Guide to the Ludlow Griscom Papers,
1918-1961

Collection Number: 2701

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Compiled by:
E. Anderson
J. Parker
Date completed:
September 1967
February 2000
EAD encoding:
Ann Hubert, June 2004
Date modified
Jude Corina, February 2013

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Ludlow Griscom papers, 1918-1961.
Collection Number:
2701
Creator:
Ludlow Griscom, 1890-1959.
Quantity:
11 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, financial statements, meeting minutes, bulletins, field notes, reports, papers, photographs.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence concerning activities at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, as well as field notes, reports, and biographical information about Griscom.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Ludlow Griscom, an ornithologist, was Research Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence concerning activities at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University; letters of contemporary ornithologists, including Arthur A. Allen, Peter Paul Kellogg, Roger Tory Peterson, and Louis Agassiz Fuertes; requests for books published by the museum; and bird identification questions from professional and amateur ornithologists. Also, personal letters from family and friends; correspondence and related material concerning the American Defense Program at Harvard, which Griscom directed,1940-1945; correspondence, financial statements, minutes, annual reports, and bulletins of UNESCO (1948-1950); the Massachusetts Audubon Society (1938-1959); Massachusetts Department of Conservation, Division of Fisheries and Game (1947-1949); National Audubon Society (1932-1958); American Ornithologists Union (1922-1957); and the Boston Society of Natural History (1937-1954). Also includes material concerning the Mount Washington Observatory, the Children's Museum, and conservation topics. Also included are field notes, reports, biographical information about Griscom, and articles and papers by Griscom and other ornithologists.
Ludlow Griscom's pipe, Charvos drafting compass and an E. Faber pencil with holder.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Griscom, Ludlow, 1890-1959.
Allen, Arthur A. (Arthur Augustus), 1885-1964.
Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927.
Kellogg, Peter Paul, 1899-
Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-
American Ornithologists' Union.
Boston Society of Natural History.
Children's Museum of Boston.
Harvard University. American Defense Program.
Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Massachusetts Audubon Society.
Massachusetts. Division of Fisheries and Game.
Mount Washington Observatory.
National Audubon Society.
Unesco.

Subjects:
Conservation of natural resources.
Ornithology.
Ornithologists.

Form and Genre Terms:
Field notes.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Ludlow Griscom papers, #2701. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
1922-1933
Correspondence
 Box 1
1934-June 1938
Correspondence
 Box 2
July 1938-1943
Correspondence
 Box 3
1944-1948
Correspondence
 Box 4
1949-1953
Correspondence
 Box 5
1954-1961
Correspondence
 Box 6
Financial correspondence of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
 Box 6
Reports of the research curator
 Box 6
Undated correspondence
 Box 6
1938-1959
Massachusettes Audubon Society correspodnence
 Box 6
1947-1950
Massachusettes Audubon Society finances
 Box 6
1947-1950
Massachusettes Audubon Society minutes
 Box 6
Nov. 1936-Dec. 1936, 1943
Massachusettes Audubon Society bulletins
 Box 6
1948
UNESCO, Nature Protection Minutes
 Box 6
1948-1949
UNESCO, 2 articles of H.J. Coolidge
 Box 6
Feb. 1949
UNESCO, 7th Pacific Science Congress Bulletin,
Box 6
June 1950
UNESCO, General Conference Bulletin,
Box 6
Dec. 14, 1949
UNESCO, Bulletin #12, Science in UNESCO
 Box 6
UNESCO, Miscellaneous material
 Box 6
1947-1949
Division of Fisheries correspondence
 Box 6
1947-1949
Division of Fisheries finances and annual report
 Box 6
Nov. 1948-Oct. 1949
Division of Fisheries minutes,
Box 6
1949
Commonwealth of Massachusettes - Conservation Acts, Nos. 31-1276
Box 6
Dec. 1947
Diviosn of Inland Fisheries Progress Report
 Box 6
Apr. 1946
Wildlife Research-Pheasant Stocking in Massachusettes
 Box 6
Wildlife Research - Pheasant Stocking in Massachusettes, A Survey in U.S.
