Hartley H. T. Jackson papers, 1898-1958

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Jackson, Hartley H. T. (Hartley Harrad Thompson), 1881-1976

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Papers of a Wisconsin-born zoologist, employed by the U.S. Biological Survey (1910-1940) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1940-1951); including correspondence and research reports. Jackson a...

Papers of a Wisconsin-born zoologist, employed by the U.S. Biological Survey (1910-1940) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1940-1951); including correspondence and research reports. Jackson authored a monumental survey of Wisconsin mammals in 1961 and much of the correspondence, 1922-1958, focuses upon that publication and a series of books Jackson edited for the Society of American Mammalogists. The reports consist of field observations of Wisconsin mammals made by Jackson, 1912-1955, scattered reports by other researchers, and 1940 field observations made by Jackson and Olaus Murie in the western United States.

Correspondents include wildlife biologists Aldo Leopold, F. J. W. Schmidt, George Wagner, A. W. Schorger, Francis Zirrer, and Walter E. Scott. Also present are letters, 1928-1932, to Dr. E. W. Nelson, including two from Theodore Roosevelt; Jackson's possession of these letters is unexplained.

The photographs include images of participants at the American Society of Mammalogists' 8th, 10th, 28th, and 29th annual meetings; members of the United States Bureau of Biological Survey, July 21, 1937; scientists at Big Levels Federal Refuge, 1939; and a man with the carcasses of two coyotes and a coy-dog, half dog and half coyote, 1950.

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