Guide to the William L. Brown, Jr. Papers,
1960-1990.

Collection Number: 21-1-3532

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:

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Compiled by:

Guy Smith

Date completed:

2006

EAD encoding:

Dan Sterner, February 2007

© 2007 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

William L. Brown, Jr. papers, 1960-1990.

Collection Number:

21-01-3532

Creator:

William L. Brown, Jr.

Quantity:

6.9 cubic ft.

Forms of Material:

Galley proofs, photographs, correspondence, subject files, metal-etched blocks.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Abstract:

The collection contains galley proofs including original drawings for publications, photographs, subject files, course files, correspondence, notebooks, field books, and metal-etched blocks used in illustrations used in publications.

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor Brown taught entomology and evolutionary theory in the Department of Entomology in the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University from 1960 until his retirement in 1991. He worked on the reclassification of the family Formicidae, the ant. Before coming to Cornell, he worked with all of the principal museum ant collections in North and South America, Western Europe, South Africa and Australia.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

SUBJECTS

Names:

Brown, William L., Jr.

Subjects:

Entomology--Study and teaching.

Field ants

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

William L. Brown, Jr. papers, #21-01-3532. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Personal-Correspondence, CV, Publications
Box 1

Series II. Drawings, Galleys, Photocopies, Photographs, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) Shots
Boxes 1, 2

Series III. Course Information
Box 2

Series IV. Pilot Register of Zoology (PRZ)
Box 2

Series V. National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants
Box 2

Series VI. Subject Files
Boxes 3, 4

Series VII. Manuscripts, Notes, Maps, Articles, Reprints, Correspondence, Studies and Data
Box 4

