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Guide to the Stanford University Entomological Collection
SC0515
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Call Number: SC0515
Creator:
Stanford University
Title: Stanford University entomological collection
Dates: 1891-1929
Physical Description:
0.75 Linear feet
Summary: Records concern the collection of insects used in the teaching of entomology at Stanford and include two record books listing
the individual lots of insects with collector and location noted and a small amount of related correspondence. Many of the
specimens were taken on the grounds of the campus and in nearby communities, but there are also specimens from other states,
Brazil, Japan, the Galapagos Islands and other locations. The first volume includes a note on the early collectors. Persons
represented in the record books include Profs. Vernon L. Kellogg, Robert W. Doane, Clelia D. Mosher, William Russell Dudley,
R. E. Snodgrass, William A. Snow, John C. Branner, and Isabel McCracken. Correspondents include William M. Mann, James G.
Needham, A. L. Melander, John M. Aldrich, William L. Holt, John M. Miller, George F. Nuttall, Lawrence Bruner, L. O. Howard,
and W. M. Wheeler.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative transfer, 1970.
This collection is open for research.
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Stanford University Entomological Collection (SC0515). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Records concern the collection of insects used in the teaching of entomology at Stanford and include two record books listing
the individual lots of insects with collector and location noted and a small amount of related correspondence. Many of the
specimens were taken on the grounds of the campus and in nearby communities, but there are also specimens from other states,
Brazil, Japan, the Galapagos Islands and other locations. The first volume includes a note on the early collectors. Persons
represented in the record books include Profs. Vernon L. Kellogg, Robert W. Doane, Clelia D. Mosher, William Russell Dudley,
R. E. Snodgrass, William A. Snow, John C. Branner, and Isabel McCracken. Correspondents include William M. Mann, James G.
Needham, A. L. Melander, John M. Aldrich, William L. Holt, John M. Miller, George F. Nuttall, Lawrence Bruner, L. O. Howard,
and W. M. Wheeler.
Aldrich, John Merton, 1866-1934.
Branner, John Casper, 1850-1922.
Bruner, Lawrence.
Dudley, William Russel, 1849-1911
Greeley, Arthur White.
Henshaw, Samuel, 1852-1941.
Howard, L. O. (Leland Ossian), 1857-1950.
Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937.
Mann, William M., 1886-1960.
McCracken, Isabel.
Melander, Axel Leonard, 1878-
Mosher, Clelia Duel, 1863-1940
Needham, James G. (James George), 1868-1956.
Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner, 1862-1937.
Scudder, SAmuel Hubbard, 1837-1911.
Snow, William Appleton, d. 1900.
Wheeler, William Morton, 1865-1937.
Entomology.
Insects.