Box 6
Miscellaneous conservational material
 Box 6
Mt. Washington Observatory, minutes and notes
 Box 6
Mt. Washington Observatory, financial reports
 Box 6
June 1950
Mt. Washington Observatory, annual report
 Box 6
1950
Mt. Washington Observatory, 6th quarterly progress report
 Box 6
Children's Museum reports
 Box 6
1957
First Draft of 1957 U.S. Department of Interior National Park Service
Box 6
Miscellaneous papers, reports, brochures
 Box 6
American Defense Program at Harvard, Typewriter rental papers
 Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Newspaper subscription papers
Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Newspaper control sheets
 Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Foreign language group interpreters, readers, etc.
Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Foreign language group methods and procedures
Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Instructions to readers
 Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Foreign language press in New England
Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Census reports
 Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Radiobroadcasting Research Project
Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, German techniques of propaganda by Ludlow Griscom
Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Interviews by Ludlow Griscom
Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Spanish Library information
Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Progress Reports of the program
Box 7
Mar. 24, 1942-Oct. 1943
American Defense Program at Harvard, Washington Reports,
Box 7
1942
American Defense Program at Harvard, Scandinavian Press
 Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Yiddish, Latin American, French and Greek Nationality, Czechoslovakian Press
Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Portugese Press
 Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Polish and Hungarian Press
Box 7
1942-1943
American Defense Program at Harvard, Greek Press
 Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, German Press
 Box 7
Jan. 1942-July 1943
American Defense Program at Harvard, French Press
 Box 7
Dec. 1941-1943
American Defense Program at Harvard, Italian Press
 Box 7
1943
American Defense Program at Harvard, Irish-American Press
 Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Finnish Press
 Box 7
Jan. 1940-1945
American Defense Program at Harvard, Correspondence
 Box 7
American Defense Program at Harvard, Undated and miscellaneous material
Box 7
1932-1958
National Audubon Society correspondence
 Box 8
1941-1942, 1949-1950
National Audubon Society financial statements
 Box 8
1935, 1944
National Audubon Society booklets on by-laws
 Box 8
Feb. 1941-Aug. 1956
National Audubon Society committee minutes and notes,
Box 8
National Audubon Society field notes, vol. 10, no. 6
 Box 8
National Audubon Society miscellaneous material
 Box 8
1922-1957
American Ornithological Union correspondence
 Box 8
1940-1955, 1958
American Ornithological Union minutes of annual meetings
 Box 8
1940-1942
American Ornithological Union financial reports
 Box 8
1953
American Ornithological Union membership list
 Box 8
1954
American Ornithological Union 71st meeting report
 Box 8
American Ornithological Union miscellaneous and undated material
Box 8
1937-1954
Boston Society of Natural History correspondence
 Box 9
1939-1950
Boston Society of Natural History minutes
 Box 9
1945-1949
Boston Society of Natural History reports
 Box 9
1949-1950
Boston Society of Natural History membership lists
 Box 9
1938-1950
Boston Society of Natural History financial statements
 Box 9
1946-1949
Boston Society of Natural History progress reports
 Box 9
Boston Society of Natural History brochures re Society
 Box 9
Boston Society of Natural History miscellaneous and undated material
Box 9
Reports by Ludlow Griscom
Ratings of Warblers
 Box 9
Old World Warblers, Gnatcatchers and Kinglets
 Box 9
Woodhewers and Weavers' Finches
 Box 9
Family Tyrannidae
 Box 9
White-collared Seedeater and Tanagers
 Box 9
Crows and Jays, Shrikes, Mockingbirds and Thrushes
 Box 9
Blackbirds, Troupials and Meadowlarks
 Box 9
Rusty-crowned Ground Sparrows
 Box 9
Evening Grosbeak and Finches, Buntings and Sparrows
 Box 9
Yellow-faced Grassquit and Wrens
 Box 9
Papers on Grebes with mss., Loons with mss., Family Alcidae
 Box 9
Sounds made by birds
 Box 9
Notes on Willets
 Box 9
Thrushes and Black Duck
 Box 9
Field notes re Birds seen on Martha's Vineyard
 Box 9
Paper on "The Techniques of Field Ornithology" with mss.
