S. Charles Kendeigh Papers, 1919-85 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Papers of Samuel Charles Kendeigh (1904-86), professor of zoology (1936-73), including correspondence, reports, research notes (1919-71), publications (1927-82), course materials, graduate student files (1931-78) and proceedings about bird banding, censuses, feeding and migration; ornithology; conservation; ecology; environmental research; animal populations; insects; natural areas; prairie chickens; Allerton Park and Oakley Dam Baldwin Bird Research Laboratory (1919-42); Brownfield Woods (1935-64); Center for Human Ecology (1957-74); Committee on Athletics (1941-66) and Natural Areas (1928-73); Ecological Society of America (1919-80); field trips (1927-61); Funk's Forest (1955-71); Illinois Nature Preserves Commission (1960-84); Nature Conservancy (1959-80); Oberlin College (1919-27); Trelease Woods (1935-71); Vivarium (1922-73); Wilson Ornithological Club (1925-74); and zoonoses research (1962-69). The series includes some vivarium correspondence and files of Victor E. Shelford and Kendeigh's "Memoirs of a 20th Century Avian Ecologist" with volumes on genealogy, teaching, research, administration and the "fight to preserve natural areas" (ca. 1982).