Guide to the James G. Needham papers,1888-1957

Includes correspondence pertaining to the taxonomic study of dragonflies; correspondence, typed reports, and printed material pertaining to the organization and administration of the Department of Entomology at Cornell; Needham's log of his trip to China (1927-1928) and papers concerning his teaching career and educational philosophy; extensive correspondence with American and foreign scientists, former students, and friends and family, concerning description and identification of insect specimens, publication of Needham's books and articles, establishment of the Okefenokee Society, attempts to get gasoline from the rationing board during World War II, tax matters, alumni activities at Knox College, accounts of friends' collecting expeditions, acknowledgments and remarks on his printed work, both scientific and literary, the purchase of land in Michigan, the establishment of Reed College, recommendations for students and friends, the creation of an Inter-American Wildlife Preserve in British Honduras (Belize), and his PLAN FOR PEACE; course outlines; class schedules; lab worksheets; field trip instructions and assignments; diaries and address book; logs of collecting expeditions; scrapbooks and photograph albums; including photographs of China; glass plate negatives; notes and manuscripts of Needham's writings; price lists of collections; lists of publications of Needham and others; pencil sketches and pen and ink drawings of insects and of a proposed limnological field station on Cayuga Lake; oversized geological survey map of East Ithaca, New York; diagrams of orchards and geodetic survey maps of pond and lake soundings; maps; and printed matter on a variety of subjects. Also included is correspondence of C.P. Alexander, George T. Atkinson, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Nathan Banks, Philip Calvert, T.D.A. Cockerell, John Henry Comstock, Thomas A. Edison, Alice Ferguson, Mrs. Leonora K. Gloyd, David Starr Jordan, Mrs. Elsie B. Klotts, M.A. Lieflinck, B. Elwood Montgomery, Edwin Mumford, Ira La Rivers, F. Ris, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Will Sargent, Ernest Robert Tinkham, Henry K. Townes, Minter Jackson Westfall, Jr., and others.

Series I. Correspondence	Boxes 1-3
Series II. Miscellaneous	Boxes 3-4, 7-10, mapcase
Series III. Photographs	Boxes 5-6

