W. L. (Waldo Lee) McAtee papers, 1883-1942

Mss.B.M11

Date: 1883-1942. | Size: 0.25 Linear feet, 168 letters and 216 autographs
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Abstract

Correspondence relates chiefly to "The Auk" and to investigations into the stomachs of birds carried on by the United States Biological Survey. Correspondents include: Francis V. Greene, Henry Wetherbee Henshaw, Edgar A. Mearns, Clinton H. Merriam, and Frank R. Rathbun. Also includes the Biological Society of Washington and the American Ornithologists' Union. The autograph collection was assembled principally from signatures on mailing instructions for "The Auk" and on envelopes addressed to McAtee and others.

Background note

Waldo Lee McAtee, 1883-1962 was a zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist.

Waldo McAtee was most regarded for his writings on the food and feeding habits of birds, but he was also an expert entomologist who described over 460 new species of insects, especially of Hemiptera, and a contributing botanist. He published a good deal of literary poetry and prose, and nearly a hundred pieces on folklore and literature. He was editor of Wildlife Review and wrote more than 6000 articles for the publication. Waldo McAtee also gained a reputation as an acute critic of Darwinian natural selection, and for his many efforts in the name of bird conservation.

Collection Information

Physical description

168 letters and 216 autographs.

Provenance

Presented by Waldo L. McAtee, 1952.

Indexing Terms


Corporate Name(s)

  • American Ornithologists' Union
  • Biological Society of Washington
  • United States. -- Bureau of Biological Survey.

Family Name(s)

  • Mearns, Edgar A.

Genre(s)

  • Autographs.

Personal Name(s)

  • Greene, F. V. (Francis Vinton), 1850-1921
  • Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930
  • McAtee, W. L.(Waldo Lee),1883-1962
  • Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942
  • Rathbun, Frank R.

Subject(s)

  • Auks.
  • Birds.
  • Ornithology -- United States.


