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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Bailey-Law Collection

15.0 Cubic Feet 36 boxes
This collection contains the papers of ornithologists John Eugene Law and Harold H. Bailey, including notes on bird species, habitat, and behavior; correspondence; field journals; printed materials; photographs and other images. Among Bailey's papers are files relating to his books, The Birds of Virginia and The Birds of Florida, as well as his operation of the Rockbridge Alum Springs Biological Laboratory. Also includes biographical files on hundreds of other naturalists and ornithologists, including such materials as correspondence, writings, photographs, field notes, and biographical sketches.
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Bailey-Law Collection 15.0 Cubic Feet 36 boxes

Bailey, Harold H. (Harold Harris), 1878-1962
This collection contains the papers of ornithologists John Eugene Law and Harold H. Bailey, including notes on bird species, habitat, and behavior; correspondence; field journals; printed materials; photographs and other images. Among Bailey's papers are files relating to his books, The Birds of Virginia and The Birds of Florida, as well as his operation of the Rockbridge Alum Springs Biological Laboratory. Also includes biographical files on hundreds of other naturalists and ornithologists, including such materials as correspondence, writings, photographs, field notes, and biographical sketches.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Black Warrior

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Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
West Virginia and Regional History Center

Earl A. Brooks Ornithological Notes

2.8 Linear Feet Summary: 2 ft. 10 in. (6 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case, 4 in.)
Ornithological notes by Brooks, who was one of four brothers renowned for their studies in biology at WVU around the turn of the century, and after whom Brooks Hall is named. Earl Brooks, WVU Class of 1897, later went to seminary and became a Presbyterian minister before receiving an appointment as professor of Natural Sciences at Boston University. While a student at WVU he began compiling a study of birds of Upshur County. Later this compilation was expanded and published as A Check List of West Virginia Birds, a book that is considered a pioneering classic in the field of ornithology. The collection consists of separate notebooks kept on individual birds that are entitled by the common English name of the bird and also classified in standard scientific fashion according to genus and species. The notebooks are numbered according to the system prescribed by the American Ornithologists Union and each contains a state map with observed sites marked recording field observations by Brooks and his co-workers of nesting sites and habits. These notebooks provided the basis for several publications ca. 1900-16 by Brooks and were later used by Dr. George Hall in a subsequent book on birds of West Virginia.
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Earl A. Brooks Ornithological Notes 2.8 Linear Feet Summary: 2 ft. 10 in. (6 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case, 4 in.)

Brooks, Earle Amos, 1871-1952
Ornithological notes by Brooks, who was one of four brothers renowned for their studies in biology at WVU around the turn of the century, and after whom Brooks Hall is named. Earl Brooks, WVU Class of 1897, later went to seminary and became a Presbyterian minister before receiving an appointment as professor of Natural Sciences at Boston University. While a student at WVU he began compiling a study of birds of Upshur County. Later this compilation was expanded and published as A Check List of West Virginia Birds, a book that is considered a pioneering classic in the field of ornithology. The collection consists of separate notebooks kept on individual birds that are entitled by the common English name of the bird and also classified in standard scientific fashion according to genus and species. The notebooks are numbered according to the system prescribed by the American Ornithologists Union and each contains a state map with observed sites marked recording field observations by Brooks and his co-workers of nesting sites and habits. These notebooks provided the basis for several publications ca. 1900-16 by Brooks and were later used by Dr. George Hall in a subsequent book on birds of West Virginia.
West Virginia and Regional History Center

George A. Hall, Author, 'Alexander Wilson: The Man and the Ornithologist'

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Transcript of 'Alexander Wilson; The Man and the Ornithologist', written by George A. Hall, a chemistry professor at West Virginia University. Alexander Wilson (1766-1813) was the namesake of the Wilson Orinthological Society.
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George A. Hall, Author, 'Alexander Wilson: The Man and the Ornithologist' 0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1 item (8 pages)

Hayes, Sherman, Collector
Transcript of 'Alexander Wilson; The Man and the Ornithologist', written by George A. Hall, a chemistry professor at West Virginia University. Alexander Wilson (1766-1813) was the namesake of the Wilson Orinthological Society.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

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Printed and hand-colored. Plate 256.

