc.; Chapter II. - An Account of the Several Attempts that have been made for the Discovery of a North-West Passage. | |
| Folder | 3 | Chapter III. - Of European Settlements in Hudson's Bay (and Life Therein); Chapter IV. - The Company's Form of Commission to its Officers and Contract with its Servants. | |
| Folder | 4 | Chapter V. - Remarks on the Trade and Produce of Hudson's Bay; Chapter VI. - Remarks on the Northern Trade (with the Esquimaux on the Northern Coasts of Hudson's Bay); Chapter VII. - Sailing Orders and Instructions given yearly to the Master of the Churchill Sloop on her Voyage to trade with the Esquimaux, etc., on the North-West Coast and Islands of Hudson's Bay. | |
| Folder | 5 | Chapter VIII. - Remarks on "The American Traveller." | |
| Folder | 6 | Chapter X. - Of the Esquimaux. | |
| Folder | 7 | Chapter XI. - Mr. Samuel Hearne's Account of the Massacre of the Esquimaux by the Wechepowuck Indians at the Copper-mine River (in 1771). | |
| Folder | 8 | Chapter XIII. - Of the Birds (annotated by Edward A. Preble). | |
| Folder | 9 | Chapter XIV. - Of the Reptiles (and Amphibians, annotated by Edward A. Preble); Chapter XV. - Of the Fish [Nemess] (and Mollusca, annotated by Edward A. Preble); Chapter XVI. - Of the Insects [Ochewuck]. | |
| Folder | 10 | Chapter XVII. - Of the Plants; Chapter XVIII. - Of the Geology. | |
| Folder | 11 | Chapter XIX. - Observations on the Weather at York Fort and Severn River, 1772 and 1773; Chapter XX. - Observations on the Effects of Cold and their Remedies. | |
| Folder | 12 | Preble's research for annotation of Hutchin's manuscript is in folders 12 to 19. List of Birds and Mammals with Indian Names; draft on mammals. | |
| Folder | 13 | Notes on mammals. Includes the seal, mink, marten, muskrat, fox, porcupine, lynx, wolverine, musk-ox, wolf, bison, elk, moose, deer, caribou, and walrus. | |
| Folder | 14 | Notes on birds. Includes the diver, guillemot, elder gull, tern, merganser, mallard, widgeon, teal, pintail duck, scaup duck, goldeneye, bufflehead, old squaw, King eider, and white-winged scoter. | |
| Folder | 15 | Notes on birds. Includes the velvet duck, harlequin duck, black duck, snow goose, blue winged goose, Canada goose, Hutchins goose, Brent goose, swans, bittern, whooping crane, brown crane, jay, butcher bird, and yellow-poll warbler. | |
| Folder | 16 | Notes on birds. Includes the nuthatch, titmouse, robin, spotted crake, rail, snipe, sandpiper, snowy owl, goshawk, mourning dove, marsh hawk, grouse, partridge, plover, and greater yellowlegs. | |
| Folder | 17 | Notes on birds. Includes the woodpecker, eared owl, goatsucker, ghost owl, red poll, nuthatch, gull, and curlew. | |
| Folder | 18 | Notes on birds. Includes the bunting, lark, long-eared owl, hawk, eagle, swallow, martin, grouse, sandpiper, scaup duck, bittern, blackbird, and hawk owl. | |
| Folder | 19 | Notes on birds. Includes the gyrfalcon, crossbill, grosbeak, raven, crow, junco, magpie, bunting, great gray owl, godwit, and grebe. |
This series consists of addresses and reports by authors other than Preble.
