Finding Aid to the Ivan Rexford Tomkins Papers MS 0803ghs.galileo.usg.edu/ghs/pdf/MS 0803.pdf · Society. He discovered a unique spiny mussel, Elliptio Spinosus, in the Altamaha River

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Finding Aid to the Ivan Rexford Tomkins Papers MS 0803

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Table of Contents

Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 3

Biographical Information...............................................................................................................................4

Scope and Content Note................................................................................................................................4

Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................5

Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................6

Physical and Technical Access Restrictions................................................................................................. 8

Collection Inventory.................................................................................................................................... 10


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Summary Information

Repository Georgia Historical Society

Creator Tomkins, Ivan Rexford, 1893-1966.

Title Ivan Rexford Tomkins papers

Date [inclusive] 1911-1966

Extent 18.0 cubic feet (36 boxes)

Language English

Preferred Citation

[item identification], Ivan Rexford Tomkins papers, MS 803, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah,Georgia.


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Biographical Information

Ivan Rexford Tomkins (1893-1966) was born in Ellington, Pennsylvania. He served in World War I,first in the Infantry (1917), and later with the 56th Engineers (1918). He moved to Georgia in 1922 towork with the Public Health Service and was assigned to the U.S. Quarantine Station on Cockspur Island,Savannah River. Soon after, around the year 1925, he accepted the position as Dredging Inspector withthe Corps of Engineers. He rose to the position as Chief of the projects Branch of the Savannah Districtuntil his retirement in 1956.

His work at the Quarantine Station and on the dredges gave him ample opportunities to develop hisinterest in the life of the salt marshes, beach, and waters surrounding him. His knowledge and advicewas sought by many men of science. He became an excellent photographer. He published articles in Auk,Wilson Bulletin, Oriole, The Journal of Mammalogy, as well as studies for the Georgia OrnithologicalSociety. He discovered a unique spiny mussel, Elliptio Spinosus, in the Altamaha River swamp.

Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of correspondence, field notes, articles written by Ivan Rexford Tomkins onbirds and mammals, and photographs. Also included are correspondence, photographs, field notes, etc. ofother naturalists, including T.D. Perry, Gilbert R. Rossignol, Louis Bishop, Frank R. Irving, and Walter J.Hoxie. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent's last name.

Correspondents include: Arthur Allen; Atlanta Bird Club; Audubon Society; Arron M. Bagg; HaroldH. Bailey; Wilson Baker; William P. Baldwin; Alexander James Barton; Anna S. Bassett; William J.Beecher; A.C. Bent; Ruby Wilson Berry; Bureau of Biological Survey; Lewis Bishop; F. Bouliere; GeraldL. Brody; Barnum Brown; Thomas D. Burleigh; M.H. Burroughs; E. Milby Burton; David K. Caldwell;Larry Caldwell; Camera Club; Tom and Hedwig Cater; Margaret Davis Cate; B. Rhett Chamberlain; E.Burnham Chamberlain; Alma Cooke; Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology; Clarence Cottam;Edwin P. Crease; Eugene Cypert; J. Fred Denton; Ray Dilley; E. Von S. Dingle; Keith L. Dixon; PaulBruce Dowling; Wilbur H. Duncan; A.J. Erskine; Don Eyles; William G. Fargo; Fish and WildlifeService; Harvey I. Fisher; Bill Garrahan; General Drafting Co., Inc.; Georgia Ornithological Society;Georgia Society of Naturalists; Norman Giles, Jr.; Frank B. Golley; Carle Greene; William W. Griffin;Samuel Grimes; William C. Grimm; Ludlow Griscom; Grell Survey; Jack P. Hailman; George A. Hall;Anne Hamilton; W.J. Hamilton; Robert P. Hanson; Jerry D. Hardy; H.L. Harlee; Walter Harmer; EthelP. Harris; Francis and Roland Harper; Cecilia and Tomsen Hasselstrom; James W. Hazzard; Frederic V.Hebard; Dan Henderson; Vernon J. Henry; Kenneth Hoff; Paul Holle; Milton Hopkins; Neill Hotchkiss;Arthur H. Howell; Walter J. Hoxie; James W. Jenkins; Charles C. Johnson; David W. Johnston; KaleHerbert; Frederick Kennard; Hallam Koons, Jr.; Ralston B. Lattimore; Herschel C. Logan; London


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Electrotype Agency; George H. Lowery; G. Robert Lunz; W.L. McAtee; Charles M. McGill; W.G. andAnne McNaughton; Brooke Meanley; Mel and Marie Mellinger; Robert Mengel; Joseph C. Moore; OlausJ. Murie; Eugene Edward Murphy; Natural History Magazine; Nature Magazine; Caroline Newhall;Donald J. Nicholson; Robert Norris; Joseph R. Norwood; Eugene P. Odum; Outdoor Life; Ralph S.Palmer; James F. Parnell; Richard Parks; Max M. Pelt; Tully Pennington; Harold S. Peters; Roger ToryPeterson; Olin S. Pettingill; Pictures Incorporated; Robert B. Platt; Earl L. Poole; Richard H. Pough;Thomas L. Quay; Chandler Robbins; James B. Ross; Gilbert R. Rossignol; Scenic South; George W.Sciple; Smithsonian Institution; Alexander Sprunt; Herbert L. Stoddard; W.D. Clyde Todd; KennethS. Ulm; Joseelyn Van Tyne; William Vogt; C.H. Wharton; H.E. Wheeler; Charles Wilbur; Ellison A.Williams; Wilson Bulletin; Joseph H. Winkers; C.C. and S.C. Witter; Mrs. Marie Young; Youth Museumof Savannah, Inc..

Correspondence subjects include barn owls, bird banding, birds of the Okefenokee, bird permits, achecklist of Georgia birds, Elliptio Spinosus (the spiny mussel discovered by Tomkins), Hilton HeadIsland, Longwood Gardens, Ornithologie Abregee de la France, and Fort Pulaski.

The manuscript portion of this collection includes manuscripts and notes on birds, fossils, animals,whales, shells, plants, reptiles, and other living creatures; manuscript copies of Tomkins' book, Birds ofthe Savannah River Delta; book review; the Cockspur Island Lighthouse; and the history of QuarantineStation.

The photographs include images of birds, crustaceans, insects, reptiles, fish, snakes, animals, people,plants, skeletons, fossils, animal tracks, scenes and landscapes, photographs of African American gravemarkers in Sunbury, Georgia (these may be sculptures by Cyrus Bowen), Georgia Historical Society,Savannah, and other southern cities.

Administrative Information

Publication Information

Georgia Historical Society

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Georgia Historical Society. All requests for permission topublish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Division of Library and Archives.Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Georgia Historical Society as the owner of the


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physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must alsobe obtained by the researcher.

