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Accession 16-224
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984
S. Stillman Berry Papers, 1904-2001
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984 |
Title: | S. Stillman Berry Papers |
Dates: | 1904-2001 |
Quantity: | 4.5 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) (1 document box) |
Collection: | Accession 16-224 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of the papers of S. Stillman Berry (1887-1984), a malacologist and businessman. The majority of these materials consist of the notes and illustrations for many of his published and unpublished manuscripts. Materials also include reprints, correspondence, scientific illustrations, maps, clippings, photographs, negatives, and audiocassettes. Materials dated after Berry's death document memorials, his estate, and the distribution of his collections. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of the papers of S. Stillman Berry (1887-1984), a malacologist and businessman. The majority of these materials consist of the notes and illustrations for many of his published and unpublished manuscripts. Materials also include reprints, correspondence, scientific illustrations, maps, clippings, photographs, negatives, and audiocassettes. Materials dated after Berry's death document memorials, his estate, and the distribution of his collections.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 16-224, S. Stillman Berry Papers
Container List
Box 1
Published Manuscripts, Notes, and Illustrations
Note on a New Variety of Cerithidea Sacrata Gould, from San Diego, California, The Nautilus, Vol. XIX, No. 12, April 1906
Molluscan Fauna of Monterey Bay, California, The Nautilus, Vol. XXI, Nos. 3-5, July-September 1907
Martyn's Universal Conchologist, 1908
Diagnoses of New Cephalopods from the Hawaiian Islands, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 37, December 30, 1909
The Known Mollusca of San Bernardino County, California, The Nautilus, Vol. XXIII, No. 6, November 1909
Review of Report on a Collection of Shells from Peru, with a Summary of the Littoral Marine Mollusca of the Peruvian Zoological Province, by William Healey Dall, The Nautilus, Vol. XXIII, March 1910
Mollusks of Unity, Maine, The Nautilus, Vol. XXIV, No. 6, October 1910
A New Sepiolid from Japan, Zoologischer Anzeiger, Bd. XXXVII, Nr. 2, January 1911
Preliminary Notices of Some New Pacific Cephalopods, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 40, May 31, 1911
Notes on Some Cephalopods in the Collection of the University of California, University of California Publications in Zoology, Vol. 8, No. 7, September 20, 1911
A Note on the Genus Lolliguncula, Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, February 1911
A New Californian Chiton, Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, August 1911
Note on a New Abraliopsis from Japan, 1911
Note on the Occurrence of a Giant Squid off the California Coast, 1912
On a Cephalopod New to California with a Note on another Species, First Annual Report of Laguna Marine Laboratory, 1912
A Review of the Cephalopods of Western North America, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXX, 1910, Document No. 761, Issued July 24, 1912
A Catalogue of Japanese Cephalopoda, Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, July 1912
Some Necessary Changes in Cephalopod Nomenclature, Science, N.S., Vol. XXXVI, No. 932, November 8, 1912
A List of Mollusca from the Musselshell Valley, Montana, The Nautilus, Vol. XXVI, No. 11, March 1913
Notes on Some West American Cephalopods, Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, February 1913
Some New Hawaiian Cephalopods, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 45, June 4, 1913
Nematolampas, A Remarkable New Cephalopod from the South Pacific, Biological Bulletin, Vol. XXV, No. 3, August 1913
Teuthological Miscellany No. 1, Zoologischer Anzeiger, Bd. XLII, Nr. 13, October 1913
Another Note on Martyn's Universal Conchologist, 1913
The Cephalopoda of the Hawaiian Islands, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXXII, 1912, Document No. 789, Issued June 24, 1914
Another Giant Squid in Monterey Bay, 1914
Notes on a Collection of Cephalopods from the Kermadec Islands, Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, Vol. XLVI, 1913, Issued June 15, 1914