Series VIII. Administrative Records, Committee Reports
Box 4

Series IX. Trips
Box 4

Series X. Karyotypes and Printing Materials
Box 5

Series XI. Notebooks
Box 6

Series XII. Oversize Galley Proofs
Boxes 7-9

CONTAINER LIST

Date	Description	Container
	Series I. Personal-Correspondence, CV, Publications
1961-1970	Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 1
1962-1971	Correspondence-Ant-Plant	Box 1	Folder 2
	CV and List of Publications	Box 1	Folder 3
	Miscellaneous Pamphlets-Foreign	Box 1	Folder 4
	Series II. Drawings, Galleys, Photocopies, Photographs, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) Shots
	Ant Drawings, Various Species-I	Box 1	Folder 5
	Ant Drawings, Various Species-II	Box 1	Folder 6
	Ant Drawings, Various Species-III	Box 1	Folder 7
	Ant Drawings, Various Species-IV	Box 1	Folder 8
	Ant Wings	Box 1	Folder 9
	Bornean "Lordomyrma"-Drawings	Box 1	Folder 10
	"Centrifugal Speciation"-Figures and Proof Figures	Box 1	Folder 11
	Dacitini-Pencil Drawings-Mostly Mandibles	Box 1	Folder 12
	Drawings for Amblyoponine Paper	Box 1	Folder 13
	Original Drawings-Amblyoponini	Box 1	Folder 14
	Original Drawings-Ectotonmini-Wing Prints and Negatives	Box 1	Folder 15
	Drawings-Hypopnera	Box 1	Folder 16
	Drawings-Illustrations Done for Insects of Australia	Box 1	Folder 17
	Drawings-Miscellaneous	Box 1	Folder 18
	Drawings	Box 1	Folder 19
	Drawings	Box 1	Folder 20
	Drawings	Box 1	Folder 21
	Drawings-Myrmicine Genera	Box 1	Folder 22
	Drawings-Ponerini	Box 1	Folder 23
	Drawings-Smithistruma	Box 1	Folder 24
	Drawings-Various	Box 1	Folder 25
	Figures-Colorum Colobostrum	Box 1	Folder 26
	Figures-Dacitini, Mainlyvolsellae	Box 1	Folder 27
	Figures-Epostruma	Box 1	Folder 28
	Figures-Genetic Structure-Hypoponera	Box 1	Folder 29
	Figures and Photos-Miscellaneous	Box 1	Folder 30
	Figures-New World-Strum.	Box 1	Folder 31
	Figures for "Punctuated Equilibrium" Paper from Academic Press Ltd.	Box 1	Folder 32
	Figures-Rhoptromyerex	Box 1	Folder 33
	Figures-S.Sisyndata-Negatives	Box 1	Folder 34
	Galley Proofs-Delicata	Box 1	Folder 35
	Galley Proofs-Drawings and Figures	Box 1	Folder 36
	Galley Proofs-Drawings and Figures	Box 1	Folder 37
	Galley Proofs-Drawings and Figures	Box 1	Folder 38
	Galley Proofs-Drawings and Figures	Box 1	Folder 39
	Galley Proofs-Drawings and Figures	Box 1	Folder 40
	Galley Proofs-Drawings and Figures	Box 1	Folder 41
	Galley Proofs-Drawings and Figures	Box 1	Folder 42
	Galley proofs-Drawings and Figures	Box 1	Folder 43
	Galley Proofs-Drawings and Figures	Box 1	Folder 44
	Galley Proofs-Drawings and Figures for Odontomechus Paper (VI A)	Box 1	Folder 45
	Galley Proofs-Various Ant Data-Costa Rica, Indonesia	Box 1	Folder 46
	Galley Proofs-Indomyrna	Box 1	Folder 47
	Photocopies-Strumgundlachi-Group Figures	Box 1	Folder 48
	Photographs of Ants	Box 1	Folder 49
	Photographs-Ant Chromosomes	Box 2	Folder 1
	Photographs of Ants' Wings	Box 2	Folder 2
	Photographs for Taylor's Mesotrama Paper	Box 2	Folder 3
	Photographs-Ants	Box 2	Folder 4
	Plates for Typhlomyrmecine Paper	Box 2	Folder 5
	Plate 1-Unidentified	Box 2	Folder 6
	Prints-Simopelta Transverse Pachy. Spp.	Box 2	Folder 7
1974-1985	SEM Photographs and Negatives-Hymenoptera Data	Box 2	Folder 8
	SEM Photos of Sm. Ornata and Galley Proofs	Box 2	Folder 9
	SEM Shots	Box 2	Folder 10
	SEM Shots	Box 2	Folder 11
	SEM Shots-Various Species	Box 2	Folder 12
	Series III. Course Information
	Systematics Course-Bio. Sci. 470/760	Box 2	Folder 13
1972	Bio. Sci. 475-Course Evaluations	Box 2	Folder 14