Custodial History

Most of the material was acquired from the creator's estate.

Accruals

No accruals are expected.

Acquisition Information

Gift of the estate of Ivan R. Tomkins, 1976; Savannah Science Museum, 1977 (53 photographs).

Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

• Cornell University. Laboratory of Ornithology.• General Drafting Company.• Georgia Historical Society.• Georgia Ornithological Society.• Georgia Society of Naturalists.• National Audubon Society.• Pictures Incorporated.• Smithsonian Institution.• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Genre(s)

• Articles.• Field notes.• Letters (correspondence)• Photographs.

Geographic Name(s)


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• Cockspur Island Lighthouse (Ga.)• Fort Pulaski (Ga.)• Hilton Head Island (S.C.)• Savannah (Ga.)• Sunbury (Ga.)

Personal Name(s)

• Bailey, Harold H., (Harold Harris), 1878-1962.• Beecher, W. J., (William John), 1914-• Bent, Arthur Cleveland, 1866-1954.• Bishop, Louis B.• Brown, Barnum.• Burleigh, Thomas D., (Thomas Dearborn), 1895-• Burton, E. Milby.• Caldwell , David Keller, 1928-• Cate, Margaret Davis, 1888-1961.• Chamberlain, E. Burnham, (Edward Burnham), 1895-1986• Cottam, Clarence, 1899-• Duncan, Wilbur Howard, 1910-• Erskine, Anthony J.• Eyles, Don E., (Don Edgar), 1915-• Golley, Frank B.• Greene, Carleton.• Grimes, S. A., (Samuel Andrew), 1906-• Grimm, William Carey, 1907-• Griscom, Ludlow, 1890-1959.• Hailman, Jack Parker, 1936-• Hall, George A.• Hamilton, William John, 1902-• Hanson, Robert P., (Robert Paul), 1918-1987.• Harper, Francis, 1886-1972.• Harper, Roland M., (Roland McMillan), 1878-1966.• Henry, Vernon J.• Hopkins, Milton N.• Howell, Arthur H., (Arthur Holmes), 1872-1940.• Hoxie, W. J., (Walter John), 1848-1934.• Johnson, Charles C.• Johnston, David W.• Lattimore, Ralston B.• Logan, Herschel C., 1901-• Lowery, George H., Jr., 1913-1978.• McAtee, W. L., (Waldo Lee), 1883-1962.


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• Meanley, Brooke.• Mengel, Robert Morrow, 1921-• Murie, Olaus Johan, 1889-1963.• Odum, Eugene Pleasants, 1913-• Palmer, Ralph S., (Ralph Simon), 1914-2003.• Parnell, James F.• Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-1996.• Pettingill, Olin Sewall, 1907-2001.• Pough, Richard H., (Richard Hooper), 1904-• Quay, Thomas L.• Robbins, Chandler S.• Sprunt, Alexander, 1898-1973.• Stoddard, Herbert L.• Todd, W. E. Clyde, (Walter Edmond Clyde), 1874-1969.• Tomkins, Ivan Rexford, 1893-1966.• Van Tyne, Josselyn, 1902-1957.• Vogt, William, 1902-1968.• Wharton, Charles H.

Subject(s)

• Animal tracks.• Bird banding.• Birds--Georgia.• Fishes.• Fossils.• Insects.• Mammals.• Mussels.• Naturalists.• Owls.• Plants.• Reptiles.• Shells.• Skeleton.• Snakes.• Whales.

Physical and Technical Access Restrictions


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None.


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Collection Inventory

Box

Correspondence 1

Box Folder

A, miscellaneous 21.0 items.

Scope and Contents note

Irvin R. Tomkins and Francis H. Allen, 1942; Glover M. Allen, 1937;

American Ornithologists' Union, 1928-1939; Jay D. Andrews, 1953; Isaac

F. Arnow, 1941; Oliver Austin, Jr., 1964.

1 1

Arthur Allen 1950-1962 12.0 items.1 2

Elsa G. Allen (Mrs. Arthur) 1953-1964 15.0 items.1 3

Atlanta Bird Club: membership list 1958 1.0 items.1 4

Audubon Society (National): correspondence and articles 1939-1961 24.0

items.

1 5

Audubon Society (National): Audubon Field Notes 1951-1964,

undated 6.0 items.

1 6

B, miscellaneous 24.0 items.1 7


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Ivan R. Tomkins and: H.W. Barnett, 1964; L.A.M. Barnette, 1955; Daniel

D. Barron, 1963; Theodore A. Beckett, 1961; Craig Bell, 1960-1961;

Winifred and Carl Bird, 1962; John Peale Bishop, 1939; Ralph Brimley,

1957; Pierce Brodkorb; Maurice Brooks, 1937; H.P. Brown, 1936; Ralph

Browning, 1963; Mrs. Wallace E. Buttimer, Jr., 1961; Mrs. W.E. Butler,

n.d.; John V. Burke, 1938; Mitchell A. Byrd, 1965; Andy Berry, n.d.

Aaron M. Bagg 1952-1958 10.0 items.1 8

Harold H. Bailey 1931-1939 20.0 items.1 9

Wilson Baker 1964-1966 6.0 items.1 10

William P. Baldwin 1938-1954 10.0 items.1 11

Barn owl, correspondence regarding 1933-1941 8.0 items.1 12

Alexander James Barton 1958-1965 18.0 items.1 13

Anna S. Bassett (Mrs. Victor H.) 1922-1936 28.0 items.1 14

Anna S. Bassett (Mrs. Victor H.) 1937 27.0 items.1 15

Anna S. Bassett (Mrs. Victor H.) 1938 15.0 items.1 16

Anna S. Bassett (Mrs. Victor H.) 1924-1939 9.0 items.1 17


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Correspondence 2

Box Folder

William J. Beecher 1951-1962 4.0 items.2 18

A.C. Bent 1928-1942 23.0 items.2 19

Ruby Wilson Berry 1936-1942 23.0 items.2 20

Biological Survey, Bureau of 1929-1940 29.0 items.2 21

Bird banding, regarding 1931-1959 20.0 items.2 22

Bird banding, regarding 1960-1964 7.0 items.2 23

Bird banding, various forms of undated 28.0 items.2 24

Bird Lore Magazine, regarding 1924-1938 12.0 items.2 25

Birds of the Okefenokee, regarding 1945-1961 7.0 items.2 26

Bird permits (Federal), regarding 1924-1957 25.0 items.2 27

Bird permits (State: Ga.) 1931-1951 34.0 items.2 28

Bird permits (State: S.C.) 1931-1955 16.0 items.2 29


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Bird permits (State: Fla.) 1955 16.0 items.2 30

Lewis Bishop 1934-1937 24.0 items.2 31

F. Bouliere 1951-1958 7.0 items.2 32

Gerald L. Brody 1938 7.0 items.2 33

Barnum Brown 1930-1936 8.0 items.2 34

Thomas D. Burleigh 1933-1950 30.0 items.2 35


Thomas D. Burleigh 1953 26.0 items.2 37


M.H. Burroughs 1923-1939 30.0 items.2 39

M.H. Burroughs 1940-1945 21.0 items.2 40

E. Milby Burton 1932-1965 40.0 items.2 41

Correspondence 3

Box Folder

C. miscellaneous 6.0 items.3 42


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Bill Clark, 1964; Charles E[d] Collum, 1959; Alan M. Craig, 1961; A.B.