Three New Helices from California, University of California Publications in Zoology, Vol. 16, No. 9, January 5, 1916
The Octopod Ocythoe in California, Pomona Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. VIII, No. 1, March 1916
Cephalopoda of the Kermadec Islands, Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, February 1916
Additional Records of Mollusca from San Bernardino County, California, The Nautilus, Vol. XXX, No. 4, August 1916
Cephalopoda of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1917
On Moschites verrucosa (Verrill) and Its Allies, Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, January 1917
Random Notes on the Collection and Preservation of Chitons, Lorquinia, Vol. 1, No. 10, May 1917
Notes on West American Chitons - I, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 10, September 1, 1917
Chitons Taken by the United States Fisheries Steamer "Albatross" in the Northwest Pacific in 1906, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 54, December 5, 1917
Report on the Cephalopoda Obtained by the FIS "Endeavour" in the Great Australian Bight and Other Southern Australian Localities, 1918
Preliminary Notices of Some New West American Chitons, Lorquinia, Vol. 2, No. 6, January 1919
Three Alpine Vertigos from California, The Nautilus, Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, October 1919
Notes on West American Chitons - II, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Vol. IX, No. 1, June 16, 1919
Mollusca of Glacier National Park, Montana, Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, October 1919
Light Production in Cephalopods, I. An Introductory Survey, Biological Bulletin, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3, March 1920
Light Production in Cephalopods, II. An Introductory Survey, Biological Bulletin, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4, April 1920
On Mitra montereyi, a New Californian Species, Proceedings of the Malacological Society, Vol. XIV, Part I, April 1920
Notes on Some Undescribed Californian Helices, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Vol. X, No. 8, August 11, 1920
Preliminary Diagnoses of New Cephalopods from the Western Atlantic, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 58, 1920
A Review of the Cephalopod Genera Sepioloidea, Sepiadarium, and Idiosepius, Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol. 1, No. 4, January 29, 1921
A New Neotreme Brachiopod from California, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 9, Vol. VIII, August 1921
Notes on Some Japanese Cephalopods - A Review of Sasaki's "Albatross" Report, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 9, Vol. VIII, September 1921
A Distributional Note on Haliotis, California Fish and Game, Vol. 7, No. 4, October 1921
Magpies Versus Livestock: An Unfortunate New Chapter in Avian Depredations, The Condor, Vol. XXIV, March 1922
Land Snails from the Canadian Rockies, Victoria Memorial Museum (Canada Department of Mines), Bulletin No. 36, Biological Series No. 8, May 9, 1922
Fossil Chitons of Western North America, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Vol. XI, No. 18, May 16, 1922
Localities of Northern Californian Land Snails: A Correction, The Nautilus, Vol. XXXVI, No. 1, July 1922
Notes on the Mollusks of the Colorado Desert, Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. LXXIV, 1922
Observations on a Montana Beaver Canal, Smithsonian Report for 1922, 1924; Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 4, No. 2, May 1923
The Species of Basiliochiton, Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. LXXVII, 1925
The Effect of Noise on Hearing, Science, New Series, Vol. LXI, No. 1575, March 6, 1925
New or Little Known Southern Californian Lepidozonas, Proceedings of the Malacological Society, Vol. XVI, Part V, July 1925
On an Abnormal Specimen of the Chiton, Acanthopleura Granulata, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 9, Vol. XVI, July 1925
Box 2
The Cephalopoda Collected by the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1918, Vol. VIII, August 1925
A Note on the Occurrence and Habits of a Luminous Squid (Abralia veranyi) at Madeira, Biological Bulletin, Vol. LI, No. 4, October 1926
Fossil Chitons from the Pleistocene of San Quintin Bay, Lower California, American Journal of Science, Vol. XII, November 1926