 Box 9
1956
Notes on South American Warblers
 Box 9
Birds seen at Martha's Vineyard by others
 Box 9
Alabama State Bird Calls
 Box 9
Nicaraguan Report
 Box 9
Panama collecting trip with mss.
 Box 9
Costa Rica cellection trip with mss.
 Box 9
"Additions to the Ornithology of Honduras," mss. with correspondence
Box 9
Notes on birds (card form): Guatemalan (?) Furnariidae
 Box 9
Griscom and Sprunt: Warbler Study Draft
 Box 10
1950
Cape Cod census
 Box 10
1953-1955
Griscom et al: Mexican Checklist Project with correspondence
Box 10
1954-1955
South Texas Winter Season
 Box 10
Original Data: Concord book (field notes)
 Box 10
Griscom articles, etc.
Elementary Biology in Modern Universities
 Box 10
Birds in Flight
 Box 10
The Changing Seasons - Summary of Fall Migration and Nesting Seasons
Box 10
The Future of Our Waterfowl Abundance
 Box 10
Passenger Pigeon
 Box 10
Historic Developments of Sight Recognition
 Box 10
Eskimo Curlews
 Box 10
Wise Use of Sight Records (orig. mss.)
 Box 10
Population Studies of North American Birds
 Box 10
Order Colymbiformes
 Box 10
Order Gouiiformes
 Box 10
Suborder Alcae
 Box 10
Ranges
 Box 10
Orig. mss.: American Woodcock-Philohela Minor (Gmalin); Shore-birds (Suborder Charadrii); Wildlife Institute Paper and Data; Untitled miscellaneous mss., field and bird notes
Box 10
Other writings
1947
Fred Packer's Book, draft
 Box 10
1950
Fred Packer's Book, draft, parts I and II
 Box 10
1875-1901
William Brewsters Articles
 Box 10
June 1958-Sept. 1958
Records of New England Birds (published material)
Box 10
Pamphlets and reprints
1918-1919
Press Review
 Box 11
1945-1946
James B. Conant, A Chaple Talk, delivered by President Conant at the Opening of the Fall Term
Box 12
Jan. 1941
James B. Conant, Speaking as a Private Citizen
Box 12
Feb. 7, 195119
James B. Conant, The Present Danger
Box 12
June 1938
James B. Conant, Academic Patronage and Superintendence (Harvard University and Graduate School of Education)
Box 12
1921
Yearbook of the Rhinebeck Bird Club
Box 12
Sept. 1925
"Ten-All Day Censuses from Duchess County, New York," Maunsell S. Crosby (two copies, one with notes on the inside back cover - The Wilson Bulletin
Box 12
Supplementary Notes on the Birds of Dutchess County, N.Y., M.S. Crosby
Box 12
"Two New Geographic Races of Birds from Central America," Alexander Wetmore (Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington)
Box 12
"Three New Birds from the Yucatan Peninsula," Raymond A. Paynter, Jr. (Postilla Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History)
Box 12
Sept. 1947
Common Sense in Common Names, Ludlow Griscom
Box 12
May 1942
"Mammals of Honduras," George G. Goodwin (Bulletin of American Museum of Natural History)
Box 12
Die Vogel Der Osterreichischen Costa Rica - Expedition Dr. M. Sassi (Leiden, E.J. Brill)
Box 12
Apr. 1936
"Notes on a Samll Collection of Birds form the Republic of Honduras," H.G. Deigan, (The Auk)
Box 12
"The Distribution of Bird Life in Guatemala," Von Frtiz Heilfurth (Vogelleben in Guatemala, Museum of Zoology, Berlin)
Box 12
July 1933
Faculty Club of Harvard University, Articles of Association and Rules and Regulations (revised Edition)