Curtis, 1945.

David K. Caldwell 1959-1960 10.0 items.3 43

Larry Caldwell 1957-1963 7.0 items.3 44

Camera Club 1959-1963 8.0 items.3 45

Tom and Hedwig Cater 1958-1960, undated 23.0 items.3 46

Margaret Davis Cate 1942-1960, undated 32.0 items.3 47

B. Rhett Chamberlain 1949-1959 27.0 items.3 48

B. Rhett Chamberlain 1960-1964 22.0 items.3 49

E. Burnham Chamberlain 1930-1933 17.0 items.3 50

E. Burnham Chamberlain 1934 20.0 items.3 51





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E. Burnham Chamberlain 1941 17.0 items. 17 items.3 56



Checklist of Ga. birds, regarding 1941-1942 19.0 items.3 60

Checklist of Ga. birds, regarding 1943 49.0 items.3 61



Alma Cooke 1958-1964 5.0 items.3 64

Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology 1939-1960 3.0 items.3 65

Clarence Cottam 1960 3.0 items.3 66

Edwin P. Crease 1933-1963 24.0 items.3 67

Eugene Cypert 1957-1963 13.0 items.3 68


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Correspondence 4

Box Folder

D. miscellaneous 15.0 items.


David E. Davis, 1950; Paul A. Davis, 1954-1965; Verne E. Davison,

1963; R.J.H. DeLoach, 1955; Raymond R. Ditmars, 1933; Dobbs Brothers

Library Binding Co., 1953-1963; John Dudiak, 1959.

4 69

J. Fred Denton 1944-1952 19.0 items.4 70

J. Fred Denton 1953-1958 25.0 items.4 71

J. Fred Denton 1959-1965, undated 31.0 items.4 72

Ray Dilley 1960 3.0 items.4 73

E. Von S. Dingle 1928-1933 7.0 items.4 74

Keith L. Dixon 1955-1958 16.0 items.4 75

Paul Bruce Dowling 1961 4.0 items.4 76

Wilbur H. Duncan 1956-1965 9.0 items.4 77

Elliptio Spinosus, regarding 1954-1957 58.0 items.4 78


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A.J. Erskine 1964-1965 2.0 items.4 79

Don Eyles 1935-1942 43.0 items.4 80

Don Eyles 1957-1964, undated 28.0 items.4 81

F, miscellaneous 14.0 items.


Samuel Fales, 1937; G. Edgar Folk, 1939; Edmund Farrar, Jr., 1950; Louis

C. Fink, n.d.; Jim Floyd, 1954-1957; G. Edgar Folk, Jr., 1939; Dick Fuchs,

1938; Dick [?], 1959; John B. Funderburg, 1960.

4 82

William G. Fargo 1932-1934 23.0 items.4 83

William G. Fargo 1935 33.0 items.4 84

William G. Fargo 1936-1952 32.0 items.4 85

Fish and Wildlife Service 1950-1952 17.0 items.4 86



Harvey I. Fisher 1950-1952 6.0 items.4 89


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Correspondence 5

Box Folder

G, miscellaneous 25.0 items.


Albert F. Gainer, 1965; John M. Gates, 1965; John B. Gentry, 1962;

Georgia Game and Fish Dept, 1926-1943; Georgia Historical Society,

1954; Georgia State Museum, 1941; George Gillins and family, n.d.; Aden

L. Gokay, 1965; J.B. Gollop, 1963; John D. Goss-Custard, 1964; Alfred O.

Gross, 1931; Philip Gross, 1958; George S. Guion, 1941.

5 90

Bill Garrahan 1961 10.0 items.5 91

General Drafting Co., Inc. 1940-1941 12.0 items.5 92

Georgia Ornithological Society 1938-1962, undated 82.0 items.5 93

Georgia Society of Naturalists 1934-1947 28.0 items.5 94

Georgia Society of Naturalists 1950-1963 7.0 items.5 95

Norman Giles, Jr. 1936-1937 9.0 items.5 96

Frank B. Golley 1960-1965 7.0 items.5 97

Carle Greene 1933-1946 15.0 items.5 98


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Carle Greene 1951-1965 21.0 items.5 99

William W. Griffin 1939-1949 13.0 items.5 100

William W. Griffin 1950-1963 18.0 items.5 101

Samuel Grimes 1956-1963 31.0 items.5 102

William C. Grimm 1942-1944 8.0 items.5 103

Ludlow Griscom 1933-1945 16.0 items.5 104

Grell Survey 1939, undated 5.0 items.5 105

Correspondence 6

Box Folder

H, miscellaneous 33.0 items.


David G. Hall, 1941; Herbert C. Hanson, 1952; Winthrop W. Harrington,

1961; Lucien Harris, Jr., 1948; Hal H. Harrison, 1946-1947; Carroll hart,

1958; David S. Heintzelman, 1965; Olive Hendrichson (Mrs. W.W.),

1959; Reginald Hewitt, 1941; Gordon L. Hight, Jr., 1953; Alva Hines,

1962; W.B. Hitchcock, 1960; Donald L. Holland, 1960; Vernon J. Holt,

1965; Joseph Horowitz, 1963; D. Ralph Hostetter, 1936; George E.

Hudson, 1961-1964; J.B. Hulscher, 1964; Peter A. Hyppio, 1963.