Two New Helicoid Snails from the Mohave Desert, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 9, Vol. XVIII, November 1926
A New Oregonian Subspecies of Monadenia Fidelis, The Nautilus, Vol. XL, No. 4, April 1927
Notes on Some British Columbian Chitons, Proceedings of the Malacological Society, Vol. XVII, Part IV, May 1927
New Helicoid Snails from the Mohave Desert - II, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 10, Vol. I, February 1928
New Helicoid Snails from the Mohave Desert - III, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 10, Vol. I, May 1928
A New Land Snail from Lower California with Notes on Other Species, Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 20, No. 4, December 1928
Loliolopsis Chiroctes, a New Genus and Species of Squid from the Gulf of California, Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History, Vol. V, No. 18, August 5, 1929
Three New Snails from the Hills of California, The Nautilus, Vol. XLIII, No. 2, October 1929
Snail Notes from the California Desert, The Nautilus, Vol. XLIII, No. 3, January 1930
Preliminary Notices of Two New Snails from the Colorado Desert, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 10, Vol. 5, May 1930
New Helicoid Snails from the Mohave Desert - IV, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 10, Vol. VI, August 1930
The Genus Oreohelix in California, The Nautilus, Vol. XLIV, No. 3, January 1931
A Redescription, under a New Name, of Well-known California Chiton, Proceedings of the Malacological Society, Vol. XIX, Part V, July 1931
New Helicoid Snails from the Mohave Desert - V: The Genus Oreohelix in Southern California and Nevada, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 10, Vol. VIII, July 1931
Cephalopods of the Genera Sepioloidea, Sepiadarium, and Idiosepius, The Philippine Journal of Science, Vol. 47, No. 1, January 1932, Printed 1931
Three New Mountain Snails from Idaho and Nevada, Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 24, No. 4, December 1932
A Distributional List of the Mollusca Cephalopoda of the Eastern Coast of North America and the Offshore Waters between Labrador and Texas, 1934
A Further Record of a Chiton (Nuttallina) with Nine Valves, The Nautilus, Vol. XLVIII, No. 3, January 1935
An Undescribed Californian Olivella, Proceedings of the Malacological Society, Vol. XXI, Part IV, March 1935
A New Dimya from California, Proceedings of the Malacological Society, Vol. XXII, Part III, November 1936
Some Lesser Races of Monadenia Fidelis (Gray), The Nautilus, Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1937
Four New Californian Helicoid Snails, Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 30, No. 1, March 1938
New Helicoid Snails from the Southern Sierras, Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 1938
A Preliminary Revision of the Snail-Genus Glyptostoma, Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 1938
A Noteworthy Aurora, Science, New Series, Vol. 90, No. 2343, November 24, 1939
A Proposed Dichotomy of the Snail-Genus Monadenia, Bulletin of Southern California Academy of Sciences, Vol. XXXVIII, Part 3, September-December 1939
Nine New Snails of the Genus Monadenia from California, Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 32, No. 1, March 1940
New Mollusca from the Pleistocene of San Pedro, California - I, Bulletins of American Paleontology, Vol. XXV, No. 94A, September 28, 1940
New Mollusca from the Pleistocene of San Pedro, California - II, Bulletins of American Paleontology, Vol. XXVII, No. 101, October 7, 1941
On the Generic Relationships of Certain Californian Xerophile Snails, Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History, Vol. X, No. 1, December 30, 1943
A Second Californian Dimya, Proceedings of the Malacological Society, Vol. 26, Part 1, May 1944
Two New Chitons from the Gulf of California, The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 34, No. 2, September 1945
Chitons, Their Collection and Preservation, Mollusca, Vol. I, No. 7, December 17, 1945
A Re-examination of the Chiton, Stenoplax magdalenensis (Hinds), with Description of a New Species, Proceedings of the Malacological Society, Vol. 26, Part 6, January 1946
A New Californian Neosimnia, Journal of Conchology, Vol. 22, No. 8, May 1946
A Shell Necklace from the Havasupai Indians, Plateau, Vol. 19, No. 2, October 1946
Californian Forms of Pedicularia, Leaflets in Malacology, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 4, 1946
