Contents

• DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
• BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
• COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
• RELATED MATERIAL
• SERIES LIST
• INFORMATION FOR USERS
• SUBJECTS
• CONTAINER LIST

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Lawrence I. Grinnell papers, 1930-1977.
Collection Number: 2649

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Cornell University Library

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

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INFORMATION FOR USERS

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CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
		Series I. Field Journals of Ornithological Trips
Box 3		Southwestern Trip and Misc. Articles	1930
Box 1		St. Lawrence Gulf (books I-II)	1939
Box 1		Churchville, Man.	1940
Box 1		Alaska	1941
Box 1		Southern and Western U.S.	1942
Box 1		Trinidad	1946
Box 1		Guatemala	1947
Box 1		Colombia	1948
Box 1		Mexico--Yucatan	1949
Box 1		West Indies	1950
Box 1		West Indies, British Guiana	1951
Box 1		Tobago, British Guiana	1952
Box 1		Panama	1954
Box 1		Africa	1955
Box 1		New Zealand, Australia	1957-1958
Box 3		Ohio R and Pine Creek	1957-1958
Box 3		Salmon River	1958
Box 1		Australia	1959
Box 3		Current River Trip	1960
Box 1		Africa	1961
Box 3		Florida	1961
Box 1		Europe	1962
Box 1		Mexico	1963
Box 1		Brazil	1963
Box 1		Amazon	1964
Box 1		Africa	1964
Box 1		Venezuela (2 copies)	1965
Box 1		Venezuela	1966
Box 1		Guatemala	1966
Box 1		Nepal, India	1967
Box 1		Brazil safari	1968
Box 1		Galapagos	1968
Box 3		Madagascar	1969
Box 3		Atlantic Subantarctic Islands	1970
Box 3		Indian Ocean	1970
Box 3		Antarctic-New Guinea	1971
Box 3		Antarctic-New Guinea	1971
Box 1		Bird journal	undated
Box 1		Bird statistics	undated
Box 1		Field cards	undated
		Series II. Expedition Materials, Lecture and Film Notes
Box 2	Folder 2	Florida birds	1938-1952
Box 2	Folder 7	Alaska--birds and flora	1941
Box 4	Folder 1	Alaska Talk	undated
Box 4	Folder 2	Southern Trip: Bird and Flora Lists	1942
Box 2	Folder 8	Trinidad	1946
Box 4	Folder 3	Tropical Birds of Trinidad and Tobago Talk	1946
		Scope and Contents Includes notes for film
Box 4	Folder 4	Trinidad Article	1946
Box 2	Folder 13	Birds of Guatemala--lecture notes	1947
Box 2	Folder 14	Guatemala	1947, 1966
Box 2	Folder 15	Colombia	1948
Box 4	Folder 5	Birds of Colombia - Lecture Notes	1948
		Scope and Contents Includes notes for film
Box 2	Folder 16	Mexico--Yucatan	1949
Box 4	Folder 6	Mexico-Yucatan Trip	1949
		Scope and Contents American Ornithological Union Talk. Corresponding notes for film
Box 2	Folder 17	West Indies	1950-1951
Box 2	Folder 18	British Guiana	1951-1952
Box 2	Folder 19	British Guiana	1951-1952, 1966
Box 2	Folder 20	Panama	1953
Box 4	Folder 7	Panama Trip - Lecture Notes	1954
		Scope and Contents Includes notes for film
Box 4	Folder 8	Florida Trip: Notebooks	1955, 1957
Box 4	Folder 9	Florida Trip	1955, 1957
		Scope and Contents Includes notes for Film
Box 2	Folder 21	Africa	1955
Box 4	Folder 10	African Trip	1955
		Scope and Contents Includes notes for Film
Box 4	Folder 11	New Zealand Trip - Lecture Notes	1957
		Scope and Contents Includes notes for Film
Box 4	Folder 12	New Zealand-Australia Slide List and Map	1957
Box 4	Folder 13	New Zealand-Australia	1957-1958
		Scope and Contents Includes notes on sound for film
Box 4	Folder 14	Australian Trips	1957-1959
		Scope and Contents General notes, lecture notes and notes for film.
Box 2	Folder 22	The 1957-1958 New Zealand-Australia Expedition of the Laboratory of Ornithology (printed report)	1957-1958
Box 2	Folder 23	New Zealand-Australia	1957-1958
Box 2	Folder 24	New Zealand-Australia	1957-1958
Box 2	Folder 25	New Zealand-Australia	1957-1958
Box 2	Folder 26	New Zealand-Australia	1957-1958
Box 2	Folder 27	Australia--bird guides	1957, 1959
Box 2	Folder 28	Australia--data	1959
Box 4	Folder 15	Australia Sound Script	1959
Box 4	Folder 16	Southwestern US	1960
		Scope and Contents Notes for film
Box 2	Folder 29	Africa	1961
Box 4	Folder 17	Wildlife of East Africa	1961
		Scope and Contents General notes and notes for film
Box 4	Folder 18	European Bird Tour	1962
		Scope and Contents Lecture notes and notes for film
Box 4	Folder 19	Map of Brazil	1963
Box 4	Folder 20	Brazil	1963
		Scope and Contents General notes, lecture notes and notes for film
Box 2	Folder 30	Brazil--report	1963
Box 2	Folder 31	Brazil	1963
Box 2	Folder 32	Brazil--correspondence, etc.	1962-1964
Box 2	Folder 33	Venezuela	1965-1966
Box 2	Folder 34	Venezuela	1965-1966
Box 2	Folder 35	Venezuela	1965-1966
Box 2	Folder 36	British Guiana	1966
Box 2	Folder 37	India	1967
Box 2	Folder 38	Peru	1967
