Reference Request
Finding Aids to Records of Professional Societies in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 7226
Society of Systematic Zoology
Records, 1947-1975
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Society of Systematic Zoology |
Title: | Records |
Dates: | 1947-1975 |
Quantity: | 26 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes) (30 document boxes) |
Collection: | Record Unit 7226 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | These records include membership files, administrative files, reports, fiscal records, records related to the "Journal of Systematic Zoology " and copies of other SSZ publications, records related to the annual meetings, the Pacific Section of SSZ records, files on scientific societies, and the records of the Summer Institute in Systematics. |
Historical Note
The Society of Systematic Zoology (SSZ) was organized at the Chicago meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1947. Prior to the meeting, Waldo LaSalle Schmitt and George W. Wharton, Jr., had polled taxonomists about the founding of a systematics society; and the result was an organizational meeting on December 29, 1949. The first annual meeting of the SSZ was held in Washington in September 1948. Schmitt became its first president and Wharton its first secretary-treasurer. The government of the Society was vested in a council, with officers elected from nominees named by the Council. Original Council members were Orlando Park and Richard Eliot Blackwelder. A president ad president-elect were elected to one-year terms.
A News Letter for the SSZ was first published in 1949 under the direction of Hobart Muir Smith, chairman of the Publications Committee. In 1952 the Journal of Systematic Zoology was founded under the auspices of Richard Eliot Blackwelder. It gradually supplanted the News Letter which was discontinued in 1964. The quarterly Journal was considered the most important project of the SSZ; it was devoted to theoretical and philosophical considerations in systematics rather than the naming of new taxa.
Other projects of the Society have included the continuing publication of "List of Books on Zoology," and a Directory of Zoological Taxonomists.
Descriptive Entry
These records include membership files, administrative files, reports, fiscal records, records related to the Journal of Systematic Zoology and copies of other SSZ publications, records related to the annual meetings, the Pacific Section of SSZ records, files on scientific societies, and the records of the Summer Institute in Systematics.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Blackwelder, Richard E.
- Journal of Systematic Zoology (Serial)
- Muesebeck, Carl F. W. (Carl Frederick William), 1894-
- Park, Orlando, 1901-1969
- Romer, Alfred Sherwood, 1894-1973
- Schmitt, Waldo L. (Waldo Lasalle), 1887-1977
- Smith, Hobart M. (Hobart Muir), 1912-2013
- Society of Systematic Zoology (U.S.)
- Summer Institute in Systematics
- Wharton, George W.
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7226, Society of Systematic Zoology, Records
Container List
Series 1
MEMBERSHIP FILE, 1942-1974This series consists of membership applications, general correspondence regarding payment of SSZ dues and requests for publications, and various specified membership lists. Applications provide full and complete names, other affiliations, and interests of applicants.
Box 1
Ba - Bo
Box 2
Br - Cl
Box 3
Co - Dy
Box 4
Ea - Ga
Box 5
Ge - He
Box 6
Hi - Ka
Box 7
Ke - Ly
Box 8
Ma - Mi
Box 9
Mo - Pe
Box 10
Pf - Ry
Box 11
Sa - So
Box 12
Sp - To
Box 13
Tr - Will
Box 14
Wilm - Z
Lists of Members, 1948-1967
Recount of Members, October 15, 1961
Retired Members, 1963-1965
Membership Action, 1967-1969
Foreign Members Addressograph Imprints, December 16, 1969
Active New Members, 1969-1971
New Members, 1971
Emeritus Members, 1973-1974
Box 15
Card Index to Members and Officers, c. 1972
Officers, A - Z
Members, A - K
Card Index to Members, L - Z
Institutional Members Card Index (disordered)
Box 16
[No longer exists]
Series 2
CANCELLED MEMBERSHIPS, c. 1951-1971This series consists of membership applications removed from active files by William Ralph Taylor, treasurer.
Box 17
A - Z
Series 3
ADMINISTRATIVE FILES, 1952-1974This series consists of correspondence and documents maintained by SSZ officers.
