Trevor Kincaid papers, 1890-1975

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Kincaid, Trevor, 1872-1970
Title
Trevor Kincaid papers
Dates
1890-1975 (inclusive)
Quantity
6.15 cubic feet (16 boxes, 1 vertical file, and 1 oversize folder)
Collection Number
1560
Summary
Papers of a professor of zoology at University of Washington and oysterman
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

No restrictions on access.

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Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Trevor Kincaid was Professor of Zoology at the University of Washington from 1901-1947. Although primarily involved with entomological efforts, he became interested in oysters in 1911, previously having founded the Marine Station at Friday Harbor in 1905. In 1908 Kincaid, as Special Agent for the US Department of Agriculture, traveled to Japan and Russia to study the gypsy moth and its parasites. Other expeditions Kincaid participated in include the Harriman Expedition of 1899 and one to the Pribolof Islands for the US Fur Seal Commission in 1897.

During his more than fifty years at the University of Washington as a student and professor, Trevor Kincaid’s work with insects and oysters made him one of the best known naturalists in the region and across the country. Kincaid discovered and named hundreds of species, but most of his fame came from his solutions to economic problems, such as getting rid of harmful pests and revitalizing the state’s oyster industry. While the first part of his career dealt mostly with insects and taxonomy, Kincaid later became known as the “father of the Northwest oyster industry” because he was one of the few serious scientists studying oysters and was largely responsible for bringing the Japanese oyster to Washington.

Kincaid was born in 1872 in Peterborough, Ontario, where he lived until his family moved to Olympia, Washington, in 1889. As a young boy he constantly showed an interest in studying and collecting insects and animals, which continued throughout his lifetime. Before entering college, Kincaid had already discovered and named various insect species.

Kincaid enrolled at University of Washington in 1894 with almost no money. At the University, he continued discovering species, and before earning his bachelors degree he had attracted attention from scientists across the country. In 1897 he accompanied Stanford University president David Starr Jordan on the American Fur Seal Commission to study the fur seal situation in the Pribolof Islands. Kincaid worked as a research assistant and had his salary doubled when his professors became aware that Stanford was trying to entice the promising young student to transfer. When it was time for Kincaid to graduate, he missed the ceremony because he was chosen as one of only sixty American scientists to go on the Harriman Alaska Expedition. Accompanying noted naturalists such as John Muir and John Burroughs, Kincaid was the youngest person on this expedition and the only entomologist. On the journey he discovered and named over 240 insect species.

In 1901, Kincaid received his Masters degree from the University of Washington and immediately was hired as a professor. In 1902 the biology department was divided and Kincaid became the first chairman of the Department of Zoology. In 1904, along with botany professor R.C. Frye, Kincaid founded the University of Washington Marine Station at Friday Harbor. He also taught the first classes in ichthyology, which helped lead to the creation of the Fisheries College in 1919. Throughout his career, Kincaid realized how expensive it would be to print his papers commercially, so he bought a manual press and worked as his own publisher, editor, photographer, and typesetter.

Kincaid’s studies took him outside the Pacific Northwest on many occasions. He spent 1905 and 1906 as an Austin Scholar at Harvard and studied marine biology on a trip to the West Indies and Bermuda islands during the summer. In 1908, the US government sent Kincaid abroad to discover a natural parasite to destroy the gypsy moth that was ruining crops in New England. Kincaid went first to Russia, then to Japan in 1909, where he discovered a parasite which the Department of Agriculture continued to breed and use successfully for many years.

In the early 1910s, Kincaid began turning his attention to Washington’s troubled oyster industry. At the time, intensive exploitation had nearly eliminated the native oyster industry, and attempts to cultivate East Coast oysters were futile. Kincaid recalled observations of the Japanese oyster culture from previous journeys, and developed methods for importing Japanese oyster seed. Soon Kincaid was employed by the state Department of Fisheries in the Olympia district and later he was put in charge of one of their labs on Willapa Bay.

One of the oystermen, Gerard Mogan, hired Kincaid and gave him an interest in an oyster venture at Willapa Bay, the Bay Point Oyster Company, that became very profitable. As a reward for his service, Mogan gave Kincaid a tract of oyster land which he also made profitable for himself. Most of these private ventures took place during the 1930s and 1940s, but then in the 1950s he entered a new venture with a group of Willapa Bay growers to start the Claire Oyster Company, which was an all-weather, artificially heated indoor swimming pool for baby oysters. His plan was to breed oysters here to make it unnecessary to import seed oysters from Japan. This was based on the French method of oyster culture known as “claire.”

Kincaid remained chairman of the department of Zoology until his automatic retirement in 1937, then continued teaching and researching as a professor emeritus until his full retirement in 1942. After retirement, Kincaid remained active pursuing his interest in studying various species and wrote his autobiography, “The Adventures of an Omnologist.” He died in 1968.

Biographical note written by Jeff Blume, 1997.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Biographical and historical features, correspondence, writings, diaries, notes, keys to species identification, reports, field notes, photographs and illustrations, clippings, bulletins, newsletter, conferences and conventions, ephemera, financial records, student notebook, publications, and honorary passport certificate.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

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Restrictions on Use

Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Organized into 5 accessions.

  • Accession No. 1560-001, Trevor Kincaid papers, 1890-1968
  • Accession No. 1560-005, Trevor Kincaid limnology class notebook, 1932
  • Accession No. 1560-006, Trevor Kincaid papers, 1922-1965
  • Accession No. 1560-007, Trevor Kincaid Papers, 1945-1975
  • Accession No. 1560-008, Trevor Kincaid papers, 1909

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

Accession No. 1560-001: Trevor Kincaid papers, 1890-1968Return to Top

3.15 cubic feet (8 boxes)

Scope and Content: Biographical and historical features, general correspondence, writings, diaries, notes, keys to species identification, reports, photographs, clippings, bulletins, newsletter, conferences and conventions, ephemera, financial records, 1890-1968.

