West Virginia and Regional History Center
Albert Moore Reese, Zoology Professor, Miscellaneous Items
Reese, A. M. (Albert Moore), 1872-1965
A&M 5024
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0.4 Linear Feet
Summary: 5 in. (1 document case)
1900-1970
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: West Virginia & Regional History Center
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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.
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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.
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Reese, A. M. (Albert Moore), 1872-1965
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)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516801919–196111Clippings -- Articles Authored by Reese (usually only a few paragraphs long; listed by order in folder)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516811900-1937, undated12"It's `Vermin' -- Kill It" (in "Nature Magazine")Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151700193712Brief Letter Explaining and Defending the Teaching of Evolution (in "West Virginia School Journal")Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151701191112"Lampreys in Captivity" (in "Science")Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1517021900 April 612"A Bluffing Snake" (re: the Spreading Adder, or Heterodon platyrhinus)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151703undated12"Light Reactions of Diemyctylus"Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151704undated12"The Destruction of Frogs" (in "Science")Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1517051903 February 2012"Is Not the Smithsonian An Institute of Research"Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151706undated12"The Prolificness of the English Sparrow"Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151707September 190712"The English Sparrow as Embryological Material" (in "Science")Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1517081905 February 1712"The Double Embryo of the Florida Alligator"Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1517091906 January 812Galley Proofs (for publications authored by Reese)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516821904-1906, undated13Galley Proofs -- IllustrationsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151683undated14Reprints--Authored by Reese (unbound)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516841902-1912, 194915"Why Biology in the High School" (in "West Virginia School Journal")Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151710June 191215"In the Everglades with Alligator Joe" (in "The Allegheny Literary Monthly")Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151711January 190215"Old Snake Stories: Do Snakes Swallow Their Young?" (in "Turtox News")Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151712August 194915Pamphlet -- Authored by Reese, "Embryology" (2 copies)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516851934, 194116Clippings -- Reviews of Publications Authored by ReeseArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516861904-190717"An Introduction to Vertebrate Embryology" (14 reviews notices)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151713190417Clippings Regarding Articles about Alligators Published by the SmithsonianArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151714190717Clippings -- Regarding Reese's TripsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516871908, undated18Trips to Florida to Study Alligators (3 items)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1517151908, undated18Trip to Philippines, Japan, and China Sponsored by the Smithsonian (1 item)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151716undated18Clippings/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)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516881924-1927, 1934, undated19aClippings -- 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])Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516891936-1940, undated19b"Clippings on Multiple Births and Monstrosities" (5 items; topical heading by Reese)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516901954–1955110Caves in West Virginia (Spelunking)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151691undated111Map -- "Caves in West Virginia" (8 1/2" x 11")Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151717undated111Brochure -- "History of George Washington Masonic Taverns"Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151718undated111Brochure -- Lakeland CavernsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151719undated111Photographs (cave opening photographs apparently used in publication because of figure numbers)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151720undated111WV Cave Openings (6 b x w prints, 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"; cave names identified)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151739undated111WV Cave Openings (5 b x w prints, 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"; cave names identified)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151740undated111WV Cave Opening (1 b x w print, 6" x 8"; "The Sinks" Cave)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151741undated111List of Figures for Publication -- WV Cave Entrances/Openings (contains Gladys, Sinks, Seneca, Overholt's, Blowing, Cave Creek, Rapp's, and Arbuckle's caves)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151742undated111Envelope from Gibson Photo Studio, Morgantown, WV, 163 High StreetArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151743undated111West Virginia University (WVU) -- MiscellaneousArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516921910, 1936-1943, 1970112Program -- Alpha of West Virginia; Phi Beta Kappa: Founders' Day Dinner (60th Anniversary of Founding)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1517211970 December 3112Photograph -- Group Portrait: Alpha of West Virginia; Phi Beta Kappa (1 b x w print, 4 1/2" x 7")Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1517221910 December 5112Key to Group Portrait (identifies people in Phi Beta Kappa Group Portrait of 1910 December 05)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151723undated112Student Class Scheduling Card (ephemera)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1517241936–1937112Photograph -- Portrait: WVU English Philology Professor John Harrington Cox (1 sepia print, 3 1/2" x 5")Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151725undated112Booklet -- "Reveries and Jingles" (verse by John Harrington CoxArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1517261943112WVU Faculty Club -- House Rules (humor)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151727ca. 1910-1930112MiscellaneousArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151693ca. 1943-1959113Short Story -- "A Romance of the Okefenokee" (re: the Seminole people [presumably the Seminole Tribe of Florida]) (Reese, A.M.)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151728undated113Booklet -- Eugenic TractArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151729ca. 1950s113Advertisement for Book -- "Human Biology" (Baitsell, George Alfred)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151730June 1943113Article -- Treatment for Black Widow Spider Bite (in "Journal of the American Medical Association")Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1517311945 December 8113Article -- "Food Habits of Foxes in Wild Turkey Territories (in "Pennsylvania Game News")Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151732July 1943113Books Authored by Reese (with exception of Van Liere/Dodd)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516941909-1924, 19651"An Introduction to Vertebrate Embryology" (Reese, Albert Moore; translated from the Second Edition into Chinese by Ting Lih Djen)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/151733ca. 19181"An Introduction to Vertebrate Embryology" (Reese, Albert Moore; Second Edition)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/15173419091"The Alligator and Its Allies" (copy 1)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/15173519151"History of Medical Education in West Virginia" (Van Liere, Edward J.; Dodds, Gideon S.; signed by authors to memory of Reese)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/15173619651"The Alligator and Its Allies" (copy 2)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/15173719151"Outlines of Economic Zoology" (Second Edition) (inserted clippings removed; see box 1, folder 9a)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/15173819241Article Reprints -- Vol. 1 (includes articles regarding: lampreys, giant salamanders, cats, the English sparrow, and Florida alligators)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516951902–19101Article 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)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516961912–19341Article 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")Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516971902–19471"Outlines of Economic Zoology" (Fourth Edition) (2 copies; signed by Reese) (inserted clippings removed; see box 1, folder 9b)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/15169819421Newspaper – "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)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1516991907 September 261