Finding Aid to the Joseph and Hilda Wood Grinnell Papers, 1886-1967, 1886-1967
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Finding Aid to the Joseph and Hilda Wood Grinnell Papers, 1886-1967, 1886-1967
Collection number: BANC MSS 73/25 c
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Collection Summary
Collection Title: Joseph and Hilda Wood Grinnell Papers
Date (inclusive): 1886-1967
Collection Number: BANC MSS 73/25 c
Creator:
Grinnell, Joseph, 1877-1939
Extent:
Number of containers: 11 boxes, 1 volume, 1 oversize folder
Linear feet: 5
, 8 digital object (10 images)
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: Consists of materials reflecting the Grinnell's work in the fields of natural history and ecology. The bulk of the collection
is made up of diaries, field notes, and materials relating to early conservation efforts in California. Also included are
drafts of articles by Joseph Grinnell regarding the natural history of the west, personal and professional correspondence
of the Grinnell's, including Joseph Grinnell's work as editor of The Condor, the publication of the Cooper Ornithological
Society.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Joseph and Hilda Wood Grinnell Papers, BANC MSS 73/25 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley
Alternate Forms Available
Digital reproductions of selected items are available.
Related Collections
Title: Joseph Grinnell Papers, 1884-1938,
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS C-B 995
Title: Records of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology,
Identifier/Call Number: 1908-1949, UARC CU-120
Title: John G. Tyler correspondence pertaining to ornithological research, ca. 1905-1937,
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 79/111 c
Title: Portraits of Joseph Grinnell's family and his colleagues, ca. 1880-1969,
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1973.044
Title: American Ornithologists' Union Meeting Portraits, 1926-1930,
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1973.038
Material Cataloged Separately
Photographs have been transferred to Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog
Alexander, Annie Montague, 1867-1950--Correspondence
Beckwith, Martha Warren, 1871-1959--Correspondence
Grinnell, Hilda W. (Hilda Wood), 1883---Archives
Grinnell, Joseph, 1877-1939--Archives
Cooper Ornithological Society
University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Zoology
Natural history--Alaska
Ornithology
Ornithology--Bibliography
Wildlife conservation--California
Zoology--Research
Diaries
Faculty papers
Field notes
Notebooks
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The Joseph and Hilda Wood Grinnell Papers were given to The Bancroft Library by Mary E. Grinnell on July 18, 1972 and March
12, 1982.
Biography
Joseph Grinnell was born on February 27, 1877 near Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory at the Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita Indian
Agency, where his father served as government physician. After living for a short time in Tennessee and in the Dakota Territory,
the family settled in Pasadena, California in 1885. Grinnell attended school in Pasadena and received his B.A. from Throop
Polytechnic Institute (now Caltech) in 1897.
Grinnell made two trips to Alaska in 1896-97 and 1898-99, where he conducted field studies and collected avian specimens.
In 1900 he published a paper on these findings entitled "Birds of the Kotzebue Sound Region, Alaska." Some of the letters
and notebooks from the second trip were published by his mother, ornithologist Elizabeth Grinnell as
Gold Hunting in Alaska.
In 1901, after earning his M.A. from Stanford, he began teaching in the biology department at Throop. In 1906 he married Hilda
Wood, a former student. While teaching at Throop Grinnell met Annie Montague Alexander, who was about to embark on a collecting
trip to Alaska. Miss Alexander had been preparing to found a museum at the University of California for the collection and
study of vertebrates. This goal was realized in 1908 with the opening of the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Grinnell
was appointed the museum's first director, a position he held until his death. During his tenure at the Museum, Grinnell donated
his collection of 8,000 birds and 2,000 mammals to the University.
After receiving a Ph.D. from Stanford in 1913, Grinnell was appointed as assistant professor in the Department of Zoology
at Berkeley, and as full professor in 1920. He published more than 500 papers in his lifetime, primarily on California birds
and other wildlife. Much of Dr. Grinnell's focus in his later years was on the protection of California's native plant and
animal species. He helped to formulate the California Fish and Game Code and his conservation studies were instrumental in
the effort to form the Point Lobos State Reserve and the Frances S. Hastings Natural History Reservation.
