Thomas R. Howell papers, ca. 1945-1999
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Thomas R. Howell papers
Collection number: 576
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
21.4 linear ft.
(21 record storage cartons and 1 flat document box.)
Date: ca. 1945-1999
Abstract: Thomas R. Howell was an internationally renowned biology and ornithology educator and researcher. The collection consists
of materials related to his academic work as a professor, field studies, and involvement in professional organizations. Materials
include field notebooks, Nicaragua research files, American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) checklist files, professional organization
and conference files, master reprint files for Howell's publications, correspondence, photographs, slides, film reels, audio
and video tapes.
Language of Materials: Most materials are in English. Some materials are in Spanish.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
creator:
Thomas R. Howell
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Thomas R. Howell papers (Collection 576). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Tom Howell Jr., 2001.
Processing Information
Initial processing by University Archivist Charlotte Brown. Final processing by Kelly Besser with assistance from Megan Hahn
Fraser and Alyssa Goodstein, 2013.
Biography/History
Thomas Raymond Howell was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 17, 1924. He enrolled at Louisiana State University (LSU)
in 1941 and then took a leave from his studies to serve in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946. Upon completion of his service,
he returned to school and received his undergraduate degree from LSU in 1946, and an M.S. (1949) and Ph.D. (1951) from the
University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Professor Alden H. Miller at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
(MVZ).
Thomas R. Howell was a professional ornithologist who taught and directed ornithological research at UCLA where he was also
director of the Donald R. Dickey bird collection and chairman of the Lida Scott Brown Fund for Ornithological Education. Howell
also established the Lida Scott Brown Library for Ornithology in the UCLA Biology Department, taught vertebrate biology at
UCLA and served as chair of its Biology Department from 1963 to 1966.
Howell joined the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU), the leading professional ornithology society of the country, in 1948
and for many years, served on its most important committee, the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature that is charged
with revising the standard checklist of North American birds and deciding the correct scientific names of these birds. In
1983 this committee published the sixth edition of the checklist, which was first published 100 years earlier. For the first
time, this revised edition included not only species of birds found north of the Mexican border, but also all the birds of
Mexico and Central America.
In addition to his service to AOU, Howell also served as President of the Cooper Ornithological Society, the leading ornithology
society of the Western United States, from 1964-1967 and he regularly attended the International Ornithological Congress.
When he wasn't advancing the study of ornithology in the classroom or via professional organizations, Howell was in the field
documenting his research via notes, photographs and film.
Howell's field research took him around the world but he dedicated much time to his work in Nicaragua, northern Chile and
southwest Ethiopia. In Nicaragua, he studied the geographical transition between North American and South American birds,
in Chile he investigated how the Gray Gull manages to breed in the desert safe from predators and in Ethiopia he conducted
a field study to understand the nesting adaptations of the Egyptian Plover.
Howell retired as professor emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 1986 and continued to travel the world with his
wife Eleanor, who shared his passion for observing birds in their natural habitat. At the age of 80, Howell died on December
14, 2004 in North Chatham, Massachusetts.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of records related to the work of UCLA faculty member and ornithologist Thomas R. Howell. Materials
include field notebooks, Nicaragua research files, American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) checklist files, professional organization
and conference files, master reprint files of Howell’s publications, correspondence, photographs, slides, film reels, audio
and video tapes.
Organization and Arrangement
Materials were packed at Howell's residence by University Archivist Charlotte B. Brown and maintain the creator's original
order.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
COLLECTION CONTAINS DIGITAL MATERIALS: Special equipment or further processing may be required for viewing. To access digital
materials you must notify the reference desk in advance of your visit.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Howell, Thomas R.--Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Biology--Faculty--Archives.
Ornithologists--California--Los Angeles--Archives.
Box 1, Folder 1
Nicaragua checklist notes and correspondence.
Box 1, Folder 3
Maps - Latin America (Chile; Caribbean).
Box 1, Folder 4
Nicaragua: Official Standard Names Gazetteer.
Box 1, Folder 6
TRH - Nica. taxonomic notes.
Box 1, Folder 7
Banks - cuckoo ms., letters.
1989-1990.
Box 1, Folder 10, 12-15, 17-18
A.O.U. checklist memoranda and writeups.
Box 1, Folder 11
Pelecaniformes: taxonomic.
