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Finding Aids to Personal Papers and Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 7317
Myers, George S. (George Sprague), 1905-1985
George Sprague Myers Papers, circa 1903-1986 and undated
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: | Myers, George S. (George Sprague), 1905-1985 |
| Title: | George Sprague Myers Papers |
| Dates: | circa 1903-1986 and undated |
| Quantity: | 32.19 cu. ft. (63 document boxes) (1 16x20 box) (1 oversize folder) |
| Collection: | Record Unit 7317 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | The papers of George Sprague Myers document his research career in ichthyology and herpetology; his teaching career at Stanford University; professional activities, especially with the ASIH; expeditions and field work; and his work as an author and editor. Included are a large file of incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to all aspects of his career; manuscripts and speeches (many of which are unpublished); notes, illustrations, and related materials generated during his research; correspondence, classroom materials, and administrative records from his teaching career; collected materials relating to his family history, education, professional career, and personal affairs; photographs of and collected by Myers; and diplomas, certificates, and awards presented to him. |
Historical Note
George Sprague Myers (1905-1985), ichthyologist, herpetologist, and educator, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He developed an early interest in vertebrate zoology--accumulating aquariums in which he kept species of exotic and native fishes. His first article on aquarium fishes was published at age fifteen, in 1920. Around this time Myers began frequenting the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, seeking advice on natural history questions. As a result, he became a volunteer assistant at the AMNH from 1922 to 1924. At the museum he came under the influence of the ichthyology and herpetology staff including G. K. Noble, Karl P. Schmidt, John T. Nichols, Eugene W. Grudger, John Tee-Van, Charles M. Breder, and others.
In 1924, Myers was introduced to Carl H. Eigenmann, who invited him to attend Indiana University and offered him a part-time curatorial assistantship working in the fish collections. Under Eigenmann's guidance, Myers further developed his interest in the systematics of South American fresh-water fishes. He remained in Bloomington until 1926, when Eigenmann fell ill and moved to California. In that year, Myers was contacted by David Starr Jordan about continuing his ichthyological studies at Stanford University. He accepted Jordan's offer and received an assistantship in the Natural History Museum. Myers' education was influenced by an outstanding group of systematic zoologists gathered together by Jordan. John O. Snyder, Edwin C. Starks, Harold Heath, G. F. Ferris, and Albert W. C. T. Herre each played a role in shaping his career. Myers received the A.B. degree in 1930; the A.M. degree in 1931; and the Ph.D. degree in 1933. His dissertation was entitled "The Classification of the African Cyprinodont Fishes, with a Discussion of the Geographical Distribution of the Cyprinodontidae of the World"--an indication of his early interest in biogeography.
Myers began his professional career at the United States National Museum (USNM), where he was appointed Assistant Curator in charge of the Division of Fishes in 1933. His four-year tenure at the USNM was marked by fiscal restraints brought on by the Depression. The lack of technical and clerical assistance made it necessary for him to spend large amounts of time curating, organizing, and arranging the museum's fish collections. There was little time for research, although he did manage to publish several short papers and conduct a survey of the fresh-water fishes of Virginia with his USNM assistant, Earl D. Reid.
In 1936, Myers returned to Stanford, accepting appointment as Associate Professor of Biology and Head Curator of Zoological Collections. By 1938, he had been advanced to Professor. He remained in that position at Stanford until his statutory retirement in 1970. Perhaps the three outstanding achievements of his career at Stanford were development of a curriculum in systematic ichthyology, increasing and reorganizing the zoological collections in the Natural History Museum, and his guidance of a long line of outstanding graduate students, many of whom became distinguished in their chosen fields.
From 1942 to 1944, Myers served as a Special Professor of Ichthyology at the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His work was funded by the Committee for Inter-American Artistic and Intellectual Relations, a government-supported effort to maintain good relations with Latin America during World War II. At the museum he assisted with curatorial and library duties, exhibits, and administration. He also aided the Brazilian Fish and Game Division. Between 1970 and 1972 he served as Henry Bryant Bigelow Visiting Professor of Ichthyology and Alexander Agassiz Visiting Professor of Zoology at Harvard University.
While interested in all lower vertebrates, Myers' most influential research was on fishes. His greatest ichthyological interests were the characins, cichlids, cyprinodonts, and Asiatic cyprinids. He was an important advocate of modern ideas of fish evolution and was instrumental in developing the most widely accepted system of classifying the world fish fauna as primary freshwater, secondary freshwater, peripheral, or marine. Much of his biogeographical research tended to give credence to the theory of continental drift based on evidence derived through observations of primary freshwater fishes.
Myers was a prolific writer and his bibliography included over six hundred titles on ichthyology, herpetology, biogeography, the history of systematic zoology, and museum practices. He was also an accomplished editor. From 1932 to 1960, he served as associate editor of William T. Innes's The Aquarium and was scientific editor of all nineteen editions of Innes's Exotic Aquarium Fishes. He was the founder and editor of the Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 1938-1967; editor of The Aquarium Journal, 1952-1954; and a member of the editorial board of Ichthyologica, 1966.
Myers participated on several scientific expeditions. In 1938, he served as ichthyologist on the Hancock Pacific Expedition aboard the Velero III. During the trip he collected fishes off the coasts of Mexico, the Cocos Islands, the Galapagos Islands, Peru, Ecuador, and Panama. Later that year, he was co-leader of the Crocker Deep-Sea Expedition off the coast of California. In 1947, Myers participated in the United States Navy's Bikini Scientific Resurvey conducting field work on Bikini and Rongerik atolls. In addition, he executed several field surveys in the United States and South America.
Myers was active within the ichthyological profession and served several organizations in elected or appointed capacities. He was President of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists from 1949 to 1951. He also served on numerous committees of the society. From 1945 to 1951, Myers was a vice-president and council member of the California Academy of Sciences. He was named Research Associate in Ichthyology and Herpetology at the Academy in 1970. Myers was a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London and an honorary fellow of the Zoological Society of India. In 1936, he was awarded the silver medal of the Societe National d'Acclimation, Paris.
For additional biographical information on Myers see, Lionel A. Walford, "On the Natural History of George Sprague Myers" in "Festschrift for George Sprague Myers," Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 1970, vol. 38, no. 1, pp 1-18; Daniel M. Cohen and Stanley H. Weitzman, "George Sprague Myers, 1905-1985," Copeia, 1986, no. 3, pp. 851-853; Alan E. Leviton, David C. Regnery, and John H. Thomas, "Memorial Resolution: George Sprague Myers, 1905-1985," The Stanford University Campus Report, 6 April 1986; and Martin R. Brittan, "In Memoriam: George Sprague Myers, 1905-1985," Tropical Fish Hobbyist, March 1986, pp. 84-86.
Descriptive Entry
The papers of George Sprague Myers provide extensive documentation of his research career in ichthyology and herpetology. The collection also offers substantial information concerning the development of Myers' interest in natural history; his college work at Indiana University and Stanford University; his teaching career at Stanford University and to a lesser extent Harvard University; his work as a part-time ichthyologist with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; his activities in professional organizations and at international scientific symposia and conferences; his participation on scientific expeditions and field trips; and his work as an author and editor. Less well represented in the collection is material documenting Myers' brief curatorial career at the United States National Museum (USNM). Researchers interested in this aspect of his work should consult the records of the Division of Fishes, USNM (Record Units 213 and 234), in the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Myers maintained an extensive correspondence, and the bulk of his papers consists of letters written and received between 1920 and 1984. The correspondence illustrates most aspects of his career but is especially valuable in documenting his research interests and his activities in professional organizations. Myers exchanged letters with many of the outstanding zoologists of his era, and the correspondence is a valuable source for documenting the history of twentieth-century ichthyology and herpetology. The letters also reflect the breadth of his research interests. Many contain his thoughts on evolution, biogeography, zoological nomenclature, and the history of science. Myers' long association with the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists is well-documented in his correspondence, and it is an important source for those interested in the history of the society. His network of correspondents was world-wide, and several letters provide information on political and social events. Of special interest are letters describing the effect of World War II on European science and museums.
The remainder of the collection primarily consists of materials relating to Myers' zoological research and his teaching career at Stanford University. A large file of manuscripts and speeches (many of which are unpublished) not only documents the preparation of scientific papers, but also reveals Myers as a writer with diverse interests. Included are manuscripts dealing with general history, history of science, botany, biogeography, and museum theory. Also included in the collection are numerous notes, publications, and illustrations used in his research.
Myers' thirty-four-year teaching career at Stanford University is partially documented in the collection. Materials include correspondence with university officials, staff, and programs; administrative records concerning the operation of the Biology Department and Natural History Museum; classroom material used by Myers; and correspondence with graduate students under his guidance. Researchers should also consult the general correspondence for information concerning his career at Stanford.
Of particular interest is a group of collected materials relating to various aspects of Myers' professional career and personal life. Included are materials concerning his high school and college work; records documenting professional activities, official travel, and disputes with colleagues; personal memorabilia; and miscellaneous biographical, bibliographical, and family materials. Especially important is a small amount of papers illustrating his early interest and work in the biological sciences. Included is a catalogue of natural history specimens collected by Myers up to 1923; a notebook containing drafts of papers and field notes recorded by Myers in the 1920s; and notes, manuscripts, and illustrations from his work on aquarium fishes, circa 1920-1925.
A small group of photographs is found in the collection. Included are portraits of Myers; photographs of Myers with colleagues and at social occasions; and pictures he collected. A few photographs are also present in his correspondence and research materials.
The collection also includes diplomas, certificates, and awards presented to Myers by professional organizations and social groups.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
- Bikini Scientific Resurvey, 1947
- Myers, George S. (George Sprague), 1905-1985
- Stanford University
- United States National Museum. Division of Fishes
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7317, George Sprague Myers Papers
Container List
Series 1
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1903, 1920-1984, AND UNDATED, WITH RELATED MATERIALS TO 1986.This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence documenting the professional career of George Sprague Myers. Myers was a prolific letter writer, and he maintained an extensive correspondence with domestic and foreign ichthyologists, herpetologists, evolutionary biologists, and aquarists. Other correspondents include university officials, colleagues, and students; officers and members of professional organizations; editors of professional journals and popular publications; and staff of museums, colleges and universities, and research foundations.
The correspondence documents Myers' early interest in natural history and aquarium fishes; his college career at Indiana University and Stanford University; his research on fishes, reptiles and amphibians, and biogeography; his teaching careers at Stanford University, 1936-1970, and Harvard University, 1970-1971; his service as Special Professor of Ichthyology at the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro; his participation in professional organizations, conferences, and symposia; his field work and participation on scientific expeditions; the preparation and publication of scientific monographs and papers; his work as editor of popular and scientific journals; his service as an expert witness in court cases concerning fisheries and the importation of tropical fishes; and his part-time tenure as an ichthyologist with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Also included are occasional photographs, manuscripts, and field notes. These materials are noted in the Folder listing.
Arranged alphabetically.
Box 1
Folder 1 Ab-Ah, general
Folder 2 Abbot, Charles G., 1930, 1936-1938
Folder 3 Abbott, Clinton G., 1931-1932, 1936, 1938-1940
Folder 4 Abe, Tokiharu, 1948-1950, 1957, 1960-1963, 1967
Folder 5 Abrams, LeRoy, 1935-1937
Folder 6 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1928-1931
Folder 7 Ai-Al, general
Folder 8 Alfaro, Anastasio, 1924, 1928-1930, and undated
Folder 9 Alfred, Eric R., 1959, 1961-1962, 1967-1968
Folder 10 Allen, William R., 1925-1928, 1926, 1940-1942, 1947, 1951-1952
Folder 11 Am, general
Folder 12 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1927, 1931, 1958, 1961-1967, 1982, and undated
Folder 13 American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, 1943, 1945-1946. Correspondents include Childs Frick.
Folder 14 American Fisheries Society, 1937, 1939, 1946-1949, 1951, 1955-1959, 1961-1962, 1969
Box 2
Folder 1 American Geographical Society, 1930, 1932, 1940-1942, 1944, 1950, 1957, 1969
Folder 2 American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1957, 1961-1962, 1970
Folder 3 American Killifish Association, 1961-1964, 1966-1968, 1974-1975
Folders 4-5 American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, general, 1928, 1930-1931, 1946, 1949-1951, 1955-1958, 1960-1961, 1963, 1968-1972. Correspondents include Joseph R. Bailey, Charles M. Breder, Jr., Bruce B. Collette, Wilber I. Follett, Coleman J. Goin, Arnold B. Grobman, Richard Highton, Carl L. Hubbs, David L. Jameson, Ernest A. Lachner, Robert R. Miller, M. Graham Netting, Edward C. Raney, Edward H. Taylor, John Tee-Van, Lionel A. Walford, and Richard G. Zweifel.
Folder 6 ________________. Committee on Common Names, 1951-1952. Correspondents include Reeve M. Bailey.
Folder 7 ________________. Committee on Endangered Species, 1967, 1970. Correspondents include Robert R. Miller.
Folder 8 ________________. Committee on Fish Classification, 1949-1953. Correspondents include Reeve M. Bailey, Vernon E. Brock, Anton F. Bruun, Wilbert A. Clemens, A. Fraser-Brunner, William A. Gosline, Francis Hemming, Carl L. Hubbs, G. E. Maul, Robert R. Miller, M. Graham Netting, Edward C. Raney, Bobb Schaeffer, Leonard P. Schultz, J. L. B. Smith, John Tee-Van, Ethelwynn Trewavas, and Loren P. Woods.