1978	Bio. Sci. 477-Course Evaluations	Box 2	Folder 15
	Chromosome Course-Steve Bloom	Box 2	Folder 16
1964-1972	Course Reports, Exams, Evaluations	Box 2	Folder 17
	Series IV. Pilot Register of Zoology (PRZ)
1964-1966	Questionnaire-Pilot Register of Zoology-Responses	Box 2	Folder 18
1964-1965	Register of Zoology-Correspondence	Box 2	Folder 19
	Pilot of Register Zoology-Cladarogenys--#33, #34, #38, #39, #40	Box 2	Folder 20
1964-1984	Pilot Register Zoology-Follow-up	Box 2	Folder 21
	Series V. National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants
1966	Ant Bibliographic NSF Grant -William L. Brown	Box 2	Folder 22
1962	NSF Grant	Box 2	Folder 23
1963-1966	NSF Grant-Renewal Application	Box 2	Folder 24
1964-1967	NSF Grant-GB 2175-Expenditures	Box 2	Folder 25
1966	NSF Grant-Renewal	Box 2	Folder 26
1966-1969	NSF Grant-GB 5574X	Box 2	Folder 27
1969-1971	NSF Grant-GB 5574X1	Box 2	Folder 28
1971	NSF Grant-Proposal #31662X	Box 2	Folder 29
1970-1972	NSF Grant-GB #24822	Box 2	Folder 30
1972-1974	NSF Grant	Box 2	Folder 31
1974	NSF Grant	Box 2	Folder 32
1975	NSF Grant	Box 2	Folder 33
1976	NSF Grant	Box 2	Folder 34
1977	NSF Research	Box 2	Folder 35
1978	NSF Grant Proposal	Box 2	Folder 36
1979	NSF	Box 2	Folder 37
1979-1982	NSF Proposals	Box 2	Folder 38
1981	NSF Final Grant-1981 Trip	Box 2	Folder 39
	NSF--Final Project Report--#80-03722	Box 2	Folder 40
1995	NSF Proposal-"The ALL Workshop"	Box 2	Folder 41
	Series VI. Subject Files
	"A Curious Theory"	Box 3	Folder 1
	Alpine-Arctic Ants-Notes	Box 3	Folder 2
	American Society of Scientists (A. S. S.) Appeal and Miscellaneous	Box 3	Folder 3
	Anochetus	Box 3	Folder 4
	Anochetus Cato Group	Box 3	Folder 5
	Ant Book-Inquilines	Box 3	Folder 6
	Ant Chromosomes-Data and Photos	Box 3	Folder 7
	Ants-General-Solicitation of Series for Naming "Split" Samples	Box 3	Folder 8
	Ant Weights	Box 3	Folder 9
	Ants in the Food Web	Box 3	Folder 10
	Ants in the White Mountains, New Hampshire-Notes	Box 3	Folder 11
	Aphaenogaster	Box 3	Folder 12
	Aphaenogaster-Rudis Complex	Box 3	Folder 13
October 28, 1986	Aquadro, Charles F.-Evolutionary Biology Faculty at Cornell	Box 3	Folder 14
	Australian Sugar Ants	Box 3	Folder 15
1963	Australia-Synonymies, etc.	Box 3	Folder 16
Jan.-Feb., 1967	Benjamin Constant Notes (2 Books)-San Miguel de Tucumen and Excursions	Box 3	Folder 17
1983	Bibliographies, etc.	Box 3	Folder 18
	Book-Ants and Ant-Plants	Box 3	Folder 19
1964	Canada Department of Agriculture-Culture Collections	Box 3	Folder 20
	Carpenter Ants-New England	Box 3	Folder 21
	Cerepachyini-Post-1975 Data	Box 3	Folder 22
	Char. Displ., C-P and Other Data	Box 3	Folder 23
1983-1984	Chromosome Negatives-Notebook #2	Box 3	Folder 24
1984	Chromosomes -Photos	Box 3	Folder 25
	Copy of Some Pages from MC2 Type Book	Box 3	Folder 26
	R. H. Crozier	Box 3	Folder 27
	Cytogenetics (Animal) 419	Box 3	Folder 28
	Dacetini-Generic key	Box 3	Folder 29
	Data Sheets for Karyotypes (blank)	Box 3	Folder 30
	Dispersal-Dissemination	Box 3	Folder 31
	"Division of Labor in Ants"-By William L. Brown, Jr.	Box 3	Folder 32
	Ectatommini-Notes	Box 3	Folder 33
	Epigraphs, Etc.	Box 3	Folder 34
	Evolutionary Papers-Reprints	Box 3	Folder 35
	Evolution Papers-Coleopterists and Gould	Box 3	Folder 36
	Exclusion Principle Talk	Box 3	Folder 37
	Fire Ant	Box 3	Folder 38
	Foreign Language Pamphlets (2)	Box 3	Folder 39
	Formica Obscuriventis, gp-Drawings	Box 3	Folder 40
	Frog Project	Box 3	Folder 41
May, 1959	Geology of Cayuga Lake Basin	Box 3	Folder 42