Box 1, Folder 19
Bombycilla-Zosterops, Silla, passerines.
Box 1, Folder 22
Picoides - Dendrocopus and Carduelines.
1988.
Box 2, Folders 1-4
TRH authored publications.
Box 2, Folder 7
A.O.U..
1991.
Scope and Content Note
Meeting program, abstracts and proposed resolutions.
Box 2, Folder 8, Box 9, Folder 4-8
A.O.U. Meetings.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, programs, agendas, committee reports, resolutions and committee lists.
Box 2, Folder 9
A.O.U..
1987-1995.
Scope and Content Note
Council minutes, bylaws, memoranda and correspondence.
Box 2, Folder 10
George A. Bartholomew correspondence.
Box 2, Folder 11
California Academy of Sciences.
1990-1992.
Scope and Content Note
Annual Report and correspondence.
Box 2, Folder 12
I.C.B.P..
1986-1992.
Scope and Content Note
International Council for Bird Preservation United States Section, Inc. annual reports, minutes, correspondence and bylaws.
Box 2, Folder 14
I.O.C..
1990-1994.
Scope and Content Note
International Ornithological Congress membership list, final circular and Howell's notes for his "Egg Size and Clutch Size
in Some Charadriiformes" oral paper presentation.
Box 2, Folder 15
WFVZ, LA MUS. NH.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, clippings and copy of proposed contract between Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology and Los Angeles County
Museum Foundation.
Box 2, Folder 16
Ornithological.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence concerning papers and professional organizations.
Box 2, Folder 17
A.O.U..
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence concerning member memorials.
Box 2, Folder 18
A.O.U. Awards Committee.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Box 2, Folder 19
Costa Rica - Pat Molnar.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence concerning land in Costa Rica.
Box 2, Folder 20
Cooper Ornithological Society.
1989-1992.
Scope and Content Note
Annual meeting programs and abstracts.
Box 2, Folder 21
Abstracts.
1994.
Scope and Content Note
Bound book from the North American Ornithological Conference.
Box 2, Folder 22, Box 4, Folder 27, Box 9, Folder 9, Box 5, Folders 1-3
A.O.U. checklist.
1986-1990, 1993-1995.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda, correspondence and agendas from the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature.
Box 2: 1988-1990
Box 4: 1986-1988
Box 5: 1990, 1993-1995
Box 9: 1991-1992
Box 3, Folder 1
Grosbeaks, finches, crossbills.
Box 3, Folder 3
Kiff - Publ. Ms..
Scope and Content Note
Publications by Lloyd F. Kiff.
Box 3, Folder 4
W.B. Richardson.
Scope and Content Note
Publications, correspondence and notes concerning Richardson's work.
Box 3, Folder 5
Nutting.
Scope and Content Note
Charles C. Nutting specimen lists from Nicaragua, Howell's notes on Nutting specimens and correspondence.
Box 3, Folder 6
Delattre.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence concerning Delattre specimens collected in Nicaragua.
Box 3, Folder 7
Isler.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Mort and Phyllis Isler concerning antbirds in Nicaragua.
Box 3, Folder 8
Academy of Natural Sciences/Philadelphia.
Scope and Content Note
ANSP notes.
Box 3, Folder 9
British Museum.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's notes on Nicaraguan specimens in the British Museum.
Box 3, Folder 10
Martinez-Sanchez records.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Juan C. Martinez-Sanchez of the Museo De Zoologia and notes concerning Registers of New or Little Known
Birds of Nicaragua.
Box 3, Folder 11
Ponsol birds.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's notes on Ponsol localities and his reprint, Birds Collected in Nicaragua by Bernardo Ponsol.
Box 3, Folder 12
IRENA - Protected Areas.
1982 Sep.
Scope and Content Note
Instituto Nicaraguense De Recursos Naturales Y Del Ambiente protected areas report.
Box 3, Folder 13
W. de W. Miller narrative.
Box 3, Folder 14
Bovallius.
Scope and Content Note
Notes and publications regarding Carl Bovallius.
Box 3, Folder 15
Martinez-Sanchez letters.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Juan C. Martinez-Sanchez.
Box 3, Folder 16
IRENA - Ornitofauna En Nicaragua.
Box 3, Folder 17
Alcorn List of Nicaraguan Birds.
Scope and Content Note
List compiled by J.R. Alcorn.