Folder 9 American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Committee on Methods of Counting and Measuring Fishes, 1939. Correspondents include Rolf L. Bolin.
Folder 10 _______________. Committee on Traffic in Venomous Reptiles, 1951. Correspondents include Charles M. Bogert, Roger Conant, and Clarence Cottam.
Box 3
Folder 1 American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Committee on Zoological Nomenclature, 1949-1953. Correspondents include Reeve M. Bailey, Richard E. Blackwelder, William I. Follett, Francis Hemming, and Kiyomatsu Matsubara.
Folders 2-3 ________________. Conservation Committee, 1961-1968. Correspondents include Carl L. Hubbs.
Folder 4 ________________. Copeia, 1947-1952, 1957-1963, 1965-1966, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1978. Correspondents include Bruce B. Collette, Gerald P. Cooper, Clark Hubbs, George J. Jacobs, David L. Jameson, and Frank J. Schwartz.
Folder 5 ________________. Financial reports and budgets, 1950-1951.
Folder 6 ________________. Meetings, general, 1951-1955. Correspondents include W. Frank Blair, Arnold B. Grobman, and Edward C. Raney.
Folder 7 ________________. Meetings, Chicago, 1951. Correspondents include Reeve M. Bailey, Robert R. Miller, Edward C. Raney, Luis R. Rivas, and Karl P. Schmidt.
Folder 8 ________________. Meetings, San Francisco, 1967. Correspondents include Shelton P. Applegate and Robert R. Miller.
Folder 9 ________________. Schism Committee, 1961-1962. Correspondents include Roger Conant and William A. Gosline.
Box 4
Folders 1-6 American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Western Division, 1929-1933, 1946-1947, 1949-1950, 1956, and undated. Correspondence of 1929-1932 concerns Myers' service as Secretary-Treasurer of the Western Division. Correspondents include Carl L. Hubbs.
Folder 7 An, general
Folder 8 Anderson, John W., 1959, 1963-1964
Folder 9 Anderson, William Dewey, Jr., 1961-1962, 1965-1966, 1969, 1978
Folder 10 Ap-Az, general
Folder 11 Apolinar-Maria, Hermano, 1928-1930
Folder 12 Archey, Gilbert, 1936-1937, 1940-1941, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1954
Folder 13 Arnold, Johann Paul, 1924, 1926, 1936-1937, 1946-1948, 1951. For additional correspondence see box 9, Folder 5.
Folder 14 Ask Adventure, 1927-1931. Myers served as ichthyological expert for the magazine during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Folder 15 Atz, James Wade, 1939-1941, 1947-1972, 1974, 1978, 1982
Folder 16 Axelrod, Herbert R., 1956, 1958, 1964-1974, 1979-1980, 1982. For additional correspondence see box 58, Folders 6-8.
Box 5
Folder 1 Baa-Bal, general
Folder 2 Bailey, Reeve Maclaren, 1936-1940, 1945, 1947-1962, 1965-1966, 1971-1972, 1978, 1980-1982. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folders 6 and 8; box 3, Folders 1 and 7; and box 37, Folder 4.
Folder 3 Ball, Stanley Crittenden. Letter to David Starr Jordan, 4 November 1925.
Folder 4 Ban-Bay, general
Folder 5 Banarescu, P., 1960, 1963, 1965-1969
Folder 6 Barbour, Thomas, 1924, 1928-1932, 1936-1942, 1944-1945
Folder 7 Barnard, Keppel H., 1936-1941, 1949, 1958
Folder 8 Baughman, John Lafferty, 1940-1942, 1945-1948, 1950, 1952
Folder 9 Bay, Ernest C., 1965-1966, 1968-1969, 1973
Folder 10 Bayer, Frederick Merkle, 1967-1968
Folder 11 Bea-Ben, general
Folder 12 Bean, Barton A., 1925, 1928-1932, 1935
Folder 13 Beatty, Harry A., 1940-1941, 1944-1945, 1947
Folder 14 Beebe, William, 1928-1929, 1931, 1935, 1938-1941, 1943-1944, 1947, 1950-1952, 1956
Folder 15 Behre, Elinor Helene, 1924-1925, 1927-1929, 1931
Folder 16 Beldt's Aquarium, 1931, 1941, 1946, 1954-1955
Folder 17 Ber-Bey, general
Folder 18 Berg, Leo S., 1928, 1931-1933, 1942, 1946
Folder 19 Berra, Tim M., 1975, 1977-1980
Folder 20 Berry, Frederick Henry, 1956-1957, 1959, 1962-1964, 1967, 1970
Box 6
Folder 1 Berry, Samuel Stillman, 1931-1932, 1937, 1939-1941, 1946, 1949-1952, 1955, 1962-1965, 1969-1970
Folder 2 Bertin, Leon, 1946-1947, 1951
Folder 3 Bh-Bl, general
Folder 4 Bigelow, Henry Bryant, 1930, 1932, 1946, 1950, 1956-1961, 1966. For additional correspondence see box 38, Folder 15.
Folder 5 Bikini Scientific Resurvey, 1947
Folder 5A Bikini Scientific Resurvey, 1947 [Accession 11-179]
Folder 6 Bills, Charles E., 1937
Folder 7 Biological Abstracts, 1927, 1938-1939, 1942, 1955
Folder 8 Biological Society of Washington, 1928-1929, 1957
Folder 9 Bishop, Sherman Chauncey, 1925, 1927-1928, 1930, 1937-1938, 1941, 1945-1946, 1948-1949
Folder 10 Blair, W. Frank, 1958, 1961, 1967. For additional correspondence see box 3, Folder 6.
Folder 11 Bo, general
Folder 12 Boeseman, Marinus, 1952, 1960-1961, 1963, 1965-1967, 1971
Folder 13 Bogert, Charles Mitchell, 1930, 1940-1942, 1947-1948, 1951-1952, 1956-1958, 1960-1963, 1968. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folder 10.
Folder 14 Bohlke, James Erwin, 1945-1949, 1955-1973, 1975, 1977-1978. For additional correspondence see box 37, Folder 4; and box 58, Folders 6-8.
Folder 15 Bolin, Rolf Ling, 1929-1932, 1934, 1935-1942, 1945-1949, 1953, 1958, 1960, 1963-1964, 1970, 1973 and undated. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folder 9.
Box 7
Folder 1 Bond, Franklyn F., 1937-1940
Folder 2 Borodin, Nicolas A., 1927-1928, 1930-1932, 1937
Folder 3 Bourret, Rene, 1936-1937, 1940, 1948-1949
Folder 4 Bra-Bri, general
Folder 5 Bradbury, Margaret G., 1954-1955, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1968, 1976
Folder 6 Brazilian Fisheries Project, 1943-1945. Correspondents include Dona Heloisa Alberto Torres.
Folders 7-8 Breder, Charles Marcus, Jr., 1925, 1927-1931, 1933-1936, 1938-1941, 1945-1946, 1948, 1950-1951, 1953, 1957, 1960-1961, 1967, 1970, 1977. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folders 4-5.
Folder 9 Briggs, John Carmon, 1951-1954, 1956-1966, 1968-1973, 1976-1977, 1985
Folder 10 Brill, E. J., Ltd., 1937-1939, 1945
Folder 11 Brittan, Martin Ralph, 1947-1952, 1955-1957, 1960-1963, 1965-1968
Folder 12 Bro-Bry, general
Folder 13 Brock, Vernon E., 1935-1940, 1942, 1944-1947, 1949-1953, 1957, 1959-1963. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folder 8.
Box 8
Folder 1 Brown, Bryce Cardigan, 1946-1948, 1951
Folder 2 Brown, Walter C., 1946-1957, 1960-1964
Folder 3 Bu-By, general
Folder 4 Burt, Charles Earle, 1926, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1939-1942, 1949
Folder 5 Burton, E. Milby, 1935-1939, 1941, 1948, 1963, 1970-1973
Folder 6 Cab-Cam, general
Folder 7 Cagle, Fred Ray, 1949, 1951-1952, 1955-1959
Folder 8 Calhoun, Alexander, 1938, 1940-1941, 1965-1967, 1969
Folder 9 California Academy of Sciences, general, 1941, 1946-1948, 1950-1952, 1955-1957, 1961-1965, 1968-1969, 1971, 1984. Correspondents include George E. Lindsay, M. E. Lombardi, Robert C. Miller, Edward S. Ross, and Frank H. Talbot.
Folder 10 ________________. The Aquarium Journal, 1946-1948.
Folder 11 California Academy of Sciences. Centennial Volume, 1947-1953.
Folder 12 ________________. Correspondence concerning the Academy's fish collection, 1951-1952.
Folder 13 ________________. Council meetings, 1945-1953.
Box 9
Folder 1 California Academy of Sciences. Miscellaneous reports, 1945-1948.
Folder 2 California Department of Fish and Game, 1944, 1947, 1949-1952, 1961-1962, 1964-1965, 1970
Folder 3 Camp, Charles L., 1928, 1939, 1941-1942, 1946, 1949
Folder 4 Can-Cav, general
Folder 5 CARE Packages, 1948-1949. Correspondence concerning assistance provided by staff and students of the Stanford Natural History Museum to European colleagues. Several letters contain comments on post-war Europe. Correspondents include Johann Paul Arnold, L. F. de Beaufort, George Dunker, Franz Maidl, Robert Mertens, Erna Mohr, Lorenz Muller, Enrico Tortonese, and Ethelwynn Trewavas.
Folder 6 Carvalho, Antenor Leitao de, 1944-1953, 1959-1960, 1963, 1965, 1971
Folder 7 Catala, Rene L. A., 1947, 1949-1950, 1956
Folder 8 Cei, Jose M., 1952-1956, 1959, 1962
Folder 9 Cervigon, F., 1962, 1967, 1971
Folder 10 Ch-Ci, general
Folder 11 Chabanaud, Paul, 1929, 1936-1938, 1940, 1945, 1955
Folder 12 Chamberlain, Thomas K., 1947-1949
Folder 13 Chandy, Mary, 1945-1948, 1950-1954, 1956-1957, 1963
Box 10
Folder 1 Chapin, James Paul, 1937, 1939-1941. The correspondence of 1940-1941 contains an interesting discussion of the effect of World War II on European museums.
Folder 2 Chapman, Wilbert McLeod, 1936, 1938-1940, 1944-1950, 1953-1954, 1961-1963, and undated
Folder 3 Chu, Kuang-yu, 1954-1957
Folder 4 Cl, general
Folder 5 Clark, Howard Walton, 1927, 1932, 1936-1939, and undated
Folder 6 Clemens, Wilbert Amie, 1931-1933, 1940-1942, 1946, 1952, 1954, 1962. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folder 8.
Folder 7 Cliff, Frank S., 1951, 1953-1954, 1956-1958
Folder 8 Coa-Com, general
Folder 9 Cochran, Doris Mable, 1930, 1937-1939, 1941, 1946-1948, 1950-1951, 1954, 1958, 1961-1962, 1964
Folder 10 Cohen, Daniel M., 1954, 1957-1970, 1977-1978, 1980, and undated. Includes a photograph of the Chinese ichthyologist Yuan Ting Chu.
Folder 11 Collette, Bruce Baden, 1957, 1965-1967, 1970- 1976. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folders 4-5; and box 3, Folder 4.
Folder 12 Con-Cow, general
Folder 13 Conant, Roger, 1945, 1948-1951, 1955-1958, 1961-1963, 1977-1978, and undated. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folder 10; and box 3, Folder 9.
Box 11
Folder 1 Condit, John M., 1957-1959
Folder 2 Coolidge, Harold Jefferson, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1957, 1964. For additional correspondence see box 28, Folders 6-7.
Folder 3 Cooper, Gerald P., 1939, 1951-1952, 1957. For additional correspondence see box 3, Folder 4.
Folder 4 Cr-Cu, general
Folder 5 Crocker, Templeton, 1937-1939. Mostly concerns Myers' work on the Crocker-Stanford Deep-Sea Expedition, 1938.
Folder 6 Croizat, Leon, 1949, 1967-1969, and undated
Folder 7 Croker, Richard S., 1930-1932, 1937-1939, 1941, 1946-1948, 1956, 1959, and undated
Folder 8 Crompton, A. W., 1970-1971. Correspondence concerning Myers' appointment as Henry Bryant Bigelow Visiting Professor of Ichthyology at Harvard University.
Folder 9 Cummings, J. H., 1925-1930, 1936, 1938, and undated
Folder 10 Curtis, Brian, 1938-1941, 1947-1948, 1953
Folder 11 Da, general
Folder 12 Dahl, George, 1952-1953, 1955, 1957-1958, 1960-1961
Folder 13 Darlington, Philip Jackson, Jr., 1937-1941, 1946-1952, 1954-1955, 1957, 1964-1968, 1970
Folder 14 Daugherty, Anita E., 1932, 1935, 1940-1941, 1946-1951, 1954-1955, 1960, 1962, 1964-1965, 1967 and undated. Includes field notes kept by Daugherty during field work in Texas and Arizona.
Folder 15 ________________. Correspondence, notes, and photographs relating to her research on Remilegia, 1946-1948.