	Gnamtogenys-Data	Box 3	Folder 43
	"Gray Manifesto"	Box 3	Folder 44
	Indo-Australian-Strumigenys	Box 3	Folder 45
	Indomyrma-SEM Negatives, Dasypyx	Box 3	Folder 46
	Insect Wing Origin	Box 3	Folder 47
1963-1971	International Taxonic Register-Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 48
	Labels	Box 3	Folder 49
	Lattke Manuscript	Box 3	Folder 50
	Leptothorex Silvestrii gp.	Box 3	Folder 51
	Leptogenys	Box 3	Folder 52
	Lordomyrma	Box 3	Folder 53
	Malagasy-Strum.	Box 3	Folder 54
	Malaysian Ants	Box 3	Folder 55
	Odontomachus-Anochetus	Box 3	Folder 56
	Odontomachus-Raw Metrics, Etc.	Box 3	Folder 57
	Old Word-Strumigenys-Keys-Letter	Box 3	Folder 58
	Old World-Strumigenys-Galley Proofs	Box 3	Folder 59
	O. Monticala V. Formosa Forel	Box 3	Folder 60
	Origin of Wings	Box 3	Folder 61
	Panama Ants	Box 3	Folder 62
	Papers from Desk	Box 3	Folder 63
	Peronomyrmex-Taylor Figure	Box 3	Folder 64
	Pheidole-Spp. List	Box 3	Folder 65
	Pheidole-World Run 3	Box 3	Folder 66
	Pentastruma Canina	Box 3	Folder 67
	Platythyreini	Box 3	Folder 68
	"The Present: Zoography"-Chapter XXXII: Distribution	Box 3	Folder 69
	Pocono Environmental Educational Center	Box 3	Folder 70
1967-1970	Population Fluctuations in the Tropics	Box 3	Folder 71
	Predators	Box 3	Folder 72
	Prints and Bibliography of Ant Systematics	Box 3	Folder 73
1962	"The Problem of Ant-Mimicry in Spiders"-By Joseph A. Beatty	Box 3	Folder 74
1986-1987	Punctuated Equilibrium-Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 75
1977-1987	Punctuated Equilibrium-Miscellaneous Articles	Box 3	Folder 76
	Raiding Behavior of Gnamptogenys Horni	Box 3	Folder 77
	Rhytidoponera Purpurea	Box 3	Folder 78
	S. Bryanti and S. Ulcerosa	Box 3	Folder 79
	S. Paranetes	Box 3	Folder 80
	C. Sulcinodis	Box 3	Folder 81
	Smithistruma Indo Melanesian	Box 3	Folder 82
	Smithistruma-Supplemental Material-Correspondence	Box 3	Folder 83
	Smithsonian institution-Canal Zone Biological Area	Box 3	Folder 84
May 4, 1992	Symposium-"Ants-Models of Evolution"	Box 3	Folder 85
	Specimen Cards; Questionnaire to Systematic Zoologist	Box 4	Folder 1
	Strum. Cochlearis	Box 4	Folder 2
	Strum. Azalanyi and Related Gps-Working Notes	Box 4	Folder 3
	Strum.-Gunlachi Group-Negatives and Duplicate Prints	Box 4	Folder 4
	Strum. Hoplites and S. Ferocior-Drawings and Negatives	Box 4	Folder 5
	Strum. Iridina Sp. Nov.	Box 4	Folder 6
	Srum. Indo-Australian-Measurements, Etc.	Box 4	Folder 7
	Strum. Lewisi Fig.-Signeae Desir.-Photos	Box 4	Folder 8
	Strum. Yasumatsui	Box 4	Folder 9
	Strumigenys-Non-tropical-Notes, Data and Rough Body	Box 4	Folder 10
	Strumigenys-Rough Copy	Box 4	Folder 11
	Strumigenys Stemonixys-Holotype Drawings	Box 4	Folder 12
	Studies on Ectatomini	Box 4	Folder 13
	Subspecies Data	Box 4	Folder 14
1975	Subspecies-Race: Re Sociobiology By Edward Wilson	Box 4	Folder 15
	System Data Paper-"tramp Distribution Among Dacetine Ants"	Box 4	Folder 16
1981	Thesis By Martin Aluja Schunemann	Box 4	Folder 17
1979	Tree-Fogging Data-Panama	Box 4	Folder 18
	Tulip 2-3-S. Yaliopleura Data	Box 4	Folder 19
1982	Vespula Chromosomes-Full-Page Prints	Box 4	Folder 20
	V. Vulgaris	Box 4	Folder 21
	Wamuki, N. G. -- #842 Galley Proofs	Box 4	Folder 22
	Willow Tree Plot	Box 4	Folder 23
	Series VII. Manuscripts, Notes, Maps, Articles, Reprints, Correspondence, Studies and Data
	Ants-Synonymic Notes	Box 4	Folder 25
	Manuscript-Untitled	Box 4	Folder 26
	Maps	Box 4	Folder 27
	Maps and Australian Notes	Box 4	Folder 28
	Meneoponera-Castanea	Box 4	Folder 29
