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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
CC0

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  • Folder 29 Photo: M. B. Fenton

  • Folder 10 1976-1983 Correspondence

  • Folder 40 Photo: C. Lynn Hayward

  • Box 71

  • Folder 67 Photo: Olaus J. Murie

  • Folder 44 Photo: Emmet T. Hooper

  • Untitled

  • Folder 2 1968-1978 Correspondence

  • Folder 2 1983-1985 Committees and reports

  • Folder 2 1922-1928 J. A. Allen Memorial Fund: papers (B)

  • Folder 1 1972-1979 Correspondence; M. A. Lawrence papers

  • Folder 13 Photos by D. F. Hoffmeister at annual meeting (A); some individuals identified

  • Folder 11 1988 Historian papers: Group photo, at annual meeting

  • Folder 5 1930 R. T. Hatt papers: Exhibit, Animal behavior studies (B)

  • Folder 10 1986 Correspondence with committees

  • HISTORIANS' PAPERS.

  • Box 54

  • Folder 5 1965-1967 Correspondence

  • Folder 31 Photo: Francis Garlough

  • Folder 2 1959-1969 Correspondence with Johnson Reprint Company

  • Box 34

  • Folder 6 1965-1967 Check stubs, #2085-2317

  • Folder s 2-7 1922 Committee on Exhibitions (B-G)

  • Folder 7 1920-1922 Secretary (H. H. T. Jackson) papers: Correspondence

  • Folder 4 1955-1957 Trustee (H. E. Anthony) papers: correspondence

  • Box 98

  • Folder 1 1950-1951 Correspondence (A)

  • Folder 3 1988 President (D. E. Wilson) papers: Board meeting

  • Folder 4 Photo: Harold E. Anthony

  • Folder 27 Photo: John F. Eisenberg (receiving award)

  • Box 103

  • Folder 5 1956-1977 Correspondence, miscellaneous

  • Folder 4 1975-1978 Sydney Anderson papers (A)

  • Folder 3 1956-1964 Associate Editor correspondence

  • Box 132

  • Folder 2 1945-1954 National City Bank: correspondence

  • Folder 2 1962-1968 First State Bank and Trust, Custodian

  • Box 2

  • Folder 3 1987 Autobiographical survey of members; U-Z

  • PUBLICATIONS AND EDITING.

  • 1919-1992 Commemorative photo album: Presidents

  • Folder 8 1986-1989 Mammalian Slide Library, catalogs

  • Folder 8 1987 Correspondence re: Cancun symposium

  • Folder 5 Photo: Harley B. Sherman

  • Folder 10 1952-1978 Journal of Mammalogy: Correspondence re: University Microfilms

  • Box 77

  • Folder 5 1947-1950 Secretary (D. F. Hoffmeister) papers: Correspondence

  • Folder 11 1970-1972 President (J. N. Layne) papers: Correspondence with Resolutions Committee

  • Folder 4 1987-1988 Correspondence with American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Biological Sciences

  • Folder 12 1956-1959 Journal of Mammalogy: Correspondence with Allen Press

  • Folder 6 1975-1977 President papers: Preparations for meetings

  • Folder 4 1974 International Theriological Congress, Moscow; Plastic briefcase

  • Folder 5 Photo: Vernon O. Bailey

  • Folder 8 1974 Annual meeting

  • Folder 2 1985 Journal of Mammalogy: Editorial correspondence

  • Folder 12 1988 Photos by D. F. Hoffmeister at annual meeting; some individuals identified

  • Box 63

  • Folder 7 1975-1982 Directors' papers

  • Folder 2 1988 Secretary-Treasurer (H. D. Smith): Miscellaneous papers, Annual meeting (B)

  • 1976-1978 Manuscript reviews, WN 146-WN 201; WV 37

  • Box 131

  • Box 17

  • Folder 6 1962-1964 Correspondence with President E. T. Hooper

  • Folder 2 1965-1973 Resolutions

  • Folder 2

  • Folder 8 Photo: Rubin A. Stirton

  • Folder 2 1979-1980 Editor's papers: Reviewers

  • Box 105

  • Folder 7 1919-1973 Data on ASM; lists of officers

  • Folder 1 Photo: Victor B. Scheffer

  • Folder 4 1965-1968 Register of Attendance, ASM meetings

  • Folder 41 Photo: Phillip Hershkovitz

  • Folder 10 1971-1972 Predator Control Statement

  • Folder 1 1931 Committee on Problems of Predator Control, C. T. Vorhies report

  • Folder 17 Photo: Leo K. Couch

  • Folder 2 1918-1919 ASM Organizational papers and first meeting

  • SECRETARIES' PAPERS.

  • Box 40

  • Folder 2 1984 64th Annual meeting; Arcata, California

  • Folder 2 1968 48th Annual meeting; Fort Collins, Colorado

  • Box 1

  • Folder 61 Photo: Waldo Lee McAtee

  • Box 135

  • Folder 3 1920-1957 Treasurer's reports

  • Folder 1 1936-1950 Resolutions Committee: correspondence

  • Box 12

  • Folder 1 1984 Journal of Mammalogy: Correspondence, R. J. Baker

  • Folder 6 1957-1964 Correspondence, American Institute of Biological Sciences

  • Folder 7 1979-1982 Correspondence, Committee on Information Retrieval

  • Folder 5 1957-1987 Miscellaneous Society Publications

  • Folder 7 1980-1984 Mammalian Slide Library, catalogs

  • Box 5

  • Folder 8 1981-1986 Secretary papers: Correspondence

  • Folder 5 1988 President (J. K. Jones) papers: Annual meeting

  • Folder 9 1987 Correspondence re: Annual meeting

  • Folder 5 1962-1963 Correspondence

  • Box 94

  • Folder 9 1954 Secretary papers: Minutes of meetings

  • Folder 7 1988 President (D. E. Wilson) papers: Symposium on Asian Pacific Mammalogy

  • Folder 13 1986-1987 Correspondence re: Animal Care and Husbandry

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