Folder 16 David, Lore Rose, 1937-1942, 1946-1947, 1958, 1962
Box 12
Folder 1 De, general
Folder 2 Deason, Hilary John, 1945-1950
Folder 3 de Beaufort, L. F., 1930-1932, 1939-1940, 1946, 1948, 1951-1952, 1959-1960, 1962-1963, 1968. For additional correspondence see box 9, Folder 5.
Folder 4 de Godoy, Manuel Pereira, 1950, 1970
Folder 5 Delhi, University of, 1958-1959, 1961, 1964-1965
Folder 6 Deraniyagala, Paul E. P., 1930-1932, 1937, 1948-1949, 1962-1963, 1967
Folder 7 de Sylva, Donald P., 1953, 1959-1960, 1964, 1967-1969
Folder 8 DeWitt, Hugh H., 1959-1960, 1962, 1967, 1977, 1980
Folder 9 Dh-Do, general
Folder 10 Dick, Myvanwy M., 1970-1972
Folder 11 Dill, William A., 1931, 1938-1939, 1945, 1950-1951, 1953, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1966-1967, 1969, 1981, 1984, and undated
Folder 12 Dixon, James R., 1959-1960, 1963, 1965
Folder 13 Dorn, Richard, 1927-1933, 1937, and undated
Folder 14 Dr-Dy, general
Folder 15 Duellman, William E., 1953-1955, 1958-1959, 1964-1965, 1968, 1970
Folder 16 Duffy, Edward F., 1963-1964
Folder 17 Dunn, Emmett Reid, 1923, 1925, 1927-1928, 1937-1942, 1946-1949, 1955, and undated
Folder 18 Ea-El, general
Folder 19 Ecological Society of America, 1954, 1956-1959
Folder 20 Eigenmann, Carl H., 1923-1928, 1930, 1938, and undated. Correspondence concerning Myers' work as Eigenmann's assistant at Indiana University and his early ichthyological research. Also includes a biographical sketch of Eigenmann written by Myers in 1928, and obituaries and news clippings concerning Eigenmann. The correspondence post-dating 1926 is between Myers and Eigenmann's wife and daughter. For correspondence between Eigenmann and Carl Ternetz see box 37, Folder 17.
Box 13
Folder 1 Em-Ew, general
Folder 2 Eschmeyer, William N., 1966-1970, 1972-1974, 1976-1978, 1981-1982, and undated
Folder 3 Evermann, Barton Warren, 1927-1932
Folder 4 Fa-Fe, general
Folder 5 Fernandez-Yepez, Augustin, 1947-1951, 1969-1970
Folder 6 Fi-Fl, general
Folder 7 Fisher, Edna, 1939-1940, 1946-1948, 1952
Folder 8 Fisher, Walter Kenrick, 1936-1941, 1946-1947
Folder 9 Fletcher, Alan, 1956-1958
Folder 10 Fo, general
Folders 11-12 Follett, Wilbur Irving, 1939-1941, 1944-1945, 1947-1952, 1954-1957, 1960-1970, 1973, 1976, 1980, and undated. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folders 4-5; box 3, Folder 1; box 37, Folder 10; and box 58, Folders 6-8.
Folder 13 Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, 1948, 1951, 1953-1955, 1960-1963
Folder 14 Fowler, Henry Weed, 1922-1925, 1927-1931, 1937-1938, 1940-1941, 1962, and undated. Includes a news clipping concerning Fowler.
Box 14
Folder 1 Fr-Fu, general
Folder 2 Fraser-Brunner, A., 1935-1939, 1946-1948, 1950-1952, 1954, 1956-1957. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folder 8.
Folder 3 Freeman, Harry W., 1948-1954, 1959-1960, 1962, 1966. Includes a news clipping concerning Freeman.
Folder 4 Friedmann, Herbert, 1942, 1948, 1951, 1962-1964
Folder 5 Funkhouser, Anne, 1955-1956, 1958, 1960-1962
Folder 6 Funkhouser, John W., 1949-1953, 1961-1964, 1967. Includes correspondence documenting Funkhouser's field work in Ecuador, 1950.
Folder 7 Funnell, Barry, 1937-1938
Folder 8 Ga-Ge, general
Folder 9 Gaige, Helen Thompson, 1936-1939, 1941-1942, 1948-1950, and undated
Folder 10 Gans, Carl, 1951, 1959-1965, 1967, 1972
Folder 11 Garth, John Shrader, 1937-1938, 1940-1941, 1946, 1950, 1953, 1955, 1969
Folder 12 Geduly, Oliver B., 1951-1952, 1955-1956
Folder 13 Gery, Jacques R., 1958, 1960-1961, 1965, 1968-1969
Folder 14 Gh-Gl, general
Folder 15 Gilman, Page, 1939-1942, 1947, 1952
Folder 16 Ginsburg, Isaac, 1937-1939, 1942, 1951, 1977
Box 15
Folder 1 Gn-Go, general
Folder 2 Goin, Coleman Jett, 1938-1939, 1948, 1950-1951, 1957-1961, 1963-1964. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folders 4-5.
Folder 3 Goldstein, Robert J., 1966-1969, 1971, 1973
Folder 4 Good, A. I., 1938-1942, 1944, 1949
Folder 5 Gordon, Myron, 1925, 1927-1929, 1938, 1951-1956
Folders 6-8 Gosline, William A., 1935-1943, 1945-1949, 1950-1953, 1955-1956, 1958, 1960, 1962-1965, 1967, 1970, and undated. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folder 8; and box 3, Folder 9.
Folder 9 Gr, general
Folder 10 Graduate students, 1949-1951
Folder 11 Graf, John Enos, 1932, 1936-1939, 1941
Folder 12 Grandison, Alice G. C., 1957, 1961-1964
Folder 13 Grant, Campbell, 1946, 1948, and undated
Folder 14 Grant, Chapman, 1932, 1940, 1942, 1945-1950, 1952, 1956-1957, and undated
Folder 15 Greenwood, P. Humphry, 1960-1963, 1965-1966, 1969-1971. For additional correspondence see box 37, Folder 16.
Box 16
Folder 1 Greer, Allen E., Jr., 1963, 1965-1970, 1972-1973, and undated
Folder 2 Gregg, Clifford C., 1937, 1952
Folder 3 Gregg, Newton K., 1969-1971
Folder 4 Gregory, William King, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1937-1938, 1941-1942, 1944, 1946
Folder 5 Gressitt, J. Linsley, 1936, 1938, 1940-1941, 1954
Folder 6 Grey, Marion, 1946, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1962
Folder 7 Grinnell, Joseph, 1926, 1929-1931, 1936-1939
Folder 8 Grunsky, Carl E., 1929, 1932-1933
Folder 9 Gu, general
Folder 10 Gudger, Eugene Willis, 1924-1932, 1939-1941, 1945-1947, 1949, 1951-1952
Folder 11 Gunter, Gordon, 1936-1941, 1945-1947, 1951, 1959-1962, 1971-1972, 1974-1976, 1982
Folder 12 Gunther, A. E., 1967, 1970. Correspondence concerning Gunther's research on Albert Gunther. Several letters contain interesting discussions on the history of ichthyology.
Folder 13 Guthrie, E. R., 1947. Concerns an offer to Myers of a full professorship at the University of Washington.
Folder 14 Had-Han, general
Folder 15 Haedrich, Richard L., 1963-1967
Folder 16 Haig, Janet, 1948-1953, 1955-1956, 1960, 1966
Folder 17 Hall, Eugene Raymond, 1930, 1938-1939, 1941-1942, 1945-1952, 1954, 1956-1957, 1961, 1963-1964, 1966
Folder 18 Halstead, Bruce W., 1946, 1948-1953
Box 17
Folder 1 Hancock, G. Allan, 1937-1941, 1946, 1948, 1953
Folder 2 Haque, A. K. M. Aminul, 1957, 1966-1967
Folder 3 Har-Haz, general
Folder 4 Harry, Robert Rees, Jr. (Harry changed his name to Robert R. Rofen around 1958), 1945-1946, 1948, 1950-1955, 1958, 1962, 1970. For additional correspondence see box 39, Folders 9-12; and box 40, Folders 1-2.
Folder 5 Hartwig, Norman, 1940, 1948-1952, 1954, 1958-1959, 1961-1963, and undated
Folder 6 Haseman, John D., 1938-1942, 1948, 1951, 1956. Includes an unpublished manuscript by Haseman, "Zoogeographical Expedition to Northeastern South America," circa 1914.
Folder 7 He, general
Folder 8 Heath, James P., 1941-1942, 1962, and undated
Folder 9 Hedgepeth, Joel Walker, 1939-1940, 1944-1949, 1951-1953, 1963-1965, 1970, 1977-1978, 1986, and undated. Includes a letter, 1 December 1986, from Hedgepeth to Alan E. Leviton, which contains recollections of Myers.
Folder 10 Hemming, Francis, 1946-1947, 1949-1951, 1958, and undated. See also box 2, Folder 8; box 3, Folder 1; and box 58, Folders 6-8.
Folder 11 Henn, Arthur Wilbur, 1923-1928, 1930, 1940
Folder 12 Henshaw, Samuel, 1926-1927
Folders 13-14 Herald, Earl S., 1937-1938, 1940, 1942, 1945-1954, 1956, 1958-1962, 1966-1970
Box 18
Folders 1-3 Herre, Albert W. C. T., 1927-1928, 1931, 1934, 1936-1937, 1940-1941, 1947-1952, 1955-1962, and undated. Includes correspondence written by Herre on his world travels during the 1930s and 1940s. Letters include descriptions of the Philippine Islands, Mozambique, Brazil, China, Borneo, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and India.
Folder 4 ________________. Autobiographical notes and photographs, 1956, and undated.
Folder 5 Hi, general
Folder 6 Hiatt, Robert Worth, 1948-1950, 1960, 1966, and undated
Folder 7 Hildebrand, Samuel Frederick, 1927, 1929-1931, 1937-1938, 1940-1941, 1947, 1949
Folder 8 Hill, Howard R., 1927, 1930-1931, 1937, 1939, 1954
Folder 9 Hoa-Hol, general
Folder 10 Hoedman, J. J., 1948, 1950-1951, 1958, 1960
Folder 11 Holly, Maximilian, 1928, 1930, 1932-1933, 1936-1938
Folder 12 Hom-How, general
Folders 13-14 Hora, Sunder Lal, 1928-1930, 1932-1933, 1936-1941, 1945-1952, 1954-1955
Box 19
Folder 1 Hs-Hy, general
Folders 2-7 Hubbs, Carl Leavitt, 1924-1955. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folders 4, 5, and 8; box 3, Folders 2-3; box 4, Folders 1-6; box 24, Folder 10; and box 58, Folder 1.
Box 20
Folders 1-3 Hubbs, Carl Leavitt, 1956-1969, 1971, 1973, 1975-1979, and undated
Folders 4-5 Hubbs, Clark, 1946, 1948-1968, 1971, 1975-1976, 1979, 1984. For additional correspondence see box 3, Folder 4.
Folder 6 Hugghins, Ernest J., 1963, 1967-1968
Folder 7 I, general
Folder 8 Indian students, 1941-1948
Folder 9 Inger, Robert F., 1952-1955, 1957-1964, 1968, 1970-1971
Box 21
Folders 1-8 Innes, William T., 1920, 1923-1926, 1928-1932, 1934-1969, and undated. For additional correspondence see box 58, Folders 6-8.
Box 22
Folder 1 Inter-American Conference on Conservation of Renewable Natural Resources, Denver, September 1948
Folder 2 International Colloquium on Luso-Brazilian Students, October 1950
Folder 3 International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1959, 1961, 1969, 1975-1976. Correspondents include Richard V. Melville, W. E. China, Stanley H. Weitzman, and William Ralph Taylor. For correspondence of Francis Hemming see box 17, Folder 10; and box 58, Folders 6-8.
Folder 4 International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1964-1970
Folder 5 Ja-Jh, general
Folder 6 Jacobs, George J., 1966, 1969. For additional correspondence see box 3, Folder 4.
Folder 7 Jayaram, K. C., 1955-1957, 1966, 1968
Folder 8 Jewett, Stanley Gordon, Jr., 1939, 1942, 1945-1947
Box 23
Folder 1 Jo-Ju, general
Folder 2 Jollie, Malcolm, 1955-1959
Folders 3-4 Jordan, David Starr, 1922-1926, 1928, 1941, 1948-1951, and undated. Includes correspondence concerning Myers' appointment at Stanford University in 1926; correspondence of Mrs. David Starr Jordan, 1941, 1948-1949; a typescript of, and correspondence concerning, Myers' David Starr Jordan - The Scientist, 1951; and a letter written by Jordan to Barton Warren Evermann, 16 July 1903, while participating on a cruise of the Albatross to Alaska. For additional correspondence of and information on Jordan see box 5, Folder 3; and box 24, Folder 12.
Folder 5 ________________. Photograph, 1920.