He served as president of the American Ornithologists' Union from 1929-1932 and of the American Society of Mammalogists from
1937-1938. Dr. Grinnell was editor of
The Condor, the publication of the Cooper Ornithological Society from 1906 until his death in Berkeley on May 29, 1939.
Hilda Wood was born in Tombstone, Arizona Territory on May 29, 1883. She grew up in Glendora, California and received a B.S.
from Throop in 1906. After her husband became director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in 1908, the couple moved to Berkeley
where they raised three sons and a daughter. In 1913 she earned an M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mrs. Grinnell assisted her husband in his work, accompanying him on countless field trips as well as helping to prepare his
manuscripts for publication. After his death, she carried on his efforts to promote the study and conservation of wildlife,
especially of the native flora and fauna of California. For over twenty years she served as secretary of the Northern Division
of the Cooper Ornithological Club and was head of the Nature Department at Camp Sugar Pine (San Francisco Girl Scout Council).
In 1940 Mrs. Grinnell was appointed Bibliographer at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. She published a bibliography of the
writings of C. Hart Merriam in 1943 and helped to edit Joseph Grinnell's
A Bibliography of California Ornithology, published after his death. Other publications of Mrs. Grinnell's include
A Synopsis of the Bats of California, and a biography of Annie Montague Alexander published by the Grinnell Naturalists Society. She also contributed articles
to
The Condor and
The Gull (Audubon Society of the Pacific). She was a member of the American Ornithologists' Union, the American Society of Mammalogists
and the California Academy of Sciences.
Hilda Wood Grinnell died on June 7, 1963.
Scope and Content
The Joseph and Hilda Wood Grinnell Papers, 1886-1967, consist of materials reflecting their work in the fields of natural
history and ecology. The bulk of the collection is made up of diaries, field notes, and materials relating to early conservation
efforts in California. Also included are drafts of articles by Joseph Grinnell regarding the natural history of the west,
personal and professional correspondence of the Grinnell's, including Joseph Grinnell's work as editor of
The Condor, the publication of the Cooper Ornithological Society, and a collection of the correspondence of philanthropist Annie Montague
Alexander.
Very little of Joseph Grinnell's professional correspondence is included in this collection, with the exception of letters
relating to the Cooper Ornithological Society. Hilda Grinnell's correspondence relates to natural history and conservation
issues and includes letters from prominent naturalists including E. Raymond Hall and Alden H. Miller. Also included is correspondence
between Mrs. Grinnell and Annie Montague Alexander along with letters written by Miss Alexander to her childhood friend, Martha
Beckwith, who was also acquaintance of the Grinnell's for many years.
In the 1890's, Joseph Grinnell made two trips into Alaska to research native birds. His diaries and field notes from these
trips are included in this collection, as well as letters written to his family during his travels. Also of note is a draft
entitled "The Kotzebue Sound Gold Rush," an account of the second trip, which he spent working as a cook in a mining camp
in the Klondike region, collecting specimens and recording field observations in his spare time.
By the mid 1920's Grinnell's focus began to shift toward the protection of wildlife species in the western United States.
His research in conservation work impacted the policies of the National Park Service as well as the California Fish and Game
Code. His philosophy is outlined in his 1925 article "A Conversationist's Creed as to Wild-Life Administration." The collection
also includes materials relating to his involvement as a member of the Committee on Rodent and Wild Life Control appointed
by President Robert G. Sproul in 1932 to investigate animal poisoning in California.
This collection includes very little material relating to Dr. Grinnell's administrative or academic work at the Museum of
Vertebrate Zoology, with the exception of copies of reports to the University, a small amount of zoology course material and
a manuscript for a history of the museum by written by Mrs. Grinnell. Papers relating to his tenure at the MVZ can be found
in the Records of the Museum of Vertabrate Zoology, 1908-1949. Other materials relating to the Cooper Ornithological Club
and its publication, The Condor, can be found in the Joseph Grinnell Papers, 1884-1938, BANC MSS C-B 995.
Series 1:
Correspondence.
