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Records

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Object Details

Topic
Journal of Mammalogy
Topic
Mammalogy
Professional associations
Mammalogists
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Historical Note
The American Society of Mammalogists was formally established at an organizational meeting held in the new U.S. National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 3-4, 1919. The meeting had been announced by a one-page circular mailed in February 1919 to several thousand prospective members and by an advertisement in Science magazine. (See Box 62, Folder 1, Box 143, Folders 1 and 2, and Box 144, Folder 2 for minutes and reports of the organizational meeting.) It was an outgrowth of the recommendations of an ad hoc committee established originally by several members of the U.S. Biological Survey, which at the time was housed in the National Museum in Washington, D.C. The organizational committee consisted of Hartley H. T. Jackson, U.S. Biological Survey, chairman; Walter P. Taylor, U.S. Biological Survey, secretary; Glover M. Allen, Boston Society of Natural History; Joseph A. Allen, American Museum of Natural History; Joseph Grinnell, University of California; Ned Hollister, U.S. National Zoological Park; Arthur H. Howell, U. S. Biological Survey; Wilfred H. Osgood, Field Museum of Natural History; Edward A. Preble, U.S. Biological Survey; and Witmer Stone, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Other staff members of the U.S. Biological Survey who contributed to the discussions of the committee included Vernon Bailey, A. K. Fisher, William H. Cheesman, and E. W. Nelson. Sixty persons signed the Register of Attendance at the organizational meeting (see Box 143, Folder 2), but the list of charter members of the society includes approximately 400 names (see Box 62, Folder 2). The by-laws (see Box 143, Folder 4) and rules of the new society were based on the constitutions and by-laws of the American Ornithologists Union, the American Society of Naturalists, the Wisconsin Natural History Society, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, and the Biological Society of Washington. The Society was incorporated in the District of Columbia on April 29, 1920, and the purpose of the Society is spelled out as "the promotion of the study of mammalogy by the publication of a serial and other publications, by aiding research, and by engaging in such other activities as may be deemed expedient." (See Box 143, Folder 3.) Signatories to the Articles of Incorporation were C. Hart Merriam, E. W. Nelson, Vernon Bailey, Hartley H. T. Jackson, Clarence R. Shoemaker, Charles W. Richmond, and Victor J. Evans. The Society publishes the Journal of Mammalogy quarterly and a number of miscellaneous publications and several series on a less regular basis.
Extent
77.19 cu. ft. (153 document boxes) (1 16x20 box) (4 oversize folders)
Date
1919-1993 and undated
Archival Repository
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Identifier
Record Unit 7357
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Audiotapes
Manuscripts
Videotapes
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Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7357, American Society of Mammalogists, Records
Genre/Form
Audiotapes
Manuscripts
Videotapes
Black-and-white photographs
Color transparencies
Descriptive Entry
These records document the history and development of the American Society of Mammalogists from the time of its inception through the year 1994. The collection includes a number of early documents, some in the handwriting of the originators, and correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, audiocassettes, photographs, and other memorabilia from the files of most of the officers and many of the committees serving during 1919-1994. A commemorative wood-cased album contains photographs of all the presidents of the society, and another contains photos of honorary members (see Box 159). A history of the Society, 75 Years of Mammalogy, containing chapters contributed by a number of authors and edited by James N. Layne, was published in 1994. (Papers connected with three of the book's chapters are included in Box 150, Folders 1-3). A less formal and perhaps more personal description of the early days of the Society was written by Hartley H. T. Jackson in 1968 and sent to Donald Hoffmeister, then Society historian. This remarkable document, in Jackson's own hand, is preserved in the collection (see Box 143, Folder 6) along with a number of other writings by Jackson and other early members.
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Record ID
ebl-1503511107001-1503511107014-0
Metadata Usage
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  • Box 156

  • Box 48

  • Folder 8 1968-1971 Committee on Mammalian Species, papers

  • Folder 1 1969 Annual meeting (A)

  • Box 44

  • 1971-1984 Records of volunteers for Recent Literature; 3 x 5 cards

  • Folder 5 1941-1947 Secretary (E. T. Hooper) papers: American Library Association

  • Box 99

  • Box 129

  • Folder 31 1912-68 Photos by V. Scheffer; miscellaneous groups, some individuals identified

  • Folder 14 1933 15th Annual meeting; Program

  • Folder 7 1966-1967 Correspondence with Editors

  • Folder 7 1961-1974 H. M. Van Deusen papers: Meetings

  • Folder 3 1969-1970 Annual reports

  • Folder 3 Photo: Rudolph M. Anderson

  • Folder 23 1993 Photos, Whale Watching Voyage, Puget Sound; Bellingham, WA, meeting