Folder 6 Ka, general
Folder 7 Kask, John Laurence, 1943, 1947-1948
Folder 8 Kaufman, Leslie, 1967-1969
Folder 9 Ke, general
Folder 10 Kellogg, A. Remington, 1930, 1941, 1947-1950, 1952-1953, 1957-1958, 1963
Folder 11 Kestevan, G. L., 1948, 1951-1952, 1955-1957
Folder 12 Kh-Kl, general
Folder 13 Klauber, Laurence Monroe, 1927-1932, 1937-1942, 1946-1955, 1957
Folder 14 Klausewitz, Wolfgang, 1956-1957, 1959-1963, 1969
Box 24
Folder 1 Klee, Albert J., 1961, 1963-1964, 1967, 1970, 1982, and undated
Folder 2 Klepper, Frank, 1948-1949
Folder 3 Kn-Ky, general
Folder 4 Kosswig, Curt, 1939, 1946-1949, 1958, 1961, 1963-1964
Folder 5 Koumans, Frederick P., 1929-1932, 1936-1940, 1945, 1947
Folder 6 Kuronuma, Katsuzo, 1936-1937, 1939, 1941, and undated
Folder 7 La, general
Folder 8 Lachner, Ernest Albert, 1950-1952, 1957, 1961, 1963, 1967, 1970. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folders 4-5.
Folder 9 Ladiges, Werner, 1932, 1950, 1952, 1955-1956, 1961-1962
Folder 10 Lake Lanao Project, 1949. Correspondents include Harry Hoogstraal, Ernst Mayr, Carl L. Hubbs, and Deogracias V. Villadolid.
Folder 11 LaMonte, Francesca R., 1926, 1930, 1932, 1936-1937, 1941-1942, 1946, 1949, 1956-1958, 1969-1970
Folder 12 Lavenberg, Robert J., 1967-1968, 1970-1972, 1974. The letter of 27 August 1970 from Myers to Lavenberg contains information on David Starr Jordan and his research on fossil fishes.
Folder 13 Le, general
Folder 14 Legler, John M., 1956-1958, 1962-1963, 1971
Folder 15 Leviton, Alan E., 1951, 1958, 1960, 1962-1963, 1967-1968
Box 25
Folder 1 Li, general
Folder 2 Liem, Karel F., 1960-1964, 1966, 1969-1972, 1975-1976
Folder 3 Lindner, Milton Jerome, 1931, 1939-1940, 1956
Folder 4 Lindsay, George Edmund, 1960, 1962-1968, 1970-1971. For additional correspondence see box 8, Folder 9.
Folder 5 Lo-Ly, general
Folder 6 Loveridge, Arthur, 1933, 1941, 1947, 1950-1953, 1957
Folder 7 Lutz, Bertha, 1939-1940, 1945, 1948-1949, 1951, 1963
Folder 8 Mac-Man, general
Folder 9 MacFarland, Frank Mace, 1936-1939
Folder 10 Madden, Henry, 1947-1949
Folder 11 Madras, University of, 1957
Folder 12 Manacop, Porfirio R., 1940-1941, 1945
Folder 13 Mann, William M., 1928, 1930, 1941, 1948, 1972
Folder 14 Mansueti, Romeo John, 1946-1948, 1958-1962
Folder 15 Mar-Maz, general
Folder 16 Marr, John C., 1942, 1944-1955, 1957, 1959-1960, 1962, 1965-1966. Includes letter of 2 August 1946 describing Marr's work on the Bikini Survey.
Box 26
Folder 1 Maslin, T. Paul, 1940-1941, 1945-1948, 1950, 1952, 1967
Folder 2 Matsubara, Kiyomatsu, 1950-1952, 1957, 1968. For additional correspondence see box 3, Folder 1.
Folder 3 Matthew, William D., 1925-1926, 1929-1930
Folder 4 Maul, Gerald E., 1946-1950, 1952-1953, 1956, 1964. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folder 8.
Folder 5 Mayer, Fritz, 1931-1933, 1936-1937, 1939, 1946-1948, 1950-1951
Folder 6 Mayr, Ernst, 1946-1948, 1950-1951, 1953-1954, 1958, 1962-1963, 1965-1966, 1968-1970, 1975-1976. The correspondence of 1968-1970 concerns Myers' appointment as Henry Bryant Bigelow Visiting Professor of Ichthyology, Harvard University. For additional correspondence see box 24, Folder 10.
Folder 7 Mc, general
Folder 8 McCormick, Leander J., 1936, 1938, 1941-1942, 1949-1950
Folder 9 McCulloch, Irene A., 1932, 1936-1942, 1944-1948, 1951
Folder 10 McGill, Ormond, 1956-1958
Folder 11 Me, general
Folders 12-13 Mead, Giles W., 1949-1952, 1954, 1956-1971, 1973
Folder 14 Mees, G. F., 1961, 1963, 1968, 1970
Folder 15 Meinken, Hermann, 1927-1932, 1936, 1945-1952, 1954, 1958, 1960-1961, 1968, 1971, 1976
Box 27
Folder 1 Menon, A. G. K., 1956-1957, 1961-1962, 1967, 1976
Folder 2 Merriam Company, G. & C., 1951-1952
Folder 3 Merriman, Daniel, 1940, 1948, 1951, 1964
Folder 4 Mertens, Robert, 1936-1937, 1948-1949, 1951-1952, 1956, 1958-1959, 1967, 1971. For additional correspondence see box 9, Folder 5.
Folder 5 Mi, general
Folder 6 Miles, Cecil, 1941-1942, 1945, 1947-1948, 1955, 1957, 1967
Folder 7 Miller, Harry M., Jr., 1942, 1944, 1946, 1950
Folder 8 Miller, Richard Gordon, 1948-1949, 1951-1953, 1957, 1962
Folder 9 Miller, Robert C., 1939-1941, 1947-1951, 1955-1956, 1959-1960
Folders 10-12 Miller, Robert Rush, 1937-1942, 1944-1958, 1960-1970, 1979, and undated. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folders 4, 5, 7, and 8; and box 3, Folders 7 and 8.
Folder 13 Miller, William T., 1952-1956
Folder 14 Miranda-Ribeiro, Paulo de, 1928, 1931, 1939-1941, 1950, 1964
Folder 15 Mittleman, Myron Budd, 1941-1942, 1945, 1947-1949
Folder 16 Mo, general
Folder 17 Moe, Henry Allen, 1945, 1947-1949, 1951, 1956, 1958-1959, 1961, 1963. For additional correspondence see box 58, Folder 1.
Folder 18 Mohr, Erna, 1930-1931, 1938-1939, 1948-1949, 1960, 1964. For additional correspondence see box 9, Folder 5.
Folder 19 Moore, George Azro, 1939, 1942, 1956, 1961, 1964, 1966
Box 28
Folder 1 Mu-My, general
Folder 2 Mumford, Edward Philpott, 1939-1940, 1947, and undated
Folder 3 Murphy, Garth Ivor, 1938-1939, 1941, 1946, 1950, 1955
Folder 4 Na, general
Folder 5 Nafpaktitis, Basil G., 1966, 1969-1970
Folder 6 National Research Council, 1946-1948, 1956, 1959. Correspondents include Harold J. Coolidge.
Folder 7 ________________. Pacific Science Board, 1946-1950. Correspondents include Harold J. Coolidge.
Folders 8-9 National Science Foundation, general, 1957-1967. Correspondents include David D. Keck.
Folder 10 ________________. Advisory Panel for Systematic Biology, 1964.
Folder 11 ________________. Grants #4685 and #9903, monthly reconciliation, 1964-1966.
Folder 12 ________________. Proposals and proposal evaluations, 1956-1961.
Box 29
Folders 1-2 National Science Foundation. Proposals and proposal evaluations, 1962-1966.
Folder 3 Naval Research, Office of, 1951-1952. Correspondents include Sidney R. Galler, John Field, and H. J. Carlson.
Folder 4 Ne, general
Folder 5 Necker, Walter Ludwig, 1932, 1938-1942, 1948-1949, 1957-1959
Folder 6 Needham, Paul Robert, 1945-1948, 1950-1951, 1958-1961
Folder 7 Netting, Morris Graham, 1929-1932, 1935-1941, 1944, 1946-1947, 1949-1952, 1956. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folders 4, 5, and 8.
Folder 8 Ni-Ny, general
Folder 9 Niceforo Maria, Hermano, 1931-1932, 1935-1939
Folder 10 Nichols, John Treadwell, 1925-1932, 1937-1939, 1953, 1958
Folder 11 Nijssen, Hans, 1966-1968, 1970, 1974
Box 30
Folder 1 Noble, Gladwyn Kingsley, 1924, 1926-1931, 1939
Folder 2 Norman, J. R., 1923-1926, 1928, 1930-1931, 1933, 1936-1942. The correspondence of 1939-1942 provides a description of the bombing of London and damages suffered by the British Museum (Natural History).
Folder 3 O, general
Folder 4 Ocean Perch Case, 1950-1951. Consists of correspondence concerning Myers' testimony in a libel case brought by the United States Government against the Yaquina Bay Fish Company.
Folder 5 Oliver, James Arthur, 1946, 1951, 1963, 1969
Folder 6 Olsen, Yngve H., 1961-1963
Folder 7 Osgood, Wilfred Hudson, 1925-1926, 1928, 1939
Folder 8 Pa, general
Folder 9 Pacific War Memorial, 1946-1949. Myers served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Pacific War Memorial.
Folder 10 Parker, H. W., 1938-1939, 1942, 1948-1950, 1952, 1956, 1963
Folder 11 Parr, Albert Eide, 1928, 1930, 1936, 1938-1942, 1946, 1949-1950, 1952, 1960
Folder 12 Patterson, Colin, 1966-1967. For additional correspondence see box 37, Folder 16.
Folder 13 Pe-Pf, general
Folder 14 Pearson, Nathan E., 1925, 1927-1929, 1931-1932, 1939-1940, 1953
Folder 15 Pellegrin, Jacques, 1924, 1927-1928, 1930-1932, 1936-1937, 1939-1940
Folder 16 Pesquisa, 1947-1948, 1952. Concerns a project to arrange a collection of Brazilian fishes at the Stanford Natural History Museum.
Folder 17 Peters, James A., 1949, 1951-1959, 1961-1965, 1970, 1972
Box 31
Folder 1 Pfeiffer, Wolfgang, 1963-1964, 1966-1969
Folder 2 Ph-Pi, general
Folder 3 Piranha Case, 1965-1967. Correspondence regarding Myers' testimony in a court case over the importation of piranha to California.
Folder 4 Pl-Po, general
Folder 5 Pletsch, Donald J., 1949
Folder 6 Poll, Max, 1938, 1940, 1945, 1948, 1950-1952, 1956-1957, 1960, 1962-1963, 1965-1969
Folder 7 Pope, Clifford Hillhouse, 1929-1930, 1937-1938, 1950, 1956
Folder 8 Pr-Py, general
Folder 9 Price, Charles E., 1967-1969
Folder 10 Pronek, Neal, 1969-1972
Folder 11 Q, general
Folder 12 Ra, general
Folder 13 Rachow, Arthur, 1923-1931, 1946
Folder 14 Raj, B. Sundara, 1924-1925, 1929, 1932, 1937, 1939-1940
Folder 15 Ramaswami, Ladapur S., 1948-1953
Folder 16 Rambke, H., 1938, and undated
Folder 17 Randall, John Ernest, 1953-1954, 1957, 1961-1964, 1970
Folder 18 Random House, Inc., 1946-1948
Folder 19 Raney, Edward C., 1939, 1947-1952, 1956, 1960-1962. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folders 4, 5, and 8; and box 3, Folders 6 and 7.
Folder 20 Ray, Edward M., 1945-1949
Box 32
Folder 1 Re, general
Folder 2 Reid, Earl D., 1932, 1936-1939
Folder 3 Rh-Ri, general
Folder 4 Rich, Willis Horton, 1932-1933, 1935-1936, 1938-1939, 1946, 1949-1950, 1972, and undated. The correspondence of 1935-1936 concerns Myers' appointment as Associate Professor and Curator of the Zoological Collections at Stanford University.
Folder 5 Richardson, Laurence R., 1939, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1959-1960, and undated
Folder 6 Richmond, Charles Wallace, 1929-1930
Folder 7 Rivas, Luis R., 1941, 1947-1950, 1952-1953, 1956-1957, 1961-1964, 1966, 1968, 1970. For additional correspondence see box 3, Folder 7.
Folder 8 Rivero, Luis Howell, 1938-1939, 1959-1960
Folder 9 Roa-Roe, general
Folder 10 Roberts, H. Radclyffe, 1951-1953, 1964, 1968
Folder 11 Roberts, Tyson Royal, 1961, 1963-1964, 1967-1973, 1975-1977, 1979-1982, 1984, and undated
Folder 12 Robins, C. Richard, 1951, 1959, 1961-1963, 1965-1968, 1979
Folder 13 Roh-Roz, general
Folder 14 Roloff, Erhard, 1939-1940, 1945-1946, 1950-1952, 1965, 1969, 1971
Folder 15 Romer, Alfred Sherwood, 1941, 1944, 1959, 1964, 1966-1968, and undated
Box 33
Folder 1 Rosa, H., Jr., 1946-1948, 1952, 1956, 1961
Folder 2 Rosen, Donn Eric, 1952, 1955-1959, 1961-1966, 1968-1970, 1982. For additional correspondence see box 37, Folder 16.
Folder 3 Rost, Miles E., 1938-1939, 1943
Folder 4 Ru-Ry, general
Folder 5 Rugoff, Milton, 1967-1968
Folder 6 Sa, general
Folder 7 Savage, Jay M., 1948-1952, 1954-1957, 1959, 1962-1966
Folder 8 Sc, general
Folder 9 Schaeffer, Bobb, 1942, 1947-1948, 1951-1952, 1961. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folder 8.
