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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Albert Moore Reese, Zoology Professor, Miscellaneous Items, A&M 5024,
West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Papers of Albert Moore Reese, Sr, longtime zoology professor at West Virginia University. This collection includes WVU memorabilia,
books and reprints by Albert Moore Reese, and photos of Reese and Reese's spelunking trips, and clippings of articles by Reese
and others.
Correspondence (11 items in all, documenting: receipt of and comments regarding his textbook "Economic Zoology; colleague
in Nanking, China [1921; 1 item]; venom of copperhead snakes [1926; 1 item]; commendation by WVU professor O.P. Chitwood [1953;
1 item]; miscellaneous)
1919–1961
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Clippings -- Articles Authored by Reese (usually only a few paragraphs long; listed by order in folder)
1900-1937, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
"It's `Vermin' -- Kill It" (in "Nature Magazine")
1937
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Brief Letter Explaining and Defending the Teaching of Evolution (in "West Virginia School Journal")
1911
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
"Lampreys in Captivity" (in "Science")
1900 April 6
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
"A Bluffing Snake" (re: the Spreading Adder, or Heterodon platyrhinus)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
"Light Reactions of Diemyctylus"
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
"The Destruction of Frogs" (in "Science")
1903 February 20
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
"Is Not the Smithsonian An Institute of Research"
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
"The Prolificness of the English Sparrow"
September 1907
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
"The English Sparrow as Embryological Material" (in "Science")
1905 February 17
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
"The Double Embryo of the Florida Alligator"
1906 January 8
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Galley Proofs (for publications authored by Reese)
1904-1906, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Galley Proofs -- Illustrations
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Reprints--Authored by Reese (unbound)
1902-1912, 1949
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
"Why Biology in the High School" (in "West Virginia School Journal")
June 1912
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
"In the Everglades with Alligator Joe" (in "The Allegheny Literary Monthly")
January 1902
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
"Old Snake Stories: Do Snakes Swallow Their Young?" (in "Turtox News")
August 1949
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Pamphlet -- Authored by Reese, "Embryology" (2 copies)
1934, 1941
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Clippings -- Reviews of Publications Authored by Reese
1904-1907
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
"An Introduction to Vertebrate Embryology" (14 reviews notices)
1904
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Clippings Regarding Articles about Alligators Published by the Smithsonian
1907
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Clippings -- Regarding Reese's Trips
1908, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Trips to Florida to Study Alligators (3 items)
1908, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Trip to Philippines, Japan, and China Sponsored by the Smithsonian (1 item)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9a
Clippings/Notes -- Removed from Second Edition of "Outlines of Economic Zoology" (14 items; clippings are topically related
to adjacent pages of the insertions; page numbers were annotated to the clippings to identify location)
1924-1927, 1934, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9b
Clippings -- Removed from Fourth Edition of "Outlines of Economic Zoology" (10 items; clippings are topically related to adjacent
pages of the insertions; page numbers were annotated to the clippings to identify location; includes photograph of smallpox
case in Scott's Run [January 1928])
1936-1940, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
"Clippings on Multiple Births and Monstrosities" (5 items; topical heading by Reese)
1954–1955
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
Caves in West Virginia (Spelunking)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
Map -- "Caves in West Virginia" (8 1/2" x 11")
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
Brochure -- "History of George Washington Masonic Taverns"
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
Brochure -- Lakeland Caverns
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
Photographs (cave opening photographs apparently used in publication because of figure numbers)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
