Fur Catch and Big Game Inventory Statistics
These records pertain mostly to fur catch and big game inventory statistics compiled for the Fur Catch in the United States and Big Game Inventory published by the Fish and Wildlife Service. Prior to 1958, Frank G. Ashbrook compiled the statistics for the Fur Catch publication. Since then, the Bird and …
Records
This collection consists of files of Directors Stanley Paul Young, 1958-1959, and Richard Hyde Manville, 1960-1970, primarily concerning the Alaska sea-otter investigations of Karl Walton Kenyon. The records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, statistics, and photographs. Also included are a small amount of records documenting professional activities and publications of Manville. Records pre-dating …
Records
This accession consists of correspondence and memoranda. Most of the correspondence is with John W. Aldrich, Section of Distribution and Migration of Birds, Branch of Wildlife Research, within the Bird and Mammal Laboratories.
Correspondence
This accession consists of records that document the curatorial, research, and administrative activities of Don E. Wilson, Director, Biodiversity Program (1990-2000). Records created prior to 1990 were accumulated by and transferred with Wilson when he assumed the Directorship in 1990. Most of the early records document his activities while working as a mammalogist …
Records
These records include early correspondence of the Bureau of Biological Survey; general files of the Bird and Mammal Labs including correspondence, project reports, annual and quarterly reports, memoranda, material of various staff members and material on the organization, history and policy of the Labs; correspondence from the Bird Section and …
M. Ralph Browning Papers
M. Ralph Browning worked in the National Museum of Natural History Bird and Mammal Laboratories through the United States Geological Survey, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. These records pertain to his ornithological cataloging work and research, primarily in Oregon and the northwest United States.
Bird Project Records
This accession consists of correspondence, photographs, reports, publications, research files, and related records documenting bird projects conducted by the National Fish and Wildlife Laboratory.
M. Ralph Browning Papers
M. Ralph Browning worked in the National Museum of Natural History Bird and Mammal Laboratories through the United States Geological Survey, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. These records pertain to his ornithological cataloging work and research in Oregon and the northwest United States.
Frank G. Ashbrook Papers
These records include correspondence, statistics, journal articles, and newspaper clippings concerning the fur industry, fur farming, and fur resources; research investigations on domestically raised fur animals; laws and tariffs concerning textiles and fur trading; correspondence concerning the China dog-skin case, 1934-1942; correspondence regarding the history of the fur trade and the …
Don Wilson Papers and Biological Survey Chief Files
This accession consists of records of the Biological Survey (formerly the Bird and Mammal Lab) of the Fish and Wildlife Service during the tenure of Don E. Wilson, and some of Wilson's professional papers.