	Mermithoidae	Box 4	Folder 30
	Miscellaneous Articles-"Punctuated Equilibrium"-Notes-Citations	Box 4	Folder 31
1984-1994	Miscellaneous Articles-"Punctuated Equilibrium Excused"	Box 4	Folder 32
	Miscellaneous Notes	Box 4	Folder 33
	Miscellaneous Reprints	Box 4	Folder 34
1986-1987	Miscellaneous Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 35
	Miscellaneous Observations on Ant Biology	Box 4	Folder 36
	Miscellaneous Synonymy, Etc.	Box 4	Folder 37
	Molitor, Arnulf-Personal Bibliography	Box 4	Folder 38
	Myrmica Rubia-Ruginodis-Measurements, Etc.	Box 4	Folder 39
	Myrmecia-Plot and Figures	Box 4	Folder 40
	Myrmicinae Genera	Box 4	Folder 41
	Myrmecina and Relatives	Box 4	Folder 42
	Myrmecina, Acanthomyrmex, Pristomyrmex	Box 4	Folder 43
March 31, 1982-June 8, 1983	Negatives	Box 4	Folder 44
	Neotrop. Strum. (Cordovensis Gp.)-Manuscript and Figures Data	Box 4	Folder 45
	Neotrop. Strum-Data and Rough Manuscript	Box 4	Folder 46
	New Small Smithistrama from I-Marea	Box 4	Folder 47
	Notes-Epoostrama	Box 4	Folder 48
	Notes-Drawings-Mesostrama	Box 4	Folder 49
	Notes and Observations	Box 4	Folder 50
	Notes-References	Box 4	Folder 51
	Notes-References-Balsam	Box 4	Folder 52
	Notes and Rough Manuscripts-Strum. Louisianae Gp. (and Some Szalayi Data)	Box 4	Folder 53
	Notes-Neotropical Dacetino Biology	Box 4	Folder 54
1955	Notes to Wilson in Europe	Box 4	Folder 55
1957-1958	Pip Darlington-Australian Notes	Box 4	Folder 56
1963-1973	Specimen Notes from Collections	Box 4	Folder 57
1984-1986	Yellow Rain-News Articles	Box 4	Folder 58
	Series VIII. Administrative Records, Committee Reports
1962-1992	Annual Reports-Progress Reports-Project Descriptions-Revisions	Box 4	Folder 59
1988	Collection Committee	Box 4	Folder 60
1981-1987	College Advisory Committee	Box 4	Folder 61
	Entomology Department Accounts	Box 4	Folder 62
1972-1989	Graduate Student Information	Box 4	Folder 63
	Graduate Student Minors	Box 4	Folder 64
October 27, 1972	Report of the Entomology Library-Space Committee	Box 4	Folder 65
	Series IX. Trips
1962-1963	Africa Trip	Box 4	Folder 66
1969	Ants of 1969 Trip to Africa, Madagascar, India, Etc.	Box 4	Folder 67
1969	Africa-Madagascar-India Trip	Box 4	Folder 68
1962	Ants of Amazon-Field Trip	Box 4	Folder 69
1962-1963	The Amazon Trip	Box 4	Folder 70
1962	NSF-Amazon Trip	Box 4	Folder 71
1972	Ants from 1972 East Indies Trip	Box 4	Folder 72
1972	Australia-East Indies Trip	Box 4	Folder 73
1986	Dominican Republic Trip-Summer	Box 4	Folder 74
1963-1964	NSF-European Trip	Box 4	Folder 75
1973	European Trip	Box 4	Folder 76
1965	Mexican Trip	Box 4	Folder 77
	New Guinea Trip, Etc.	Box 4	Folder 78
1967	South America Trip	Box 4	Folder 79
1971	South America Trip-Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 80
1981	Ants from 1981 Trip-New Guinea and SE Asia	Box 4	Folder 81
1981	South East Asia Trip-Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 82
	Series X. Karyotypes and Printing Materials
	Contains: 1 Index Card Box and I Envelope of Karyotypes, 3 Envelopes of Etched Metal Plates, and 4 Wood Blocks	Box 5
	Series XI. Notebooks
	Contains: 3 Folders and 17 Notebooks	Box 6
	Series XII. Oversize Galley Proofs	Box 7-9

Guide to the William L. Brown, Jr. Papers,1960-1990.

Collection Number: 21-1-3532

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

© 2007 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Guide to the William L. Brown, Jr. Papers,
1960-1990.

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library