6 106


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Jack P. Hailman 1958 4.0 items.6 107

George A. Hall 1964-1965 9.0 items.6 108

Anne Hamilton 1960-1965 11.0 items.6 109

W.J. Hamilton 1941 5.0 items.6 110

Robert P. Hanson 1955-1956 6.0 items.6 111

Jerry D. Hardy 1963-1964 3.0 items.6 112

H.L. Harlee 1933-1936 11.0 items.6 113

Walter Harmer 1959-1960 25.0 items.6 114

Walter Harmer 1960-1965, undated 27.0 items.6 115

Ethel P. Harris 1937-1941 21.0 items.6 116

Francis Harper 1931-1938 28.0 items.6 117

Francis and Roland Harper 1961-1964 28.0 items.6 118

Cecilia and Tomsen Hasselstrom 1936-1937 3.0 items.6 119

James W. Hazzard 1934-1941 8.0 items.6 120


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Frederic V. Hebard 1940-1948 18.0 items.6 121



Dan Henderson 1936 7.0 items.6 124

Vernon J. Henry 1962-1965 10.0 items.6 125

Hilton Head Island, regarding 1961 2.0 items.6 126

Kenneth Hoff 1964 3.0 items.6 127

Paul Holle 1953 4.0 items.6 128

Milton Hopkins 1957-1962 34.0 items.6 129

Milton Hopkins 1963-1965 17.0 items.6 130

Neill Hotchkiss 1959-1965, undated 10.0 items.6 131

Arthur H. Howell 1929-1932 25.0 items.6 132


Arthur H. Howell 1935 19.0 items.6 134


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Walter J. Hoxie 1933 2.0 items.6 136

Correspondence 7

Box Folder

I, miscellaneous 6.0 items.


Andy Ingles, 1939; Frank N. Irving, 1933-1956; clipping showing

hurricane damage to iron works (Rourke's) in Savannah.

7 137

J, miscellaneous 8.0 items.


E.S. Jaycocks, 1954; Joseph R. Jehl, Jr., 1954; Oliver H. Jenkins, 1941;

Lee Johnson, 1953-1963; Harold C. Jones, 1959.

7 138

James W. Jenkins 1952-1961, undated 11.0 items.7 139

Charles C. Johnson 1935 7.0 items.7 140

David W. Johnston 1947-1953 53.0 items.7 141



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David W. Johnston 1963-1965, undated 27.0 items.7 145

Journal of Mammalogy, regarding 1934-1965 19.0 items.7 146

K, miscellaneous 23.0 items.


Dick [?], 1964; Phil Kahl, 1957; John C. Kase, 1936; Remington Kellog,

1934; E.D. Kemp, Jr., 1961; S. Charles Kendeigh, 1962; F.W. Kinard,

1940; Mourine King (Mrs. H.A.), 1963; Paul D. Kline, 1957; Robert W.

Knox, 1956; E.V. Komarek, 1953-1954; nada Kramer, 1961.

7 147

Herbert Kale 1958-1959 11.0 items.7 148


Herbert Kale 1963 15.0 items.7 150


Frederick Kennard 1931-1932 7.0 items.7 152

Hallam Koons, Jr. 1948 2.0 items.7 153


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L, miscellaneous 17.0 items.


Remer Y. Lane, 1948; A.R. Lasky, 1964; Roxie Laybourne, 1965;

Clermont Lee, 1964; Frederick Lincoln, 1942; Carroll Littlefield, 1965;

John M. Lofton, Jr., 1940-1941; Ernest A. Lowe, 1939; Bob Lowell, 1961.

7 154

Ralston B. Lattimore 1937 5.0 items.7 155

Herschel C. Logan 1941-1947 4.0 items.7 156

London Electrotype Agency 1936 7.0 items.7 157

Longwood Gardens, regarding 1959 3.0 items.7 158

George H. Lowery 1937-1956 10.0 items.7 159

G. Robert Lunz 1933-1934 28.0 items.7 160




Correspondence 8

Box Folder


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M, miscellaneous 28.0 items.


Damon Manning, 1961; Richard H. Manville, 1956-1957; marine

Biological Laboratory, 1929; John W. Martin, 1941; Karl H. Maslowski,

1946-1947; Ben L. Maulsby, 1959; Fred McMurray, Jr., 1941; A.S.

McQueen and W.A. McQueen, 1961-1962; Howard L. Mendall,

1940-1941; Lane Mitchell, 1935; William Montagna, 1942; Mrs. Ernest C.

Moore, 1958; Dr. Howard J. Morrison, 1963; John William Moyer, 1930;

Edward A. Munyer, 1965.

8 164

W.L. McAtee 1941-1948 30.0 items.8 165

W.L. McAtee 1952-1960, undated 15.0 items.8 166

Charles M. McGill 1940-1941 11.0 items.8 167

W.G. and Anne McNaughton 1935-1941 12.0 items.8 168

Brooke Meanley 1959-1965 41.0 items.8 169

Mel and Marie Mellinger 1961-1964, undated 5.0 items.8 170

Robert Mengel 1962-1964 4.0 items.8 171

Joseph C. Moore 1950-1960 17.0 items.8 172

Olaus J. Murie 1952 4.0 items.8 173


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Eugene Edward Murphy 1935-1940 24.0 items.8 174

N, miscellaneous 14.0 items.


National Rifle Association of America, 1959; Dorothy Neal, n.d.; Thurlow

C. Nelson, 1959; New York Nature Association, 1939; Margaret M. Nice,

1941-1942; Brialsford T. Nightingale and Ingraham Richardson, 1963;

James H. Norton, 1931; Louis [?], n.d.

8 175

Natural History Magazine 1946-1948 6.0 items.8 176

Nature Magazine 1935-1936 33.0 items.8 177

Nature Magazine 1937 29.0 items.8 178



Caroline Newhall 1961-1966, undated 40.0 items.8 181

Donald J. Nicholson 1959-1964 9.0 items.8 182

Robert Norris 1939-1942 36.0 items.8 183



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Joseph R. Norwood 1959-1963 4.0 items.8 186

O, miscellaneous: H.M. Oliver 1939 1.0 items.8 187

Eugene P. Odum 1940-1953 20.0 items.8 188

Eugene P. Odum 1954-1966 21.0 items.8 189

Ornithologie Abregee de La France, regarding 1959-1962 12.0 items.8 190

Outdoor Life 1928-1938 12.0 items.8 191

Correspondence 9

Box Folder

P, miscellaneous 21.0 items.


J.S. Palmer, 1944; Winifred Kilmer Patrizio, 1947; Dick Peake, 1965;

David H. Pearson, 1960; Gayle E. Pickwell, 1935; F.J. Pierce, 1963; Mrs.

Thomas Pickney, 1937; Frank A. Pitdka, 1960; Anne Pheiffer, 1938; Grace

Pfieffer, 1939; Eloise F. Potter (Mrs. J.M., Jr.), 1963; Edward A. Preble,

n.d.; E.W. Price, 1934; Curt and Mae [?], 1938.