Box 2	Folder 39	Peru--printed materials	undated
Box 2	Folder 40	Amazon safari	1968
Box 2	Folder 41	Antarctic	1968-1969
Box 2	Folder 42	Antarctic	1968-1969
Box 2	Folder 43	Antarctic	1968-1969
Box 2	Folder 44	Antarctic	1968-1969
Box 2	Folder 45	Birds of Madagascar--lecture notes	1969
Box 2	Folder 46	Madagascar	1969
Box 4	Folder 21	Indian Ocean Islands	1970
Box 4	Folder 22	Indian Ocean--lecture notes	1970
		Scope and Contents General notes and notes for film
Box 4	Folder 23	South Atlantic--lecture notes	1970
		Scope and Contents Includes notes for film
Box 4	Folder 24	Atlantic Subantarctic Islands	1970
Box 4	Folder 25	Antarctica--McMurdo	1971
		Scope and Contents Includes notes for film
Box 4	Folder 26	New Guinea	1971
Box 4	Folder 27	New Guinea	1971
Box 4	Folder 28	New Guinea (Lecture Notes)	1971
Box 4	Folder 29	Birds of Eastern US
		Scope and Contents Includes notes for film
Box 4	Folder 30	List of Motion Picture Photography Tours	undated
		Scope and Contents List of films made during expedition trips from 1938-1971
		Series III. Research, Manuscripts and Printed Materials by and about Grinnell
Box 4	Folder 31	Article on St Lawrence Gulf	1939
Box 2	Folder 3	Churchill--common redpoll supporting data	1940
Box 2	Folder 4	Churchill--original negatives	1940
Box 2	Folder 5	Churchill--summer redpoll records and other	1940
Box 2	Folder 6	Churchill	1940
Box 4	Folder 32	Notes on Breeding Lapland Longspurs at Churchill Manitoba	1943
Box 4	Folder 33	Life History of the Common Redpoll	1943
Box 4	Folder 34	Articles by Grinnell	1941, 1943
		Scope and Contents "Notes on Bird-Life of Churchill, Manitoba" and "Nesting Habits of the Common Redpoll"
Box 2	Folder 9	Thesis: A Study of the Common Redpoll, p. 1-40	1947
Box 2	Folder 10	Thesis: A Study of the Common Redpoll, p. 41-113	1947
Box 2	Folder 11	Thesis: A Study of the Common Redpoll, p. 114-173	1947
Box 2	Folder 12	Thesis: A Study of the Common Redpoll, p. 174-225	1947
Box 4	Folder 35	Notes
		Scope and Contents Irregular winter bird visitors, Salomonssen: Evolution of Redpolls and Lapland Longspurs
Box 4	Folder 36	A Century of Unitarian History in Ithaca by Lawrence Grinnell	1965
Box 4	Folder 37	Article About Lawrence I. Grinnell	1975
Box 4	Folder 38	Passarine birds of the world	1977
Box 4	Folder 39	"Canoeable Rivers in Central New York State"	1952
Box 4	Folder 40	Canoeing Lectures	1972
Box 4	Folder 41	Canoeable Waterways of New York State	1956
		Scope and Contents Photocopy of the title page with an inscription by Grinnell.
Box 4		Canoeable Waterways of New York State	1956
Box 4		Canoe Trips of New York State no. 1	undated
Box 4		Canoe Trips no. 1	undated
Box 4		Canoe Trips no. 2	undated
Box 2	Folder 1	Remarks on the Distribution of the Corpuelis Limaria: Translated from German	undated
Box 3		Seminars in Ornithology: C.U. Lab of Ornithology (I-IV)	undated
		Series IV. Photographic Materials
		Albums
Box 3		India, Nepal	1967
Box 3		New Zealand--bird photos--K.V. Bigwood	undated
Box 3		Australia	1959
Box 3		Africa	1961
Box 3		Color photos of birds and flora	undated
		Prints
Box 3	Folder 1	Prints from Churchill, Manitoba (not birds)	1940
Box 3	Folder 2	Photographs for article on Common Redpoll	1940
Box 3	Folder 3	Canoeable Waterways of New York - matted photograph and cover	undated
		Scope and Contents Photograph is number 35
Box 3	Folder 4	Canoeable Waterways of New York - Photographs	undated
		35mm Slides
Box 5		Research for Common Redbill, Churchill, Manitoba	1940
		Scope and Contents Used for Cornell Ph.D. Thesis
Box 3	Folder 9	Churchill Slides	1940
Box 3	Folder 6	Alaska: Plants, Sheets 1-4	1941-1942
Box 3	Folder 7	Alaska: Plants, Sheets 5-8	undated
Box 7		Alaska - Plants	1941-1942
Box 7		Ithaca, Trinidad, Guatemala, Colombia: Birds	1946-1948
Box 5		Columbia and New Zealand	1948
Box 7		East Australia and Southwest US	1959-1960
Box 7		Venezule, British Guiana, Guatemala, India, Nepal	1965-1967
Box 3	Folder 8	Venezuela, British Guiana, Guatemala, India and Nepal	1965-1969
Box 7		Africa, Amazon, Brazil, Venezuela	undated
Box 3	Folder 5	Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology	undated
		Series V. Motion Picture Films
Box 6	F-749	Zermatt Gorge Matterhorn	1930
		Scope and Contents 1 3.75in reel: b&w; 16mm
Box 6	F-750 & F-751	Birds of St Lawrence Gulf: Reels 1 and 2	1939
		Scope and Contents 2 7in reels: b&w; 16mm
Box 6	F-752 & F-753	Birds of the Hudson Bay Tundra: Reels 1 and 2	1940
		Scope and Contents 2 7in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 7	F-784 & F-785	Alaska: Reels 1 and 2	1941
		Scope and Contents 2 7in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-754 - F-756	Trinidad: Reels 1-3	1946