A New Pyrgulopsis from Oregon, The Nautilus, Vol. 60, No. 3, January 1947
New Mollusca from the Pleistocene of San Pedro, California - III, Bulletins of American Paleontology, Vol. XXXI, No. 127, November 14, 1947
Snails of the Sierra Ancha, Arizona, The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 39, No. 1, January 1948
Two Misunderstood West American Chitons, Leaflets in Malacology, Vol. 1, No. 4, February 20, 1948
On Opalia Montereyensis (Dall), Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 40, No. 1, 1948
A Noteworthy Molluscan Faunule from Northeastern Washington, The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 39, No. 3, May 1948
A New Opisthoteuthis from the Eastern Pacific, Leaflets in Malacology, Vol. 1, No. 6, June 13, 1949
A Partial Review of Some West American Species of Crepidula, Leaflets in Malacology, Vol. 1, No., 8, November 14, 1950
Notes on Some British Columbian Chitons - II, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, Vol. 28, Part 6, June 1951
The Flapjack Devilfish, Opisthoteuthis, in California, California Fish and Game, Vol. 38, No. 2, April 1952
Another Interesting Addition to the Californian Pteropod Fauna, Leaflets in Malacology, Vol. 1, No. 9, July 10, 1952
Two Californian Mountain Snails of the Genus Helminthoglypta - A Problem in the Relationship of Species, Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History, Vol. XI, No. 12, April 17, 1953
West American Razor-Clams of the Genus Ensis, Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History, Vol. XI, No. 15, August 14, 1953
Notices of New West American Marine Mollusca, Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History, Vol. XI, No. 16, September 1, 1953
Preliminary Diagnoses of Six West American Species of Octopus, Leaflets in Malacology, Vol. 1, No. 10, December 18, 1953
The Male Flapjack Devilfish, American Malacological Union Annual Meeting, June 12-13, 1953
On the Supposed Stenobathic Habitat of the California Sea-Mussel, California Fish and Game, Vol. 40, No. 1, January 1954
Octopus Bites - A Second Report, Leaflets in Malacology, Vol. 1, No. 11, January 28, 1954
Octopus Penicillifer, New Species, Leaflets in Malacology, Vol. 1, No. 11, January 28, 1954
New Californian Pleistocene Eulimidae, Bulletins of American Paleontology, Vol. XXXV, No. 151, 1954
The Distribution, Past and Present, of Cryptochiton, American Malacological Union Annual Report, 1954
Importance of the Large Pyramidellid Elements in the West American Fauna, American Malacological Union Annual Report, 1954
On Recent Californian Occurrences of the Rare Octopod Ocythoe, California Fish and Game, Vol. 41, No. 2, April 1955
A New Sierran Pulmonate of the Genus Monadenia, Bulletin of Southern California Academy of Sciences, Vol. 54, Part 1, 1955
An Important New Land-Snail from the Mission Range, Montana, Bulletin of Southern California Academy of Sciences, Vol. 54, Part 1, 1955
The Male Flapjack Devilfish, California Fish and Game, Vol. 41, No. 3, July 1955
The West Coast's Confused and Confusing White Slipper Shells, Crepidula, Subgenus Ianacus, American Malacological Union Annual Report, 1955
A Tidal Flat on the Vermilion Sea, Journal of Conchology, Vol. 24, No. 3, February 1956
Malacology: Mollusca dredged by the Orca off the Santa Barbara Islands, California, in 1951, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Vol. 46, No. 5, May 1956
Diagnoses of New Eastern Pacific Chitons, Leaflets in Malacology, Vol. 1, No. 13, July 9, 1956
A New West Mexican Prosobranch Mollusk Parasitic on Echinoids, The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 56, No. 2, October 1956
Is the Colorado River an Efficient Barrier to Mollusk Distribution?, American Malacological Union Bulletin, No. 24, January 1, 1958
Double-Trouble in Violet Snails, American Malacological Union Bulletin, No. 24, January 1, 1958
Notices of New Eastern Pacific Mollusca - III, Leaflets in Malacology, Vol. 1, No. 18, July 29, 1959
Some Recent Finds of Interest in West Mexico Mollusca, American Malacological Union Bulletin, No. 26, January 1, 1960
Random Notes on the Biota of the San Bernardino Mountains, American Malacological Union Bulletin, No. 26, January 1, 1960
Shell Identification, The Shelletter of Shells and Their Neighbors, No. 1, October 1960
A "Doratopsis" Larva of the Squid Family Chiroteuthidae in Californian Waters, California Fish and Game, Vol. 49, No. 3, July 1963