Box 3, Folder 18
Field Museum Data.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with the Bird Division of the Field Museum of Natural History and Howell's notes concerning W.B. Richardson
specimens.
Box 3, Folder 19
U. Kansas list of Nica birds.
Box 3, Folder 20
Nica letters.
1983-1985, 1991.
Box 3, Folder 21
Field notes on Nica birds.
Box 3, Folder 22
Silliman checklist.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with James Silliman regarding Nicaraguan birds.
Box 3, Folder 23
Tom Will.
Scope and Content Note
Tom Will correspondence and paper, "Birds of a Severely Hurricane-Damaged Atlantic Coast Rain Forest in Nicaragua."
Box 3, Folder 24
ICBP - NICA..
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence concerning the International Council for Bird Preservation Biodiversity Project - Endemic Birds of Nicaragua.
Box 3, Folder 25
Nicaragua reprints.
Scope and Content Note
Reprints on the birds of Nicaragua.
Box 3, Folder 26
Nica. Ms: Non-passeriformes.
Box 3, Folder 27
Nicaragua digital manuscripts
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Two 5.25 inch floppy disks.
Special equipment or further processing may be required for viewing. To access digital materials you must notify the reference
desk in advance of your visit.
Box 3, Folder 30
Nicaragua.
Scope and Content Note
Field notes, correspondence and reprints.
Box 4, Folder 1
Steve N.G. Howell.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence concerning bird distribution in Nicaragua.
Box 4, Folder 2
Order Tinamiformes and Order Galliformes.
Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts annotated by Howell.
Box 4, Folder 3
Order Cuculiformes and Order Strigiformes.
Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts annotated by Howell.
Box 4, Folder 4
Bird Conservation 3.
1988.
Scope and Content Note
Journal published for the International Council for Bird Preservation. This volume focuses on North American forests and their
avifaunas.
Box 4, Folder 5
The Birds of the Isle of Pines.
Scope and Content Note
W.E. Clyde Todd reprint.
Box 4, Folder 6
Nica. pinelands ecology.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and articles.
Box 4, Folder 7
Order Columbiformes and Order Psittaciformes.
Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts annotated by Howell.
Box 4, Folder 8
Family Hirundinidae.
Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts annotated by Howell. Materials also include the following families: Certhididae, Troglodytidae, Cinclidae, Mimidae,
Bombycillidae, Vireonidae and Emberizidae.
Box 4, Folder 9
Nica. birds: Energetics.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's notes, copies of articles, census lists and journals: Audubon Field Notes and Ornithologische Mitteilungen.
Box 4, Folder 10-11
Pine Savanna Ecology.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, field notes and articles.
Box 4, Folder 12
Pinus Caribaea in South Africa.
Scope and Content Note
The Natural Distribution, Growth and Botanical Variation of Pinus Caribaea and its Circulation in South Africa by H.A. Luckhoff.
Box 4, Folder 13
Nica. Distr. Analysis.
Scope and Content Note
Field notes and articles.
Box 4, Folder 14
C. Am. Biogeography.
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of articles and chapters.
Box 4, Folders 15-16
Sapsucker notes - Modoc County.
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of Howell's field notebooks.
Box 4, Folder 17
The Birds of North America Guidelines for Authors.
1992 Aug.
Scope and Content Note
A project of the American Ornithologist's Union.
Box 4, Folder 18
TRH notes.
1995.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's summary notes on the 4 taxonomically distinct forms of the Sphyrapicus Varius complex.
Box 4, Folder 19
A.O.U. - Birds of North America.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, reports and committee reports on the North American Bird Biographies Project.
Box 4, Folder 20
Birds of North America - Sphyrapicus.
Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts and correspondence.
Box 4, Folder 21
Sapsucker migration slides and negatives.
Box 4, Folders 22-23
Birds of North America.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Box 4, Folder 24
The Auk and The Condor.
1973, 1974.
Scope and Content Note
Journals with correspondence from The Birds of North America Assistant Editor Keith Russell.
Box 4, Folder 26
Sapsucker manuscripts and reprints.
Box 5, Folder 4
DNA papers from CGS.
Scope and Content Note
Reprints.
Box 5, Folder 5
Ned K. Johnson.
Scope and Content Note
Reprints and correspondence.