Folder 10 Scheel, Jorgen J., 1963, 1965-1968, 1972
Folder 11 Scherer, William G., 1936-1942, 1946, 1955
Folder 12 Schindler, Otto, 1950-1951, 1955, 1958-1959
Folder 13 Schmidt, Karl Patterson, 1925, 1927, 1930-1932, 1936-1942, 1945-1953, 1955, and undated. For additional correspondence see box 3, Folder 7; and box 37, Folder 10.
Folder 14 Schmidt, Peter J., 1929-1930, 1939, 1946
Box 34
Folder 1 Schmitt, Waldo LaSalle, 1936-1938, 1940, 1943, 1946-1947, 1949, 1951, 1957
Folder 2 Schouteden, H., 1925-1926, 1928-1929, 1931-1933, 1938
Folder 3 Schroeder, William Charles, 1937, 1941, 1946, 1951-1952, 1955, 1966
Folders 4-5 Schultz, Leonard Peter, 1929-1930, 1936-1953, 1955-1960, 1962-1964, 1969. The correspondence of 1936 concerns Schultz's appointment as Assistant Curator in charge of the Division of Fishes, United States National Museum. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folder 8; and box 58, Folders 6-8.
Folder 6 Scofield, Eugene C., 1936-1938
Folder 7 Scofield, W. L., 1937-1939
Folder 8 Scott, E. O. G., 1937-1940, 1956-1957, 1964, 1969
Folder 9 Se, general
Folder 10 Seale, Alvin, 1927-1931, 1937-1938, 1945, 1947-1948, 1956, 1958, and undated
Folder 11 Sh, general
Folder 12 Shapovalov, Leo, 1932, 1935-1936, 1946-1948, 1950-1952, 1955, 1957-1959, 1966, 1972
Folder 13 Si-Sl, general
Folder 14 Simkatis, Helen, 1960, 1962-1964, 1966
Folder 15 Simpson, George Gaylord, 1940, 1951, 1955, 1959, 1968
Folder 16 Sioli, Harald, 1957, 1961-1962, 1969-1970
Box 35
Folder 1 Slater, James R., 1931, 1936-1939, 1941, 1948
Folder 2 Slevin, Joseph R., 1930, 1938, 1940-1942, 1946, 1948-1949, 1956
Folder 3 Sm-Sn, general
Folder 4 Smith, Hobart Muir, 1931-1932, 1937, 1940, 1942, 1945-1949, 1951, 1954, 1956, 1959-1961, 1963-1964, 1968
Folder 5 Smith, Hugh McCormick, 1926, 1929, 1931-1932, 1934, 1936-1941
Folder 6 Smith, James L. B., 1935-1937, 1939-1941, 1947, 1949-1956, 1958-1961, 1963, 1965-1969. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folder 8.
Folder 7 Smith, Ralph A., 1951-1953, 1955-1956, 1962
Folder 8 Snyder, John Otterbein, 1925-1926, 1928-1931, 1941, and undated. Includes correspondence concerning Myers' appointment at Stanford University in 1926.
Folder 9 So-Sr, general
Folder 10 Society for the Study of Evolution, 1946-1947, 1949-1950, 1957, and undated
Folder 11 Society of Systematic Zoology, 1949-1950, 1955-1958, 1962, and undated
Folder 12 Sokol, Otto M., 1946, 1952, 1954-1965, 1967-1970
Folder 13 Springer, Stewart, 1925, 1930-1932, 1937-1941, 1962, 1964, 1968. For additional correspondence see box 39, Folders 4-6.
Folder 14 Springer, Victor G., 1953, 1956-1957, 1959, 1962-1963, 1965-1967, 1971-1972
Box 36
Folder 1 Sta-Ste, general
Folder 2 Stanton, Kenneth, 1938-1941, 1947-1950. Includes photographs, equipment and specimen lists, and notes from the Crocker-Stanford Deep-Sea Expedition, 1938.
Folder 3 Stebbins, Robert C., 1945-1954, 1956-1957, 1960, 1970
Folder 4 Stechert-Hafner, Inc., 1925-1929, 1931-1932, 1941, 1946, 1948
Folder 5 Steinitz, Heinz, 1951, 1953, 1957-1958, 1963-1964, 1967-1968
Folder 6 Sterling, J. E. Wallace, 1953-1954, 1965, 1967, 1970
Folder 7 Sti-Stu, general
Folder 8 Stock, Chester, 1938-1940, 1944
Folder 9 Storer, Tracy I., 1926-1929, 1931-1932, 1938-1939, 1945, 1950-1952, 1961, 1963, 1969
Folder 10 Storey, Margaret H., 1941, 1949, 1960, and undated
Folder 11 Stoye, Frederick H., 1933-1934, 1936-1937, 1945-1947, 1953, 1956
Folder 12 Stroud, Luhrs, 1946-1949
Box 37
Folder 1 Su-Sy, general
Folder 2 Sumner, Francis Bertody, 1926, 1930-1931, 1939
Folder 3 Suvatti, Chote, 1934, 1936-1937, 1940, 1949, 1952, 1961, 1963
Folder 4 Svetovidov, A. N., 1946, 1958-1960, 1964, 1966-1967, 1971. Correspondents include Reeve M. Bailey and James E. Bohlke.
Folder 5 Ta-Te, general
Folder 6 Taft, Alan C., 1937-1942, 1945-1947, 1950-1952, 1958
Folder 7 Talbot, Frank H., 1960-1966, 1968, 1972, 1982, and undated. For additional correspondence see box 8, Folder 9; and box 58, Folder 9.
Folder 8 Taning, A. Vedel, 1929-1931, 1935, 1938-1939, 1945, 1950-1951, 1958. For additional correspondence see box 58, Folder 9.
Folder 9 Tanner, Vasco Myron, 1931, 1936, 1941, 1947-1948, 1960, 1972
Folder 10 Tax-Free Alcohol Problem, 1947-1950. Correspondents include Wilbur I. Follett and Karl P. Schmitt.
Folder 11 Taylor, C. V., 1938-1941, 1945
Folder 12 Taylor, Edward H., 1934, 1939-1941, 1946-1948, 1951-1952, 1954, 1956-1958, 1963-1964. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folders 4-5.
Folder 13 Taylor, William Ralph, 1940, 1949, 1959, 1962, 1965. For additional correspondence see box 22, Folder 3.
Folder 14 Teague, Gerard W., 1945-1946, 1948-1949, 1953-1954, 1970
Folder 15 Tee-Van, John, 1925-1927, 1929, 1937-1941, 1945-1951, 1953-1956, 1959, 1961, 1964. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folders 4, 5, and 8.
Folder 16 Teleostean Fish Classification Project, 1963-1968, 1976. Correspondents include Donn E. Rosen, Stanley H. Weitzman, P. Humphry Greenwood, and Colin Patterson.
Folder 17 Ternetz, Carl, 1925-1927, 1929. Includes correspondence with Carl H. Eigenmann concerning Ternetz' work collecting South American fishes.
Box 38
Folder 1 Th-Ti, general
Folder 2 Theiss, Edward W., 1939, 1943-1944
Folder 3 Thompson, William Francis, 1930-1931, 1933, 1936, 1939, 1948
Folder 4 To-Tr, general
Folder 5 Torres, Dona Heloisa Alberto, 1945-1952. For additional correspondence see box 7, Folder 6.
Folder 6 Tortonese, Enrico, 1940, 1946-1955, 1958-1961, 1965-1966, 1971, and undated. For additional correspondence see box 9, Folder 5.
Folder 7 Trautman, Milton Bernhard, 1936, 1940-1941, 1950, 1956-1957
Folder 8 Travassos, Haroldo, 1946, 1948-1950, 1966, and undated
Folder 9 Tresidder, Donald B., 1945-1947
Folder 10 Trewavas, Ethelwynn, 1930-1931, 1937-1940, 1948-1950, 1952-1961, 1963-1966, 1970-1973, 1975-1977, 1983. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folder 8; and box 9, Folder 5.
Folder 11 Troemner, J. Louis, 1926-1928, 1930-1931, 1933-1934, 1939, 1941-1942, 1945, 1951
Folder 12 Ts-Ty, general
Folder 13 Tubb, J. Alan, 1939, 1944, 1948-1949, 1951, 1954
Folder 14 Tucker, Denys William, 1950, 1957-1963, 1968-1970. Several letters written during 1958-1959 concern Tucker's research on the Loch Ness Monster. For additional correspondence see box 58, Folders 6-9.
Folder 15 Tuna Research, 1934. Correspondents include Henry Bryant Bigelow.
Folder 16 Turner, Bruce J., 1960-1966
Folder 17 Turner, Clarence Lester, 1938-1939, 1964, 1966
Folder 18 Tweedie, M. W. F., 1936, 1938-1939, 1946-1950, 1955-1956
Folder 19 Tyler, James C., 1962-1967, 1970-1971, 1974, 1978
Box 39
Folder 1 U, general
Folder 2 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 1947-1948
Folder 3 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Hylean Amazon Project, 1947-1948.
Folders 4-6 United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 1931, 1941, 1944-1953, 1955, 1957-1959, 1962, 1966-1967, 1969. Includes correspondence concerning Myers' work as an ichthyologist with the Fish and Wildlife Service during the summers of 1951-1953. Correspondents include Paul E. Thompson, Stewart Springer, and William W. Anderson. Correspondence with Lionel A. Walford (box 41, Folders 1-2) also documents Myers' service with the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Folder 7 United States National Museum, 1949, 1962-1963
Folder 8 Va-Ve, general
Folder 9 Van Cleve, Dean Richard, 1932, 1939, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1962
Folders 10-13 George Vanderbilt Foundation (GVF), 1959-1965. The GVF was established at the Stanford Natural History Museum to collect and study fishes from the Southwest Pacific Ocean. Correspondents include Robert R. Rofen, Director of the Foundation. For additional information on the GVF see box 17, Folder 4.
Box 40
Folders 1-2 George Vanderbilt Foundation (GVF), 1966-1967
Folder 3 Van Patten, Nathan, 1937-1942, 1945-1948
Folder 4 Vanzolini, Paulo Emilio, 1946-1950, 1958, 1964, 1967-1968
Folder 5 Vi-Vu, general
Folder 6 Villadolid, Deogracias V., 1927-1928, 1936, 1939-1941, 1945, 1954. For additional correspondence see box 24, Folder 10.
Folder 7 Viosca, Paul Percy, Jr., 1927, 1930, 1937, 1939
Folder 8 Wa, general
Folder 9 Wade, Charles Barkely, 1939-1942, 1945-1946, 1948-1952, 1956
Folder 10 Wales, Joseph Howe, 1939, 1946, 1956, 1976, 1985, and undated
Folder 11 Walford, Lionel A., 1929-1931, 1935-1939, 1944-1950. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folders 4-5.
Box 41
Folders 1-2 Walford, Lionel A., 1951-1964, 1967-1969, 1971, 1975, and undated. Includes correspondence concerning Myers' work as an ichthyologist for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service during the summers of 1951-1953.
Folder 3 Ward's Natural Science Establishment, 1928, 1936-1937, 1939, 1956
Folder 4 Washington Biologists' Field Club, The, 1935, 1951, 1956-1959, 1961-1964, 1971-1972, 1979-1980
Folder 5 We, general
Folder 6 Weed, Alfred C., 1923-1924, 1927, 1932-1933, 1936-1937, 1939
Folder 7 Weise, Hugo, 1932, 1937
Folders 8-9 Weitzman, Stanley Howard, 1963-1971, 1974-1982, and undated. For additional correspondence see box 22, Folder 3; and box 37, Folder 16.
Folder 10 Western Society of Naturalists, The, 1946, 1950-1952, 1954-1958, 1961-1962, 1964, 1966-1967
Folder 11 Wetmore, Alexander, 1925, 1930-1933, 1935-1937, 1939-1942, 1945, 1947, 1950, 1968, 1971. Includes correspondence concerning Myers' appointment as Assistant Curator in charge of the Division of Fishes, United States National Museum in 1933.
Folder 12 Wh, general
Folder 13 Wheeler, Alwyne C., 1961-1962, 1967, 1969-1970, 1979
Box 42
Folder 1 Wheldon & Wesley Limited, 1937-1941, 1944, 1948, 1950, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1961-1963, 1966-1967, 1975
Folder 2 White, C. Langdon, 1945, 1949
Folder 3 White, Errol I., 1931, 1937, 1946-1947, 1958
Folders 4-5 White, Thomas D., 1941-1942, 1945-1949, 1951, 1955-1964, 1966. Includes correspondence concerning his work collecting fishes in Brazil, 1941-1942. See box 58, Folder 10 for field notes kept by Myers and White on collecting trips to Colombia in 1958 and 1960.
Folder 6 _______________. Correspondence with Margaret H. Storey, 1947-1958.
Folder 7 Whitehead, Peter J., 1961-1964, 1966, 1970-1971, 1977, 1979, and undated
Folder 8 Whitley, Gilbert Percy, 1927-1928, 1931, 1936-1937, 1939-1940, 1942, 1951, 1958. Includes a photograph of Whitley.
Folder 9 Wi, general
Folder 10 Wiggins, Ira Loren, 1945-1950, 1960
Folder 11 Wilbur, Roy L., 1923, 1926-1928, 1936, 1938-1941. Includes correspondence concerning Myers' appointment as Associate Professor and Curator of Zoological Collections at Stanford University in 1936.