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Audubon, John James, 1785-1851

Printed and hand-colored. Plate 256.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

John Murray Papers

0.5 Cubic Feet 1 box
The John Murray Papers document the participation of John Murray, a Virginia Tech chemistry professor from 1942 to 1971, in Virginia's ornithological community. Collected materials include manuscript articles, scholarly correspondence, and bird watching logs which focus largely on Montgomery County, Virginia.
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John Murray Papers 0.5 Cubic Feet 1 box

Murray, John, 1909-2002
The John Murray Papers document the participation of John Murray, a Virginia Tech chemistry professor from 1942 to 1971, in Virginia's ornithological community. Collected materials include manuscript articles, scholarly correspondence, and bird watching logs which focus largely on Montgomery County, Virginia.
Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Joseph James Murray Diaries

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The diaries give a precise record of Joseph James Murray's four years as superintendent of home missions in Wilmington, North Carolina, as well as of his life as pastor, family man, traveller, lover of the arts and ornithologist while in Lexington, Virginia (1924-1968). Reminiscences include information about his family, including his wife, Jane Dickson Vardell Murray, and children, J. J. (Jimmy) Murray, Jr. and Jane Murray, and close friends, including Matthew Paxton, Nell Paxton, James G. Leyburn, and Mary Monroe Penick. The diaries also contain information about Frank Price, a missionary to China for fifty years who was sponsored by the Lexington Presbyterian Church. The collection also includes a notebook of birding notes by Southgate Y. Hoyt from 1934-1938.

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The diaries give a precise record of Joseph James Murray's four years as superintendent of home missions in Wilmington, North Carolina, as well as of his life as pastor, family man, traveller, lover of the arts and ornithologist while in Lexington, Virginia (1924-1968). Reminiscences include information about his family, including his wife, Jane Dickson Vardell Murray, and children, J. J. (Jimmy) Murray, Jr. and Jane Murray, and close friends, including Matthew Paxton, Nell Paxton, James G. Leyburn, and Mary Monroe Penick. The diaries also contain information about Frank Price, a missionary to China for fifty years who was sponsored by the Lexington Presbyterian Church. The collection also includes a notebook of birding notes by Southgate Y. Hoyt from 1934-1938.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

M. L. Foley Collection,

0.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes
The collection includes receipts and more than 100 pieces of incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to M. L. Foley's business selling birds out of Salem, Virginia.
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M. L. Foley Collection, 0.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

Foley, M. L.
The collection includes receipts and more than 100 pieces of incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to M. L. Foley's business selling birds out of Salem, Virginia.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Passenger Pigeon Correspondence

0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
The collection consists of Virginia Tech librarian Ralph Brown's 1945 compilation of correspondence on passenger pigeons.
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Passenger Pigeon Correspondence 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Brown, Ralph Minthorne, 1878-1958
The collection consists of Virginia Tech librarian Ralph Brown's 1945 compilation of correspondence on passenger pigeons.
Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Royster Lyle Jr. manuscript

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This hand written and illustrated notebook of short stories (The Screech Owl Story, The Sparrow Hawk New Home, The Baby Wren Queen Home, and The Hummingbird New Home on a Farm) was written by Lyle when he was twelve years old. It was a gift to his grandmother on December 25, 1945.

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Royster Lyle Jr. manuscript 1 Files

Lyle, Royster, Jr.

This hand written and illustrated notebook of short stories (The Screech Owl Story, The Sparrow Hawk New Home, The Baby Wren Queen Home, and The Hummingbird New Home on a Farm) was written by Lyle when he was twelve years old. It was a gift to his grandmother on December 25, 1945.

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