Box 10 of 17
| Folder | 20 | Address by Rexford G. Tugwell, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, May 12, 1934 at 7:30 p.m. | |
| Folder | 21 | Louis Agassiz, Dreamer and Builder of Museums, 1938. | |
| Folder | 22 | Association for the Protection of Fur-bearing Animals of Canada, report to Parliament, undated. | |
| Folder | 23 | Base Line Surveys in Northern Alberta, Topographical Surveys Branch Report, 1909-1910, Appendix No. 21, extracts from the Report of A. H. Hawkins. | |
| Folder | 24 | Nippo Pond, fragment of report, undated. | |
| Folder | 25 | Otter Hunting. Consists of quotes from A. Henry Higginson, 1933, and Casey Albert Wood, 1931. | |
| Folder | 26 | Out of the Past, undated. | |
| Folder | 27 | Report of Special Committee on the Game Situation (in Ontario) 1931-1933, the 1932 Season. | |
| Folder | 28 | Wild Life and the National Forests, by F. A. Silcox, delivered before the National Association of Audubon Societies at its 31st Annual Convention in New York City, October 29, 1935. |
This series consists of diaries, itineraries, lists of flora and fauna, notes, and observations from the field. The material covers Preble's field work for the Biological Survey, as well as avocational observations. Information includes diaries with daily routines, itineraries, expenses, interviews, stories collected about Canadian Indian and trapper life, and observations of flora, fauna, and physical surroundings; field notebooks with data on flora and fauna sighted, lists of specimens collected, lists of Indian terms, and lists of photographs taken; checklists of birds sighted; typescripts of diaries; and maps. Includes photograph.
Box 11 of 17
| Folder | 1 | Notebook, 1887-1892, of trips to Wilmington, Massachusetts, and Ossipee, New Hampshire. Contains lists of flora and fauna sighted, and data on birds, eggs, and nests. Notebook, 1892-1893, of trips to Arkansas, Illinois, Indian Territory, Missouri, New Jersey, Oklahoma Territory, and Virginia. Contains lists of birds sighted. | |
| Folder | 2 | Diary, 1893, of trip to southwestern Pennsylvania. Contains lists of flora and fauna observed, especially birds; and notes on physical surroundings. Notebook, 1893, of trip to southwestern Pennsylvania. Contains lists of birds sighted. | |
| Folder | 3 | Diary, 1895-1899, of trips to British Columbia, Colorado, Maryland, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Northwest Territory, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Washington, D.C. Contains lists of birds and mammals sighted; observations on flora, fauna, and physical surroundings; and newsclippings about the American Ornithologists' Union. Diary, 1896, of trip with Vernon Orlando Bailey to Oregon. Contains observations on flora, fauna, and physical surroundings. | |
| Folder | 4 | Diary, 1900, of trip with his brother, Alfred Emerson Preble, to Hudson Bay region. Contains observations on flora, fauna, and physical surroundings, and notes on individuals. Notebook, 1900, of trip to the Hudson Bay region. Contains lists of flora and fauna sighted, bibliographies, approximate distances traveled, lists of specimens collected, and lists of individuals. Notebook, 1900-1901, of trips to the Hudson Bay region and the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Contains lists of photographs taken on 45 rolls of film. | |
| Folder | 5 | Diary, 1901, of trip with Alfred Emerson Preble to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Contains observations on flora, fauna, and physical surroundings, and lists of specimens collected. Notebook, 1901, of trip to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Contains lists of flora and fauna observed, especially birds; lists of individuals; expenses; and approximate distances traveled. Diary, 1903-1904, of trips with A. F. Camsell, Merritt Cary, and Alfred Emerson Preble to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Contains observations on flora, fauna, and physical surroundings, sketches of life at the forts, lists of specimens collected, and meteorological records. | |
| Folder | 6 | Notebook, 1903, of trip to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Contains lists of flora and fauna observed, especially birds; lists of eggs collected; records of bird stomachs examined; names of individuals; approximate distances traveled; and expenses. Calendar, 1903, of trip to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Contains lists of flora and fauna sighted. Notebook, 1903, of trip to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Contains catalog of plants and list of Indian words for mammals. | |
