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Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Object Details

Topic
Journal of Mammalogy
Topic
Mammalogy
Professional associations
Mammalogists
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Records
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 1 1961-1973 Committee on Liaison with Johnson Reprint Company

  • Folder 3 1983 Ride for Research, 1983; 'T' shirt

  • 1979-1981 Manuscript reviews, WB 46-WB 60

  • Folder 3 1938-1941 Trustee (H. E. Anthony) papers: correspondence

  • Folder 3 1960 Certificate designs

  • Folder 11 1959-1961 Correspondence; Atlantic Canada

  • Folder 5 1975-1976 Correspondence

  • Folder 8 1953-1954 Financial records, Watson and Company

  • Folder 3 1984-1986 Correspondence re: editorial matters

  • Folder 5 1987-1988 Correspondence, Information Retrieval Committee

  • Folder 5 1972-1978 Correspondence

  • Folder 1 1964-1966 Planning Committee

  • 1990 Board of Directors and Business meetings, Frostburg, Maryland; 8 tapes

  • Folder 2 1919 Register of Attendance, Organizational meeting; photocopy

  • Folder 2 1986-1987 Correspondence with Board of Directors

  • Folder 7 1971 Annual reports

  • Folder 19 Photo: Bernardo Villa-R

  • Folder 3 Photos of H. T. Jackson

  • Folder 7 1930-1931 Treasurer (V. S. Schantz) papers: Memorial fund

  • Folder 1 1970 Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 51, Recent Literature Supplement; bound volume

  • Folder 7 1984-1985 Correspondence with Trustees, Directors

  • Folder 3 1986 President (H. H. Genoways) papers: Meeting agenda

  • Box 97

  • Folder 5 1973 Recent Literature of Mammalogy & Membership list; bound volume

  • Folder 7 1938-1984 Bibliographic and Autobiographical Materials, early members

  • Box 28

  • Folder 1 1919-1926 Ledger Book, Editors Record, Journal of Mammalogy

  • 1922-1962 Bankbooks, account records, check stubs (not complete)

  • Folder 5 1951-1956 Secretary papers: Correspondence

  • Folder 6 1979 Special Publication #6: Vampire Bat; bound volume

  • Folder 2 1985-1986 General correspondence

  • Folder 6 1951-1952 Trustee (H. E. Anthony) papers: correspondence

  • Folder 2 1955-1957 President (W. B. Davis) papers: Correspondence

  • Folder 5 1974 Committee on Information Retrieval: National Network proposal

  • Folder 6 1986-1987 Correspondence, Jackson Award Committee

  • Folder 11 1930 12th Annual meeting; Program

  • Box 43

  • Folder 1 1972 52nd Annual meeting; Tampa, Florida

  • Folder 7 1987 Correspondence re: budget

  • Box 133

  • Folder 6 1960-1969 Editor's papers: Journal index

  • 1978 Manuscript reviews, SWF 261-269

  • Folder 2 1987-1988 Committee members and society representatives (bound volume)

  • 1981 Interview with Bernardo Villa-R, June 11, 1981 no. 2

  • Box 114

  • Folder 4 1982 62nd Annual meeting; Snowbird, Utah

  • Folder 6 1988 Correspondence re: archives

  • Folder 6 1979 Correspondence

  • Folder 4 1985-1986 Jackson Award Committee: general correspondence

  • Folder 4 1960-1963 Correspondence, International Union for the Conservation of Nature

  • Folder 4 1975 Secretary (J. R Choate) papers: Committee reports

  • Folder 1 1959 39th Annual meeting; Washington, DC

  • Folder 42 Correspondence with H. H. Sheldon; early photos of South Dakota Badlands

  • Folder 1 1948 Correspondence (A)

  • Folder 11 1986 Committee reports

  • Folder 7 1987-1988 Correspondence with committees

  • Folder 1 1971-1972 President (R. G. VanGelder) papers: Correspondence

  • Folder 6 1972-1983 Correspondence

  • Box 39

  • Folder 7 1963-1965 Honoraria Committee; R. H. Manville papers

  • Box 96

  • Box 8

  • Folder 6 1994 Memorabilia, 1994 meeting, Washington, DC

  • Folder 5 1922 Committee on Exhibitions (L)

  • Folder 20 1939 21st Annual meeting; Program

  • Folder 5 1926-1934 Ledger Book, Editors Record, Journal of Mammalogy

  • Folder 5 1955-1976 Trustees papers

  • Box 147

  • Folder 7 1985-1986 Correspondence re: joint meeting with Mexico

  • 1981 Interview with Bernardo Villa-R, June 11, 1981 no. 1

  • Folder 10 1922 Secretary (H. H. Lane) papers: Minutes, Directors meeting

  • Folder 7 1957-1964 General correspondence

  • Folder 3 1979-1980 Editor's (R. E. MacMillen) papers: Correspondence

  • Folder 8 Photo: Anne Innis Bass

  • Folder 4 1986 Journal of Mammalogy: Editorial correspondence (A)

  • Box 87

  • Box 30

  • Folder 3 1975? Report

  • Folder 3 1986 Journal of Mammalogy: Correspondence, R. J. Baker

  • Folder 5 1985 Grants-in-Aid, Shadle Award; applications

  • 1979-1981 Manuscript reviews, WB 1-WB 25

  • Folder 1 1979 59th Annual meeting; Corvallis, Oregon

  • Folder 3 1982-1986 Grants-in-Aid, Shadle Award; correspondence

  • Folder 20 1934-1936. Secretary papers: Minutes, Directors and Business meetings

  • Folder 11 1964-1966 President (J. K. Jones) papers: Correspondence, Committee on Nomenclature

  • Folder 12 1959-1961 Correspondence; Alaska

  • Folder 6 1967-1980 Editorial Committee (A)

  • Folder 1 1986 66th Annual meeting; Madison, Wisconsin (A)

  • Folder 9 1988 President (E. C. Birney) papers: General correspondence

  • Folder 1 1961 Ernest Thompson Seton: unpublished art, 41st annual meeting

  • 1992? Papers at ASM meeting; 6 tapes

  • Folder 1 1972 Annual meeting

  • Box 67

  • 1951-1955 Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 32-36; bound volumes

  • Folder 6 1975-1978 Correspondence with Clyde Hill

  • 1945-1950 Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 26-31; bound volumes

  • Folder 2 Photo: Glover M. Allen

  • Folder 3 1923-1956 Journal of Mammalogy: Correspondence with Waverly Press

  • Box 140

  • Folder 6 1978 Photo, Directors, at 1978 meeting

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