Box 5, Folder 6
List of species in A.O.U. checklist.
Box 5, Folder 7
Dickey - Laysan Island Journal.
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy of Donald Dickey's 1923 Laysan Island expedition journal.
Box 5, Folder 8-10, 12-18
M & G. ms..
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript includes Howell's taxonomic notes.
Box 5, Folder 11
M & G typescript: passerines only.
Box 5, Folders 19-20
Nica. list.
Scope and Content Note
Materials include Howell's taxonomic notes. See also Nica. checklist, manuscript and floppy disks in Box 3.
Box 5, Folder 21
C. Am. Nica. taxonomic papers.
Box 5, Folder 22
Nica taxonomic or other problems.
Scope and Content Note
Materials include Howell's notes, articles and W.F.H Rosenberg's Catalogue of Birdskins.
Box 5, Folder 23
Copies of papers - Nica. birds.
Box 5, Folder 24
Species list.
Scope and Content Note
List collected by W.B. Richardson for S & G, American Museum of Natural History.
Box 5, Folders 25-26
Procelsterna.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's field notes and correspondence.
Box 5, Folder 27
Procelsterna photos and slides.
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photos of egg shells and skeleton slides.
Box 5, Folder 28
Procelsterna.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's notes and correspondence with Mark J. Rauzon and Craig S. Harrison. Materials also include Rauzon and Harrison's
draft, "The Breeding Biology of the Blue-Gray Noddy in Hawaii."
Box 5, Folder 29
Egg size - general.
Scope and Content Note
Materials include articles on egg size and formation, correspondence and Howell's hand written draft of a review of a book
on egg incubation.
Box 6, Folder 1
Christmas Island.
1978; 1981.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, travel records and copies of Howell's journals.
Box 6, Folder 3
Revillagigedos birds.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, slides and Howell's taxonomic notes.
Box 6, Folder 4
Growth rates of seabirds.
Scope and Content Note
Copy of manuscript by Robert E. Ricklefs and Susan C. White and handwritten letter from Ricklefs to Howell.
Box 6, Folder 5
Seabird egg/body data.
Scope and Content Note
Articles and Howell's notes.
Box 6, Folder 6
Christmas Island journals.
Scope and Content Note
Christmas Island maps, related articles and Howell's journals.
Box 6, Folder 7
TRH review.
1988.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's review of David Ward's manuscript, "The incubation biology of Crowned, Blackwinged, and Lesser Blackwinged plovers"
for publication in The Condor.
Box 6, Folder 8
Gull Acid Tern notes and data.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Includes one 5.25 inch floppy disk.
Special equipment or further processing may be required for viewing. To access digital materials you must notify the reference
desk in advance of your visit.
Box 6, Folder 9
Tern photos and negatives.
circa 1995.
Scope and Content Note
Negatives and black and white photos of Midway Island Tropicbird feeding chick, White Tern with egg and Sooty Terns
Box 6, Folder 10
Gygis article.
1970-1989.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's article, "A Year in the Life of the Fairy Tern," black and white Fairy Tern photo, journal and correspondence.
Box 6, Folder 11
Gygis tables.
1970.
Scope and Content Note
Midway Islands White Tern experiment field notes and data tables.
Box 6, Folder 12
Terns.
Scope and Content Note
Tern articles and Howell's notes.
Box 6, Folder 13
Larosterna.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Box 6, Folder 14
Gygis - graphs.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's annotated White Tern nestling graphs.
Box 6, Folder 15
Tropicbirds.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's manuscripts, notes and correspondence.
Box 6, Folder 16
Larids, Alcids.
Scope and Content Note
Field notes, articles, slides, photos and correspondence.
Box 6, Folder 17
Sandpipers.
Scope and Content Note
Articles, notes, graphs and correspondence concerning clutch size.
Box 6, Folder 18
Graphs.
Scope and Content Note
Graphs for egg mass, clutch mass/body mass for lapwings, charadrius, calidridini. Photocopies of study skin, egg clutches
superimposed - vanellus, charadrius, calidris.
Box 6, Folder 19
Plovers and lapwings.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's "Egg Size, Clutch Size, and Body Size in Plovers and Sandpipers" manuscript, slides, graphs, notes and correspondence.
Box 6, Folder 20
Passerines - egg mass and body mass.
Scope and Content Note
Graphs and notes.