| Folder | 7 | Diary, 1904, of trip to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Contains observations of flora, fauna, and physical surroundings, individuals visited, lists of names of individuals, information on canoes, and lists of specimens collected. Notebook, 1904, of trip to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Contains stories of Indian and local life styles at Fort Norman and Fort Simpson. Notebook, 1904, of trip to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Contains lists of flora and fauna sighted, especially birds. | |
| Folder | 8 | Lists of birds sighted, 1903-1904, in the AthabaskaMackenzie region. List of birds sighted, 1906, location unknown. | |
| Folder | 9 | Notebook, 1907, of trip with Ernest Thompson Seton to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Contains lists of flora and fauna sighted, and names of individuals. Includes photograph. | |
| Folder | 10 | Diary, 1907, of trip to West Virginia. Contains information on recent sightings of passenger pigeons. Lists of birds sighted, 1908-1909, in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. |
Box 12 of 17
| Folder | 1 | Diary, 1910, of trip with George and Samuel Mixter to Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Montana, North Dakota and Washington. Contains observations on flora, fauna, and physical surroundings, an index to mammals, and lists of birds sighted. Notebook, 1910, of trip to British Columbia, Montana, and North Dakota. Contains lists of flora and fauna sighted, mostly plants; lists of photographs taken; and names of individuals. | |
| Folder | 2 | Typescript of diary (above) and list of plant names, 1910, of trip to Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Montana, North Dakota, and Washington. | |
| Folder | 3 | Lists of birds, mammals and plants, 1910, observed and collected in Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. | |
| Folder | 4 | Diary, 1911, of trip to Idaho and Wyoming. Contains observations on flora, fauna and physical surroundings, especially elks; and notes from interviews with residents about elk. Diary, 1911, of trip to Wyoming. Contains observations on flora, fauna and physical surroundings, especially elk; notes from interviews with residents about elk; and lists of birds sighted. Notebook, 1911, of trip to Wyoming. Contains observations on flora, fauna, and physical surroundings, especially birds. | |
| Folder | 5 | Checklists 1912-1913, of birds sighted in Virginia and Washington, D.C. | |
| Folder | 6 | Diary, 1913, of trip with Charles Robert Cross to British Columbia. Contains observations on flora, fauna, and physical surroundings, and Indian words for fauna. Notebook, 1913, of trip to British Columbia. Contains observations on mammals, lists of plants sighted, and list of photographs taken. Notebook, 1913, of trip to British Columbia. Contains itinerary. Notebook, 1913, of trip to British Columbia. Contains lists of birds sighted. | |
| Folder | 7 | Typescript of diary (above) and index to fauna sighted, 1913, of trip to British Columbia. | |
| Folder | 8 | Diary, 1914, of trip with Wilfred Hudson Osgood and George Howard Parker to Pribilof Islands, Alaska. Contains observations on flora, fauna and physical surroundings, especially fur seals; and list of photographs taken. Notebook, 1914, of trips to Virginia. Contains lists of birds sighted. | |
| Folder | 9 | Checklists, 1914, of birds sighted in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. |
Box 13 of 17
| Folder | 1 | Diary, 1915, of trip to Nevada and Oregon. Contains observations on flora, fauna, and physical surroundings. | |
| Folder | 2 | Checklist, 1916, of birds sighted in Virginia. | |
| Folder | 3 | Notebook, 1917, of trip to Montana. Contains lists of birds sighted. Diary, 1917, of trips to Virginia. Contains observations on flora, fauna, and physical surroundings. Diary, 1918, of trip to Wyoming. Contains observations on flora, fauna, and physical surroundings, lists of birds sighted, names of individuals, and list of photographs taken. | |
| Folder | 4 | Checklists, 1919-1920, of birds sighted in Virginia. | |
| Folder | 5 | Notebook, 1921, of trip to New Hampshire. Contains lists of birds sighted. Notebook, 1922-1923, probably of trips to Virginia. Contains data on vegetables planted and sold. | |
| Folder | 6 | Checklists, 1922-1928, of birds sighted in Virginia. List of plants, 1927, collected in New Hampshire. | |