  • Folder 24 1946 26th Annual meeting; Program

  • Folder 4 1975 Waiver request, Environmental impact statement

  • Folder 5 1980 (?) Manual of Multivariate Methods

  • Folder 9 1966-1975 Correspondence

  • Folder 3 1927-1947 Committee on Life Histories: reports and correspondence

  • Folder 6 1987 Correspondence

  • 1984-1988 Manuscript reviews, Ma 186-Ma 205

  • Box 31

  • Folder 4 1970-1972 Correspondence with Program Committee

  • Folder 2 1947-1949 Secretary (E. T. Hooper) papers: UNESCO materials

  • Folder 60 Photo: William D. Matthew

  • Folder 4 1975-1977 Correspondence

  • Folder 2 1978-1979 Correspondence re: International Union for the Conservation of Nature

  • Box 36

  • Box 121

  • Box 19

  • Folder 8 1977-1981 Editor's (H. H. Genoways) papers: Correspondence

  • Box 70

  • Folder 5 1984-1985 Correspondence with committees

  • Folder 26 1948 28th Annual meeting; Program

  • 1968-1971 Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 49-52; bound volumes

  • Folder 34 Photo: Edward F. Goldman

  • Folder 9 1970 Recording Secretary (Sydney Anderson) papers: Population resolution

  • 1976-1979 Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 57-60; bound volumes

  • Box 151

  • Folder 32 Photo: Raymond M. Gilmore

  • Folder 22 1937-1940 Secretary papers: Minutes of meetings

  • Folder 1 1986 President (H. H. Genoways) papers: Correspondence with Secretary/Treasurer

  • Folder 10 1965 Secretary papers: Membership list

  • Folder 2 1970-1972 H. M. Van Deusen papers: Committees

  • Folder 10 1987 Photo: 1987 Meeting; miscellaneous groups, some individuals identified

  • Folder 2 1960 40th Annual meeting; Tacoma, Washington

  • Folder 51 Photo: Merlin L. Killpack

  • Folder 1 1973-1978 Secretary papers: Minutes, Board of Directors meetings

  • 1979-1981 Manuscript reviews, WB 151-WB 185

  • Folder 3 1969 49th Annual meeting; New York, New York

  • Folder 5 1975-1978 Sydney Anderson papers (B)

  • Folder 1 1985-1987 Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 66-68; unbound volumes

  • Folder 9 Group photo 1957

  • Box 100

  • Folder 5 1924-1956 Amendments to the Constitution

  • Folder 9 1984-1986 Committee on Honorary Memberships

  • Folder 1 1980-1981 Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 61-62; bound volumes

  • Folder 8 1986 Historian (D. F. Hoffmeister) papers: location of society papers

  • Folder 3 1962-1968 First State Bank and Trust, correspondence

  • Folder 3 1987 Correspondence re: Annual meeting

  • Folder 4 1982 Committee on Legislation & Regulations: papers

  • Box 108

  • Folder 3 1933-1956 Committee on Conservation of Land Mammals: reports and correspondence

  • Folder 6 Secretary papers: Statistics from Secretary's reports, to 1952

  • Folder 70 Photo: Robert T. Orr

  • Folder 6 1926-1941 National City Bank: bankbooks, deposit slips

  • Folder 35 1957 37th Annual meeting; Lawrence, Kansas

  • Box 74

  • Folder 2 1963 Survey of Collection; Volume 2; bound volume

  • Box 42

  • Folder 14 1961-1971 Miscellaneous reports, reviews

  • Folder 1 1958-1961 R. H. Manville papers: Journal of Mammalogy, Procedures, Expenses

  • Folder 7 1968-1970 E. Raymond Hall papers

  • Folder 4 1972 Recent Literature of Mammalogy & Membership list; bound volume

  • Folder 5 1980-1987 Secretary papers: Annual reports

  • Folder 2 1948 Correspondence (B)

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  • Folder 8 1985 Special Publication #8: New World Microtus; bound volume

  • Folder 43 Photo: H. N. Hoech

  • Folder 15 1968 Copyright registration, Peterson/Bartholomew 1967 Book

  • Folder 9 1970-1972 President (J. N. Layne) papers: Correspondence re: Rules and Bylaws

  • Folder 4 1941-1942 Secretary papers: Minutes of meetings

  • Folder 11 1930-1935 L. R. Dice papers: correspondence

  • Folder 5 1919-1926 Miscellaneous papers

  • Folder 3 1974 Miscellaneous Society publications, Bylaws and rules

  • Folder 7 Group photo 1938

  • 1984-1988 Manuscript reviews, Ma 86-Ma 98

  • Folder 78 Photo: Ward Russell

  • Folder 12 1947 G. G. Goodwin papers: correspondence

  • Folder 8 1923-1925 Secretary (H. T. Jackson) papers: Correspondence

  • Folder 6 1975 Seminar Proceedings, Network for Information Retrieval in Mammalogy

  • Folder 11 1977 Society budget

  • Folder 2 1972-1973 Committee on Life Histories, North American Mammals

  • Folder 3 1991 Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 72; unbound volume

  • Box 128

  • Folder 12 Group photo 1982

  • Folder 6 1936 President (H. E. Anthony) papers: Correspondence

  • Box 35

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