9 192

Ralph S. Palmer 1960-1965 11.0 items.9 193


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James F. Parnell 1964-1965 4.0 items.9 194

Richard Parks 1958-1962 18.0 items.9 195

Max M. Pelt 1935-1938 6.0 items.9 196

Tully Pennington 1961-1962 2.0 items.9 197

Harold S. Peters 1939-1949 42.0 items.9 198




Roger Tory Peterson 1935, 1955 3.0 items.9 202

Olin S. Pettingill 1934-1950 6.0 items.9 203

Pictures Incorporated 1936-1939 12.0 items.9 204

Robert B. Platt 1940-1942 3.0 items.9 205

Earl L. Poole 1929-1931 19.0 items.9 206

Earl L. Poole 1923-1958 20.0 items.9 207


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Richard H. Pough 1960-1961 4.0 items.9 208

Fort Pulaski, regarding 1937 5.0 items.9 209

Thomas L. Quay 1959 3.0 items.9 210

R, miscellaneous 14.0 items.


Robert A. Roagotzkie, 1955-1958; Ralph L. Ramsey, 1962; Henry F.

Recher, 1964; Horace G. Richards, 1935; Erma R. Richardson, 1945;

Ingram H. Richardson, 1963; W.B. Robertson, 1964; Robert L. Russell,

1964.

9 211

Chandler S. Robbins 1950-1965 10.0 items.9 212

James B. Ross 1949-1963 14.0 items.9 213

Gilbert R. Rossignol 1929-1942 22.0 items.9 214

Sa-Sn, miscellaneous 33.0 items.


Sapelo Island, Ga., 1966; Henry van de Schalie, 1949-1955; S.D.

Schemnitz, 1965; Ralph W. Schreiber, 1965; Paul W. Schwalbe,

1953-1964; Robert K. Selander, 1959-1962; Mrs. John B. Seymour,

n.d.; William A. Creed and Ward M. Sharp, 1958-1959; Winslow M.

Shaughnessy, 1964-1965; Rhett [?], 1956; Kay Sisson (Mrs. Clyde), 1957;

9 215


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Henry B. Skelle, 1935; Marene W. Snow, 1965; Mrs. Mark D. Snyder,

1960.

St-Su, miscellaneous 22.0 items.


Donald D. Stramm, 1962; J. Alfred Steers, 1958; T.C. Stephens,

1935-1937; H.G. Stevenson, 1960; Henry M. Stevenson, 1950; J. Stevens

Arms Co., 1939; C.L. Stooksbury, 1929-1936; R.W. Strandtmann, 1964;

George M. Sutton, 1942, 1952.

9 216

Scenic South 1946-1947 10.0 items.9 217

George W. Sciple 1939-1954 15.0 items.9 218

George W. Sciple 1956-1966 23.0 items.9 219

Seymour's Camera Store 1961-1964 24.0 items.9 220

Smithsonian Institution 1925-1928 27.0 items.9 221




Correspondence 10


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Box Folder

Alexander Sprunt 1929-1933 66.0 items.10 225

Alexander Sprunt 1934-1960 64.0 items.10 226

Herbert L. Stoddard 1939-1960 25.0 items.10 227

Herbert L. Stoddard 1961-1964 15.0 items.10 228

T, miscellaneous 5.0 items.


Jim Tanner, 1965; Mrs. Teddard, 1963; John K. Terres, 1964; Ruby Lou

Tidwell, 1960; David Tomkins, 1958.

10 229

W.D. Clyde Todd 1924-1932 29.0 items.10 230

Kenneth S. Ulm 1961 1.0 items.10 231

Josselyn Van Tyne 1932-1950 39.0 items.10 232

William Vogt 1938 1.0 items.10 233

W, miscellaneous 37.0 items.


Harold Wade, 1957; Arthur Trezevant Wayne, 1928; Kitty Weaver,

1963-1964; John S. Weske, 1963; Francis M. Weston, 1941, 1960; A.

10 234


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Wetmore, 1937-1938; E.B. Whitehead, 1931; Mary, Nat, Susan, and John

Whitney, 1963; Fred Wick, 1942; Le Roy Wilcox, 1965; K. Williamton,

1948; F.H. Wilson, 1937; Leonard W. Wing, 1951-1952; Mary W. Wingo

(Mrs. Julian E.), 1934-1935; Robert G. Walk, 1965; Barbara Woodward,

1947; Glen E. Woolfender, 1961.

C.H. Wharton 1960 4.0 items.10 235

H.E. Wheeler 1932-1934 8.0 items.10 236

Charles Wilbur 1945-1950 8.0 items.10 237

Ellison A. Williams 1944-1963 5.0 items.10 238

Wilson Buttetin 1923-1954 34.0 items.10 239

Wilson Bulletin 1957-1965 18.0 items.10 240

Joseph H. Winkers 1936-1937 12.0 items.10 241

C.C. and S.C. Witter 1952-1960 6.0 items.10 242

Mrs. Marie Young 1957 1.0 items.10 243

Youth Museum of Savannah, Inc. 1957-1959 11.0 items.10 244

Youth Museum of Savannah, Inc. 1960-1964 10.0 items.10 245


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Youth Museum of Savannah, Inc. 1965, undated 6.0 items.10 246

Manuscripts and notes: Birds 11

Box Folder

Black skimmer 6.0 items.11 247

Wilson's plover 8.0 items.11 248


Willets 10.0 items.11 250



Oystercatcher 1.0 items.11 253



Seaside sparrow 16.0 items.


Includes note son the Eastern Willet.

11 256


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Seaside sparrow (Macgillivray's and Dr. Bishop's) 16.0 items.11 257

Nighthawk 2.0 items.11 258

Nighthawk 5.0 items.11 259


Box Folder

Birds of the Savannah River Delta, with photo illustration, by I.R.

Tomkins. 2nd draft 1.0 items.

12 260

Birds of the Savannah River Delta, by I.R. Tomkins


Includes the 1st carbon copy, the printer's copy, and the final copy and

some correspondence.

12 261

Georgia Birds, by Thomas D. Burleigh. Notes, correspondence, etc.,

pertaining to it 11.0 items.