		Scope and Contents 3 7in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-757 & F-758	Guatemala: Reels 1 and 2	1947
		Scope and Contents 2 7in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-759 - F-761	Colombia: Reels 1-3	1948
		Scope and Contents 3 7in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 7	F-762 - F-764	Mexico-Yucatan: Reels 1-3	1949
		Scope and Contents 3 7in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-773	Esopus Creek, Jamaica and St. Lawrence	1951
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 5	F-726 - F-728	British Guiana: Original Reels 2-4	1951-1952
		Scope and Contents 3 7in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 5	F-729 & F-730	British Guiana: Duplicate Reels 1 and 2	1951-1952
		Scope and Contents 2 7in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 5	F-731 - F-735	Birds and Gardens from West Indies to British Guiana: Reels 1-5	1951-1952
		Scope and Contents 5 7in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 5	F-736 - F-738	Panama: Reels 1-3	1954
		Scope and Contents 3 7in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 7	F-765	Florida	1955
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-766 - F-769	Africa: Reels 1-4	1955
		Scope and Contents 4 7in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 5	F-739	New Zealand	1957
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: sd., col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-770	Australia - Bulbul	1957
		Scope and Contents 1 3.75in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-771 & F-772	Australia (Extras): Reels 1 and 2	1957, 1959
		Scope and Contents 2 7in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 6	TR-9882	Australia: Sound Tape Reel	1957
Box 6	F-774	Island of Hawaii	1958
		Scope and Contents 1 3.75in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 7	F-786	Salmon River	August 1958
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 5	F-740	Fiji	1959
		Scope and Contents 1 3.75in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-800	South Atlantic Islands	1959
		Scope and Contents 1 12.5in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 7	F-789	Australia	1959
		Scope and Contents 1 12.5in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-775 & F-776	Southwestern United States: Reels 1 and 2	1960
		Scope and Contents 2 7in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 8	F-790 & F-791	Africa: Reels 1 and 2	1961
		Scope and Contents 2 12.5in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 5	F-741	Birds of Monte	1961
		Scope and Contents 1 3.75in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-777	Europe (Sweden)	1962
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 8	F-792	Iceland-Europe	1962
		Scope and Contents 1 10.75in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-778	Vislumbre Sud Mexicano	1963
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 8	F-793 & F-794	Brazil: Reels 1 and 2	1963-1964
		Scope and Contents 2 12.5in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 5	F-745	Lab Birds	1965
		Scope and Contents 1 3.75in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 5	F-747	Hobart?	1965
		Scope and Contents 1 3.75in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 8	F-795 & F-796	Venezuela: Reels 1 and 2	1965
		Scope and Contents 2 10.75in reels: col.; 16mm
Box 7	F-787	Canoeing	1966
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 5	F-742	British Guiana	1966
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 5	F-743	Amazon Safari	1968
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 8	F-797	Galapagos Islands	1968
		Scope and Contents 1 10.75in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 8	F-799	Antarctica	1968-1969
		Scope and Contents 1 12.5in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-779	Mt. Kilimanjaro Madagascar	1969
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-780	Patagonia	1969
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 5	F-744	Indian Ocean Islands	1970
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 8	F-798	New Guinea	1971
		Scope and Contents 1 10.75in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 5	F-746	Panama: End of Reel 1?	undated
		Scope and Contents 1 3.75in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 5	F-748	Untitled Film	undated
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-781	Birds of Eastern United States: Reel #2	undated
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-782	Tree-tops	undated
		Scope and Contents 1 3.75in reel: col.; 16mm
Box 6	F-783	Mountain Climbing	undated
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: b&w; 16mm
Box 7	F-788	Canoeing #4 Dinosaur	undated
		Scope and Contents 1 7in reel: col.; 16mm