1886-1963
Physical Description:
Boxes 1-5
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically and alphabetically.
Content/Description
Divided into 3 sub-series: Joseph Grinnell, Hilda Wood Grinnell, and Annie Montague Alexander. Joseph Grinnell's correspondence
is further sub-divided into family and professional correspondence. Family correspondence consists primarily of letters written
to his family from Alaska during his two trips there. Included here is a letter from Chief Red Cloud of the Ogala Sioux to
Joseph Grinnell's mother written in 1886, in which he makes reference to "my little friend Joe." Professional correspondence
consists mainly of letters to W. Lee Chambers relating to
The Condor and the Cooper Ornithological Club.
Hilda Wood Grinnell's correspondence is further sub-divided into incoming and outgoing, and includes letters from many important
western naturalists, including Annie Montague Alexander, Charles Camp, Jean Linsdale, and Annetta Carter.
Annie Alexander's letters to her friend Martha Beckwith, written between 1899-1940, describe many of her trips into the field
to collect fossils and other specimens for the museums she founded at the University of California. This sub-series also includes
two letters to Miss Alexander regarding Joseph Grinnell.
Joseph Grinnell.
1886-1939
box 1, folder 1
Letters to Elizabeth Grinnell (from Joseph Grinnell and others)
1886-1905
box 1, folder 2
Letters to family (miscellany)
1893-1897
box 1, folder 3
Letters from San Francisco and Alaska
1896
box 1, folder 4
Letters from San Francisco
1898
box 1, folder 5
Letters from aboard the Penelope, North Pacific
1898
box 1, folder 6
Letters from Alaska
1898-1899
Professional Correspondence
box 1, folder 7-8
A-Z miscellaneous
1913-1938
undated
box 1, folder 9-12
A-Z miscellaneous
1902-1939
box 2, folder 1-34
Cooper Ornithological Club Correspondence
1905-1939
Hilda Wood Grinnell.
1903-1963
box 3, folder 1-2
A miscellaneous
1867-1950
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include: Abbott, Clinton Gilbert; Alexander, Annie Montague.
box 3, folder 2
Letter from Annie Alexander to Hilda Wood Grinnell.
June 4, 1939 BANC MSS 73/25 c
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 3, folder 3
B miscellaneous
1886-
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include: Baker, John Hopkinson, 1894; Beckwith, Martha Warren, 1871-1959; Behle, William Harroun, 1909; Bryant, H. C. (Harold Child).
box 3, folder 4-5
C miscellaneous
1878-1966
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include: Camp, Charles Lewis, 1893-; Carter, Annetta, 1907-; Chambers, Willie.
box 3, folder 6
D miscellaneous
1938-1963
box 3, folder 7
E miscellaneous
1903-1955
box 3, folder 8
F miscellaneous
1901-
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include: Follett, Wilbur Irving.
box 3, folder 9
G miscellaneous
1875-1966
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include: Goethe, C.M. (Charles Matthias).
box 3, folder 10-11
H miscellaneous
1938-1959
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include: Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond), 1902-; Hastings, Frances Simes.
box 3, folder 12
J miscellaneous
1887-
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include: Jaeger, Edmund Carroll.
box 3, folder 13
K miscellaneous
1941-1962
box 3, folder 14
L miscellaneous
1902-
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include: Linsdale, Jean M. (Jean Myron).
box 3, folder 15
M miscellaneous
1874-1970
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include: Miller, Alden H. (Alden Holmes), 1906-; Miller, Loye.
box 3, folder 16
N miscellaneous
1943-1956
box 3, folder 17
O-P miscellaneous
1938-1957
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include: Packard, Fred Mallery.
box 3, folder 18
Q-R miscellaneous
1941-1950
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include: Riney, Thane.
box 4, folder 1-2
S miscellaneous
1912-1963
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include: Storer, Robert W. (Robert Winthrop), 1914-; Streator, Clark Perkins.
box 4, folder 3
T miscellaneous
1941-1960
box 4, folder 4
U miscellaneous
1940-1950
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include: University of California Office of the President; University of California Regents.
box 4, folder 5
V miscellaneous
1944-1950
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include: Van Dyke, Dix.
box 4, folder 6
W miscellaneous
1941-1958
box 4, folder 7
Unidentified correspondence
1941-1954
undated
box 4, folder 8-10
Condolence letters on death of Joseph Grinnell
1939
box 4, folder 11
Letters to Annie Montague Alexander
1941-1948
Annie Montague Alexander.