WV Cave Openings (6 b x w prints, 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"; cave names identified)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
WV Cave Openings (5 b x w prints, 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"; cave names identified)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
WV Cave Opening (1 b x w print, 6" x 8"; "The Sinks" Cave)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
List of Figures for Publication -- WV Cave Entrances/Openings (contains Gladys, Sinks, Seneca, Overholt's, Blowing, Cave Creek,
Rapp's, and Arbuckle's caves)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
Envelope from Gibson Photo Studio, Morgantown, WV, 163 High Street
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
West Virginia University (WVU) -- Miscellaneous
1910, 1936-1943, 1970
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
Program -- Alpha of West Virginia; Phi Beta Kappa: Founders' Day Dinner (60th Anniversary of Founding)
1970 December 3
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
Photograph -- Group Portrait: Alpha of West Virginia; Phi Beta Kappa (1 b x w print, 4 1/2" x 7")
1910 December 5
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
Key to Group Portrait (identifies people in Phi Beta Kappa Group Portrait of 1910 December 05)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
Student Class Scheduling Card (ephemera)
1936–1937
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
Photograph -- Portrait: WVU English Philology Professor John Harrington Cox (1 sepia print, 3 1/2" x 5")
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
Booklet -- "Reveries and Jingles" (verse by John Harrington Cox
1943
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
WVU Faculty Club -- House Rules (humor)
ca. 1910-1930
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13
Miscellaneous
ca. 1943-1959
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13
Short Story -- "A Romance of the Okefenokee" (re: the Seminole people [presumably the Seminole Tribe of Florida]) (Reese,
A.M.)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13
Booklet -- Eugenic Tract
ca. 1950s
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13
Advertisement for Book -- "Human Biology" (Baitsell, George Alfred)
June 1943
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13
Article -- Treatment for Black Widow Spider Bite (in "Journal of the American Medical Association")
1945 December 8
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13
Article -- "Food Habits of Foxes in Wild Turkey Territories (in "Pennsylvania Game News")
July 1943
Mixed Materials Box: 1
Books Authored by Reese (with exception of Van Liere/Dodd)
1909-1924, 1965
Mixed Materials Box: 1
"An Introduction to Vertebrate Embryology" (Reese, Albert Moore; translated from the Second Edition into Chinese by Ting Lih
Djen)
ca. 1918
Mixed Materials Box: 1
"An Introduction to Vertebrate Embryology" (Reese, Albert Moore; Second Edition)
1909
Mixed Materials Box: 1
"The Alligator and Its Allies" (copy 1)
1915
Mixed Materials Box: 1
"History of Medical Education in West Virginia" (Van Liere, Edward J.; Dodds, Gideon S.; signed by authors to memory of Reese)
1965
Mixed Materials Box: 1
"The Alligator and Its Allies" (copy 2)
1915
Mixed Materials Box: 1
"Outlines of Economic Zoology" (Second Edition) (inserted clippings removed; see box 1, folder 9a)
1924
Mixed Materials Box: 1
Article Reprints -- Vol. 1 (includes articles regarding: lampreys, giant salamanders, cats, the English sparrow, and Florida
alligators)
1902–1910
Mixed Materials Box: 1
Article Reprints -- Vol. 2 (includes articles regarding: spotted newts, hen's eggs, Florida alligators, other alligators,
two-headed lambs and calves, venomous spiders, tegus, horned toads, cats, the venom of newborn copperheads, the development
of snake tongues, the fauna of West Virginia caves, and the treatment of snake poisoning)
1912–1934
Mixed Materials Box: 1
Article Reprints (in folder) (includes copies of some of above articles, and additional ones regarding: "Camera Versus Gun,"
mosquito control, the study of birds, "What Darwinism Isn't," "Unusual Animal Foods of Man," "A Cephalopagus Lamb," "The Speed
of Ants," alligators, "Another Lamb Cyclops," "The Old Starfish-Clam Question," Black Widow spiders' venom glands and markings,
and "It's Vermin -- Kill It")
1902–1947
Mixed Materials Box: 1
"Outlines of Economic Zoology" (Fourth Edition) (2 copies; signed by Reese) (inserted clippings removed; see box 1, folder
9b)
1942
Mixed Materials Box: 1
Newspaper – "Monticola" (Vol. 20, Number 1; 1907 September 26) (includes article regarding appointment of WVU Zoology Professor
Albert M. Reese; also includes article on walk laying, building construction, and installation of first telephone system)
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