Box 6, Folder 21
Larus.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and notes.
Box 6, Folder 22
Board, Ronald G..
Scope and Content Note
Egg shell reprints and black and white polaroids.
Box 6, Folder 23
Lonchura malacca.
Scope and Content Note
Field notes, slides, correspondence and reprints.
Box 6, Folder 24
E.P. requests.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence to Howell requesting copies of his "Breeding Biology of the Egyptian Plover." Materials also include black
and white photos of the Egyptian Plover and its eggs.
Box 6, Folder 25
Cracidae.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and slides.
Box 6, Folder 26
Hornero.
Scope and Content Note
Articles, correspondence and scripts for papers.
Box 6, Folder 27
Genetics - DNA.
Scope and Content Note
Reprints, manuscript drafts and correspondence.
Box 7, Folder 1
Chromosome - taxonomy studies.
Scope and Content Note
Magazines and reprints.
Box 7, Folder 2
Sibley, Charles G..
1989.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and a preprint of Sibley's manuscript, "DNA Hybridization Evidence of Hominoid Phylogeny: A Reanalysis of the
Data."
Box 7, Folder 3
Havensneck notes.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's Havensneck journal pages.
Box 7, Folder 4
Falco peregrinus.
1987.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's UCLA academic planner, slides, correspondence and field notes.
Box 7, Folder 5
Pacific Seabird Group annual meeting program.
1995.
Box 7, Folders 6-21
Artamus.
Scope and Content Note
Materials include slides, maps, charts, notebooks and articles concerning the artamidae family.
Box 7, Folder 22
Brown, Eleanor D..
Scope and Content Note
Brown's publications, manuscript drafts and correspondence.
Box 7, Folder 23
Midway banding.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence from the United States Department of the Interior Bird Banding Laboratory, Midway Island banding schedules
and Eastern I. bird bands.
Box 7, Folder 24
New Guinea.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes, brochures, photos and reprints concerning the birds of Papua New Guinea.
Box 7, Folders 25-27
Nica. note cards.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's handwritten note cards. One folder contains citation cards.
Box 8, Folders 1-9
NGS grant.
Scope and Content Note
Materials include proposal, expense reports, correspondence, itineraries, photos, slides and final report for an integrated
study of the biology of Wood Swallows. Materials also include research files for Australia and Sulawesi.
Box 17, Box 8, Folders 10-12
Film reels.
Scope and Content Note
Box 8: One film reel pertaining to the Wood Swallow field work and two unlabeled film reels.
Box 17: Two film reels and one folder of TRH's notes. Reels include Isla footage from Isla Isabela of frigates, Blue-foots,
gulls, boobies, pelicans, nests and eggs.
Box 8, Folder 13
ASZ meeting.
1987.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's notes, handwritten speech and correspondence concerning his American Society of Zoologists paper presentation.
Box 8, Folder 14
Letter to Taborsky.
1993.
Scope and Content Note
A copy of Natural History with Michael and Barbara Taborsky's article, "The Kiwi's Parental Burden" and Howell's notes.
Box 8, Folder 15
Clutch Inc. Patch.
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of articles and specimens regarding clutch size.
Box 8, Folder 16
Rahn; incl. gull-tern-alcid graphs.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Hermann Rahn regarding body mass and egg mass.
Box 8, Folder 17
Phaethon; Fregata, etc..
Scope and Content Note
Field notes on Fregata magnificens made at Isla Isabela, correspondence and field notes on Red-tailed Tropicbird made at Midway
Island.
Box 8, Folder 18
Pelicaniformes.
Scope and Content Note
Notes, articles, slides and photos on the Order Pelicaniformes. Materials also include articles on ratites, Turnix and Colibri.
Box 8, Folder 19
Turnix.
Scope and Content Note
Articles, notes and correspondence.
Box 8, Folder 20
Flight.
Scope and Content Note
Articles, notes, correspondence and graphs concerning bird flight.
Box 8, Folder 21
Research file.
Scope and Content Note
Materials include Metabolic Rate: Laboratory Measurements, clutch egg negatives, pteroclid, columbid, vanellid skeleton slides,
AVM Instrument Company informative packet and Howell's annotated copy of William A. Calder III's article, "The Kiwi."
Box 9, Folder 1
Gill, Frank B..
