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Guide to the Records of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1908-1949
CU-120
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Collection Title: Records of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology,
Date (inclusive): 1908-1949
Collection Number: CU-120
Creator:
University of California (1868-1952). Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Extent:
Number of containers: 6 boxes
Repository: The
Bancroft Library. University Archives.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Records of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, CU-120, University Archives, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Boxes 1-2: Correspondence of Annie M. Alexander and museum directors, Joseph Grinnell, E. Raymond Hall, and Alden H. Miller,
1908-1949; Boxes 3-6: Manuscripts, drawings, photographs for some of the Museum's contributions: The game birds of California,
by Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant and Tracy Irwin Storer, 1918; Animal life in the Yosemite, by Joseph Grinnell and
Tracy Irwin Storer, 1924; Vertebrate natural history of a section of northern California through the Lassen Peak region, by
Joseph Grinnell, Joseph Dixon and Jean M. Linsdale, 1930; and Fur-bearing mammals of California, by Joseph Grinnell, Joseph
Dixon and Jean M. Linsdale, 1937.
These papers consist of an extensive set of correspondence between Annie Montague Alexander and the directors of the museum
between 1908 and 1949 and typescripts, manuscripts and notes for some of the publications issued as "Contributions from the
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology."
The correspondence provides a record of Alexander's continuing support of the Museum, both through her own work and interests
and through her monetary contributions.
The publications documented here are primarily the work of Joseph Grinnell and others:
The game birds of California, by Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant and Tracy Irwin Storer. Berkeley, University of California
Press, 1918.
Animal life in the Yosemite ... by Joseph Grinnell and Tracy Irwin Storer. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1924.
Vertebrate natural history of a section of northern California through the Lassen Peak region, by Joseph Grinnell, Joseph
Dixon, and Jean M. Linsdale. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1930.
Fur-bearing mammals of California ... by Joseph Grinnell, Joseph S. Dixon, and Jean M. Linsdale. Berkeley, University of California
Press, 1937.
For the Lassen book there is in the collection only a partial set of the photographs used in the final publication, but for
the other works there are sometimes extensive notes for each of the species in addition to the text as published. These notes
may include a record of sightings, records of stomach contents and other information, sometimes extensive, not included in
the final text. Some folders, however, consist of only the basic description.