Detailed Inventory

 Series I. Correspondence
  
 D. Webster Prentiss letter to R. Rathbun.
1883 February 23 Box 1:
folder 1
 Bureau of biological survey letter to D. M. Gardinier.
1907 October 25 Box 1:
folder 37
 American Ornithologists' Union. Receipt to E.A.Mearns.
1887 January 24 Box 1:
folder 2
 E.H. Mearns, letter to U.S.biological survey.
1889 April 11 Box 1:
folder 3
 S.A. Forbes letter to E.A.Mearns.
1890 April 1 Box 1:
folder 4
 A. G. Prill letter to C.E.Bendire.
1895 May 24 Box 1:
folder 5
 United States Bureau of biological survey. Receipts...
1895-1901 Box 1:
folder 6
 E.A.Mearns. List sent to G.M.Allen.
1901 December 8 Box 1:
folder 7
 C.F.Henning letter to A.K.Fisher.
1905 January 25 Box 1:
folder 8
 F.W. True letter to R. H. Havre, Jr.
1905 February 9 Box 1:
folder 9
 W.T.Shaw letter to C.H.Merriam.
1905 March 1 Box 1:
folder 10
 W.K.Fisher letter to C.H.Merriam.
1905 May 15 Box 1:
folder 11
 F.M. Woodruff letter to W.L.McAtee.
1905 August 10 Box 1:
folder 12
 L.A.Fuertes letter to A.K.Fisher.
1905 August 18 Box 1:
folder 13
 Pingree Osburn letter to O.E.S.Beal.
1905 October 28 Box 1:
folder 14
 W.E.D.Scott letter to C. H. Merriam.
1905 November 6 Box 1:
folder 15
 B. H. Warren letter to G. H. Palmer.
1905 December 9 Box 1:
folder 16
 J. C. Hvoslep letter to C. H. Merriam.
1905 December 23 Box 1:
folder 17
 G.L. Fordyce letter to bureau of biological survey.
1906 February 21 Box 1:
folder 18
 C. W.Wash letter to A. K. Fisher.
1906 March 30 Box 1:
folder 19
 J. H. Sage letter to bureau of biological survey.
1906 April 6 Box 1:
folder 20
 A. R. Kuser letter to T. S. Palmer.
1906 April 14 Box 1:
folder 21
 F. C. Kirkwood letter to A. K. Fisher.
1906 May 1 Box 1:
folder 22
 H. W. Henshaw letter to F. V. Greene.
1906 June 5 Box 1:
folder 23
 W. W. Worthington letter to H. W. Henshaw.
1906 June 29 Box 1:
folder 24
 H. B. Kaeding letter to H. W. Henshaw.
1906 July Box 1:
folder 25
 A.- L. Herrera letter to Department of Agriculture.
1906 August 1 Box 1:
folder 26
 Bureau of biological survey letter to E. G. Routzahn.
1906 October 25 Box 1:
folder 27
 C. J. Pennock letter to R. W. Henshaw.
1906 October 26 Box 1:
folder 28
 W. Scott Way letter to Dr. Palmer.
1906 November 21 Box 1:
folder 29
 G. W. Field letter to Dr. Palmer.
1906 November 24? Box 1:
folder 30
 L. J. Hersey letter to T. S. Palmer.
1907 January 29 Box 1:
folder 31
 A. H. Howell leter to A. K. Fisher.
1907 March 27 Box 1:
folder 32
 N. A. Wood letter to W. L. McAtee?
1907 May 17 Box 1:
folder 33
 Bureau of biological survey letter to G.A. Lincoln.
1907 October 9 Box 1:
folder 34
 A.O. Gross letter to F. E. L. Beal.
1907 October 15 Box 1:
folder 35
 F. H. Kennard letter to Henry Oldys.
1907 October 21 Box 1:
folder 36
 F.R. Rathbun letter to C. Hart Merriam.
1907 December 1 Box 1:
folder 37
 John Hardy letter to T. S. Palmer.
1907 December 9 Box 1:
folder 38
 Alabama Audubon Society letter to A.A.Wiley.
1907 December 19 Box 1:
folder 39
 A. B. Howell letter to A. K. Fisher.
1908 January 14 Box 1:
folder 40
 C. W. Metz letter to bureau of biological survey.
1908 January 14 Box 1:
folder 41
 M. F. Gilman letter to C. H. Merriam.
1908 January 21 Box 1:
folder 42
 A. K. Fisher letter to W. H. Calhoun, Jr.
1908 February 5 Box 1:
folder 43
 G. M. Simpson letter to bureau of biological survey.
1908 Febrary 12 Box 1:
folder 44
 Cecil French letter to H. Oldys.
1908 February 22 Box 1:
folder 45
 G. H. Mackay letter to bureau of biological survey.
1908 February 26 Box 1:
folder 46
 S.H. Goodwin letter to bureau of biological survey.
1908 March 12 Box 1:
folder 47
 W. J. Hoxie letter to A. K. Fisher.
1908 March 31 Box 1:
folder 48
 W. H. Fisher letter to Henry Oldys.
1908 April 6 Box 1:
folder 49
 J. C. Meeker letter to bureau of biological survey.
