George Durand Wilder papers, [ca.1897-1976].
Collection Number: 3241
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
George Durand Wilder papers, [ca.1897-1976].
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3241
Abstract:
Includes notebooks, pamphlets, field notes, and other material on ornithology, mostly
in China; Birds of Northeastern China by Wilder and Hugh Hubbard; correspondence of
Wilder and his sons Theodore Wilder and Durand Wilder (George Durand Wilder, Jr.)
and of Gertrude Stanley Wilder; volume of "Random Jottings" by Gertrude Wilder, including
recollections of China missions and missionaries.
Creator:
Wilder, George D. (George Durand), 1869-1946.
Quanitities:
.9 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Includes notebooks, pamphlets, field notes, and other material on ornithology, mostly
in China; Birds of Northeastern China by Wilder and Hugh Hubbard; correspondence of Wilder and his sons Theodore Wilder
and Durand Wilder (George Durand Wilder, Jr.) and of Gertrude Stanley Wilder; volume
of "Random Jottings" by Gertrude Wilder, including recollections of China missions
and missionaries.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
George Durand Wilder Papers, #3241. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Wilder, George D. (George Durand), 1869-1946. (Title of work: Birds of northeastern
China..)
Hubbard, Hugh W.
Wilder, Durand.
Wilder, Gertrude Stanley. (Title of work: Random jottings..)
Wilder, Theodore.
Places:
China.
Subjects:
Ornithology.
Missions -- China.
Missionaries -- China.
Form and Genre Terms:
Field notes
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Notebooks and pamphlets, 1917-1969 , regarding birds in China by Axel M. Hemmingsen;
also other subjects by Dr. Ernest Hartert (in German); also "Migration Notes" by Wilder
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1917-1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
"1925 Migration Notes at Pei Tai Ho"; includes some correspondence to Wilder's son,
Theodore Wilder
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Ornithological materials including hand-drawn map with key to trees, Weihsien C.A.C.
Compound, summer, 1944 ; newsclippings, magazine articles ( National Geographic), pages of Report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission with plates by Fuertes, and a pamphlet by Wilder,
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1944, 1904-1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Nagamichi Kuroda (Tokyo)-Wilder correspondence,
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1929-1941 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
"Index to 'Migration Notes'--Unpublished,"
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1943, 1976 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Ocean birds observed, Shanghai to NY,
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1943 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Miscellaneous materials including "In Memoriam" (GDW); correspondence of Theodore
and Durand Wilder (GDW Jr.), 1968-1975 ; also Hubbard to Durand, and copies of letters
and messages from George and Gertrude Wilder,
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1968-1975, 1941 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8-9 |
Handwritten field notes in China during the years
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1897-1943 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1-3 |
Small notebooks of field notes in China during the years
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1897-1943 |
| Box 2 |
Birds of Northeastern China (by Wilder and Hubbard)
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| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Vol. I: Keys and indices
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Vol. II: Passeres to Cuculi
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| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Vol. III: Striges to Galli
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Vol. I and II: Duplicate pages with some illustrations tinted
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| Box 3 |
"Random Jottings" by Gertrude Stanley Wilder,
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1959 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Letters of GDW written on his trip from China after being in the Weihsien Prison Camp
in
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1943 |