12 262


Box Folder

Pelican 1.0 items.13 263

Reddish egret 1.0 items.13 264


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Florida cormorant 1.0 items.13 265

Sandpipers 2.0 items.13 266

Royal terns of Little Egg Island 1.0 items.13 267

Least tern 7.0 items.13 268

Royal terns 2.0 items.13 269

Skimmer-like behavior in terns 2.0 items.13 270

Gulls (Sabine's, Great Black-billed, Ring-billed) 3.0 items.13 271

Marsh wrens (Worthington's, Marion's) 1.0 items.13 272

Shore birds 1.0 items.13 273

Owls (Barn, Burrowing, Short-eared) 4.0 items.13 274

Sparrowhawk 3.0 items.13 275

Blue jay 2.0 items.13 276

Boat-tailed grackle 3.0 items.13 277

Yellow-headed blackbird 1.0 items.13 278


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Kite (Mississippi, Swallow-tail) 2.0 items.13 279

Vermillion flycatcher 1.0 items.13 280

Sparrows (Lark, Henslow's, White-crowned) 3.0 items.13 281

Dickissel 1.0 items.13 282

Wilson's phalarope 1.0 items.13 283

Spellings of common names of birds 1.0 items.13 284

Bird killing at Tybee Lighthouse 1.0 items.13 285

Bills 1.0 items.13 286

Bird behavior 1.0 items.13 287

Checklist of Georgia birds, notes regarding 5.0 items.13 288

Bird of Sea Island and St. Simons 2.0 items.13 289

Birds of Savannah Island Wildlife Refuge 1.0 items.13 290

Georgia checklist 1.0 items.13 291

Pocket checklist 1.0 items.13 292


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Book of bird plates, re, with photograph of Spider-catcher 3.0 items.13 293

Play in birds 1.0 items.13 294

Birds of the coastal area 2.0 items.13 295

Bird flight 1.0 items.13 296

Manuscripts and notes: Bones, fossils, animals, plants, coastal area, book reviews,

autobiographical sketch

14

Box Folder

Marsh rabbit 9.0 items.14 297

Manatee bones 4.0 items.14 298

Giant oystershells at Shell Bluff 1.0 items.14 299

Pigmy sperm whale 1.0 items.14 300

Groundings of marine mammals 2.0 items.14 301

Panther 1.0 items.14 302

Timber wolf 1.0 items.14 303

Hog-nosed snake, "Possum playing reptile 1.0 items.14 304


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"American Chameleon" 1.0 items.14 305

Cotton mouth (water) moccasin 1.0 items.14 306

Alligators 2.0 items.14 307

Siren salamander 1.0 items.14 308

Shrimp 1.0 items.14 309

Fiddlers (crabs) 1.0 items.14 310

Angel wing shell 1.0 items.14 311

Elliptio Spinosus (spiny mussel) 3.0 items.14 312

Snails of Cockspur Island 1.0 items.14 313

Vegetational zones of Chatham County 2.0 items.14 314

Tallow tree 1.0 items.14 315

Hurricane Dora 1.0 items.14 316

Cypress swamp 1.0 items.14 317

Yucca 1.0 items.14 318


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Variations on the death of a tree 1.0 items.14 319

Salt marsh 6.0 items.14 320

Wassaw Island 6.0 items.14 321

Little Cumberland Island 8.0 items.14 322

Oysterbed Island 3.0 items.14 323

Lighthouse on Cockspur Island 1.0 items.14 324

Little Egg Island 4.0 items.14 325

Cabbage Island 1.0 items.14 326

Savannah River 2.0 items.14 327

Reflections on nature 1.0 items.14 328

Population pressure 1.0 items.14 329

Book reviews 3.0 items.14 330

Autobiographical sketch. History of Quarantine Station 1.0 items.14 331

Manuscripts and notes: Miscellaneous 15


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Box Folder

Articles published, with a complete bibliography 1.0 items.15 332

Miscellaneous 1.0 items.15 333

Publications: Magazines and/or reprints from them 16

Field notes 17

Box Folder

1925 April-1932 December 17 334

1933 January-1934 December 17 335

1935 January-December 17 336

(bands) 1936 January-December 17 337

"Speciated Notes." Various birds and animals, varying dates 17 338

Locations where various birds and animals were sighted, with dates 17 339

Miscellaneous notes, scattering dates 7.0 items.17 339A

Field notes 18

Box Folder


- Page 41 -

Field notes 1937-1952 1.0 items.18 340

Field notes 19

Box Folder

Field notes 1953-1957 1.0 items.19 341

Field notes 20

Box Folder

Field notes. Notes on various birds 20 342

Field notes 1958-1960 20 343

Breeding notes 1960 3.0 items.


Willet, Least tern, W. plover.

20 344

Field notes 21

Box Folder

Field notes 1962 21 345

Field notes 1965 2.0 items.21 346

Letters and photos collected by Tomkins 22


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Box Folder

M. Baird to T.D. Perry 1886 1.0 items.22 347

Correspondence of Arthur T. Wayne and Gilbert R. Rossignol, and A.T.

Wayne, miscellaneous 1911-1917

22 348-352

Gilbert R. Rossignol miscellaneous correspondence and bird notes 22 353-357

Troup D. Perry to Walter J. Hoxie 1892 22 358

Walter J. Hoxie. Bird lists 1915-1926 22 359

Frank Irving. Correspondence, bird notes and photographs 22 360-368

Materials collected by Tomkins 23

Box Folder

John Abbot, regarding 12.0 items.23 369

"John Latham's General History of Birds," by W.L. McAtee 1.0 items.23 370

Biographical sketches of Louis, Jon, and Joseph Le Conte, adapted from

Library of Southern Literature 1.0 items.

23 371

Georgia naturalists. Geologists, by J.G. Lester 1.0 items.23 372

Maps 6.0 items.23 373


- Page 43 -

Obituary of W.L. McAtee, by J.K. Terres from Journal of Wildlife

Management 27: 494-499 (July, 1936) 1.0 items.

23 374

"Our Natural Heritage." Clippings from The Savannah Morning

News 1955-1956 15.0 items.

23 375

Clippings, miscellaneous 1935-1965 22.0 items.23 376

"Birds and Aircraft on Midway Islands," by D.W. Rice (U.S. Int. Dept.,

Fist and Wildlife Service, Special Scientific Report: Wildlife No. 443, July

1959) 1.0 items.

23 377

Miscellaneous articles 5.0 items.23 378

Bird counts in the Savannah area 1959-1961, undated 8.0 items.23 379

"Distribution of Winter Red Winged Blackbird Populations on the Atlantic

Coast," by Brooke meanly and J.S. Webb. "Egg Teeth and Shell Rupture

of the American Woodcock," by D.K. Wetterbee (reprints) 2.0 items.