1908 April 9 Box 1:
folder 50
 H. B. Kaeding letter to H. W. Henshaw.
1908 May 4 Box 2:
folder 51
 W. S. Sclater letter to C. Hart Merriam.
1908 May 17 Box 2:
folder 52
 Cooper ornithological club letter to W. L. McAtee.
1908 May 26 Box 2:
folder 53
 T. G. Pearson letter to T. S. Palmer.
1980 August 20 Box 2:
folder 54
 H. W. Henshaw letter to Isaac Vanderpool.
1908 September 9 Box 2:
folder 55
 H. S. Hathaway letter to C. Hart Merriam.
1908 December 2 Box 2:
folder 56
 J. Trinnell letter to W. L. McAtee.
1909 February 4 Box 2:
folder 57
 F. S. Hall letter to C. H. Merriam.
1909 February 15 Box 2:
folder 58
 L. D. Fricks letter to T. S. Palmer.
1909 March 25 Box 2:
folder 59
 W. F. Smith letter to A. K. Fisher.
1910 March 7 Box 2:
folder 60
 T. C. Stephens letter to W. W. Cooke.
1910 March 15 Box 2:
folder 61
 H. S. Swarth letter to W. W. Cooke.
1910 March 21 Box 2:
folder 62
 G. C. Fisher letter to W. W.Cooke.
1910 April 8 Box 2:
folder 63
 W.L. McAtee letter to Miss M. C. Dickerson.
1910 April 30 Box 2:
folder 64
 C. W. Miller letter to bureau of biological survey.
1910 May 11 Box 2:
folder 65
 F. M. Miller letter to T. S. Palmer.
1910 May 31 Box 2:
folder 66
 W. E. Snyder letter to H. W. Henshaw.
1910 July 20 Box 2:
folder 67
 B. H. Swales letter to H. W. Henshaw.
1910 September 19 Box 2:
folder 68
 T. S. Palmer letter to U. S. War Department.
1910 November 10 Box 2:
folder 69
 J. W. Fraazen letter to A. K. Fisher.
  Box 2:
folder 70
 H.C.Merrilees letter to bureau of biological survey.
1911 January 30 Box 2:
folder 71
 H. W. Henshaw letter to Price Eagle.
1911 February 6 Box 2:
folder 72
 P. B. Peabody letter to biological survey.
1911 February 9 Box 2:
folder 73
 E. A. Mills letter o bureau of biological survey.
1911 February 11 Box 2:
folder 74
 B. T. Gault letter to W. L. McAtee.
1911 February 26 Box 2:
folder 75
 C. R. Keyes letter to A. K. Fisher.
1911 April 14 Box 2:
folder 76
 A. B. Klugh letter to F. E. L. Beal.
1911 April 18 Box 2:
folder 77
 H. C. Fuller letter to W. L. McAtee.
1911 September 13 Box 2:
folder 78
 E. R. Kahnbach letter to B. S. Brown.
1912 January 2 Box 2:
folder 79
 A, W. Honeywell, Jr. letter to A. K. Fisher.
1912 April 9 Box 2:
folder 80
 R. 0. Morris letter to W. L. McAtee.
1912 April 10 Box 2:
folder 81
 A. R. Shearer letter to bureau of biological survey.
1912 April 21 Box 2:
folder 82
 A. Kemston letter to W. L. McAtee.
1912 June 5 Box 2:
folder 83
 J. S. Hunter letter to E. W.Nelson.
1912 August 10 Box 2:
folder 84
 Georgianna Kingle Holmes letter to W.L. McAtee.
1913 August 4 Box 2:
folder 85
 H. B. Latimer letter to W. W. Cooke.
1914 January 28 Box 2:
folder 86
 R. B. Rockwell letter to T. S. Palmer.
1914 March 11 Box 2:
folder 87
 W. F. McMahon letter to bureau of biological survey.
1914 July 2 Box 2:
folder 88
 A. H. Felger letter to E. W. Nelson.
1915 September 15 Box 2:
folder 89
 F. S. Hersey letter to H. W. Henshaw.
1915 November 28 Box 2:
folder 90
 A. de C. Sowers letter to W. L. McAtee.
1916 March 26 Box 2:
folder 91
 F. C. Lincoln letter to Ned Hollister.
1916 August 23 Box 2:
folder 92
 J. H. Pleming letter to Mr. Dearborn.
1916 December 18 Box 2:
folder 93
 A. G. MacVicar letter to G. W. Field.
1917 February 14 Box 2:
folder 94
 Wharton Huber letter to Mr. Riley.
1917 February 23 Box 2:
folder 95
 S. G. Jewett letter to Ned Dearborn.
1917 March 1 Box 2:
folder 96
 0. J. Murie letter to E. W.Nelson.
1917 March 9 Box 2:
folder 97
 J.A.Weber letter to bureau of biological survey.
1917 April 25 Box 2:
folder 98
 C. B. Kloss letter to bureau of biological survey.
1917 October 13 Box 2:
folder 99
 W. Fauxon ? letter to Ned Dearborn.
1918 April 15 Box 2:
folder 100
 Frank Stephens letter to W. JL. McAtee.
1918 May 7 Box 3:
folder 101
