Natural History Society records, 1876-1994.
Collection Number: 37-6-584
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Natural History Society records, 1876-1994.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
37-6-584
Abstract:
Minute books (1876-1898), ledger, containing the Society's constitution with amendments,
and a membership list which gives some information about some of the individual members;
correspondence, publicity, accounts, photographs, and other manuscripts.
Creator:
Natural History Society (Cornell University)
Quanitities:
1.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
The Natural History Society is also called the Jordani Club, in honor of David Starr
Jordan, a former Cornell biologist.
Minute books (1876-1898), ledger, containing the Society's constitution with amendments,
and a membership list which gives some information about some of the individual members;
correspondence, publicity, accounts, photographs, and other manuscripts.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Natural History Society records, #37-6-584. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.
Cornell University -- : Students.
Cornell University -- : Societies, etc.
Jordani
Subjects:
Natural history -- Societies, etc.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Constitutions.
Minutes.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 |
Natural History Society Secretary's Record Book,
|
1876-1892 | |
| Box 1 |
Natural History Society Secretary's Record Book,
|
1893-1898 | |
| Box 1 |
Natural History Society Constitution and Membership Book,
|
1869-1896 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Historian's Book,
|
1949-1950 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Historian's Book,
|
1950-1952 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Historian's Book,
|
1952 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Historian's Book,
|
1952-1956 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Historian's Book,
|
1956-1958 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Historian's Book,
|
1958-1960 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Minutes,
|
1949-1951 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Minutes,
|
1952-1957 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Sample copies of letters; copy of letter by A. H. Wright,
|
1957 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Membership Lists,
|
1949-1960 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Book plates, photos, postcards,
|
1960s |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Exhibit Publicity
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Event Flyers,
|
1960s-1980s |
| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Event Flyers,
|
1960s-1980s |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Event Flyers,
|
1960s-1980s |
| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Event Flyers
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Event Flyers
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Event Flyers
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Constitution and Stationery
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Jordani Newsletter/Journal,
|
1967-1972 |
| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
David Starr Jordan - biographical material
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Burt Green Wilder - biographical material
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Louis Agassiz - biographical material
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 24 |
History of Jordani
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Screen Tours,
|
1957-1961 |
| Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Photographs,
|
1949-1960 |
| Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Field Trips,
|
1941-1968 |
| Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Correspondence and Memos,
|
1955-1994 |
| Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Group Photographs,
|
1953 |
| Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Newspaper Clippings,
|
1968-1988 |
| Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Membership Lists,
|
1954-1961 |
| Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Correspondence - transfer of Jordani collection to Zoology Library,
|
1955, 1959 |
| Box 2 | Folder 33 |
Howard Evans publications - "Anatomical History at Cornell" and "Early Cornell Naturalists
- Anatomists",
|
1967-1969 |
| Box 2 | Folder 34 |
David Starr Jordan Prize,
|
1986-1987 |
| Box 2 | Folder 35 |
Natural History Society Correspondence and Papers,
|
1879-1897 |
| Box 2 | Folder 36 |
Natural History Society Expenses/Receipts,
|
1879-1895 |
| Box 2 |
"Studies in History No. 19: Pre-Cornell and Early Cornell V: Natural History Society
of Cornell University 1869-1899" by Albert Hazen Wright; annotated, signed by the
author
|
||
| Box 2 |
"Studies in History No. 28: Pre-Cornell and Early Cornell: David Starr Jordan '72
and Some Cornell College Mates" by Albert Hazen Wright; annotated
|
||
| Box 2 |
"Studies in History No. 32: Pre-Cornell and Early Cornell XV: The Biological Society
of Cornell University (1901-1912)" by Albert Hazen Wright
|
||
| Box 2 |
Jordani Public Lectures and Programs presented by Members book,
|
1956-1965 | |