Box 18
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1959-1965
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1965
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1966
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1967
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1967-1968
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1968
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1969
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1970
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1971
General Correspondence, 1971-1974
Box 19
Abbott, R. Tucker, 1961-1962
Blackwelder, Richard Eliot, 1960-1966
Book List Committee - Grobman, 1965
Brown, Roland W., 1956-1958
Constitution Committee, 1964
Council and Officers, 1964, 1971-1974
Elections, 1971-1974
Follett, Wilbur Irving, 1960
Goodwin Proposal, 1962-1966
Hancock, Capt. Allan, 1952-1955 (first patron of SSZ)
Monograph Committee, 1965
Policy for Society of Systematic Zoologists, 1960-1965
Press/Zoological Taxonomists, 1963-1965
Box 20
Research Proposal - Communication in Science, 1969 (Johns Hopkins University Center for Research in Scientific Communications)
Sabrosky, Curtis W., 1962
Samples of Old Billheads, Ballots, and Proposed Constitution, 1964-1968
Savage, Jay M., 1960-1962
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1963-1964
Smith, Hobart M., 1965
SSZ Incorporation, 1970-1971
SSZ Issues - Controversial, 1973-1974
Training Information for Students, 1964-1966
Urquart, Fred A., 1957-1958
Usage - Paid, 1965-1968 (refers to rental of SSZ membership list by other organizations)
Usage - Mailing List Requests, 1966-1968
Series 4
REPORTS, 1948-1969Box 21
Treasurer's Reports, 1948-1965
Policy Committee Reports, 1962-1963
SSZ Finance Committee Report, 1964
Finance Committee, 1964; Patrons Fund, 1965
Report of Officers, 1965
SSZ Reports of Officers and Miscellaneous, 1966
SSZ Reports of Officers, 1967
SSZ Council Meeting Reports of Officers, etc., 1968-1969
Series 5
FISCAL RECORDS, 1948-1974Box 21
American Security and Trust Company, 1965
Bank Deposit Slips, 1952-1958
Bank Deposits and Details, 1968
Box 22
Bell Savings and Loan Association, 1957-1963
Budget, 1964-1965
Budgets - SSZ, 1972-1974
Enterprise Federal Savings and Loan Association, 1963
General Funds, 1948-1963
Investments - SSZ, 1967-1969
Peoples National Bank, 1960-1962
Post Office - Philadelphia, 1962 (refers to purchase of postage)
SSZ Tax Returns, 1953-1968
Virginia Telephone and Telegraph, 1962
Series 6
RECORDS RELATED TO THE PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY, 1960-1975Box 22
Allen Press, 1960-1970
Allen Press, 1963-1968
Allen Press and Zora Bennett, 1966-1969
Allen Press - Completed Jobs, 1971
Allen Press and Journal, 1972-1975
Billing Data for JSZ, 1966
Box 23
Byers, George W., Editor, 1963-1965
Conference Book Service, 1964
Free Subscription - Biological Abstracts and National Agricultural Library, 1963-1965
Johnston, Richard F., Editor, 1966
Library Receipts, 1964
Page Charges, 1971
Subscriptions, 1960-1964
Subscriptions - Foreign, 1969
Survey - Professional Scientific Journals, 1963-1965
Systematic Zoology (Lord Baltimore Press), 1960-1963
Series 7
MEETINGS OF THE SSZ, 1947-1971Box 23
SSZ News Letters and Miscellaneous, 1949-1964
SSZ "Books in Zoology," 1952-1966
Series 8
MEETINGS OF THE SSZ, 1947-1971This series includes annual meetings, council meetings, minutes, agendas, and funds.
Box 24
Organizational Meeting, 1947
Council Meeting, September 1948
First Annual Meeting, 1948
Council Meeting, December 1948
Council Meeting, 1949
Second Annual Meeting, 1949
Third Annual Meeting, 1950
Minutes, 1951-1953
Annual Meetings, 1954-1956
Annual Meeting, 1957
Annual Meeting, 1958
Annual Meeting, 1959
Annual Meeting, 1960
Annual Meeting, 1961
Annual Meeting, 1962 (2 folders)
Annual Meeting, 1963
Annual Meeting, 1964
Annual Meeting, 1965
Annual Meeting, 1966
Agenda, 1968
Annual Meeting, 1968
Box 25
Annual Meeting, 1969
Annual Meeting, December 1970
Annual Meeting, 1970
Agenda Items, 1971
Series 9
SSZ PACIFIC SECTION RECORDS, 1951-1973The Pacific Section of the SSZ was organized in 1951 when several members interested in organizing a western section of the Society met at Pomona College to arrange such a group. As a result Carl Leavitt Hubbs, president of the Society, appointed John S. Garth as provisional secretary to poll western members about their interest in the formation of such a group at the Corvallis meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in June 1952. The Pacific Section, with John S. Garth as its first president, was officially organized in 1952.