 Biological society of Washington. Nomination of Aretas A. Saunders for membership.
1918 July Box 3:
folder 102
 Biological society of Washington. Nomination of Arthur H. Helme for membership.
1918 July Box 3:
folder 103
 Biological society of Washington. Nomination of Joseph Mailliard for membership.
1918 August 12 Box 3:
folder 104
 S. H. Rhoads letter to W. L. McAtee.
1918 September 17 Box 3:
folder 105
 J. A. Munro letter to bureau of biological survey.
1918 October 14 Box 3:
folder 106
 Biological society of Washington. Nomination of George Willett to become a member.
1919 January 1 Box 3:
folder 107
 M. K. Frazar letter to E. W. Nelson.
1919 July 2 Box 3:
folder 108
 J. L. Ridgway letter to W. L. McAtee.
1920 May 19 Box 3:
folder 108
 P. A. Tavern? to W. L. McAtee.
1920 May 24 Box 3:
folder 109
 R. T. Moore letter to W. L. McAtee.
1920 May 28 Box 3:
folder 110
 F. C. Hennessey letter to W. L. McAtee.
1920 May 29 Box 3:
folder 111
 W. L. Finley letter to W. L. McAtee.
1920 June 2 Box 3:
folder 112
 A. A. Jeffrey letter to W. L. McAtee.
1920 July 10 Box 3:
folder 113
 A. R. Sherman letter to W. L. McAtee.
1920 September 28 Box 3:
folder 114
 W. L. Underwood letter to W. L. McAtee.
1920 October 7 Box 3:
folder 115
 C. E. Heil letter to W. L. McAtee.
1920 October 19 Box 3:
folder 116
 T. S. Roberts letter to W. L. McAtee.
1920 October 20 Box 3:
folder 117
 T. L. Hawkinson letter to W. L. McAtee.
1920 October 21 Box 3:
folder 118
 H. K. Job letter to W. L.McAtee.
1920 October 22 Box 3:
folder 119
 J. H. Hintermeister letter to W. L. McAtee.
1920 October 26 Box 3:
folder 120
 Hugo H. Schroder letter to W. L. McAtee.
1920 October 29 Box 3:
folder 121
 Mrs. E.O. Marshall letter to W. L. McAtee.
1920 November 1 Box 3:
folder 123
 L. A. Fuertes letter to W. L. McAtee.
1920 December 7 Box 3:
folder 124
 E. H. Forbush letter to W. L. McAtee.
1920 December 13 Box 3:
folder 125
 C. 0. Hanolley. Report.
1920 December 17 Box 3:
folder 126
 Henry Oldys letter to W. L. McAtee.
1922 February 21 Box 3:
folder 127
 E. J. Sawyer letter to W. L. McAtee.
1922 March 13 Box 3:
folder 128
 R. J. Simm letter to Witmer Stone.
1920 December 8 Box 3:
folder 129
 A. K. Fisher. Memo to W. L. McAtee.
1920 December 15 Box 3:
folder 130
 J. W. Jacobs letter to W. Stone.
1923 January 31 Box 3:
folder 131
 H. S. Swarth to W. Stone.
1920 June 29 Box 3:
folder 132
 W. W.Williams letter to W. L. McAtee.
1923 July 20 Box 3:
folder 133
 W. C. Rives letter to W. L. McAtee.
[1923] Box 3:
folder 134
 C. W.Townsend letter to Witmer Stone.
1924 September 29 Box 3:
folder 135
 F. S. Wright letter to W. L. McAtee.
1924 December 26 Box 3:
folder 136
 J. Stokley Ligon letter to Witmer Stone.
1925 July 16 Box 3:
folder 137
 G. E. Lodge letter to W. L. McAtee.
1926 January 4 Box 3:
folder 138
 F. C. R. Jourdain. Notice.
1928 August 8 Box 3:
folder 139
 American ornithologists' union letter to W.L. McAtee.
1932 May 23 Box 3:
folder 140
 Lorenz Hagenbeck letter to American ornithologists' union.
1932 June 7 Box 3:
folder 141
 J. E. Keays letter to W. L. McAtee.
1932 December 22 Box 3:
folder 142
 W. R. B. Oliver letter to W. L. McAtee.
1934 December 10 Box 3:
folder 143
 C. T. Ramsden letter to W. L. McAtee.
1936 March 27 Box 3:
folder 144
 A. J. Marshall letter to American ornithologists* union.
1936 November 7 Box 3:
folder 145
 W. L. McAtee letter to Frank Walters.
1938 February 8 Box 3:
folder 147
 L. B. Kalter letter to W. L. McAtee.
1938 April 25 Box 3:
folder 148
 J. E. Stillwell letter to W. L. McAtee.
1938 May 13 Box 3:
folder 149
 J. Van Tyne letter to W. L. McAtee.
1940 March 30 Box 3:
folder 150
 T. 3. Roberts letter to W. L. McAtee?
1942 July Box 3:
folder 151
 W.E.Clyde Todd letter to W. L. McAtee.
undated Box 3:
folder 152
 Series II. Autographs
  