Guide to the James G. Needham papers,
1888-1957

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

© 2001 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Date	Description	Container
	Series I. Correspondence
1888-1890	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 1
1891	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 2
1892-1894	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 3
1895-1896	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 4
1897	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 5
1898	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 6
1899	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 7
1900	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 8
1901	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 9
1901	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 10
1902	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 11
1902	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 12
1903	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 13
1904	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 14
1904	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 15
1905	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 16
1905	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 17
1906	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 18
1906	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 19
1907	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 20
1907	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 21
1908	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 22
1908	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 23
1909	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 24
1909	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 25
1909	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 26
1910	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 27
1910	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 28
1911	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 29
1912	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 30
1913	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 31
1914	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 32
1915	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 33
1916	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 34
1917	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 35
1917	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 36
1918	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 37
1919	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 38
1920-1921	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 39
1922	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 40
1923-1925	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 41
1926	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 42
1927	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 43
1927	Log of China Trip	Box 1	Folder 44
1927	Log of China Trip	Box 1	Folder 45
1927-1928	Log of China Trip	Box 1	Folder 46
1928	Log of China Trip	Box 1	Folder 47
1928	Log of China Trip	Box 1	Folder 48
1928	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 49
1928	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 50
1929	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 51
1930	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 1
1930	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 2
1931	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 3
1932	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 4
1932	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 5
1932	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 6
1933	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 7
1934	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 8
1935	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 9
1935	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 10
1935	Letters of Condolence A.B.T Needham	Box 2	Folder 11
1936	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 12
1937	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 13
1937	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 14
1937	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 15
1938	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 16
1938	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 17
1938	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 18
1938	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 19
1939	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 20
1939	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 21
1939	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 22
1939	Correspondence re: Lectures	Box 2	Folder 23
1939	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 24
1940	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 25
1940	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 26
1941	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 27
1941	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 28
1942	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 29
1942	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 30
1943	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 31
1943	Letters to Annabel	Box 2	Folder 32
1944	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 33
1944	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 34
1940-1945	Letters to Annabel	Box 2	Folder 35
1945	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 36
1945	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 37
1945	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 38
1946	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 39
1946	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 40
1946	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 41
1946	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 42
1947	Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 43
1947	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 1
1947	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 2
1948	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 3
1948	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 4
1949	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 5
1949	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 6
1950	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 7
1950	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 8
1951	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 9
1951	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 10
1952	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 11
1952	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 12
1952-1953	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 13
1953	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 14
1954	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 15
1954	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 16
1954	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 17
1954-1955	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 18
1955	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 19
1956	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 20
1956	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 21
1957	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 22