Box 25
Organizational Committee, 1951-1952
Business Meetings - Minutes, 1951-1958
Corvallis Meeting, 1952
List of Members, 1952-1956
Notices to Members and Call for Papers, 1952-1957
Pacific Section, 1952-1958
Constitution, 1952-1960
Santa Barbara Meeting, June 1953
AAAS - Pacific Division, 1953-1958
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1953-1958
Blackwelder, Richard Eliot, 1953-1960
Box 26
Pullman Meeting, June 1954
Berkeley Meetings, December 1954
Pasadena Meetings, 1965
Financial Statements, 1955-1959 (Hobart M. Smith)
Seattle Meetings, June 1956
Stanford Meeting, 1957
Logan Meeting, 1958
San Diego, 1959
Eugene Meetings, 1960
Pacific Section, 1960-1963 (Richard A. Boolootian)
Pacific Section, 1963-1965 (J. Gordon Edwards; Martin R. Brittan)
Pacific Section, 1968-1969 (Membership list, bank statements, receipt books)
Pacific Section Correspondence, 1968-1970
Pacific Section Symposium, 1969
Box 27
SSZ Western Division, 1970-1973
SSZ Division Ballot, 1972
Series 10
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, 1956-1975Box 27
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1963-1967
AAAS - Cooperating Societies, 1966-1967
AAAS, 1973-1975
American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1963-1964
AIBS, 1965-1967
AIBS, 1968 (Correspondence)
AIBS, 1968 (Minutes, annual report, etc.)
Box 28
AIBS - SSZ, 1972-1975
American Society of Zoologists Committee, 1965-1967
ASZ, 1967-1968
ASZ, 1968
ASZ, 1968-1969
ASZ - SSZ, 1971-1975
Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, 1956-1962
International Association of Systematic Zoology, 1965 (L.D. Brongersma)
International Biological Program, 1965 (National Academy of Sciences: National Research Council)
International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, 1972-1974
Box 29
International Society of Systematic Zoology, 1962 (Contributors toward ISSZ)
International Society of Systematic Zoology, 1962 (Treasurer's correspondence and documents)
National Academy of Sciences, 1965-1966
National Association of Biological Teachers, 1965 (Clyde T. Reed)
National Research Council, 1974
National Science Foundation Grant Reports, 1959-1960
Systematics Association, 1963-1967
Systematics Association, 1966-1967 (John Lewis)
UNESCO, 1958-1971
UNESCO, 1963-1968
Zoological Society of London, 1956-1964
Zoological Society of London - Zoological Record, 1960-1961
Series 11
SUMMER INSTITUTE IN SYSTEMATICS, 1965-1970Attendances at various summer conferences from 1965 to 1967 gave rise to the idea of a Summer Institute in Systematics beginning in 1967. The SSZ, the American Zoological Society, and the Smithsonian co-sponsored the Institute, the purpose of which was to enhance the quality and scope of courses in Systematics being taught at the college and graduate level. The program was developed by members of the three organizations, and physical facilities were provided by the National Museum of Natural History.
Box 30
Summer Conferences on Systematics, 1965-1967
Summer Conference on Systematics - USNM, 1966-1967
SSZ - SI - ASZ Summer Systematics Conference, 1966-1967
Summer Institute in Systematics, 1968-1969
Summer Institute in Systematics, 1969
Summer Institute in Systematics, 1969-1970
Series 12
ADDITIONAL RECORDSBox 31
Editorial Correspondence, Miscellaneous, 1974-1979
SSZ Mailings, 1963-1977
Copyright Clearance Center, 1977
Republication Requests, 1973-1977
Council Minutes, 1971-1976
Business Meeting Minutes, 1973
Financial Statements (final), 1974
Treasurer's Reports (meetings), 1971-1973
Secretary's Reports (final), 1972-1976
Editor's Reports (meetings), 1975-1977
Recycled Paper
SSZ Constitution, 1973-1975
Goals Committee, 1972-1975
Allen Press (correspondence), 1974-1979
Associate Editors, 1975-1977
Best Index Editor, 1974-1979
Editorial Board, 1975-1979
University Microfilms, 1975-1977
Papers Received by Editor, 1974-1977 (4 folders)
Box 32
Rejected or Withdrawn Prior to 1977, volume 26
Rejected or Withdrawn, 1977
Papers Received by Editor, 1978 (2 folders)
Papers Rejected or Withdrawn, 1977-1979
Box 33
Records of Hobart Smith as President, SSZ, 1965
Box 34
AIBS
AIBS Insurance Program
Animal Biology Booklets Sent, 1979
Association of Systematics Collections
Correspondence, 1978-1979
Correspondence, 1977-1978
Correspondence, 1975-1976
Correspondence, 1974-1975
Correspondence, 1976-1977
Correspondence Prior to 1974
Correspondence, 1971
Systematic Zoology Correspondence
Director, Southern Illinois Press
T. Downs Correspondence
International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology
Membership, SSZ
Nelson & Eldredge
1978 Page Changes
1977 Page Changes
1976 Page Changes
1975 Page Changes
1974 Page Changes
1973 Page Changes
1972 Page Changes
A. J. Rowell, Editor
Signature Cards
Box 35
Accounts Payable, 1975-1976
Accounts Payable, 1974-1975
Accounts Payable, 1973-1974
Accounts Payable, 1972-1973
Accounts Payable, 1971-1972
Accounts Payable, 1977-
Account Receivable
Career Booklets Sent
Career Booklets Sent, 1979-1980
Address Changes, 1979-1980
Address Changes, 1978-1979
Address Changes, 1977-1978
Address Changes, 1976-1977
Address Changes, 1975-1976
Address Changes
Allen Press
Allen Press, December 1975-
Box 36
American Security and Trust Co., FY 1975-FY 1976
American Security Co.