 Clinton G. Abbott, W. L. Abbott, Charles C. Adams,Cyrus Adler,Theodor G. Ahrens, Jo M. Aldrich, C. P. Alexander, W. B. Alexander, Arthur A. Allen, Francis Ho Allen, Glover M. Allen J o A. Allen, A. W. Anthony, S. Co Arthur, H. P. Attwater, Oliver Tl Austin,Jr., W. C. Avery
  Box 4:
folder 1
 Ho B. Bailey, Ho H. Bailey, Frank C« Baker, Marcus Baker, Nathan Banks, Co Barlow E. Morgan Barnes, P.E.H. Barrett-Hamilton, Walter B* Barrowÿs, Paul Bartsch C. F. Batchelder, 0. E. Baynard, Ernest Harold Bayne , F.E.L. Beal, 0. A. Beath (Orville Andrew)
  Box 4:
folder 2
 Herbert H. Beck Beebe William Beebe H. w. Beers Robert Jbeil Major Charles Bendire A. 0* Bent W. H. Bergtold J. Bequaert S. 1. Breniger E. Bicknell r. c Orville Andrew Beath, Herbert H. Beck, William Beebe, H. W. Beers, Robert Beil, Major Charles Bendire, A. 0* Bent, W. H. Bergtold, J. Bequaert, S.J. Breniger, P.E. Bicknell, Louis B. Bishop W. S. Blatchley, C. H. Bollman, Frank Bond, James Bond, Rudyerd Boulton,B. S. Bowdish
  Box 4:
folder 3
 W. Wedgwood Bowen, J. Hooper Bowles, Nathan Clifford Brown, J. Chester Bradley William C. Braislin, Herbert W. Brandt, Courtenay Brandreth, Reynold Bray Branner W. J. Breckenridge, Hernard, J. Bretherton, W. Brewster, A. A. Brinsley, C. S. Brinsley
  Box 4:
folder 4
 W. E. Britton, Arthur W. Brockway, Louis W. Brokaw, Stanley W. Bromley, Allan Brooks Earle A. Brooks, Edward J. Brown, Herbert Brown, James W. Brown, L. W. Brownell C. T. Brues, Lawrence Bruner, Harold Co Bryant, Walter E. Bryant, L. L. Buchanan
  Box 4:
folder 5
 Charles L. Bull, D. S. Bullock, C. D. Bunker, Thornton W. Burgess, Thomas D. Burleigh W. L. Burnett, Frank L. Burns, B. B. Burrows, Verdi Burtch, A. L. Butler, Amos W. Butler, Jefferson Butler
  Box 4:
folder 6
 Donald John Caffrey, A. R. Cahn, R. Ellsworth Call, A. J. Camplan, M. A. Carricker, Jr., T.L. Casey, M. A. Carricker, Jr. T. L. Casey, J. Cattell, A. P. Chadbourne, R. V. Chamberlin, W. Lee Chambers, A. B. Champlain, Abel Chapman, Frank M. Chapman, George K. Cherrie
  Box 4:
folder 7
 F. H. Chittenden, H. L. Clark, John N. Clark, C.J. Clay, Henry K. Coale, F. R. Cole, Leon J. Cole F. A. Collin, W. E. Collinge, A. H. Conrad, W. W. Cooke, Alfred Cookman, R. A. Cooley Manton Copeland, D. W. Coquillett, C.B. Cory, Wallace Craig, Lee S. Crandall, Eloise B. Cram, J. C. Crawford, F. F. Crevecoeur, Norman Criddle, Cyrus R. Crosley, M. S. Crosley
  Box 5:
folder 8
 Frank D. Daggett, Bonnycastle Dale, William H. Dali, Stuart T. Danforth, Charles. B. Davenport Elizabeth Davenport, Homer Davenport, J. L. Davison, W. Leon Dawson, Rutiiven Deane, Jeanne Delacriv, H. C. Lenslow, Richard Derby, Frederic W. D'Evelyn, Donald R. Dickey