23 380

I.R. Tomkins bird collection at the University of Georgia 4.0 items.23 381

Photography. Exhibitions, price lists 3.0 items.23 382

I.R. Tomkins. Personal 1918-1928 13.0 items.23 383

I.R. Tomkins. Personal 1941-1960 22.0 items.23 384


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I.R. Tomkins. Memorial 2.0 items.23 385

Photographs: Birds 24

Box Folder

Woodstork (WoodIbis) 2.0 items.24 386

Clapper rail 7.0 items.24 387

King rail 6.0 items.24 388

Egrets and herons (groups) 6.0 items.24 389

Heron (Green and Black-Crowned) 4.0 items.24 390

Heron (Louisiana) 7.0 items.24 391

Heron (Little Blue) 10.0 items.24 392

Egret (Common) 11.0 items.24 393

Egret (Snowy) 12.0 items.24 394

Egret (Cattle) 2.0 items.24 395

Ducks and coots 7.0 items.24 396


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Anhingas and cormorants 3.0 items.24 397

Pelicans 4.0 items.24 398

Gull (herring) 20.0 items.24 399

Gull (Laughing) 3.0 items.24 400

Gull (Ring-billed) 20.0 items.24 401

Gulls 22.0 items.24 402

Gulls and other shore birds 10.0 items.24 403

Tern (Least) 18.0 items.24 404

Tern (Least) 35.0 items.24 405

Tern (Royal) 17.0 items.24 406

Terns (Caspian, Black, Royal, Cabots) 3.0 items.24 407

Terns 8.0 items.24 408

Tern (Gull-billed) 4.0 items.24 409



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Box Folder



American oystercatcher 32.0 items.25 412




Yellow legs 4.0 items.25 416

Sandpaper (Stilt) 4.0 items.25 417

Sandpiper (Western and Least) 3.0 items.25 418

Sandpiper (Purple) 25.0 items.25 419

Dowitcher 9.0 items.25 420

Wilson's Snipe 2.0 items.25 421

Black-necked Stilt 6.0 items.25 422


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Sanderlings and others 5.0 items.25 423

Ruddy Turnstones 5.0 items.25 424

Turnstones and others 2.0 items.25 425

Plover (Wilson's) 32.0 items.25 426

Plover (Semi-Palmated) 2.025 427

Groups of shore birds 7.0 items.25 428

Shore birds 18.0 items.25 429


Box Folder

Chuck Wills Widow 2.0 items.26 430

Nighthawks 15.0 items.26 431


Ground dove 7.0 items.26 433

Mockingbird 3.0 items.26 434


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Blue jay 4.0 items.26 435

Yellow-shafted Flicker and Red-cockaded woodpecker 5.0 items.26 436

Sparrow (Henslow's) 6.0 items.26 437

Sparrow (Seaside) 15.0 items.26 438

Sparrow (White-throated, semi-albino) 5.0 items.26 439

Tree swallows 6.0 items.26 440

Flycatcher (Least and Crested) 4.0 items.26 441

Kingbird (Gray) 2.0 items.26 442

Kingbird (Eastern) 2.0 items.26 443

Barn owl 2.0 items.26 444

Sparrow hawk 6.0 items.26 445

Swainson's warbler, habitat 2.0 items.26 446

Turkey (wild) 2.0 items.26 447

Turkey (vulture and black vulture) 10.0 items.26 448


- Page 49 -

Murle swans 6.0 items.26 449

Eggs, nests, unidentified 4.0 items.26 450

Photographs: crustaceans, insects, reptiles, fish 27

Box Folder

Cockle shells 5.0 items.27 452

Whelk, oyster drill 7.0 items.27 453

Angel wing 7.0 items.27 454

Periwinkle 2.0 items.27 455

Shells of the Georgia Coast 1.0 items.27 456

Land snail 3.0 items.27 457

Elliptio Spinosus(spiny mollusk) and Elliptio Shepardanius 15.0 items.27 458

Elliptio Spinosus 7.0 items.27 459

Crabs (fiddler) 20.0 items.27 460

Crabs (sand) 7.0 items.27 461


- Page 50 -

Crabs (blue) 2.0 items.27 462

Crabs (mud) 1.0 items.27 463

Shrimp 4.0 items.27 464

Crustacean, unidentified 1.0 items.27 465

Butterfly (monarch) 7.0 items.27 466

Mosquito 5.0 items.27 467

Dragonfly 3.0 items.27 468

Grasshopper (Salt marsh) 1.0 items.27 469

Honey bee 1.0 items.27 470

Cicada 1.0 items.27 471

Spider 2.0 items.27 472

Frog (Green tree) 6.0 items.27 473

Frog (Southern leopard) 6.0 items.27 474

Frog (bull) 25.0 items.27 475


- Page 51 -

Frog (river) 3.0 items.27 476

Frogs, unidentified 6.0 items.27 477

Frogs, unidentified 3.0 items.27 478

Salamanders 7.0 items.27 479

Lizards 19.0 items.27 480

Alligators 12.0 items.27 481

Terrapin (diamondback) 18.0 items.27 482

Turtle (box) 4.0 items.27 483

Turtle (snapping) 3.0 items.27 484

Turtle (loggerhead sea) 2.0 items.27 485

Turtle, unidentified 3.0 items.27 486

Catfish 8.0 items.27 487

Photographs: Snakes, animals, people, plants, prints (John Abbot and unidentified) 28

Box Folder


- Page 52 -

Yellow rat snake 6.0 items.28 488

Corn snake 1.0 items.28 489

Chicken snake 5.0 items.28 490

Eastern hognose snake 4.0 items.28 491

Eastern coachwhip snake 1.0 items.28 492

King snake 2.0 items.28 493

Ribbon snake 4.0 items.28 494

Eastern diamondback rattle snake 3.0 items.28 495

Eastern cottonmouth snake 6.0 items.28 496

Southern copperhead snake 1.0 items.28 497

Black snake 3.0 items.28 498

Unidentified snakes 15.0 items.28 499

Unidentified snakes 13.0 items.28 500

Gray fox 1.0 items.28 501


- Page 53 -

Ground hog 2.0 items.28 502

Porcupine 4.0 items.28 503

Cotton rat 28 504

Raccoon 4.0 items.28 505

Pigs 2.0 items.28 506

Marsh rabbits 26.0 items.28 507

Tree cut by beavers 2.0 items.28 508

People. Francis Harper, Roland Harper, Ivan R. Tomkins, Arthur Howell,

Walter Harmer, Samuel Grimes, Hubert Craven, Hubert L. Stoddard 18.0

items.

28 509

People, unidentified (camera club) 15.0 items.28 510

Spartina Alterniflora and Borrichia Frutescens(Sea Ox Eye) 18.0 items.28 511

Railroad Vine 1.0 items.28 512

Corn 1.0 items.28 513

Paw Paw 1.0 items.28 514


- Page 54 -

Pitcher plant 1.0 items.28 515

Pirus echinata tree 1.0 items.28 516

Cypress trees 1.0 items.28 517

White water lily 1.0 items.28 518

Varnish trees 2.0 items.28 519

Sweet gum trees 1.0 items.28 520

Sycamore trees 5.0 items.28 521

Longleaf pine trees 3.0 items.28 522

Prickly pear and yucca trees 2.0 items.28 523

Palmetto leaf 1.0 items.28 524

Sea oats 5.0 items.28 525

Poison ivy 2.0 items.28 526

Cinnamon fern 2.0 items.28 527

Yucca 22.0 items.28 528


- Page 55 -

Tallow tree 13.0 items.28 529

Passion flower 1.0 items.28 530

Elliottia 7.0 items.28 531

Horse nettle 1.0 items.28 532

Hercules club tree 3.0 items.28 533

Nicottiana Glauca 4.0 items.28 534

Unidentified shrubs and trees 11.0 items.28 535

John Abbot (some of his bird drawings and scenes in Screven

County) 13.0 items.