Folder 12 Wilimovsky, Norman Joseph, 1949-1950, 1952, 1956-1958, 1961-1964, 1968-1969
Box 43
Folder 1 Wo, general
Folder 2 Woods, Loren P., 1945-1946, 1951-1959, 1962-1963. For additional correspondence see box 2, Folder 8.
Folder 3 Wourms, John P., 1972, 1974, 1978-1979, 1982, and undated.
Folder 4 Wr-Wy, general
Folder 5 Wright, Albert Hazen, 1926, 1931, 1935, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1952-1953, 1955-1956
Folder 6 Wulff, Lee, 1958-1959, 1963, 1965
Folder 7 Y, general
Folder 8 Z, general
Folder 9 Zehren, Steven J., 1978
Folder 10 Unidentified correspondence and fragments of letters
Series 2
PUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS, 1924-1978.This series consists of handwritten, annotated drafts and typescripts of scientific manuscripts and popular articles published by George Sprague Myers. Also included are notes used in the preparation of the manuscripts, and reprints of articles.
Arranged chronologically.
Box 43
Folder 11 "The Reptiles and Amphibians of Wilmington, North Carolina." (published as "Amphibians and Reptiles from Wilmington, North Carolina"). Copeia, no. 131, pp. 59-62. 30 June 1924.
Folder 12 "On a Genus of Bivibranchine Characin Fishes from Brazil," Carl H. Eigenmann and George S. Myers. (published as "A new Genus of Brazilian Characin Fishes allied to Bivibranchia"). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 565-566. August 1927.
Folder 13 "A comparison of the skeletons of the Characin fishes Brycinus grandisquamis, Alestes liebrechtsii, and Brycon oligolepis." Published in part in "Cranial differences in the African Characin fishes of the genera Alestes and Brycinus, with notes on the arrangement of related genera." American Museum Novitates, no. 342, 7 pp. 2 March 1929.
Folder 14 "The classification of the African cyprinodont fishes." (published as "The classification of the African Cyprinodont fishes with a discussion of the geographical distribution of the Cyprinodontidae of the world"). Stanford University Bulletin series 5, no. 158 (abstracts of dissertations, vol. 8, 1932-1933), pp. 10-12. 31 July 1933.
Folder 15 "A new Characid fish of the genus Hyphessobrycons from the Peruvian Amazon." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 49, pp. 97-98. 3 July 1936.
Folder 16 "On the Indo-Australian fishes of the genus Scatophagus, with description of a new genus Selenotoca." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 49, pp. 83-85. 3 July 1936.
Folder 17 "A third record of the Albulid fish Dixonina nemoptera Fowler, with notes on a Albulid from the Eocene of Maryland." Copeia, no. 2, pp. 83-85. 31 July 1936.
Folder 18 "A note on the Stephananoberycid fishes." Copeia, no. 2, p. 118. 31 July 1936.
Folder 19 "A new polynemid fish collected in the Sadong River, Sarawak, by Dr. William T. Hornaday, with notes on the genera of Polynemidae." Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, vol. 26, no. 9, pp. 376-382. 15 September 1936.
Box 44
Folder 1 "Report on fishes collected by Mr. H. C. Raven in Lake Tanganyika in 1930." Proceedings of the United States National Museum, vol. 84, no. 2998, pp. 1-15. 24 September 1936.
Folder 2 "Description of a new blennioid fish of the genus Acanthembmaria from the Pacific coast of Panama," George S. Myers and Earl D. Reid. Alan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 7-10. December 1936.
Folder 3 "Notes on phallostethid fishes." Proceedings of the United States National Museum, vol. 84, no. 3007, pp. 134-143. 6 January 1937.
Folder 4 "The deep-sea zeomorph fishes of the family Grammicolepidae." Proceedings of the United States National Museum, vol. 84, no. 3008, pp. 145-156. 18 January 1937.
Folder 5 "A contribution to the ichthyology of the Malay Peninsula. Part II. Fresh-water fishes," Albert W. C. T. Herre and George S. Myers. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, no. 13, pp. 53-75. August 1937.
Folder 6 "A possible method of evolution of oral brooding habits in the cichlid fishes." Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 85-87. 3 February 1939.
Folder 7 "A new owstonid fish from deep water off the Philippines." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 52, pp. 19-20. 11 March 1939.
Folder 8 "The neotropical anchovies of the genus Amplovia." Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4th series, vol. 23, no. 29, pp. 437-442. 31 December 1940.
Folder 9 "The Amazon and its fishes. Part 1. The river." The Aquarium Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 4-9. 3 March 1947.
Folder 10 "Initial steps in the conservation of fresh-water fisheries in tropical South America, with remarks on fishery resources in general." Proceedings of the Inter-American Conference on Conservation of Renewable Natural Resources. Denver, Colorado, September 7-20, pp. 501-506. 1948.
Folder 11 "Studies on Anostomine Characid fishes." (Possibly published as "Studies on South American freshwater fishes II. The genera of Anostomine Characids." Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 184-198. 21 August 1950.
Folder 12 "The protection of rare or vanishing fishes." Proceedings 7th Pacific Science Congress (New Zealand, February 1949), vol. 4, pp. 691-694. March 1954
Folder 13 "Manual of Tropical Herpetological Collecting." Natural History Museum of Stanford University, Circular no. 4. 1956.
Folder 14 "Brief Directions for Preserving and Shipping Specimens of Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles." Natural History Museum of Stanford University, Circular no. 5. 1956.
Folder 15 "Curatorial Practices in Zoological Research Collections." George S. Myers and Margaret H. Storey. Natural History Museum of Stanford University, Circular no. 6. 1956.
Folder 16 "Trends in the evolution of teleostean fishes." Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 27-30. 31 July 1958.
Folder 17 [Obituary of] "Margaret Hamilton Storey (1900-1960)." Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 4, p. 62a. 27 October 1960.
Folder 18 "Preface to any future classification of the cyprinid fishes of the genus Barbus." Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 345-346. 27 October 1960.
Folder 19 "Generic Type Species Citation in Taxonomic Zoology." Natural History Museum of Stanford University, Circular no. 8. 1961.
Folder 20 "Phylax telescopus - V." Copeia, no. 1, pp. 117-120. 17 March 1961.
Folder 21 "The fresh water fauna of North America." Proceedings, XVI International Congress of Zoology, vol. 4, pp. 15-20. August 1963.
Folder 22 "How to become an Ichthyologist." Parts 1-3 (part 4 is missing). Tropical Fish Hobbyist, vol. 14. 1966.
Folder 23 "Two remarkable new trichomycterid catfishes from the Amazon basin in Brazil and Colombia," George S. Myers and Stanley H. Weitzman. Journal of Zoology, vol. 149, pp. 277-287. July 1966.
Folder 24 "Megalomycteridae, a previously unrecognized family of deep-sea cetomimform fishes based on two new genera from the North Atlantic," George S. Myers and Warren C. Freihofer. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 193-206. 7 October1966.
Folder 25 "Derivation of the freshwater fish fauna of Central America." Copeia, vol. 4, pp. 766-773. 23 December 1966.
Folder 26 [Review of] Breder, C. M., and Rosen, D. E., "Modes of reproduction in fishes." Natural History, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 66-67. February 1967.
Folder 27 "Peace! It's wonderful." Palo Alto Times, Thursday, 27 November 1969, p. 26.
Folder 28 [Obituary of] "Isaac Ginsburg." Copeia, no. 1, pp. 217-219. 1976.
Folder 29 "A Freshwater Seahorse." Pacific Discovery, vol. XXXII, no. 1, pp. 30-31. Jan-Feb 1979.
Folder 30 "A Freshwater Seahorse - Confirmation of Its Existence after a 25-year Wait." Tropical Fish Hobbyist, circa 1979.
Folder 31 "Santa Cruz Naturalist." Myers apparently distributed this self-published series of papers during the 1970s. Drafts and copies of articles.
Folder 32 "The Natural History Column." Santa Cruz Sentinel, circa 1978. Drafts and copies of articles.
Series 3
UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS AND SPEECHES, CIRCA 1927-1980 AND UNDATED.This series includes handwritten drafts, typescripts, and related notes used by George Sprague Myers in the preparation of scientific manuscripts. Also included are copies of speeches, biographical sketches, papers on museum practice, anecdotal accounts, commentaries, and reminiscences written by Myers after his retirement from teaching. The manuscripts are presumed to be unpublished. However, a few papers may have been published after 1970 when Myers' final bibliography appeared in "Festschrift for George Sprague Myers," Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 19-52. An occasional piece of correspondence is found with the manuscripts.
Arranged alphabetically.
Box 45
Folder 1 "Alexandre Rodrigues Ferrerra, the first naturalist-explorer of the Amazon, with especial reference to his ichthyological contributions," undated
Folder 2 "Amphibians and reptiles of the urban area of Palo Alto and Stanford, California," undated
Folder 3 "Anent piranhas," circa 1970
Folder 4 "Animal behavior," undated. Unidentified speech.
Folder 5 "[The] animal ecologist joins the systematist in analyzing the beginning of evolution," 1952. Speech delivered at Symposium on Evolution, Mills College, Oakland, California, April, 1952.
Folder 6 "Another record of the Ecuadorian casque-headed hylid frog, Tetraprion jordani," undated
Folder 7 "Antiquity and derivation," undated
Folder 8 "[The] bearing of fish and amphibian distribution on the supposed continental connections of the Philippine Archipelago," undated
Folder 9 "[The] biologist's guide to useful information," undated
Folder 10 "Bird islands of Peru," undated. Part of a projected article.
Folder 11 [Obituary of] "Rolf Ling Bolin (1901-1973)," undated
Folder 12 "Brief summary of the status of faunal knowledge of American fishes in 1850," undated
Folder 13 "[The] case of Cutler and Nasus," undated
Folder 14 Catfishes. Miscellaneous unpublished papers.
Folders 15-16 "Characid fishes of the genus Salminus -- The Dorados and Tabaranas of South America," circa 1970
Folder 17 "Classification of the characins," undated
Folder 18 "Collecting fishes for scientific purposes: a manual for field workers, with an appendix on the collection of reptiles, amphibians, and certain aquatic invertebrates," 1940
Box 46
Folder 1 "[A] contribution to the ichthyology of the Rio Iguassu in Southern Brazil," undated. Includes photographs.
Folder 2 "Contributions to Oriental Ichthyology. I. Notes on the Chinese Blenniod fish Plagiotremus spilistius Gill. II. On the identity of the Labrid fish Lepidaplois mirabilis Snyder, from the Riu Kiu Islands, with Xiphochilus fasciatus Guenther, from Cape York, Australia," undated.
Folder 3 "Contributions to the Ichthyology of the Rio Negro and Rio Orinoco based on the collections of Dr. Carl Ternetz. I. Memoir of Carl Ternetz, with his itinerary from Manaos to Caicara, and figures of some fishes described from his collections," circa 1932.
Folder 4 "[A] critique of Gregory and Conrad on the phylogeny of Isospondylous, Iniomian, and Characin fishes," circa 1936
Folder 5 "Derivation of the term `cobra' as an English word for hooded elapid snakes," undated
Folder 6 "Description of a new species of tuna from the New Jersey coast," 1935
Folder 7 "[The] distribution of the oviparous cyprinodont fishes and the problem of a tertiary South American - African land bridge." Paper read at the annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Boston, 1933.
Folder 8 "[The] Dourado of the Rio Sao Francisco described as a new species (Pisces, Characidae)," undated
Folder 9 "Essays on biogeography," undated. Outline of a proposed book.
Folder 10 "Evolution of fish fauna in large deep lakes," undated
Folder 11 "Evolution of nesting and parental care in the lower vertebrates," undated
Folder 12 "Evolution of the earliest fishes with reference to body form and the validity of the fin-fold theory," undated
Folder 13 "Evolutionary convergences among catfishes," undated
Folder 14 "[The] familial name of the pygidiid or trichomycterid catfishes of South America - A problem in zoology and nomenclature," circa 1970
Folder 15 "Fighting habits in fishes," undated
Folder 16 "[The] fishes Gnathocharax and Monocirrhus in British Guiana," circa 1934. Possibly a draft of "Gnathocharax steindachneri, a new Characin for the aquarium." The Home Aquarium Bulletin, 4, 7 (September 1934): 5, 29-30.
Folder 17 "Fishes of Brazil." Written for an Encyclopedia Britannica article on Brazil by P. A. Martin.
Folder 18 "[The] Flowering of Systematic Ichthyology, 1850-1950," undated
Folder 19 "Franklin and Marie Antoinette," undated
Folder 20 "[The] Fresh-water fish fauna of Africa," undated
Folder 21 "Fresh-water fishes from the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil," undated
Folder 22 "[The] Future of Ichthyology in China," undated
Folder 23 "[The] genera of Mormyrid fishes," undated
Folder 24 "[The] genera of South American characid fishes allied to Pyrrhulina," undated
Folder 25 "General account of the order Ostariophysi," George S. Myers and Stanley H. Weitzman, circa 1960. Written as chapter 1. of Fishes of the Western North Atlantic.
Folder 26 "Generic assignment of the African and Asiatic snakehead fishes," undated
Folder 27 "[The] geographical distribution of the killi fishes." Paper read for Myers by John T. Nichols at the meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Philadelphia, 29 April 1927.
