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New York Zoological Park. Office of Director. W. Reid Blair collection of records from Matameck Conference on Biological Cycles
Fonds
Identifier: 1014
Abstract
This collection includes notes, clippings, memorabilia, and correspondence collected by W. Reid Blair and related to the 1931 Matameck Conference on Biological Cycles (also known as the Canadian Biological Conference). Also included in the collection are typed manuscripts of reports by the influential ecologist Charles Elton.
Dates:
1931 - 1935
Found in:
Wildlife Conservation Society Archives
New York Zoological Park. Office of General Curator and General Curator Emeritus. Lee S. Crandall records and papers
Fonds
Identifier: 1019
Abstract
Lee Saunders Crandall (1887-1969) began his sixty-one year association at the New York Zoological Society's Bronx Zoo in June 1908 as a student keeper in the animal departments, and was thereafter steadily promoted through the ranks, eventually becoming the Zoo's General Curator in charge of mammals and birds in 1943. Following his 1952 retirement, Crandall continued coming in to work for another 17 years, as the Zoo's General Curator Emeritus. Crandall was lauded for his collecting trips...
Dates:
1898 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1969
Found in:
Wildlife Conservation Society Archives
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