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Albert Moore Reese, Zoology Professor, Miscellaneous Items, 1900-1970 A&M 5024

Albert Moore Reese, Zoology Professor, Miscellaneous Items, 1900-1970 A&M 5024


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Morgantown, WV 26506-6069
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Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History Center

Repository
West Virginia and Regional History Center
Identification
A&M 5024
Title
Albert Moore Reese, Zoology Professor, Miscellaneous Items 1900-1970
URL:
https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/197557
Quantity
0.4 Linear Feet, Summary: 5 in. (1 document case)
Creator
Reese, A. M. (Albert Moore), 1872-1965
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English

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Preferred Citation

[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.

Scope and Contents

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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Reese, A. M. (Albert Moore), 1872-1965

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Reese, A. M. (Albert Moore), 1872-1965
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Container List

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
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)
1907 September 26