[TN-Bird] Re: TOS Archives and Collections

Chuck,

Thanks for finally replying.  That was the general information that I was
looking for.  You state that you have told some people recently, but I
assure you
that I was not one of those.  So my question again, to which I have been
trying to get an answer from you for over a year, is how can one get access
to or get copies of specific files?


Would someone have to visit the special collections at UT to get copies?  I
have had several requests from several different birders (some out of state)
wanting copies of specific bird records.  How do they go about getting
those?
Why it is so hard to get an answer to a seemingly simple question?

Mark Greene
Trenton, TN

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles P. Nicholson <cpnichol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: TN-Bird Listserve (E-mail) <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 7:44 PM
Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: TOS Archives and Collections


>
>Gentle Readers (and the rest of you),
>As I have told some of you recently, supporting documentation for rare bird
>records through about 1997 is in the special collections at the University
>of Tennessee, as are many other historic TOS papers.  The rare bird
>documentation material includes the sighting forms submitted to the bird
>records committee, some photos (some of which have been published), some
>drawings, and the committee voting forms.  Below is an inventory of this
>material.
>
>To add to some of the information posted by others:
> - The U.S. National Museum collection at the Smithsonian has a sizeable
>collection of Tennessee skins, most of which were collected by the Wetmore
>expedition in 1937.  It also contains some earlier skins collected by A. H.
>Howell, as well as a scattering of stuff collected by others.
> - The H. O. Todd egg collection, housed for many years at University of
the
>South in Sewanee, is now at the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology in
>Los Angeles.
> - The Cumberland Museum had a lot of Amelia Laskey's papers in the late
>1980s/early 1990s.  I don't know if they are still there.
>
>Chuck Nicholson
>Norris, TN
>
>Tennessee Bird Records Committee
>
>Rare Bird Reporting Forms ? in TOS Archives at University of Tennessee
>Special Collections
>
>Yellow-billed Loon Clay County, February 1995
>Pacific Loon Davidson County, March 1988
> Henry County, November 1994
> Franklin County, December 1994, photos
>Clark?s Grebe Marion County, March 1993
>Storm-petrel species Carter County, September 1989
>Northern Gannet Robertson County, November 1987
>Magnificent Frigatebird Jefferson County, September 1988, photo
> Maury County, September 1988
>White-billed Tropicbird Jefferson County, September 1990
>Neotropic Cormorant Lake County, June 1993, photos
> Shelby County, June 1996
> Shelby County, August 1996, photo
>?Great White? Heron Sullivan County, October 1990, photos
>Reddish Egret Sumner County, August, September 1997, photo
>Glossy Ibis Stewart County, May 1988
> Sumner County, September 1988
> Washington County, April 1990
>White-faced Ibis Shelby County, April 1990
> Lake County, August 1994
>Roseate Spoonbill Stewart County, July 1989
> Lake County, September 1994
>Whooper Swan Madison County, November 1985 ? July 1986, photos
>Mute Swan Washington County, December 1983 ? February 1984, photo
>Ross? Goose Stewart County, November 1986, photos
> Stewart County, December 1987 ? January 1988
> Henry County, February 1988
>Garganey Shelby County, September 1994
>Ferruginous Duck Shelby County, June 1995
>Harlequin Duck Campbell County, January 1984
> Davidson County, January 1985
>Barrows Goldeneye Franklin County, February 1986
>White-tailed Kite Dyer County, May 1991
> Humphreys County, June 1991, photos
> Rutherford County, June 1993
>Swainson?s Hawk Haywood County, April 1992
>Ring-necked Pheasant action to remove species from official state list
>Caribbean Coot action to remove from official state list
>Snowy Plover Lake County, September 1985
> Dyer County, March 1992
>Wilson?s Plover Shelby County, April 1988
>Long-billed Curlew Lake County, September 1991
> Shelby County, September 1993
>Red-necked Stint Shelby County, August 1993
> Shelby County, October 1994
>Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Shelby County, September 1992
>Curlew Sandpiper Lake County, June 1996, photos
>Ruff Washington County, May 1989
>Pomarine Jaeger Carter County, September 1989
> Henry County, June/August 1987, photo
> Marion County, October 1995
>Parasitic Jaeger Franklin County, September/October 1978
> Henry/Stewart County, October 1985, photo
> Henry County, September 1988
> Johnson County, September 1989
>Long-tailed Jaeger Lake County, September 1984
>Little Gull Hamilton County, January 1994
>Black-headed Gull Davidson County, March 1987, photo
> Roane County, May 1988
>California Gull Hardin County, December 1990-January 1991, photos
> Hardin County, January/February 1996
>Thayer?s Gull Hardin County, December 1990-January 1991
>Lesser Black-backed Gull Johnson County, September 1989
> Hardin County, February ? April 1990
> Hardin County, December 1990
> Hamilton County, February 1991, photo
> Marion County, March 1993
> Henry County, November 1994
>Great Black-backed Gull Sumner County, January 1985
> Henry County, March 1986
> Henry County, December 1986
>Sabine?s Gull Hamilton County, September 1988
> Lake County, September 1995
>Ivory Gull Hardin County, February 1996, photo
>Ross? Gull Lake County, December 1985
>Royal Tern Johnson County, September 1989
>Arctic Tern Lake County, July 1990
>Black Skimmer Marion County, October 1995, photo
>Eurasian Collared-Dove Hamilton County, October-November 1994, photos
> Gibson County, October 1994
> Overton County, February 1995
>Monk Parakeet action to remove species from state list
>Black-chinned Hummingbird Hamilton County, November 1990
>Anna?s Hummingbird Davidson County, January 1995, photos
>Rufous Hummingbird Rutherford County, September 1983
> Wilson County, November 1993, photo
>Allen?s Hummingbird Hamilton County, December 1993, photos
>Say?s Phoebe Davidson County, September 1984
> Davidson County, October 1987
> Lake County, May 1994
> Lauderdale County, February 1995
>Ash-throated Flycatcher Sullivan County, December 1985
>Violet-Green Swallow Washington County, March 1994
>Varied Thrush Hamilton County, December 1990
>Townsend?s Warbler Blount County, December 1994
> Hardin County, December 1994
>Kirtland?s Warbler Washington County, October 1989
> Hamilton County, October 1989
> Knox County, May 1997
>Western Tanager Williamson County, December 1992
> Dyer County, August 1994
>Shiny Cowbird Shelby County, July 1995
>Bullock?s Oriole Davidson County, January 1995
>Pine Grosbeak Benton County, March 1992
>
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