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Wildlife conservation

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the protection of wildlife, as a matter of public policy. Works on methods of bringing wildlife populations to desired levels are entered under Wildlife management.

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

New York Zoological Society. Scientific Assistant to the General Director. Joseph A. Davis records

 Fonds
Identifier: 1065
Abstract

The collection holds the administrative records of Joseph Anthony Davis, Jr. while he held the position of Scientific Assistant to the General Director. Davis started at the Bronx Zoo in the Mammalogy Department as an Assistant Curator in 1958 and eventually became Curator in 1962. In 1966 Davis moved to a position created for him in the General Director’s Office, Scientific Assistant to the Director (William Conway).

Dates: 1968 - 1974
Found in: Wildlife Conservation Society Archives / New York Zoological Society. Scientific Assistant to the General Director. Joseph A. Davis records

Wildlife Conservation Society. Department of Herpetology. Office of Curator. John Behler records

 Collection
Identifier: 2043
Abstract The collection consists of correspondence, administrative and subject files, and publications from the New York Zoological Society’s long-term Herpetology Curator, John Behler. Over the years, Behler held administrative positions within the Society outside of the Herpetology Department, such as co-chair of the Safety Committee and Program Director of the Society’s Wildlife Survival Center on Saint Catherines Island, Georgia. Along the way Behler also found time to conduct research on...
Dates: 1924 - 2005; Majority of material found within 1969 - 2001
Found in: Wildlife Conservation Society Archives / Wildlife Conservation Society. Department of Herpetology. Office of Curator. John Behler records

Wildlife Conservation Society. Film collection

 Collection
Identifier: 5005
Abstract The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Film Collection is composed of 1,607 film reels created or collected by WCS between approximately 1900 and 1996. Formats include black-and-white and color motion pictures; the majority are silent, 16mm, acetate films. A portion of the collection has also been digitized. The bulk of the collection consists of films created by the organization between the 1940s and the 1970s—during which it was called the New York Zoological Society (NYZS)—and reflect a...
Dates: circa 1910-1996; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1970
Found in: Wildlife Conservation Society Archives / Wildlife Conservation Society. Film collection

William T. Hornaday papers

 Fonds
Identifier: 1007
Abstract

Derived from the personal activities of William T. Hornaday (1854-1937), rather than his official duties as Director and General Curator of the New York Zoological Park, this collection of correspondence, manuscripts, scrapbooks, and printed matter deals primarily with Hornaday's wildlife conservation work between 1888 and 1937.

Dates: 1888 - 1937
Found in: Wildlife Conservation Society Archives / William T. Hornaday papers

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