Folder 28 "Golan Heights," circa 1970s
Folder 29 "Graduate work in ichthyology and herpetology at Stanford," 1952
Folder 30 "[The] gyrino carp (Gyrinocheilus) appears in American aquariums," undated
Folder 31 "Hamilton - Buchanan's `gangetic' fishes, and the name of the pale killifish (Oryzias) of India, with notes on specializations in teleostean pectoral fin position," undated
Folder 32 "Handling species synonymies in taxonomic zoology," undated
Folder 33 "[The] Hawaiian stromateip fishes of the genera Cubiceps and Ariomma," 1933
Folder 34 "Oliver Perry Hay." Biographical sketch.
Box 47
Folder 1 "Herotilapia multispinosa, a Nicaraguan cichlid fish that hangs its young on aquatic plants -- the end of a 50-year search," undated
Folders 2-3 "Herotilapia multispinosa, a Central American cichlid fish that hangs its young on aquatic plants -- the end of a 50-year search," circa 1978-1979
Folder 4 "Herpetological reminiscences," circa 1970s-1980s
Folder 5 "Historical notes: the original collectors of Bufo canorus Camp and Crotalus pricei Van Denburgh (Herpetology)," undated
Folder 6 "History, identity, and probable distribution of an American cichlid fish, Cichlasoma biocellatum Regan, from an unknown locality," George S. Myers and Luis R. Rivas, circa 1962
Folder 7 "[The] Hong Kong newt," undated
Folder 8 "Identity of Rivulus dorni Myers," undated
Folder 9 "In defense of Mesogonistius," undated
Folder 10 "[An] introduction to biogeography." Plan for a text book.
Folder 11 "Is parental care a primitive behavioral characteristic of vertebrates?," undated
Folder 12 "Island-hopping frogs and East-Indian Zoogeography," 1949. Speech delivered at the annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Washington, D.C., June, 1949. Also presented under the title, "Ability of Amphibians to cross sea barriers, with especial reference to Pacific zoogeography," at the Seventh Pacific Science Congress, Auckland, New Zealand, February, 1949.
Folder 13 "Key to Western Atlantic species of Peristedion based largely on head characters," circa 1934
Folder 14 "Late cenozoic fish and crocodilian fossils from Pebas, Amazonian Peru," undated
Folder 15 "Leaf-nosed anoles," undated
Folder 16 "[The] library needs of the systematist," undated. Outline of a proposed book.
Folder 17 "Lumping and splitting," undated
Folder 18 "Man-o'-war birds drinking fresh water in the Galapagos," circa 1949. Includes a letter from Robert C. Murphy to Myers, 10 October 1949.
Folder 19 "Modern methods of ichthyological collecting: a brief historical survey," undated
Folder 20 "More on softshell turtles in Hawaii," circa 1980s
Folder 21 "Mutanda Ichthyologica III," circa 1930. Apparently intended for publication in Copeia.
Box 48
Folder 1 "[The] name of Gymnocalycium saglionis," undated
Folder 2 "[The] name of the great Indian carp, Catla," undated
Folder 3 "[The] natural history museum," undated. Outline of a proposed book.
Folder 4 "Natural history notes, Scotts Valley, California," 1977, and undated
Folder 5 "[The] nature of systematics," undated
Folder 6 "[The] Navy, atomic bombs, and the Atomic Energy Commission," circa 1970s - 1980s
Folder 7 "[A] new genus of characid fishes allied to Copeina and Pyrrhulina," undated
Folder 8 "[A] new mirapinnoid fish from the Pacific," undated
Folder 9 "Nomenclatural notes on the killifish names Callopanchax and Roloffia," undated
Folder 10 "Nomenclatural notes on labyrinthicine fishes," undated
Folder 11 "Nomenclature," undated
Folder 12 "Notas sobre algunos peces del oriente peruano," undated
Folder 13 "Note on Haworthia," undated
Folder 14 "[A] note on the fishes of the South American cichlid genus Pterophyllum," undated
Folder 15 "Notes on Dominican killifishes," undated
Folder 16 "Notes on fishes from Petersburg, Alaska," undated
Folder 17 "Notes on scatophagid fishes, especially Scatophagus frontalis Agassiz from the eocene of Monte Bolca," circa 1970
Folder 18 "Notes on the aruana and its relatives (Ostegeoglossidae)," undated
Folder 19 "Notes on the caecilians in the Natural History Museum of Stanford University and the Government Museum of Madras," undated
Folder 20 "Notes on the cyprinid fishes of the genus Barilius, with a synopsis of the barilius-like genera of Africa," undated
Folder 21 "Notes on the disruptive coloration and geographical distribution of certain South American striped catfishes of the genus Corydoras," undated
Folder 22 "Notes on the great Siberian explosion of June 30, 1908," June 1978
Folder 23 "Notes on the lower vertebrate animals of Gorgona Island, Colombia," undated
Folder 24 "Notes on the names of some Congo fishes (Ichthyological; Labeo longipinnis)," 31 March 1935
Folder 25 "Notes on the South American poecilid fish Tomeurus gracilis," 1933
Folder 26 "Notes on turtles from Brazil and Puerto Rico," undated
Folder 27 "Notes on two cyprinid fishes from Lower Burma, Brachydanio albolineatus (Blyth) and B. nigrofasciatus (Day)," undated
Folder 28 "Notropis chiliticus, an addition to the fish fauna of Virginia," undated
Folder 29 "[The] number of existing species of fishes," undated
Folder 30 "[The] number of species of living fishes," undated
Folder 31 "Observations on the Wilmington newt, Triturus viridescens dorsalis (Harlan)," undated
Folder 32 "On Hyla andersonii Baird," undated
Folder 33 "On Indo-Pacific blennioid fishes of the family Microdesmidae with notes on Paragobioides," undated
Folder 34 "On secondary sexual characters in Oxyzyyonectis dovii and some other killifishes," undated
Folder 35 "On South American tree-frogs (Hyla) with a reticulated color pattern," undated
Folder 36 "On the fishes of the family Veliferidae, with some remarks on the phylogeny of the Allotriognathi," undated
Folder 37 "On the Macrurocyttidae, a remarkable new family of Zeoid Acanthopterygians, with notes on other recently described Philippine fishes," undated
Folder 38 "On the name of Notropis cummingsi," undated
Folder 39 "On the presence of cichlid in Santo Domingo, with description of a new Cichlasoma," undated
Folder 40 "On the tropical American fishes described by Humboldt and Valenciennes in Humboldt and Bonpland, 1806-1821," undated
Folder 41 "Ostariophysan fishes and continental drift," circa 1963
Folder 42 "Ostariophysan success," undated
Folder 43 "[An] overlooked publication on neotropical characid fishes by C. H. Eigenmann, concerning Phenagoniates, Pseudocheirodon, Mimagoniates, and Arnoldi," undated
Box 49
Folder 1 "Paranoid schizoids," undated
Folder 2 "Personal observations on the extent of the South American rain forest with especial reference to the distribution of lower vertebrates," undated
Folder 3 "Phylax Telescopus -- VII," circa 1962. Apparently intended for publication in Copeia.
Folder 4 "Plan for future of the Natural History Museum," undated
Folder 5 "[The] `Plata Salamander' -- A zoological detective story involving amphibians, Spanish Conquistadors, animal geography, and the California gold rush of 1849," undated
Folder 6 "[A] plea for euphony and care in forming taxonomic names," undated
Folder 7 "Pots, watering, wintering, and growth in cacti and euphorbias," undated
Folder 8 "The present state and needs of systematic ichthyology," circa 1951-1952. Apparently Myers' outgoing presidential address delivered before the annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1951 or 1952.
Folder 9 "[The] present state of Chinese systematic ichthyology," undated
Folder 10 "[The] present status of systematic zoology as illustrated by work with fishes." Paper delivered at the University of Michigan, 28 November 1956.
Folder 11 "Primary fresh-water nature of Ostariophysans," undated
Folder 12 "[A] problem of goby classification," undated
Folder 13 "[The] problem of the languages of zoology," undated
Folder 14 "[The] problem of Roloffia versus Callopanchax," 13 November 1975
Folder 15 "Problems of nomenclature and dating of Spix and Agassiz's Brazilian Fishes (1829)," George S. Myers and Peter J. P. Whitehead, undated
Folder 16 "Professor Bailey on the Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, with some comments on the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature," undated
Folder 17 "[The] rarest fish in the show," undated
Folder 18 "Reading list for students intending to take the doctorate in systematic ichthyology at Stanford University," undated
Folder 19 "[A] reclassification of geography," July 1944
Folder 20 "Relationship of the fish Cromeria, with a note on Neoteny in fish classification," undated
Folder 21 "[The] relict distribution of microhylid frogs, the problem of monotypic genera, and the age of firmisternal frog groups," undated
Folder 22 "[A] remarkable new siluroid fish from Amazonia, type of a new family of siluroid fishes," undated
Folder 23 "Reminiscences of an aquarist and ichthyologist," undated. Includes a description of Myers' field work on Cocos Islands and in Brazil.
Folder 24 "Replacement of Crossostoma, a preoccupied generic name of Chinese homalopterid fishes," undated
Folder 25 "Representation of the world's fish fauna in museum collections," undated
Folder 26 "[The] reptile genus Uropeltis cuvier 1829, and the practice of genotypic citation," undated
Folder 27 [Review of] Benson, Lyman. "The Native Cacti of California," circa 1969.
Folder 28 [Review of] Tyler, James C. "A monograph on Plectognath fishes of the subfamily Triacanthoidea," circa 1969. Includes a letter from Tyler to Myers, 29 October 1969.
Folder 29 [Review of] Wood, Casey A. "An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology," undated
Folder 30 "Rhipsalis," undated
Folder 31 "Rhipsalis - A problem in evolutionary geography," undated
Folder 32 "[The] riddle of fresh-water fishes," undated
Box 50
Folder 1 "[A] semi-aquatic Amazonian cactus," undated
Folder 2 "[The] slimy salamander and its relatives," undated
Folder 3 "[The] smallest fishes, the smallest amphibians, and the smallest vertebrates," undated
Folder 4 "Some aspects of the history of systematic ichthyology." Paper read before the History of Science Club, Berkeley, California, 8 January 1952.
Folder 5 "Some features of catfish evolution," undated
Folder 6 "Some modern concepts in systematic biology and their relation to the type concept," undated
Folder 7 "Some notes for a review of the development of fish taxonomy," undated
Folder 8 "Some principles of biogeography," undated
Folder 9 "Some reflections on cactus taxonomy," undated
Folder 10 "Something on origins," undated. Manuscript on domestic cats.
Folder 11 "Songs of the marshes," undated. Forward to a projected book.
Folder 12 "[The] specific name of the Amazonian fish, Osteoglossum," undated
Folder 13 "Stanford fish collection," 3 February 1958
Folder 14 "Stanford's Natural History Museum," undated
Folder 15 "[A] strange new genus of Anostomine characid fishes from the headwaters of the Rio Xingu in central Brazil," George S. Myers and Antenor Leitao de Carvalho, undated
Folder 16 "Studies on the genera of cyprinodont fishes XV. Haplochilanodon, a remarkable new genus from East Africa," undated
Folder 17 "Suggestions for a governmental fisheries program in the tropics," undated
Folder 18 "Supplementary notes on migrating fish terms," undated
Folder 19 "[A] synopsis of the genera of fishes," undated. Outline of a proposed book.
Folder 20 "[The] system of multiple types for higher categorical names," undated
Folder 21 "Systematic status of the Asiatic and African fresh-water fish genera Ophicephalus and Channa, with notes on the absence of pelvic fins in these fishes," undated
Folder 22 "Taxonomic status of a large Amazonian catfish, Platynematichthys notatus," undated
Folder 23 "Temperature tolerance in young blackbanded sunfish (Mesogonistius chaetodon), with notes on generic classification," undated
Folder 24 "Tentative artificial key to the orders of soft-ray bony fishes," August 1955
Folder 25 "Trends in generic limitation among the lower vertebrates," undated
Folder 26 "Turtles in the market at Belem Do Para, Brazil," undated
Folder 27 "[The] type locality of Notropis cummings myers," 22 April 1973
Folder 28 "Type specimens of the Japanese fishes described by Shigeho Tanaka in the Field Museum, Chicago," undated
Folder 29 "Type specimens of some Asiatic chaetodontid fishes, described by Seale and Ahl, in the Stanford Natural History Museum," undated
Folder 30 "Thomas D. White," undated. Partial biographical sketch.
Folder 31 "Zoogeographic relationships of the fresh-water fish fauna of Madagascar," undated
Folder 32 "Zoogeography and continental drift - a brief retrospect," undated
Folder 33 "[The] zoogeography and dispersal of the anchovies," undated
Folder 34 "Zoogeography of the Anchovies," undated. Unidentified speech.
Folder 35 "Zoogeography of the killifishes," undated
Folder 36 Unidentified speech, undated
Series 4
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL FILES, 1927-1973, AND UNDATED.This series provides partial documentation of George Sprague Myers' career as Professor of Biology and Curator of Zoological Collections at Stanford University from 1936 to 1970. Included is correspondence with various Stanford administrators, staff, and offices; administrative records dealing with the operation of the Biology Department and Natural History Museum; examinations, course outlines, and other classroom materials; and correspondence with graduate students who studied under Myers.
Arranged alphabetically.