1899-1940
box 5, folder 1-34
Letters from A.M.A. to Martha Beckwith
1899-1940
undated
box 5, folder 35
Letters to A.M.A. relating to Joseph Grinnell
1928
1939
Series 2:
Writings.
1893-1958
Physical Description:
Boxes 6-8; Box 9, folders1-4
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Content/Description
Divided into 2 sub-series: Joseph Grinnell and Hilda Wood Grinnell. Joseph Grinnell's materials are further sub-divided into
Diaries and Notes, Articles and Publications, and Bibliography. Writings include Dr. Grinnell's Alaska notebooks and field
notes, as well as handwritten drafts for three volumes of bibliography of papers written by Dr. Grinnell between 1893 and
1939. Articles and Publications include typed and handwritten drafts.
Mrs. Grinnell's writings are sub-divided into Diaries and Notes, and Articles and Publications. Includes notebooks kept on
field trips taken with Dr. Grinnell as well as after his death and the manuscript of her biography of Annie Montague Alexander,
written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in 1958.
Joseph Grinnell.
1893-1939
box 6, folder 1
Notebook #6: ornithological notes
1897-1900
box 6, folder 2
Notes on birds observed in Alaska
1897-1998
box 6, folder 3
Notebook #7: Kotzebue Sound, Alaska
1898-1999
box 6, folder 4
Notebook #8: Kowak River, Alaska
1898-1999
box 6, folder 5
Notebook #10: Kowak River, Alaska
1899
box 6, folder 6
Transcription of Notebooks #8 and #10
1898-1999
box 6, folder 8
Original drawing and reproduction of "Whale Hunting," by Cingatoo
1898
box 6, folder 9
Thanksgiving Day Menu, Kowak River, Alaska
1898
box 7, folder 1
Local field notes
1929-1938
box 7, folder 2
Notes on rodent control
1932-1933
undated
box 7, folder 4
Field notes: Volcano, California
1939
box 7, folder 6
Miscellaneous notes
undated
Articles and Publications
box 7, folder 7
"Birds and Butterflies"
Pasadena Daily Evening Star
1895
box 7, folder 8
"Kotzebue Sound Gold Rush"
ca. 1899
box 7, folder 9
"The Need for a Vertebrate Zoologist in the Hawaiian Islands"
1920
box 7, folder 10
"Geography and Evolution as Illustrated in the Kangaroo Rats of California"
1921
box 7, folder 11
"A Conversationist's Creed as to Wild-Life Administration, Science
1925
box 7, folder 12
"An Analysis of Trends in the A.O.U."
1930
box 7, folder 13
"California's Grizzly Bears"
1938
box 7, folder 14
"Ocean Waifs and What They Mean for Distribution"
1938
box 7, folder 15
"Proposed Shift of Names in Passerculus-a Protest"
1939
box 7, folder 16
"Comments Upon the Systematics of Some Western Birds"
undated
box 7, folder 17
"The Fresno District in and Now"
1844
box 7, folder 18
"Notes on Water Birds at Morro Bay, California"
undated
box 7, folder 19
"Our Society, Its Potentials and Limitations"
undated
box 7, folder 20-22
Complete Bibliography
1893-1939
box 7, folder 23
Introduction to Bibliography of California Ornithology
1939
Hilda Wood Grinnell.
1906-1958
box 8, folder 1
Diary, San Bernardino Mountains
1906
box 8, folder 2-3
Diaries, East Coast trip
1916
box 8, folder 4
Miscellaneous notebooks
1929-1942
box 8, folder 5-6
Diaries, East Coast trip
1930
box 8, folder 9
Notebook, Pinnacles, Eureka
1934
1936
box 8, folder 10
Field notes, Pt. Lobos
1934-35
box 8, folder 11
Diary, American Ornithological Union meeting, Toronto
1935
box 8, folder 12
Field notes, Clear Lake Oaks, Calif.