Box 12
Apr. 1935-June 1935
American Fern Journal (Quarterly of American Fern Society)
Box 12
Apr. 1935-May 1935
"Three Days of Botanizing in Southeastern Virginia," M.L. Fernald and Ludlow Griscom (Rhodora)
Box 12
Feb. 1935
Critical Notes of Rare Panama Birds," L. Griscom (Boston Society of Natural History)
Box 12
Apr. 1939
"The Ring-Necked Duck as a Transient in the Northeastern States," Ludlow Griscom (The Auk)
Box 12
June 1950
"A Statement for a Sub-committee of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate - A Plan for Peace," Greenville Clarke
Box 12
1951-1952
Kirkland House, Information and Rules
Box 12
1946
The Deacon's Testament, for Kirkland House, Harvard University
Box 12
1948
Second Annual Report - Pacific Science Board, 1948 (National Research Council)
Box 12
1927, Aug. 1930, 1951
"Handwritten Notebook - Expedition to Yucatan (1927), Guatemala (1930), Honduras and Gutemala (1951)" Mss. Vol
Box 12
1948
Laws Relating to Game and Inland Fisheries, 1948 (Commonwealth of Massachusettes, Department of Conservation)
Box 12
1949
Directory - Department of Conservation 1949 (Commomwealth of Massachusettes)
Box 12
Feb. 11, 1917-Apr. 16, 1917
"Accounts of Nicaragua Trip," (Mss. Vol.)
 Box 12
Apr. 18, 1917-June 10, 1917
"Accounts of Nicaragua Trip," (Mss. Vol.)
 Box 12
1947
The Deacon's Testament, for Kirkland House, Harvard University
Box 12
1948
The Deacon's Testament, for Kirkland House, Harvard University
Box 12
Mar. 24, 1953
The Rights and Responsibilities of Universities and Their Faculties (Association of American Universities)
Box 12
May 20, 1953
"Statements by the Harvard Corporation in regard to Ass't. Prof. Wendell H. Furry, Teaching Fellow Leon J. Kamin and Assistant Prof. Helen Deane Markham"
Box 12
Nov. 22, 1943
"Birds of Linares and Geleana, Nuevo Leon, Mexico," George Miksch Sutton and Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr. (Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Louisiana State University)
Box 12
June 25, 1949
"Freedom at Harvard," An Exchange of Letters by Frank B. Ober of Baltimore, President Conant, and Greenville Clark, Fellow of Harvard College (Harvard Alumni Bulletin)
Box 12
Louisiana Road Map
 Box 12
1928
Mapa De Los Caminos Para Automoviles En Guatemala, Julio Alberto Rubic
Box 12
1913
Map of Panama (Rand McNally)
 Box 12
1928
Map of Panama (American Geographic Society of New York)
 Box 12
Map of the Republic of Nicaragua (W.M. Bradley and Sons)
 Box 12
1926
Road Map of Jamacia (Jamacia Automobile Association)
 Box 12
Oct. 1, 1952
Harvard Services, for Officers Employees and Departments (Harvard University Press)
Box 12
1942
Bird Check List of Southeastern Texas (The Outdoor Nature Club of Houston)
Box 12
Feb. 1947
A Field List of Birds of the District of Columbia Region (Audubon Society of District of Columbia)
Box 12
"Notes of the Guatemalan Highlands," by Alexander Wetmore (U.S. National Museum, Vol. 89, #3105)
Box 12
Miscellany
Four photographs with correspondence
 Box 12
One divider
 Box 12
One strip of six photographs
 Box 12
1900-1939
Chirstmas Census by Leonard Wing
 Box 12
Drafting compass
 MU-2028
Pencil
 MU-2029
Pipe
 MU-2030