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence from The Academy of Natural Sciences Curator of Ornithology Frank B. Gill concerning photos borrowed for use
with the publication of his text. Materials include enclosure of two of Howell's photos.
Box 9, Folder 2
Colonial Waterbirds.
1993.
Scope and Content Note
Program, agenda and Howell's presentation notes for the Colonial Waterbird Society Annual Meeting.
Box 9, Folder 3
Cooper Ornithological Society.
1993.
Scope and Content Note
Program, abstracts and correspondence concerning the Sixty-third Annual Meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Society.
Box 9, Folder 10
Nicaragua reprints and tourist brochures.
Box 9, Folder 11
TRH field journals.
1950-1986.
Box 9, Folder 12
Nicaragua.
Scope and Content Note
Howell's notes and handwritten presentation on Nicaraguan birds.
Box 9, Folder 13
Transactions of the Linnaean Society of New York.
Scope and Content Note
Volume VII The Species of Middle American Birds By Eugene Eisenmann
Box 9, Folder 14
Birds of the Laysan and the Leeward Islands, Hawaiian Group.
Scope and Content Note
By Walter K. Fisher
Box 9, Folder 15
TRH Nicaragua journal.
1962.
Box 9, Folder 16-22
TRH Specimen catalog and Nica. field notes.
1951-1957, 1962-1963, 1965-1967.
Scope and Content Note
Materials also include J.G. Montrello's specimen catalog and field notes. See also TRH Nicaragua journal folder for 1962 specimen
catalog and field notes. The 1961 notes and catalog were lost by theft.
Box 9, Folder 23
Christmas Island.
1978, 1981, 1985, 1989.
Scope and Content Note
Three boxes of slides.
Box 10, Folders 1-20
Nica bird lists and specimen catalogs.
Scope and Content Note
Materials include photocopies of W. Dew Miller's notes and report from his 1917 Department of Ornithology Nicaraguan Expedition.
Box 10, Folder 21
Species notes.
Scope and Content Note
Checklist and notes compiled by TRH.
Box 10, Folders 22-23
W.B. Richardson correspondence.
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of William B. Richardson's letters.
Box 10, Folder 24
Harrison, Ed N..
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence from President Ed N. Harrison of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. Materials include photocopies
of the data slips for Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Red-naped Sapsucker and Red-breasted Sapsucker egg sets in the Foundation's
collection.
Box 10, Folder 25-28
Gray gull films.
Scope and Content Note
Four film reels.
Box 10, Folder 29
TRH slides.
1989.
Scope and Content Note
Color slides of TRH at UCLA with Nicholas Collias and Jim N.
Box 10, Folder 30
Roadrunner Gular Flutter.
1970.
Scope and Content Note
One film reel described by Howell as a work print.
Box 10, Folder 31
Artamus photos.
Scope and Content Note
Black and white Artamus photos made from slides by Ray Quigley. Materials also include TRH's slide list and correspondence
from Quiq.
Box 11, Folder 1
El Recreo Birds.
Scope and Content Note
TRH's field notes.
Box 11, Folder 2
Field notebooks.
1957-1970.
Scope and Content Note
Seven of TRH's field notebooks on the following: Midway Island, Gray Gull, cuckoos, crows, jays, birds of Nicaragua and San
Nicolas Island.
Box 11, Folders 3-4
Check-list.
circa 1959.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence concerning the completion of Peters' Check-list of Birds of the World.
Box 11, Folder 5
Florentine Codex birds.
Scope and Content Note
Copies of Arthur J.O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble's Florentine Codex Book 11: Earthly Things and TRH's criticism on the
translation of Aztec accounts of birds.
Box 11, Folder 6
Hanna data.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and data from Wilson C. Hanna regarding clutch size and desert birds.
Box 11, Folder 7
Hummer Manuscript.
Scope and Content Note
Reprints, Howell's field notes and outline for hummingbird manuscript.
Box 11, Folder 8
Nica. hummer torp..
Scope and Content Note
Copy of The Condor and Howell's notes on torpidity in two neo-tropical hummingbirds
Box 11, Folder 9
Avian evolution.
Scope and Content Note
Reprints and TRH's notes.
Box 11, Folder 10
Incubation.
Scope and Content Note
Reprints and TRH's notes.
Box 11, Folder 11
Natural History and Differentiation in Sphyrapicus Varius.