1936
box 8, folder 13
Field notes, Carmel and Pt. Lobos
1936-1938
box 8, folder 14
Field notes, Hastings Natural History Reserve
1936-1943
box 8, folder 15
Field notes, Tulare Calif.
1937
box 8, folder 16
Field notes, Bodega Bay
1938
box 8, folder 17
Field notes, Russian Gulch
1941
box 8, folder 18
Field notes, Cedar Grove Ranger Station
1942
Articles and Publications
box 9, folder 2
Miscellaneous articles and drafts
1943-1952
undated
box 9, folder 3
Annie Montague Alexander, 1867-1950
Draft and commemorative booklet
1958
box 9, folder 4
"History of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology"
Manuscript
ca. 1958
Series 3:
Professional Activities.
1910-1963
Physical Description:
Box 9, folders 5-18
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Content/Description
Divided into 2 sub-series: Joseph Grinnell and Hilda Wood Grinnell. Joseph Grinnell's professional materials relate to his
work in the UC Berkeley Department of Zoology and includes field exercises and examinations. There are also drafts of reports
of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology to the President for the years 1910 and 1912, as well as lists of research projects undertaken
in the museum from 1937-1961.
Hilda Grinnell's professional papers include records of her tenure as nature counselor for the San Francisco Girl Scout Council's
Camp Sugar Pine and research files on natural history and bibliography.
Joseph Grinnell.
1910-1939
box 9, folder 5
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
1910-1939
undated
box 9, folder 6
Announcements for lectures
1920-1936
box 9, folder 7
Tribute to Professors Gilbert & Price, Stanford University
1925
box 9, folder 8
Zoology Courses, UC Berkeley
1927-1939
Natural History of the Vertebrates, Zoology 113.
1938 BANC MSS 73/25 c
Scope and Content Note
Course syllabus for spring semester.
Note attached to Natural History of the Vertebrates.
1938 BANC MSS 73/25 c
Language of Material: English
Individual Field Project in Vertebrate Natural History.
February 10, 1938 BANC MSS 73/25 c
Scope and Content Note
Description of spring semester project for Zoology 113 course.
box 9, folder 9
Professional memberships
1929-1931
box 9, folder 10
Interview with Chase Littlejohn, otter hunter
1933
box 9, folder 11
Reports to the Cooper Ornithological Club
1935-1938
Hilda Wood Grinnell.
1922-1963
box 9, folder 12
Department of Zoology, UC Berkeley
1922-1937
box 9, folder 13
Research material on natural history
1924-1947
undated
box 9, folder 14
Cooper Ornithological Club
1929-1945
undated
box 9, folder 15
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
1935-1962
box 9, folder 16
Women's Faculty Club, UC Berkeley
1939-1963
box 9, folder 17
Research material for bibliography
1943
undated
box 9, folder 18
Camp Sugar Pine (Girl Scouts)
1943-59
undated
Series 4:
Wildlife Conservation.
1926-1965
Physical Description:
Box 10
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Content/Description
Divided into 2 sub-series: Joseph Grinnell and Hilda Wood Grinnell. Dr. Grinnell's conservation records contain research materials
on animal poisoning and wildlife control and include drafts for articles and position papers on this subject.
Mrs. Grinnell's materials include files on California conservation efforts from the late 1930's through the early 1960's.
This series includes newsletters published by the Grinnell Naturalists Society formed at Berkeley in 1940 to promote the study
of natural history in the west.
Joseph Grinnell.
