Edwin M. Banks Papers, 1943-85 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Papers of Edwin M. Banks (1926-85), Professor of Ecology, Ethology and Evolution (EEE, 1957-85) and department head (1973-75), including correspondence (1955-85); University of Chicago course materials (1943-52); Animal Science, Zoology and EEE course materials (1963-83); committee minutes and reports; grant proposals (1973-85), reports, field notes and research reports for the National Science Foundation photographs; manuscripts (1955-85) and publications (1954-84) about animal motivation and instinct behavior; vertebrate psychology; the sexual and social behavior of brown and collared lemmings, Java monkeys, chickens and domestic animals; the Tundra biome; social organization and maternal behavior; Animal Behavior Society (President, 1972); endangered species legislation (1983-84); research on C. Allee and editing and publishing research reports and texts (1975-77).