| Folder | 7 | Diary, 1928, of trips to Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Contains observations on flora, fauna and physical surroundings, local and family history notes, and lists of photographs taken. Diary, 1930, of trips to Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Contains observations on flora, fauna and physical surroundings, notes on meetings of the American Humane Association and the American Ornithologists' Union, notes on individuals, and lists of photographs taken. Diary, 1945, of trips to Virginia and Washington, D.C. Contains observations on flora and fauna. | |
| Folder | 8 | Diary, undated, of trips to New Hampshire, New York, Ontario, and Washington, D.C. Contains observations on flora and fauna, research notes for Elizabeth Hanson and her captivity manuscript, and notes from American Ornithologists' Union meeting. Diary, undated, of trips to New Hampshire and Washington, D. C. Contains observations on flora, fauna and physical surroundings. | |
| Folder | 9 | Miscellaneous lists, undated, of flora and fauna sighted in Montana and the Klamath region of Oregon. |
Maps
| Folder | 10 | Africa. 1922, by the National Geographic Society. |
Canada
| Folder | 11 | Southern Canada, vegetation and forest cover. 1924, by the Canadian Department of the Interior. Alberta, Blairmore. 1918, by the Canadian Department of Mines, Geological Survey. Alberta, Edmonton to Dunvegan. Undated, by John Bartholomew and Company. | |
| Folder | 12 | British Columbia. 1883, by the Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada. British Columbia, mining divisions. 1914, by the Canadian Department of Mines. British Columbia, Windermere. 1918, by the Canadian Department of Mines, Geological Survey. British Columbia, Fort McLeod to Fort George and Quesnel Mouth. Undated, by John Bartholomew and Company. Manitoba and Ontario, Route of the Nelson River Exploring Expedition. 1913, by the Canadian Department of Mines. | |
| Folder | 13 | Northwest Territory, Hudson Bay and Strait. 1911, by the Naval Service of Canada. Northwest Territory. 1932, by the Canadian Department of the Interior, Topographical Survey of Canada. Northwest Territory, Camsell River. 1932, by the Canadian Department of the Interior, Topographical Survey of Canada. Northwest Territory, Rae. 1932, by the Canadian Department of the Interior, Topographical Survey of Canada. |
United States
| Folder | 14 | Alaska, Prince William Sound Route of Alexander Alaska Expedition. 1908, from the University of California, Publications in Zoology, Volume 5. California, San Pedro Martir, Hanson Laguna Mountains, Lower California and Mexico. Undated, from the Field Columbian Museum, Zoology, Plate XXXVIII. Massachusetts, Eastern, Boston and vicinity. 1877, by W. O. Crosby. Montana, Life Zones of Glacier National Park by Vernon Orlando Bailey. 1910, U.S. Department of the Interior. New York, Central Lake Region. Undated, from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Volume XLVIII, No. 193, Plate XX. |
This series consists of note cards, typed notes, and bibliographies related to Preble's research for the Bureau of Biological Survey.
Box 14 of 17
Box 15 of 17
| Folder | 1 | Research notes on birds of British Columbia. | |
| Folder | 2 | Bibliographies on conservation and mammal papers of S. N. Rhoads. |
This series consists of auction catalogs for animal skins.
Box 15 of 17
| Folder | 3 | 1891, C. M. Lampson and Company, 1 bundle. | |
| Folder | 4 | 1896, Hudson's Bay Company, 1 bundle. |
This series consists of newsclippings; a photograph album for Preble's 1900 trip to Hudson's Bay; prints of people, outdoor scenes, boats, flora, fauna, and buildings; and large panoramic group photographs from meetings of the American Ornithologists' Union and the American Society of Mammalogists. All negatives have been removed from the collection. Other photographs and newsclippings can be found in series 1, 2, and 3.
Box 15 of 17
| Folder | 5 | Newsclippings of Robert A. Bartlett (signed), 1933, and Lincoln Ellsworth, 1932. | |
| Folder | 6 | Photograph album for Preble's trip to Hudson Bay, 1900, to north of Fort Churchill and return. |
Box 16 of 17
| Folder | 1 | Photograph of unidentified man. Undated. | |
| Folder | 2 | Photograph of unidentified couple at wedding, Wyoming. Undated. | |
| Folder | 3 | Photograph of unidentified family. Undated. | |
| Folder | 4 | Photograph of unidentified man at campsite. Undated. | |
| Folder | 5 | Photograph of Edward Alexander Preble and unidentified men in house at Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territory, Canada. Undated. | |