1926-1938
box 10, folder 1
Articles and abstracts on rodent control
1926-34
box 10, folder 2
Research material on predatory animal control
1930-1938
undated
box 10, folder 3
Resolutions regarding animal poisoning
1930-1932
box 10, folder 4
Correspondence regarding animal poisoning
1930-1934
box 10, folder 6
Articles and clippings
1931-1938
undated
box 10, folder 7
"Personal Statement Concerning the Use of Poison Against Vertebrate Animal Life"
1931-1933
box 10, folder 8
"Considerations from the Conservationists' Point of View Pertinent to the Problem of Wild Animal Control"
1932
box 10, folder 9
"The Wild Carnivorous Mammals of California"
1932
box 10, folder 10
"Native California Rodents in Relation to Water Supply"
1932
box 10, folder 11
Committee on Rodent and Wildlife Control, UC Berkeley
1932
box 10, folder 12
Public health and wildlife control
1932
Hilda Wood Grinnell.
1935-1965
box 10, folder 13
Point Lobos Reserve
1935-1946
box 10, folder 14
Daughters of the American Revolution Reforestation Project
1939-1946
box 10, folder 15
Western Bird Banding Association
1939-1955
box 10, folder 16
Grinnell Naturalists Society
1940-1961
box 10, folder 17
Frances Simes Hastings Natural History Reservation
1940-1955
box 10, folder 18
California Conservation Council
1941-1945
box 10, folder 19
Research material on Redwoods
1942-1953
undated
box 10, folder 20
South Calaveras Grove
1944-1953
undated
box 10, folder 21
Save San Francisco Bay Association
1962
undated
box 10, folder 23
Miscellaneous conservation materials
1934-1965
undated
Series 5:
Personal Papers.
1893-1967
Physical Description:
Box 11, Volume 1, Oversize Folder 1
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Content/Description
Divided into 2 sub-series: Joseph Grinnell and Hilda Wood Grinnell. Joseph Grinnell's materials include a scrapbook originally
compiled by Elizabeth Grinnell to record her son's activities and contains clippings, articles by Joseph Grinnell regarding
his trips to Alaska, photographs, and copies of the Nome (Alaska) Daily News from 1900. Much of the contents of the scrapbook
have been removed and relocated to folders.
Joseph Grinnell.
1893-1951
volume 1
Scrapbook
1898-1917
Scope and Content Note
Pertains to Joseph Grinnell's education, especially at Throop Polytechnic Institute, with some photographs pasted in near
the back.
oversize-folder 1 A
Loose items from scrapbook
1893-1939
box 11, folder 1
Loose items from scrapbook
1883-1939
box 11, folder 1
"Bruin Meets Ignoble Fate; Tied to Tree and Etherized." (newspaper clipping) BANC MSS 73/25 c
Scope and Content Note
Article about Prof. Joseph Grinnell chloroforming a bear. Includes a picture of Grinnell
"Prof. Grinnell to Go North; Will Sever Connection with Throop Institute in Summer." (newspaper clipping)
1908? BANC MSS 73/25 c
box 11, folder 2
Throop diploma (B.A.) and invitation
1897
box 11, folder 4
Stanford diploma (M.A.) and program
1901
box 11, folder 5
Stanford diploma (Ph.D.) and program
1913
box 11, folder 6
Written exam for Stanford Ph.D.
1913
box 11, folder 7
Clippings relating to Joseph Grinnell
1915-1940
undated
"Finds Life on Burned Slopes of Mt. Lassen." (newspaper clipping from the Berkeley Daily Gazette)
1928 July 26 BANC MSS 73/25 c
"Birds Anticipate Building of Museum." (newspaper clipping) BANC MSS 73/25 c
Scope and Content Note
Article regarding construction of the new Life Science Building to house the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley.
box 11, folder 8
Joseph Grinnell obituaries
1939-1951
undated
Hilda Wood Grinnell.
1906-1967
box 11, folder 8
Clippings relating to Hilda Wood Grinnell
1906-1944
box 11, folder 9
Materials relating to Joseph Grinnell
1908-1939
undated
box 11, folder 10
Condolence cards on death of Joseph Grinnell
1939
box 11, folder 11
Miscellaneous clippings
1939-1962
box 11, folder 12
Clippings relating to Annie Montague Alexander
1950-1967
box 11, folder 13
Ephemera
1939-1950
undated
box 11, folder 14
Joseph and Hilda Grinnell Memorial
1960-1967
undated
box 11, folder 16
Condolence letter on death of Hilda Wood Grinnell
1963