Box 51
Folder 1 General correspondence with Stanford University officers and programs, 1952-1957
Folder 1A Correspondence and a small quantity of research notes documenting Myers' career as a herpetologist and ichthyologist at Stanford University, 1927-1973 and undated (Accession 06-205)
Folder 2 Biology Department. General correspondence, 1962-1968.
Folder 3 ________________. Curriculum, 1962.
Folders 4-5 ________________. Faculty meetings, 1947-1955, 1969-1970.
Folder 6 ________________. Seminars, 1951.
Folder 7 ________________. Miscellaneous, 1950-1951.
Folder 8 Brazilian Conference, 1950
Folder 9 Committee on Latin American Studies, 1951
Folder 10 Committee on Pacific and Asiatic Studies, 1945-1948
Folder 11 Division of Systematic Biology. Budget statements, 1962-1967.
Box 52
Folder 1 Division of Systematic Biology. Floorplans and blueprints, undated.
Folder 2 Examinations, course outlines, and related materials, 1955-1970, and undated
Folder 3 Freshman seminars, 1965-1966
Folder 4 Graduate Policy Committee, 1962-1968
Folder 5 Graduate students. Steven C. Anderson, 1966-1968.
Folder 6 ________________. Benjamin H. Banta, 1958-1963.
Folder 7 ________________. Joan A. Bricker, 1960.
Folder 8 ________________. Leonard J. V. Campagno, 1966.
Folder 9 ________________. William Lai-Yee Chan, 1958-1962.
Folder 10 Graduate Students. Eugene Coan, 1967.
Folder 11 ________________. Hugh H. DeWitt, 1960-1966. The letters of 8 September and 19 November 1962 concern DeWitt's participation on the Eltanin cruise off the coast of Chile.
Folder 12 ________________. D. H. Evans, 1963.
Folder 13 ________________. H. Adair Fehlmann, 1960-1964.
Folder 14 ________________. Warren C. Freihofer, 1957, 1961, 1965, 1970.
Folder 15 ________________. Edward Groth III, 1966.
Folder 16 ________________. Robert L. Hassur, 1964.
Folder 17 ________________. Maarten Korringa, 1965-1969.
Folder 18 ________________. Howard McCully, 1959-1962.
Folder 19 ________________. Howard A. Munseterman, 1957, 1960.
Folder 20 ________________. Frederick W. Schnierer, 1964.
Folder 21 ________________. Michael Soule, 1960, 1963.
Folder 22 ________________. Sara Anne Thompson, 1958.
Folder 23 ________________. James C. Tyler, 1957-1959, and undated. Includes an undated letter concerning a trip to Brazil by Tyler.
Folder 24 ________________. James Frederick Waters, 1958.
Folder 25 ________________. Stanley H. Weitzman, 1957, 1963.
Folder 26 ________________. Dan Willard, 1960.
Folder 27 ________________. John P. Wourms, 1960-1966.
Folder 28 ________________. Admissions and awards, 1962-1970.
Folder 29 ________________. Bibliographies, undated.
Folder 30 ________________. Thesis titles, 1957, 1961, and undated.
Box 53
Folder 1 Natural History Museum. Personnel - Richard W. Holm, 1956-1970.
Folder 2 ________________. Personnel - Alan E. Leviton, 1956-1968.
Folder 3 ________________. Personnel - Margaret H. Storey, 1960-1961. Includes a biographical sketch, obituaries, and letters of condolence on the death of Storey.
Folder 4 ________________. Personnel - Ira L. Wiggins, 1959-1961.
Folder 5 ________________. Plans, 1961, and undated.
Folder 6 ________________. Reports, 1927, 1936, and undated.
Folder 7 New Students, 1962-1967.
Folder 8 Sigma Xi, 1956-1957, and undated.
Folder 9 Stanford University Libraries, 1966-1973.
Folder 10 Stanford University Press, 1940-1966.
Folder 11 Third Stanford Conference on Latin America, 1951.
Folder 12 "Zoology Project" Fund, 1953.
Series 5
RESEARCH MATERIALS, UNDATED.This series contains notes, partial manuscripts, reprints, maps, illustrations, and photographs relating to George Sprague Myers' research on fishes, reptiles and amphibians, and zoogeography.
Arranged alphabetically.
Box 54
Folders 1-3 Notes on frogs, undated.
Folders 4-8 Miscellaneous research materials, undated.
Box 55
Folders 1-5 Miscellaneous research materials, undated.
Box 56
Folders 1-4 Miscellaneous research materials, undated.
Folder 5 Photographs of fishes, undated.
Folder 6 Illustrations of fishes, undated.
Series 6
COLLECTED PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL MATERIALS, CIRCA 1915-1970, AND UNDATED.This series consists of assembled materials relating to the professional life and personal affairs of George Sprague Myers. Included are notebooks, catalogues, manuscripts, illustrations, and related materials documenting the development of his internet in ichthyology and herpetology, especially his early work with aquarium fishes; various records created during his high school and college work; records documenting field work and collecting trips, participation in professional activities, and official travel; employment records; files concerning professional controversies; personal memorabilia; and miscellaneous biographical, bibliographical, and family materials.
Arranged chronologically.
Box 57
Folder 1 High School notebook, undated. Contains notes on Homer's "The Odyssey."
Folder 2 Bibliographies, 1920-1960.
Folder 3 Notes, manuscripts, and illustrations from Myers' initial work on aquarium fishes, circa 1920-1925, and undated.
Folder 4 "Catalogue of Preserved Natural History Specimens in the Collection of George S. Myers of Jersey City, New Jersey, May 12, 1923."
Folder 5 Notebook, 1924-1929, and undated. Includes field notes, Arlington, New Jersey, April 1924; outline of a paper, "New genera of African Characins;" manuscript of a paper by Myers and G. K. Noble, "A contribution to the life-history of the northern gopher frog Rana areolata;" notes on reptiles and amphibians of Indiana, salamanders with Merrill Brown, 9 March 1929, location uncertain; field notes on a trip to Yosemite National Park, 19-20 June 1928; and notes on fishes, reptiles, and amphibians examined.
Folder 6 Miscellaneous papers from Myers' college work at Indiana University, 1925. Includes a paper "The Science of Swift, based on his ?Gulliver's Travels.'"
Folder 7 Student records, Stanford University, 1926, 1930-1931.
Folder 8 Autograph book from a farewell party for Myers after his resignation from the United States National Museum, 20 August 1936.
Box 58
Folder 1 Brazil, 1941-1942. From 1942 to 1944, Myers served as a special professor of ichthyology at the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro. This work was supported by the Committee for Inter-American Artistic and Intellectual Relations, a government supported effort to maintain good relations with Latin America during World War II. This correspondence documents Myers' appointment, preparations for travel, and his work in Brazil. Correspondents include Carl L. Hubbs and Henry Allen Moe.
Folder 2 Personal and payroll records, 1945-1958.
Folder 3 New Zealand trip, 1949. Myers traveled to New Zealand as a Delegate at the Seventh Pacific Science Conference.
Folder 4 Passports, circa 1950's - 1960's.
Folder 5 "Scrapbook of leaflets and directions on how to use or operate different aquarium products and appliances," 1952-1954.
Folders 6-8 Axelrod Controversy, 1953-1958, and undated. Correspondence concerning a dispute between Myers and Herbert R. Axelrod over priority of a described fish species Cheirodon axelrodi v. Hyphessobrycon cardinalis; and a libel suit brought by Axelrod against Myers and William T. Innes. Correspondents include Axelrod against Myers and William T. Innes. Correspondents include Axelrod, Innes, Francis Hemming, Leonard P. Schultz, James E. Bohlke, Denys W. Tucker, and Wilbur I. Follett.
Folder 9 European Travel, 1958. In July 1958 Myers traveled to London to participate in the 15th International Congress of Zoology. Trips to Copenhagen and Hamburg were made to study museum collections. Correspondents include A. Vedel Taning, Denys W. Tucker, Anton F. Bruun, and Frank H. Talbot.
Folder 10 Field notes kept on collecting trips to Colombia, with General Thomas D. White, 1958 and 1960.
Folder 11 Post cards written by Myers to the staff of the Stanford Natural History Museum from Europe, 1960.
Box 59
Folder 1 International Conference on Tropical Oceanography, Miami, 1965. Myers served as convener, section of zoogeography. Includes a typescript of Myers' paper, "Zoogeographical Evidence of the Age of the South Atlantic Ocean."
Folder 2 Venezuela Fisheries Conference, 1967. Myers was invited to present a paper at the Primer Foro Internacional sobre Planification y Desarrollo Pesquero in Caracas. Included is a typescript of his paper "The Primary Necessity in Planning a Fishery Program in Venezuela."
Folder 3 Autobiographical sketch, circa 1970. This fragment primarily concerns Myers' return to Stanford University in 1936.
Folder 4 Autograph book from a reception honoring Myers upon his retirement, Thursday, May 28, 1970.
Folder 5 "Festschrift," 1970. Letter expressing thanks to those who worked on the "Festschrift."
Folder 6 Book plate of Myers, undated. Rough sketch.
Folder 7 Genealogical sketch of the Myers family.
Folder 8 Notebook, undated. Contains his thoughts on the purpose of university libraries and museums.
Folder 9 Poetry, undated.
Folder 10 Miscellany.
Zoology Club, Stanford University. "Faunal Notes on the Region of Stanford University," 1915-1934. Includes notes recorded by Carl L. Hubbs and John O. Snyder.
Series 7
PHOTOGRAPHS, 1922-1970, AND UNDATED.Box 60
Folder 1 Portraits of Myers, 1926, 1970, and undated.
Folder 2 Myers at Plummer's Island, Maryland, 7 May 1933.
Folder 3 "Chowder party honoring Mr. And Mrs. Charles M. Breder of New York at Orsinger's, Washington, D.C., 13 Jannuary 1935." Individuals in the photograph include Myers, Breer, William M. Mann, and Milton C. James.
Folder 4 Myers with Carl L. Hubbs and Luis Howell Rivero at the University of Michigan Museum, July 1935.
Folder 5 Myers with Paulo de Miranda Ribeiro and Haroldo Travassos, Angra do Reis, Brazil, September 1942.
Folder 6 Myers with John Laurence Kask, Wilbur Irving Follett, and Dr. Campbell at Steinhart Aquarium, 11 May 1947.
Folder 7 Fiftieth birthday celebration for Myers, 2 February 1955.
Folder 8 Myers with Prince Akihito of Japan examining fish specimens at Stanford Natural History Museum, May 1967.
Folder 9 Lakehurst, New Jersey, July 1922. Photograph taken by Myers.
Folder 10 Unidentified Brazilian ichthyologists, undated.
Group photograph of officers and scientific staff present at United States Bureau of Fisheries divisional conference, Washington, D.C., circa 1925-1926.
Group photograph of annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, 10 June 1969.
Series 8
DIPLOMAS, CERTIFICATES, AND AWARDS, 1930-1984, AND UNDATED.Arranged Chronologically.
Box 61
American Geophysical Society. Fellow, 21 Janaury 1930.
Stanford University. Diplomas of graduation. Bachelor of Arts, 1930; Master of Arts, 1931; and Doctor of Philosophy, 1933.
California Academy of Sciences. Fellow, 25 February 1933.
Peninsula Aquarium Society. Life Membership, 7 August 1950.
The National Geographic Society. Membership, 1 January 1951.
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fellow, 29 May 1959.
Primer foro Internacional sobre Planification y Desarrollo Pesquero, Caracas Venezuela. Diploma, 20 August 1967.
American Killifish Association. Honorary membership, 6 June 1969.
National Rifle Association of America. Life Membership, 12 March 1974.
Lions Club. Certificate of Appreciation (guest speaker), 5 November 1974.
Herpetologists League. Fellow, undated.
Series 9
ADD ACQUISITION, 1912-1978 AND UNDATEDBox 62
The Society of the Sigma Xi. Membership, 22 May 1930.
Societe Nationale d'Acclimation, Paris. Silver Medal, 1936.
California Academy of Sciences. Certificate of Appreciation, 1 June 1984.
Stanford University. Certificate of Appreciation, 2 February 1955.
Box 63
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Board of Governors, 1972, 1978
Brazil, 1941-1943 - Manuscript notes, etc. (2 Folders)
Brazil, 1941-1942 - Photographs
Journal - Bikini Scientific Resurvey, 1947
Class notes - Comparative Anatomy, 1927-1928
Class notes - Embryology, 1928
Class notes - Geology, 1928
Class notes - Marine Invertebrates, 1928
Diplomas - 1940, 1942
Box 64
Journal - Collecting Trip to Texas and Arizona, 1929
Manuscript - "Guide to the Editing and Publication of Scientific Works," undated
Manuscripts - Miscellaneous, undated
Notes on Zeomorph Fish, 1938 and undated
Photograph of William M. Mann and elephant, "Babe'
Photograph - U.S. Bureau of Fisheries staff, 1927
Photographs of fish, undated
Photographs - George S. Myers, c. 1928, 1930s
Photographs - Party honoring Willis H. Rich, May 14, 1950
Stanford Natural History Museum - Budget statements, 1938-1941
Stanford Natural History Museum - Reports, 1937-1940
Stanford Natural History Museum - Specimen related records, c. 1912-1931
Stanford University, Fellowships, 1937-1939
Journal - Brazil, 1942-1944
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