1956-1957	Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 23
1957-1958	Condolence Letters	Box 3	Folder 24
1959	Condolence Cards	Box 3	Folder 25
	Undated Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 26
	Undated Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 27
No date	Charles Darwin Letter	Box 3	Folder 28
	Greeting Cards	Box 3	Folder 29
	Greeting Cards	Box 3	Folder 30
	Greeting Cards	Box 3	Folder 31
	Greeting Cards	Box 3	Folder 32
	Series II. Miscellaneous
1913-1955	Honors	Box 3	Folder 33
	China Miscellany	Box 3	Folder 34
	China Miscellany	Box 3	Folder 35
	China Miscellany	Box 3	Folder 36
1908-1953	Taxes	Box 3	Folder 37
1908-1958	Taxes	Box 3	Folder 38
	Financial	Box 3	Folder 39
	Natural History of the Farm	Box 4	Folder 1
1953	West Virginia - Report	Box 4	Folder 2
1936	Mexico Trip	Box 4	Folder 3
1914	Cayuga Indian Festival	Box 4	Folder 4
1930	West Virginia Biological Notes	Box 4	Folder 5
1936	Mexico and California trip	Box 4	Folder 6
1930-1935	University of Puerto Rico	Box 4	Folder 7
1927	Apalachicola	Box 4	Folder 8
1922-1923	Laguna	Box 4	Folder 9
1937	Stanford University and Texas trip	Box 4	Folder 10
1923-1924	San Clemente	Box 4	Folder 11
1922	California Limnology-Elsinore	Box 4	Folder 12
1936-1937	Stanford Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 13
1930	West Indian trip	Box 4	Folder 14
1938	North Carolina-Kentucky trip	Box 4	Folder 15
1939	Florida	Box 4	Folder 16
1930	Flying Trip	Box 4	Folder 17
1942-1958	Olympic Mountain trip	Box 4	Folder 18
1934	Cape Fear River trip	Box 4	Folder 19
1929-1935	North Carolina Collectin trip	Box 4	Folder 20
No date	"Jingle of the Jungle"	Box 4	Folder 21
1942	California Limnology-Elsinore	Box 4	Folder 22
1930-1947	Santo Domingo	Box 4	Folder 23
1936-1939	Cuba	Box 4	Folder 24
1926	Utah	Box 4	Folder 25
	Okefenokee Swamp	Box 4	Folder 26
1942	My 75th Birthday	Box 4	Folder 27
1917-1918	Manuscripts	Box 4	Folder 28
1953	Ontario Manuscripts	Box 4	Folder 29
1953	Ontario	Box 4	Folder 30
1954-1955	Ontario	Box 4	Folder 31
	Undated Manuscripts	Box 4	Folder 32
	Undated Manuscripts and Notes	Box 4	Folder 33
	Undated Manuscripts and Notes	Box 4	Folder 34
	Undated Poetry Manuscripts	Box 4	Folder 35
	Undated Manuscripts	Box 4	Folder 36
	Undated Manuscripts	Box 4	Folder 37
	Undated Miscellany	Box 4	Folder 38
	Undated Notes and Coreespondence	Box 4	Folder 39
	Undated Miscellany	Box 4	Folder 40
	Undated Miscellany	Box 4	Folder 41
	Undated Miscellany and notes	Box 4	Folder 42
	Miscellaneous Fragments Undated	Box 4	Folder 43
	Writings by others	Box 4	Folder 44
	Overpopulation	Box 4	Folder 45
	Clippings about Needham	Box 4	Folder 46
	Clippings about Needham	Box 4	Folder 47
	Clippings about Needham	Box 4	Folder 48
1989-ca. 1947	Clippings	Box 4	Folder 49
	Miscellany	Box 4	Folder 50
	Needham Publications and Advertisements	Box 4	Folder 51
	Programs and Reviews	Box 4	Folder 52
	Address books	Box 7
	Diaries	Box 7
1931	Book of place-cards, Jugatae Banquet	Box 7
	Certificates	Box 7
	Passport	Box 7
	88th Birthday book	Box 7
1930	Photo-scrapbook album, W. Virginia
1899-1912	Cockerell Correspondence	Box 8
1886	Accounts	Box 8
1895	Dragonflies Manuscript	Box 8
1909-1910	Correspondence	Box 8
	Miscellany	Box 9
	Maps	Box 10
	Key to autograph New York State maps showing watercourses and wetlands	Box 10	Folder 1
	Finger Lakes Region	Box 10	Folder 1
	Genesee Valley	Box 10	Folder 1
	#129, top of #153	Box 10	Folder 1
	#16, 17	Box 10	Folder 2
	#27-29, 39-43, 50	Box 10	Folder 3
	#51-56, 58-59, 62-66	Box 10	Folder 4
	#79, 80 (2 parts), 81-83, 85-89	Box 10	Folder 5
	#101-108, 112-113, 124-125	Box 10	Folder 6
	126-129, 130 (2 parts), 131-134, 145-150	Box 10	Folder 7
	#151, 153, 155-159, 166, 171, 175	Box 10	Folder 8
	#176-181, 193	Box 10	Folder 9
	#206-207	Box 10	Folder 10
	#35,100-101; 122; Adirondacks	Mapcase o/s	Folder 1
1935	Pinar del Rio [Cuba]	Mapcase o/s	Folder 2
June 15, 1884	High School diploma of James G. Needham, Virginia, Illinois	Mapcase
June 11, 1891	J.G.N.'s Bachelor of Science degree from Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois	Mapcase
June 15, 1894	J.G.N.'s Master of Science degree from Knox College	Mapcase
June 16, 1898	J.G.N.'s Doctor of Philosophy degree from Cornell University	Mapcase
May 11, 1917	J.G.N.'s Certificate as Phi Beta Kappa alumnus member by action of Delta Chapter of Illinois	Mapcase
July 18, 1921	J.G.N.'s Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Knox College	Mapcase
	Anna B. Taylor's Bachelor of Letters degree from Knox College	Mapcase
	Series III. Photographs
	Alabama	Box 5	Folder 1
	Archbold Biological Field Station	Box 5	Folder 2
	Bass Biological Laboratory; Buildings at Englewood; Bethany Beach	Box 5	Folder 3
	"Beaufort Harbor Biological Lab."	Box 5	Folder 4
	Biological Field Station	Box 5	Folder 5
	Branch, Hazel E. : Photo portfolio of "Limnology class, Spring of 1919"; 4 loose pictures of specimens	Box 5	Folder 6
	British Guiana [Surinam]	Box 5	Folder 7
	China	Box 5	Folder 8
	China	Box 5	Folder 9
	China scenes	Box 5	Folder 10
	China scenes	Box 5	Folder 11
	Chinese students	Box 5	Folder 12
	Chinese students and families	Box 5	Folder 13
	Chinese students and families	Box 5	Folder 14
	Chinese students and Staff, with Needham, Peking	Box 5	Folder 15
	Chinese students with Needham family, Shanghai	Box 5	Folder 16
	Colleagues and friends	Box 5	Folder 17
	Colleagues and friends	Box 5	Folder 18
	Classes [?] unidentified	Box 5	Folder 19
	Comstock, Anna	Box 5	Folder 20
	Comstock, John Henry	Box 5	Folder 21
	Comstock Hall	Box 5	Folder 22
	Dynamite	Box 5	Folder 23
	Family photo	Box 5	Folder 24
	Family photos	Box 5	Folder 25
	Family photos	Box 5	Folder 26
	Family photos	Box 5	Folder 27
	Family photos	Box 5	Folder 28
	Family photos	Box 5	Folder 29
	Family photos	Box 5	Folder 30
	Field Trips	Box 5	Folder 31
	Field Trips & Classes	Box 5	Folder 32
	Friends & Colleagues	Box 5	Folder 33
	Hilliard, Annabel, 1956. Constableville, NY. (sic) Thanksgiving 1956	Box 5	Folder 34
	Indian Pageant on Beebe Lake c. 1914	Box 5	Folder 35
	Knox College	Box 5	Folder 36
	Lake Laboratory at Juanita Island, Lake George	Box 5	Folder 37
	Limnology classes	Box 5	Folder 38
	Minnesota	Box 5	Folder 39
	Miscellaneous people	Box 5	Folder 40
	Miscellaneous photos, scenes	Box 5	Folder 41
	Miscellaneous photos (some identified)	Box 5	Folder 42
	J.G. Needham	Box 5	Folder 43
	J.G. Needham	Box 5	Folder 44
	J.G. Needham & students	Box 5	Folder 45
	J.G. Needham & former classmates	Box 5	Folder 46
	"Pamp"	Box 5	Folder 47
	Photographs, Miss Swanson [M. Eurdloch?]	Box 5	Folder 48
	"Photoprints of entomologists from Dr. Matheson [?] 28 v.'45"	Box 5	Folder 49
	Plants, shells, etc.	Box 5	Folder 50
	Postcards	Box 5	Folder 51
	Postcards, China	Box 5	Folder 52
	Postcards, China, etc.	Box 5	Folder 53
	Postcards, Malaya	Box 5	Folder 54
	Postcards, Singapore & Penang	Box 5	Folder 55
	Scenes	Box 5	Folder 56
	West Virginia	Box 5	Folder 57
	"Wild Flower Reserve & Ringwood"	Box 5	Folder 58
	Willard Culver's photos. Englewood, Fla. June 1944	Box 5	Folder 59
	Glass Negatives	Box 6

Guide to the James G. Needham papers,1888-1957

Division of Rare and Manuscript CollectionsCornell University Library

© 2001 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Guide to the James G. Needham papers,
1888-1957

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library