| Folder | 6 | Photograph of naturalists at May's Landing, New Jersey: A. C. Emlen, W. J. Hamilton, Jr., Francis Harper, A. B. Howell, A. H. Howell, A. Remington Kellogg, Arthur N. Leeds, Edward Alexander Preble, W. E. Saunders, and Witmer Stone, May 16, 1931. | |
| Folder | 7 | Photograph of Robert A. Bartlett and Edward Alexander Preble, 1920s. | |
| Folder | 8 | Photograph of unidentified campsite. Undated. | |
| Folder | 9 | Photographs (5) of unidentified scenes with rocks, falls, lake shore and geysers. Undated. | |
| Folder | 10 | Photograph of unidentified scene with creek. Undated. | |
| Folder | 11 | Photographs (5) of identified scenes from Johnson Lake and Poplar, Montana, June 5-9, 1910. | |
| Folder | 12 | Photographs (5) of identified scenes from Poplar and Glasgow, Montana, June 9-19, 1910. | |
| Folder | 13 | Photographs (5) of identified scenes from Glasgow and Milk River Valley, Montana, June 19, 1910. | |
| Folder | 14 | Photographs (7) of New Hampshire, 1932. Negatives removed from file. | |
| Folder | 15 | Photograph of unidentified archway. Undated. | |
| Folder | 16 | Photograph of Baldwin apple monument. Undated. | |
| Folder | 17 | Photograph of Mackenzie River boat. Undated. | |
| Folder | 18 | Photograph of Peace River boat. Undated. | |
| Folder | 19 | Photograph of the S.S. "Wrigley." Undated. | |
| Folder | 20 | Photograph of unidentified barge. Undated. | |
| Folder | 21 | Photograph of pine stump at Ossipee, New Hampshire, August 8, 1928. | |
| Folder | 22 | Photograph of tree stump, July 14, 1929. | |
| Folder | 23 | Photograph of Pyrola and mosquitoes, Fort Simpson, Northwest Territory, Canada, June 2, 1906. | |
| Folder | 24 | Photograph of a deer. Undated. | |
| Folder | 25 | Photograph of a deer swimming. Undated. | |
| Folder | 26 | Photograph of a kitten on shore. Undated. | |
| Folder | 27 | Photograph of jumping mouse. Undated. | |
| Folder | 28 | Photograph of bird nests and eggs. Undated. | |
| Folder | 29 | Photograph of bird nest and eggs. Undated. | |
| Folder | 30 | Photograph of crow taken by William L. Finley. Undated. | |
| Folder | 31 | Photograph of Kingfisher taken by William L. and Irene Finley. Undated. | |
| Folder | 32 | Photograph of bird. Undated. | |
| Folder | 33 | Photograph of Smithsonian Institution Building, circa 1905. | |
| Folder | 34 | Photograph of western robin taken by William L. and Irene Finley. Undated. | |
| Folder | 35 | Photograph of Smithsonian Institution Building, circa 1925. | |
| Folder | 36 | Photographs (2) of Smithsonian Institution Building, 1933. | |
| Folder | 37 | Photograph of Smithsonian Institution Building, east side. Undated. | |
| Folder | 38 | Photograph of Smithsonian Institution Building, Graphic Arts exhibit in the Great Hall. Undated. | |
| Folder | 39 | Photograph of Harry L. Friend, Candy Factory, Boston, Massachusetts. Undated. |
Panoramic Photographs from Meetings of Professional Societies.
| Folder | 40 | Photograph of American Ornithologists' Union meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, November 1928. | |
| Folder | 41 | Photograph of American Ornithologists' Union Meeting, New York City, indexed, November 14-18, 1933. | |
| Folder | 42 | Photograph of American Ornithologists' Union meeting, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., October 19, 1938. | |
| Folder | 43 | Photograph of American Ornithologists' Union meeting, September 9-15, 1940. | |
| Folder | 44 | Photograph of American Society of Mammalogists meeting, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, April 4, 1942. | |
| Folder | 45 | Photograph of American Society of Mammalogists meeting, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, April 11-14, 1948. Negative of scene of Washington, D.C., with Smithsonian Institution Building in background. Undated. Removed from file. Negatives (31) of unidentified scenes probably British Columbia at turn of century. Removed from file. |
This series consists of a bibliography, memorial, article, radio show typescript, and news release about Edward Alexander Preble.
Box 16 of 17
| Folder | 46 | Edward Alexander Preble biographical information. |
Box 17 of 17
| Folder | 1 | Correspondence with Dorothy Gordon Cox | |
| Folder | 2 | Photographs from the "Trees on the Mall Controversy" | |
| Folder | 3 | Photograph of E. W. Nelson | |
| Folder | 4 | Photographs by Lincoln Ellsworth of Arizona | |
| Folder | 5 | AOU 1928 meeting program | |
| Folder | 6 | MacFarlane manuscripts | |
| Folder | 7 | Stefansson letter |
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