Grinnell Naturalists Society Records, 1940-1952

Summary

Creators:

Grinnell Naturalists Society

Abstract:

Records of organization founded by students and staff members of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, including correspondence, minutes of meetings, file of newsletter, accounts, responses to questionnaires, etc.

Extent:

Number of containers: 2 boxes and card file Linear feet: 1.25

Language:

English

Background

Physical location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Related resources

Other descriptive data:

The Society, founded in 1940 by students and staff members of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California, was devoted to the field of vertebrate zoology. Its members, for the most part, derived from the Berkeley nucleus, and little attempt was made to recruit elsewhere. The activities included a variety of field trips, annual picnics and the publication of an occasional newsletter. The society ceased to function during the war, revived briefly in 1951 and went out of existence in 1952.

The papers, transferred from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology on Sept. 5, 1967, and Aug. 30, 1976, contain correspondence, minutes of meetings, an almost complete file of the newsletter, some accounts, responses to questionnaires, etc.

Photographs have been transferred to the Pictorial Collection of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1968.015 --PIC).

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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