Notes on New Tropical American Records, American Malacological Union Annual Report, 1964
Good Molluscan Bibliographies - Few and Far Between, American Malacological Union Annual Report, 1965
A Few Rare Books, American Malacological Union Annual Report, 1967
Some Unusual Mollusks, Mainly Panamic, American Malacological Union Annual Report, 1967
Notices of New Eastern Pacific Mollusca - VIII, Leaflets in Malacology, Vol. 1, No. 26, December 17, 1969
James E. Hardwick - A Note on the Behavior of the Octopod Ocythoe tuberculate, California Fish and Game, Vol. 56, No. 1, 1970
Ocythoe, 1975
Unpublished Manuscripts, Notes, and Illustrations
Station Data
"Big Fin" Photograph
Octopus New Species, Panama - Photographs
West Mexican Octopi
Two New Species of Octopus from Central America
West American Octopi
Southern Californian Octopi
Catalogue of the Cephalopoda of the Eastern Coast of the United States North of Cape Hatteras
Teuthidodes New Genus
On the Relationship of the Enigmatic Octopod Laetmoteuthis
Gonatus
Gonatus fabricii
Review of "The Salpidae: a Taxonomic Study," by Maynard M. Metcalf
New Luminous Squid
Light Production in Cephalopods - III
Loligo Species, Hong Kong
The Problem of Organic Light
Light Organ Patterns - Illustrations
Box 3
The Photophores of Calliteuthis and Histioteuthis
Scripps Cephalopods
Newspaper Clippings (S. S. Berry), 1969-1975
Newspaper Clippings (Cephalopoda), circa 1909-1982
West American Cephalopods
Monterey Cephalopods
Krieger Expedition - Galapagos Islands
Systematic and Taxonomic Review of Pacific Coast Cephalopods
Cephalopods from Australian Museum, Sydney
South Australian Cephalopods (2 folders)
Onykia versus Onychia
West American Argonauta
The Argonaut
Large Argonauta
Argonauta Species Pluralis
Synopsis of the Superfamily Argonautoidea
Tremoctopus
A Partial Revision of the Sepiolid Genus Euprymna Steenstrup
A Brief Summary of the Abralia Group of Cephalopods
Abraliopsis Species Pluralis - Photographs
Arctic Cephalopod Bibliography
Loliginidae - Photographs and Illustrations
West Indian Sepioteuthis
Sepioteuthis guinensis
Pyroteuthis margaritifera
Lycoteuthis
Enoploteuthidae
Loligo oregonensis
Loligo (?) Embryo
Moschites
Onychoteuthis kamtschatica
Ommastrephes
Te Vega Expedition
Types and Disposition
Architeuthis
Illustrations of R. N. Bache Specimens
Philippine Cephalopods
Abraliopsis scintillans
Idiosepius
Cranchiidae
Sepiidae
Histioteuthidae
Octopus macropus
Japanese Cephalopods
Specimens of Cephalopods Examined in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1909-1910
S. S. Berry Library Needs
Box 4
Questions and Answers for the Written Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Leland Stanford Junior University, Department of Zoology, December 6-10, 1912
Notes of Cephalopod Taxa for Individual Publications
Newspaper Clippings (General), 1925-1937
National Museum of Natural History Cephalopods
Miscellaneous Cephalopod Illustrations
Miscellaneous Cephalopod Notes and Illustrations
Octopus rubescens
Checklist of the Recent Cephalopoda of the Northwest Coast of America from the Arctic Ocean to San Diego, California, 1917
Crane Pacific Expedition Cephalopods
Octopodidae
Moroteuthis robusta
Illustration Information, 1962-1965
Challenge of Taxonomy
Notes on Published Papers
S. S. Berry Abstracts of Other Papers
Pet Peeves
Fact, Fancy, Fiction, and -- the Octopus, 1955
My Memories of Malacologists
Published Illustrations
1912 (3 folders)
1914 (2 folders)
Sepioteuthis lessoniana
Unpublished Illustrations
Octopods
Three Plates by Charles Papp
Miscellaneous
Correspondence, Publications, Notes, and Photographs, 1904-1987
Original Photographs of "Sea Monster" (probably sperm whale), Beira, Mozambique, 1921
Sign - S. S. Berry, Grower and Breeder of Daffodils and Irises (on top)
S. S. Berry Estate Information and Materials to Smithsonian, 1985-2001 (2 folders)
Paul F. Allen Concerning S. S. Berry Estate, 1982-1992
Box 5
S. S. Berry Library - Catalogued in Mollusk Library, 1999
S. S. Berry Library Notes, 1985-1991
Photograph of S. S. Berry Home, Redlands, California
S. S. Berry Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, 1985-1986
Interview of S. Stillman Berry by Donald R. Shasky, May 1980 and February 1982 (includes audiocassettes)
S. S. Berry Manuscript and Notes by Clyde F. E. Roper, 1966-1984
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