1951-1952.
Scope and Content Note
TRH's thesis with comments from critic and notes on questions for further work.
Box 11, Folder 12
Ponsol - Nicaragua letters.
1960-1962.
Scope and Content Note
Data, notes and correspondence concerning Howell's manuscript on the birds collected by Padre Bernardo Ponsol.
Box 11, Folder 13
Clements, James F..
1995.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence from James F. Clements and a copy of his Report on an Ornithological Survey of Lake Nicaragua, Isla Ometepe
and Easily Accessible Island and Shore Habitats.
Box 11, Folder 14
Nicaragua - Distr. Manuscript.
Scope and Content Note
TRH's "A Model for Analysis of the Distribution of the Avifauna of Central America." Materials also include a set of graphs.
Box 11, Folder 15
National Geographic Magazine.
Scope and Content Note
Magazine includes Lieutenant Colonel Dan I. Sultan's article, "An Army Engineer Explores Nicaragua: Mapping a Route for a
New Canal Through the Largest of Central American Republics."
Box 12, Folders 1-3
Publications.
Scope and Content Note
Publications collected and authored by TRH. Materials include a reprint of TRH's "Avian Distribution in Central America."
Box 12, Folder 4
Nica. field notes - drafts.
Scope and Content Note
Transcriptions of TRH's wire recordings of field notes.
Box 12, Folder 5
Avian Distr. C. Am.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, map figures, notes and peer review comments on TRH's manuscript, "A Model for Analysis of the Distribution
of the Avifauna of Central America."
Box 12, Folder 6
Nicaraguan birds.
1963-1968.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with colleagues concerning TRH's research.
Box 12, Folders 7-9
Slide cases.
1987, .
Scope and Content Note
Three cases of slides.
7: Slides include images of Cape Gannets, cormorants, penguins, Bontebok, Hyrax, views from Table Mt.
8: Slides include images of Gambela birds - Waders, Burhinus, Bee-Eaters, Raptors and Goliath Heron. Additional images include
crocodiles, eagles and lungfishes.
9: Slides include images of Midway Island, Terns, Boobies and Tropic Birds.
Box 13
C.O.S. business and slides.
Scope and Content Note
Two folders of Cooper Ornithological Society (C.O.S.) minutes, membership lists, bylaws, reports and correspondence. Slides
contain images captured during TRH's field expeditions.
Box 14
Slides and photographs.
Scope and Content Note
According to Howell's notes, these boxes contain the best Pluvianus slides other than those sent to Natural History Magazine.
The Ethiopia slide storage box includes 5 slides used for African Handbook. Materials also include slides of seabirds, Central
American bird distribution data slides and ornithology course slides. Photographs include black and white images of sociable
weavers and color images of Howell and his students on a class field trip to Mount Pinos.
Boxes 15-16, 18, 20-22
Slides.
Scope and Content Note
Box 15: Five slide cases. Materials include images from the following expeditions: Isla Isabella, Chile, Australia, West Africa,
Costa Rica and Ecuador. One case contains TRH's note that these are the best Artamus slides.
Box 16: Six slide cases. Materials include images from the following expeditions: Africa, Galapagos Islands, Ethiopia and
South Africa.
Box 18: Materials include images from Nicaragua, Alaska, New Zealand, China, Australia, New Guinea and Africa.
Box 20: Materials include images from Spain, Paris, Poland and Nicaragua.
Box 21: Materials include images from India, Spain, Mexico, Poland and Alaska.
Box 22: Materials include images of Australian birds and their eggs, kangaroos, turtles and bark paintings.
Box 19
Slides, Audiotapes and Videotapes.
Scope and Content Note
Slides include images expeditions to the following: Africa, Istanbul, Borneo, Christmas Island and Nicaragua. Two videocassettes
document Black-faced Woodswallows in Australia. Eighteen audiocassettes document gull calls at night in Chile, TRH's notes
on the White Tern, Tropicbird and Fairy Tern calls, Christmas Island, mockingbirds at UCLA, Terns at Midway Island, TRH's
notes on Woodswallows and vocalizations of Artamus superciliosus, personatus, cyanopterus, cinereus and insignis.
Box 19
Allen's Hummer.
1991 May 25.
Scope and Content
Skeleton of a hummingbird. TRH's notes indicate that it was a window kill.
