Non-SI Records
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7440, American Ornithologists' Union, Records
For a brief history of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU), see Record Unit 7150, American Ornithologists' Union Collection, 1883-1977.
These records supplement Record Unit 7150, both in extending coverage in early records and providing records from the mid-1970s. Particularly noteworthy are early records
of presidents - especially Joel Asaph Allen, Jocelyn Van Tyne, and Ernst Mayr - as well as presidents' and secretaries' papers since the mid-1970s. Much information about
early committee work is found in Allen's and Van Tyne's papers. Photographs are of individuals and groups at scientific meetings and strongly supplement the earlier collection.
Editorial files cover chiefly
This collection contains oversize material.
This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Arthur A. Allen, Polk County, Florida, c. 1940 [Image No. SIA2008-2277]
Oliver Austin, January 1982 [Image No. SIA2008-2321]
Oliver Austin and Bill Hardy, January 1982 [Image No. SIA2008-2322]
A. C. Bent, 1944 [Image No. SIA2008-2278]
James Bond skinning European Cuckoo in Barbados, February 1959 [Image No. SIA2016-009512]
Alan H. Brush at American Ornithologists' Union Meeting, 1985 [Image No. SIA2008-2279]
Elsie and Nicholas Collias in Belgian Congo (now Zaire), 1956 [Image No. SIA2008-2280]
Jonathan Dwight, November 1924 [Image No. SIA2008-2281]
John T. Emlen, 1974 [Image No. SIA2008-2282]
C. Stuart Houston [Image No. SIA2008-2283]
Hildegarde Howard, 1938, shown measuring the large collection of fossil bird bones from Rancho La Brea. [Image No. SIA2008-2284]
Thomas R. Howell (1924—2004) [Image No. SIA2016-009513]
Brina Kessel, 1980 [Image No. SIA2008-2285]
Wesley E. Lanyon at American Ornithologists' Union Meeting, 1985 [Image No. SIA2008-2286]
Marion J. Mengel [Image No. SIA2008-2287]
Robert M. Mengel [Image No. SIA2008-2288]
J. L. Peters in the Bird Room at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, March 1924 [Image No. SIA2008-2289]
Robert Ridgway (1850-1929) sits writing at his desk in his office located in the United States National Museum, August 10, 1898 [Image No. SIA2008-2291]
Robert Ridgway (1850-1929) supervising installation of concrete gutters along the road leading into Bird Haven (Olney, Illinois). Labor Day, 1927. [Image No. SIA2008-2290]
Charles Sibley [Image No. SIA2008-2292]
Glen E. Woolfenden explaining the behavior of the Florida scrub jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) at Archbold Biological Station, 1979 [Image No. SIA2016-009514]
One American Ornithologists' Union President in Quest of One Lost Cap, Charleston, South Carolina, November 23, 1928 [Image No. SIA2008-2252]
American Ornithologists' Union Meeting, Urbana, Illinois - Paul Kellogg talking with Mr. and Mrs. Hoyes Lloyd, September 3, 1946 [Image No. SIA2008-2253]
American Ornithologists' Union Meeting, Urbana, Illinois - A. Van Rosum and R.A. Moser, September 3, 1946 [Image No. SIA2008-2254]
American Ornithologists' Union Meeting, Urbana, Illinois - E. R. Blake and H. B. Conover, September 3, 1946 [Image No. SIA2008-2255]
American Ornithologists' Union Meeting, Berkeley, California - 1. W. D. Matthew, 2. Camp, 3. J. Grinnell, 4. Alexander Wetmore. April 23, 1928. [Image No. SIA2008-2256]
American Ornithologists' Union Meeting, Berkeley, California - 1. D.R. Dickey; 2. Ralph Chaney; 3. Camp, W.D. Matthew, A. Wetmore, D.R. Dickey, R. Chaney, J. Grinnell; 4. Camp, R. Chaney, W.D. Matthew, R.C. Murphy, A. Wetmore, J. Grinnell. April 23, 1928. [Image No. SIA2008-2257]
