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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
Black-and-white photographs
Color transparencies
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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  • Folder 4 1976 Annual meeting

  • Folder 1 1986 Correspondence re: Annual meeting (A)

  • Folder 3 1974-1975 Correspondence re: Proposal, National Network for Information Retrieval

  • Folder 1 1974-1978 Marine Mammals Committee: general correspondence

  • Folder 3 1969 President (R. G. VanGelder) papers: Correspondence re: Annual meeting

  • Folder 3 1974 Bylaws revision

  • Box 11

  • Folder 4 1985 Grants-in-Aid, Shadle Award; correspondence

  • Folder 73 Photo: Oliver P. Pearson

  • Box 93

  • Folder 45 Photo: B. Elizabeth Horner

  • Folder 17 1964-1970 Annual reports (bound volume)

  • Folder 1 1941-1942 H. C. Raven papers

  • Folder 11 1988 Merriam Award

  • Folder 12 1980-1981 Recent Literature of Mammalogy; bound volume

  • 1984 Enlarged photo mounted on board: Sydney Anderson, Alfred Gardner, George Barrowclough in the field base camp

  • Folder 17 Program, 1946 meeting; membership list?

  • Folder 4 1982-1983 Secretary(J. R. Choate) papers: Correspondence

  • Folder 4 1986-1988 Correspondence re: international relations

  • Folder 20 1983 Correspondence, Ride for Research

  • Folder 7 1972-1978 Index Committee: D. E. Wilson papers

  • Folder 5 1986 Journal of Mammalogy: Editorial correspondence (B)

  • Folder 8 1977 Local Committee, Annual meeting

  • Folder 6 1985 Committee reports

  • Folder 2 1931 Committee on Problems of Predator Control, reports

  • Folder 8 1976 Annual meeting, Lubbock, Texas

  • Box 21

  • Folder 10 1967 Honorary members

  • Folder 11 1980 Recent Literature of Mammalogy; bound volume

  • Folder 17 1986-1987 Correspondence with representatives to other organizations

  • Folder 2 1986 Correspondence re: Annual meeting (B)

  • Folder 4 1977-1978 President (R. G. VanGelder) papers: Correspondence

  • Folder 16 1935 17th Annual meeting; Program

  • Folder 14 1959-1964 Correspondence; Hudson River to Delaware

  • Folder 12 1968 Delinquents, Resignations, New members

  • Folder 8 1974-1975 E. Raymond Hall papers

  • Folder 13 1925 Secretary papers: Minutes, Directors meeting

  • Folder 25 Photo: Don E. Wilson

  • Box 9

  • Folder 5 1948-1950 Trustee (H. E. Anthony) papers: correspondence

  • Folder 2 1974 President (J. K. Jones) papers: First International Theriological Congress, Moscow (B)

  • Box 141

  • Folder 3 1970-1972 H. M. Van Deusen papers: Correspondence, Journal of Mammalogy

  • Folder 4 1978 Annual meeting

  • Folder 14 Photos by D. F. Hoffmeister at annual meeting (B); some individuals identified

  • Folder 7 1984 Corrections to Bylaws, Rules

  • Folder 19 Photo Negatives, past presidents

  • 1933-1938 Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 14-19; bound volumes

  • Folder 6 1921-1922 Secretary (H. H. T. Jackson) papers: Publications about ASM

  • Folder 4 1968 Program Officer (R. G. VanGelder) papers: correspondence, 48th meeting

  • Box 138

  • Folder 29 1951 31st Annual meeting; Program

  • Folder 25 Photo: Stephen D. Durrant

  • Folder 44 Photos from Jan Murie; photos of O. J. and A. Murie

  • Folder 7 1967-1969 President (R. G. VanGelder) papers: Correspondence

  • Folder 6 1953, 1957 Secretary (B. P. Glass) papers: Life members

  • Folder 5 1928-1963 Miscellaneous committee reports

  • Folder 4 Photo: William T. Shaw

  • Folder 8 1980 Correspondence re: annual meeting

  • Box 16

  • Folder 7 1984-1986 Historian (D. F. Hoffmeister) papers: society papers

  • Box 68

  • Folder 5 1982-1984 President (J. M. Taylor) papers: Correspondence (B)

  • Folder 7 1978 58th Annual meeting; Athens, Georgia

  • Folder 16 1974-1976 Meeting Invitation by R. H. Baker, read 1974

  • Folder 4 1922-1928 J. A. Allen Memorial Fund: papers (D)

  • Folder 4 1919-1924 Correspondence with G. M. Allen

  • Folder 15 1960-1961 Correspondence; Caribbean

  • Folder 5 1974-1979 Correspondence, Committee on Conservation of Land Mammals

  • Folder 4 1930-1944 President (S. Anderson) papers: Reports and papers

  • 1986 Board of Directors and Business meetings, Madison, Wisconsin; 12 tapes

  • Folder 1 1971 Richard Eakin, A Professor's Day

  • Folder 14 Photo: Walter P. Taylor

  • Folder 2 1975-1976 Committee reports

  • Folder 2 1971 Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 52, Recent Literature Supplement; bound volume

  • Folder 3 1970-1973 M. A. Lawrence papers

  • Box 45

  • Folder 2 1954-1961 Trustee papers: Correspondence with Northern Trust Company

  • Folder 1 1922 Article on hunting with a camera (A)

  • Folder 1 1970-1972 Correspondence, Conservation of Land Mammals Committee

  • Folder 7 1937 President (H. E. Anthony) papers: Correspondence

  • Folder 4 1975-1976 Correspondence with International Union for the Conservation of Nature

  • Folder 3 1974 International Theriological Congress, Moscow; General papers

  • Box 118

  • Folder 2 1958-1963 R. H. Manville papers: Journal of Mammalogy, Book reviews

  • Folder 4 1948-1949 Minutes of Meetings

  • Folder 10 1979 Recent Literature of Mammalogy; bound volume

  • Folder 5 1989 Correspondence re: Annual meeting (A)

  • Folder 4 1988 President (D. E. Wilson) papers: Committee reports

  • Boxes 82-84

  • Folder 6 1958-1962 Correspondence; California

  • Group photograph of ASM members during the 34th Annual Meeting at Estes Park, Colorado, June 13-17, 1954 (Accession 06-180)

  • Folder 2 1975-1977 Marine Mammals Committee: annual reports

  • Folder 30 1952 32nd Annual meeting; Program

  • Box 130

  • Folder 7 1983 Meeting, from R. S. Hoffmann papers

  • Folder 4 1966-1973 Journal expenses

  • Folder 3 1972 Slides by B. E. Horner at 1972 annual meeting; some individuals identified

  • Box 95

  • Folder 3 1972-1974 Correspondence

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