  Box 4:
folder 9
 D. N. Dietz, Fred. M. Dille, C. E. Dionne, Edward von s. Dingle, R. W. Doane, E. A. Doolittle Alex D. Du Bois, Philip A. Du Mont, H. F. Duprey, William Dutcher, Jonathan Dwight, Jr. Arthur C. Dyke, H. G. Dyar
  Box 4:
folder 10
 C. H. Eagle, Elon Howard Eaton, Mary E. Eaton, Warren F. Eaton, Rosalie Edge, F. W. Edwards W. Elmer Ekblaw, M. J. Elrod, W. Otto Emerson, George P. Engelhardt,Paul L. Errington Wallace Avans, Barton W. Evermann, H. E. Ewing, Alfred Ezra
  Box 4:
folder 11
 John A. Farley, E. P. Felt, W. K. Fishe, J. W. Folsom, R. H. Forbesi, Theodore H. Prison, H. German, Burton N. Gates,J. W. Gidley, G. K. Gilbert, Arthur Gibson,H. A. Gossard, C. T. Greene, J. E. Guthrie
  Box 4:
folder 12
 L. 0. H. S. Hadyen, Maurice C. Hall, Charles A® Hart, L. Hazeman, Carl P. Heinrich Samuel Henshaw, Glenn W. Herrick, James S. Hine, W. J. Holland, A. H. Rollinger, W. A. Holmes, J. D. Hood, A. D. Hopkins, C. 0. Howard, J. A. Hyslop
  Box 4:
folder 13
 Maurice T. James, Charles W. Johnson, 0. A. Johanson, E. Johansen, Thomas H. Jones C. Juday, Hugo Kahl E. R. Kalmbach, Clarence H. Kennedy, Frederick Knab, Warren Knaus
  Box 4:
folder 14
 Alfred C. Dane, S. P. Langley, Philip Laurent, A. R. Lee, M. D. Leonard, Erank R. Lillie, E. W. MacBride, A. H. Manee, R. B. Marshall, 0. Mason, C. S. Menagh, Florence A. Merriam C. H. Merriam, Maynard M. Metcalf, J. Percy Moore, Anna H. Morgan, E. W. MacBride A. H. Manee, R. B. Marshall, 0. Mason, C. S. Menagh, Florence A. Merriam, C. H. Merriam, J.C. Merriam, Maynard M. Metcalf, J. Percy Moore, Anna H. Morgan, E. W. MacBride, A. H. Manee R. B. Marshall, 0. Mason, C. S. Menagh, Florence A. Merriam, C. H. Merriam, J.C. Merriam, Maynard M. Metcalf, J. Percy Moore, Anna H. Morgan, J.G. Needham
  Box 4:
folder 15
 A. S. Packard, John Percival Barrott, A. C. Peale, Theo. Pergaude, R. H. Petet, W. Dwight Pierce, E. Bo Poulton
  Box 4:
folder 16
 M. J. Rathbun, R. Rathbun, W. A. C. Ravenel, James A. G. Rehn, Charles W. Richmond W. E. Ritter, S. A. Rohwer, H. J. Rust, E. Dwight Sanderson, E. R. Sasscer, W. L. Schmidt E. A. Schwarz, Samuel Scudder, R. C. Shannon, John D. Sherman, Jr.Clarence R. Sdoemaker
  Box 4:
folder 17
 R. C. Shannon, John D. Sherman, Jr., Clarence R« Shoemaker, Henry Skinner, M. V. Slingerland, Frank Smith, Thomas E. Snyder, C. W. Stiles, Bernard V. Travis Harry Beal Torrey, R. C. Treherne, [Y] W. True, Otto Tuggett, J. M. Valentine, D. L. Van Ding, M. C. Van BA, H. L. Viereek
  Box 4:
folder 18