American Ornithologists' Union Meeting Dinner, Boston - A. C. Bent and H. C. Olberholser, October 24, 1945 [Image No. SIA2008-2259]
American Ornithologists' Union Meeting Dinner, Boston - R. C. Murphy, Alexander Wetmore, J. Van Tyne, October 24, 1945 [Image No. SIA2008-2260]
American Ornithologists' Union Meeting, New York, American Museum of Natural History - Group Portrait, October 25, 1944. [Image No. SIA2008-2258]
American Ornithologists' Union Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 1929 [Image No. SIA2016-009511]
Camera at Nest of White-Breasted Nuthatch, Duval County, Florida, 1935 [Image No. SIA2008-2261]
American Ornithologists' Union Meeting, Alaska - Roger Tory Peterson and Alexander Wetmore, 1968 [Image No. SIA2008-2262]
Excursion XV International Ornithological Congress, Dordrecht, Holland - Alexander Wetmore, Max Nicholson, Ernst Stresemum, September 2, 1970 [Image No. SIA2008-2263]
American Ornithologists' Union Field Day, LaSalle Park, Hamilton, Ontario - Smith, Palmer, Wetmore, Saunders, October 25, 1935 [Image No. SIA2008-2265]
American Ornithologists' Union Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah - Alexander Wetmore and Chandler Robbins, August 23, 1962 [Image No. SIA2008-2266]
Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan Wetmore (1910-1997), and John Warren Aldrich (1906-1995), September 5, 1969 [Image No. SIA2008-2264]
Watson M. Perrygo and Alexander Wetmore near Engelhard, North Carolina, October 14, 1939 [Image No. SIA2008-2267]
Oliver L. Austin and J. Allan Keast, 1980 [Image No. SIA2008-2268]
Russell Greenberg and Joseph Wunderle, 1980 [Image No. SIA2008-2269]
Keith L. Dixon, Oliver Austin and Bert Anderson, 1980 [Image No. SIA2008-2270]
Dean Amadon and Herbert Friedmann, 1980 [Image No. SIA2008-2271]
Bert Anderson and Allan R. Phillips, 1980 [Image No. SIA2008-2272]
American Ornithologists' Union - 100th Stated Meeting, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Group Portrait, October 13, 1982. [Image No. SIA2008-2273]
American Ornithologists' Union - 100th Stated Meeting, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Group Portrait, October 13, 1982. [Image No. SIA2008-2273]
American Ornithologists' Union Committee on Classification, Nomenclature, October 1982. [Image No. SIA2008-2274]
American Ornithologists' Union - 104th Stated Meeting, Mississippi State University Group Portrait, August 1986 [Image No. SIA2008-2275]
American Ornithologists' Union - 111th Stated Meeting Group Portrait, 1993 [Image No. SIA2008-2276]
Richard C. Banks and William Maher at the American Museum of Natural History, 1983 [Image No. SIA2016-009515]
Erica Dunn and husband David Hussell, and Donald McCrimmon with Martha Froke, 1983 [Image No. SIA2016-009516]
Clotilde Mifsud and Kenneth Parkes; David Osborne, Frances and Frederick Hamerstrom, 1983 [Image No. SIA2016-009517]
Macieji Luniak with Donald Farner, and Tim Judge with Sidney Gauthreaux, 1983 [Image No. SIA2016-009518]
Jean Delacour and Herbert Friedmann, 1983 [Image No. SIA2016-009519]
Oliver Austin and William H. Phelps, 1983 [Image No. SIA2016-009520]
Joseph Hickey with Richard Pough, and Jean Delacour with Ernst Mayr, 1983 [Image No. SIA2016-009521]
Zheng Beo-Lai and Harrison B. Tordoff, 1983 [Image No. SIA2016-009522]
Peter Borchelt with Edward Burtt, and John William Hardy with Richard Johnston, 1983 [Image No. SIA2016-009523]
Robert Storer with Melvin Traylor; Wesley Lanyon, Dean Amadon and Paul Jeheber, 1983 [Image No. SIA2016-009524]