28 536

Unidentified bird drawings 2.0 items.28 537

Photographs: skulls and skeletons, mammal tracks, fossils 29

Box Folder

Manatee 6.0 items.29 538

Gloliecephala 11.0 items.29 539

Bottle-nose dolphin 5.0 items.29 540


- Page 56 -

Chelonitia ? 1.0 items.29 541

Herring gull ski with deformed bill 1.0 items.29 542

Black skimmer skull and bill 4.0 items.29 543

Turtle skulls 11.0 items.29 544

Skulls 10.0 items.29 545

Fish skeleton 1.0 items.29 546

Fossils 8.0 items.29 547

Shell Bluff and Edisto Island fossils 8.0 items.29 548

Fossil hunters 2.0 items.29 549

Mammal tracks 4.0 items.29 550

Bird tracks 2.0 items.29 551

Snake tracks 3.0 items.29 552

Turtle tracks 3.0 items.29 553

Frog tracks 4.0 items.29 554


- Page 57 -

Crab tracks 1.0 items.29 555

Unidentified tracks 9.0 items.29 556

Unidentified tracks 13.0 items.29 557

Photographs: Scenes 30

Box Folder

City dump 9.0 items.30 558

Aerial views and maps 15.0 items.30 559

African American grave markers in Sunbury, Georgia, possibly by Cyrus

Bowen 13.0 items.

30 560

Harris Neck, crabbing 14.0 items.30 561

Oysterbeds 7.0 items.30 562

Hunting scenes 9.0 items.30 563

Bridges 3.0 items.30 564

Hutchinson Island 2.0 items.30 565

Savannah River 17.0 items.30 566


- Page 58 -

Altamaha River 8.0 items.30 567

Altamaha River or Savannah River upstream 2.0 items.30 568

Marshes and tidal creeks 10.0 items.30 569

Beach scenes 36.0 items.30 570

Shrimp boats 8.0 items.30 571

Close-ups of boats 14.0 items.30 572

Hodgson Hall, Georgia Historical Society 3.0 items.30 573

Sheldon Church, S.C. 2.0 items.30 574

Unidentified buildings and ruins 9.0 items.30 575

Trees and Spanish moss 7.0 items.30 576

Lighthouses 4.0 items.30 577

Sumner Francis McCarty Memorial 1.0 items.30 578

Locomotive and Tybee Railroad tracks 2.0 items.30 579

Miscellaneous river scenes 10.0 items.30 580


- Page 59 -

Dry Falls, Franklin, N.C. 1.0 items.30 581

Miscellaneous (not scenes) 7.0 items.30 582

Unidentified scenes 8.0 items.30 583

Photographic negatives, not arranged, not counted 31-32

Photographs: Large 33

Box Folder

Black vulture, turkey vulture 5.0 items.33 584

Henslow's sparrow 6.0 items.33 585


Purple sandpiper, willet 5.0 items.33 587

Black skimmer, Tuddy Turnstone 4.0 items.33 588

Ducks 2.0 items.33 589

Gulls, pelicans 4.0 items.33 590

Egrets, heron 7.0 items.33 591


- Page 60 -


Least tern 4.0 items.33 593

Marsh rabbit 3.0 items.33 594

Raccoon 1.0 items.33 595

Turtles 2.0 items.33 596

Crabs 2.0 items.33 597

Spider 1.0 items.33 598

Snakes 3.0 items.33 599

Shells 2.0 items.33 600

Savannah scenes 3.0 items.33 601

Mexican ? scene 1.0 items.33 602

Marsh scene, rural scene 1.0 items.33 603

African American cemetery, Sunbury, Ga. 1.0 items.33 604

Milkweed 1.0 items.33 605


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Exhibition photographs 34

Box Folder

"Misty Morning" 1.0 items.34 606

"Nude in Suspense" gourd 1.0 items.34 607

"Out of the Fog" 1.0 items.34 608

"Landing Field" 1.0 items.34 609

"Ringbilled gull" 1.0 items.34 610

"The Stump Fence" 1.0 items.34 611

"River-Side Industry" 1.0 items.34 612

"Clapper Rail" 1.0 items.34 613

"River Scene No. 3" 1.0 items.34 614

"Country Lad" 1.0 items.34 615

"Trout Pool" 1.0 items.34 616

"The Paddle-Wheeler" 1.0 items.34 617


- Page 62 -

"The bottom of the Tree" 1.0 items.34 618

"Tomkin's Farm" 1.0 items.34 619

"The Unnamed One" 1.0 items.34 620

"Northeaster" 1.0 items.34 621

"Least Terns" 1.0 items.34 622

"Mosquito on My Thumb" 1.0 items.34 623

"Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" 1.0 items.34 624

"Pipeline Crew" 1.0 items.34 625

"Man and Violin" 1.0 items.34 626

"Suburban Home" (ground hog)" 1.0 items.34 627

"Catfish Egg" 1.0 items.34 628

"Transition" 1.0 items.34 629

"The Oyster Roast" 1.0 items.34 630

"Two Generations" 1.0 items.34 631


- Page 63 -

"Cemetery" 1.0 items.34 632

"Thru Winter's Haze" 1.0 items.34 633

Exhibition photographs 35

Box Folder

"The Rise" 1.0 items.35 634

"At the River's Edge" 1.0 items.35 635

"Thru Planes" 1.0 items.35 636

"Sandpiper Parade" 1.0 items.35 637

"The Meadow Gate" 1.0 items.35 638

"White Water" Mexico? 1.0 items.35 639

"Like Thoughts at Christmas" 1.0 items.35 640

"Question mark" 1.0 items.35 641

"Young Willet" 1.0 items.35 642

"Eugene E. Murphy, M.D" 1.0 items.35 643


- Page 64 -

"Unlike Twins" 1.0 items.35 644

"River Scene No. 2" 1.0 items.35 645

"Vacant House" 1.0 items.35 646

Untitled 15.0 items.35 647-661

Photograph album 1.0 items.36

Finding Aid to the Ivan Rexford Tomkins Papers MS 0803ghs.galileo.usg.edu/ghs/pdf/MS 0803.pdf · Society. He discovered a unique spiny mussel, Elliptio Spinosus, in the Altamaha River

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