American Society of Zoologists
Applications Sent, 1979-1980
Applications Sent, 1979
Applications Sent
ASZ Booklets Sent
Career Booklets through 1978
Career Booklets Sent, December 1, 1978-
New Members (student), 1979
Student Members (new), 1977-1978
Student Members (new), 1976-1977
Student Members (renewals), 1976-1977
Student Members (new), 1975-1976
Student Members (renewals), 1975-1976
Box 37
Ledger, 1955-1956
Ledger, 1954
Deposits and Usage, 1969
Patrons Fund at Merrill Lynch, 1969 (income only)
American Security, 1970
SSZ Bills Paid, 1970
Deposits, 1970-1978 (7 folders)
Bills Paid, 1971
New Members (regular), 1979
New Members, 1972-1978 (6 folders)
Membership Cancellations, Completed, 1969
Pending from Applicant
Bills Outstanding
Time Sheets
Bills Paid, 1968
Box 38
Ernst Mayr Student Award Fund
SSZ Publications
"Art, Current Things You May Want to See..."
Society of Systematic Zoologists (Treasurer)
SSZ Budget (Treasurer)
Patrons Endowment Fund
Pacific Section, SSZ
SSZ
Constitution - SSZ
Council Ballots, 1976-1977
Council Meeting, New Orleans
Minutes - SSZ
SSZ - Archives
Minutes, 1973-1974, Secretary's and Treasurer's Reports, 1975
Ballots - Comments to Do with as You Please
Nelson-Gagne-Schuh Correspondence
Rosen-Gagne Correspondence
SSZ - Inger Committee
Meetings
Richmond Annual Meeting
Minutes through 1971
Ledger, 1972-1978 (documenting payments for subscriptions)
Notebook, 1969-1970 (minutes, administrative procedures)
Expired Subscriptions, December 1975
Subscriptions, 1975-1977
Subscriptions Canceled, 1980
Blackwell's, 1976-1979
H. K. Lewis, 1978
Swets & Zweitlinger BV, 1977
Box 39
Systematic Zoology - Part 1, Ledger; Part 2, Foreign Libraries
Systematic Zoology (unpaid domestic subscriptions)
Ledger Book of Subscribing U.S. Libraries
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, January 9, 1974
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, January 31, 1974
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, March 1, 1974 (2 folders)
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, March 27, 1974
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, May 2, 1974
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, June 6, 1974
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, July 26, 1974
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, September 12, 1974
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, November 6, 1974
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, December 10, 1974
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, December 20, 1974
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, January 15, 1975
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, February 7, 1975
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, March 12, 1975
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, February 26, 1975
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, May 12, 1975
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, June 11, 1975
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, back issues mailed April 22, 1976-October 1976
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, snap-outs for mailed back issues
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, back issues mailed September 6, 1977-December 31-1977
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, back issues paid and mailed January 1977-April 28, 1977
Transferred to Treasurer's Ledger, back issues paid May 6, 1977-August 31, 1977
Box 40
Old Membership Cards
Box 41
Subscription Orders, 1968-1973
Box 42
California, Colorado, Connecticut
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Delaware and Washington, DC
Florida (completed)
Georgia and Guam
Hawaii
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa
Kansas and Kentucky
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana
Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey
William Patterson College, Wayne, New Jersey
New York
North Carolina, North Dakota
Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon
Pennsylvania Puerto Rico, Rhode Island
S
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Canada, paid orders processed
Ceylon, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Cuba, Czechoslovakia
England
Finland, France
Greece, Germany
"Antiquariatte"
India, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy
Japan
Korea, Lebanon, Mexico
New Guinea, New Zealand, Norway
Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal
Ryuku Islands, Romania
Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland
Taiwan, Turkey, Thailand
Uruguay, USSR
Venezuela
Wales, West Indies
Yugoslavia
Dr. Iyad A. Nader
Unidentified Check from Univerzitet Kuril I Metodij, Skopje, Yugoslavia
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