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

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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

Cite As:

George Durand Wilder Papers, #3241. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

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
Container
Description
Date
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
1917-1969
Box 1 Folder 2
"1925 Migration Notes at Pei Tai Ho"; includes some correspondence to Wilder's son, Theodore Wilder
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,
1944, 1904-1969
Box 1 Folder 4
Nagamichi Kuroda (Tokyo)-Wilder correspondence,
1929-1941
Box 1 Folder 5
"Index to 'Migration Notes'--Unpublished,"
1943, 1976
Box 1 Folder 6
Ocean birds observed, Shanghai to NY,
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,
1968-1975, 1941
Box 1 Folder 8-9
Handwritten field notes in China during the years
1897-1943
Box 2 Folder 1-3
Small notebooks of field notes in China during the years
1897-1943
Box 2
Birds of Northeastern China (by Wilder and Hubbard)
Box 2 Folder 4
Vol. I: Keys and indices
Box 2 Folder 5
Vol. II: Passeres to Cuculi
Box 2 Folder 6
Vol. III: Striges to Galli
Box 2 Folder 7
Vol. I and II: Duplicate pages with some illustrations tinted
Box 3
"Random Jottings" by Gertrude Stanley Wilder,
1959
Box 3 Folder 1
Letters of GDW written on his trip from China after being in the Weihsien Prison Camp in
1943