Kincaid's autobiography is in box 1, including a book of associated photographs.

Kincaid's correspondence concerns exchange of zoological specimens and information with other zoologists in the United States and Great Britain, trips to Japan and Russia for investigation of a gypsy moth infestation, and the Washington oyster industry.

This accession also includes 38 of Kincaid’s writings, as well as reviews of his work and writings by others. Major correspondents include Gifford Pinchot, Nathan Banks, T.D.A. Cockerell, David Starr Jordan, Orson Johnson, the Rock Point Oyster Company, J. Emy Tsukimoto, and the Washington Fisheries Department.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Processing Info: Merger of accession numbers: 0235 (May 23, 1962); 0269 (October 25, 1962); 0310 (February 18, 1963); 0509 (January 6, 1965); 0510 (January 6, 1965); 0985 (August 19, 1968); 1037 (November 27,1968).

Original University Archives number: 1560-81-17

This is a consolidation of all previous Kincaid accessions. Insofar as possible, earlier accession numbers have been retained on folders.

Processing Info: Approximately 2500 photographs were relocated to the Trevor Kincaid Photograph Collection, PH Coll. 355.

Container(s) Description Dates
Biographical or historical features
1938-1962
Box/Folder Accession
1/1 1560-001
Certificates and miscellaneous biographical items
undated
1/2 1560-001
Articles honoring Trevor Kincaid
1938-1948
1/3 1560-001
Articles honoring Trevor Kincaid, Melville H. Hatch, editor
1950
1/4 1560-001
Autobiography -- Complete retyped version
1962
1/5 1560-001
Autobiography (photographs)
1961
1/6 1560-001
Autobiography -- The Adventures of an Omnologist, Part I
1962
1/7 1560-001
Ancestry of the Kincaid Family, Trevor Kincaid
1962
1/8 1560-001
Louise Farrar Pennell Kincaid (photographs)
undated
2/1 1560-001
The Kincaid Family -- A Miscellaneous Collection of Pictures
undated
2/2 1560-001
Photographs copied from: Autobiography -- Trevor Kincaid Illustrations, volume II
undated
General correspondence
Arrangement: Arranged in three parts by date:
  • General correspondence I, 1890-1907
  • General correspondence II, 1908-1909
  • General correspondence III, 1911-1958
1890-1958
General correspondence I
Scope and Content: Incoming letters mainly in connection with exchange of zoological specimens and information with other zoologists in the United States and Great Britain.
1890-1907
Box/Folder Accession
2/3 1560-001
Absolorn, Karl
1901
2/3 1560-001
Aldrich, John M.
1902, 1904
2/3 1560-001
Ashmead, William H.
1901
2/3 1560-001
Beutenmuller, William
1901
2/3 1560-001
Bruner, Lawrence
1899
2/3 1560-001
Brunetti, E.
1901
2/3 1560-001
Calvert, Philip P.
1893-1897
2/3 1560-001
Chamberlin, R. V.
1902
2/3 1560-001
Coe, Wesley R.
1902
2/3 1560-001
Cole, Leon J.
1901
2/4 1560-001
Banks, Nathan
1890-1893
2/5 1560-001
Cockerell, T. D. A.
1897-1902
2/6 1560-001
Davis, K. C.
1899
2/6 1560-001
Doan, R. W.
1904
2/6 1560-001
Eaton, Alfred E.
1898
2/6 1560-001
Fall, H. G.
1902
2/6 1560-001
Folsom, Justus W.
1900
2/6 1560-001
Fox, William J.
1896-1899
2/7 1560-001
Harriman Expedition
1899
2/7 1560-001
Harrington, W. H.
1900
2/7 1560-001
Hayden, James Rudolph
1897
2/7 1560-001
Heidemann, Otto
1907
2/7 1560-001
Herdman, W. A.
1897
2/7 1560-001
Holmes, S. J.
1900
2/7 1560-001
Howard, L. O.
1907
2/7 1560-001
Johnson, C. W.
1899
2/7 1560-001
Johnson, H. P.
1897
2/7 1560-001
Jordan, David Starr
1905
2/8 1560-001
Johnson, Orson Bennett
1894
2/9 1560-001
Lutz, Frank E.
1902
2/9 1560-001
MacGillivray, A. D.
1900(?)
2/9 1560-001
MacMillan C.
1901
2/9 1560-001
Montgomery, Thomas H., Jr.
1899, 1903
2/9 1560-001
Murbach, L.
1905
2/9 1560-001
Nell, Philip
1900
2/9 1560-001
Nutting, C. C.
1896-1905
2/10 1560-001
Pinchot, Gifford
1901
2/10 1560-001
Ritter, William E.
1899-1905
2/10 1560-001
Robertson, Alice
1904
2/10 1560-001
Rohwer, S. A.
1907
2/10 1560-001
Schwarz, E. A.
1895-1898
2/10 1560-001
Skinner, Henry
1897
2/11 1560-001
Titus, E. S. G.
1903
2/11 1560-001
United States Smithsonian Institution
1905
2/11 1560-001
Van Dyke, Edwin C.
1899
2/11 1560-001
Verrill, A.E.
1902
2/11 1560-001
Ward, Henry B.
1901
2/11 1560-001
Washington Governor (Rogers)
1899
2/11 1560-001
Wheeler, Walker M.
1902
2/11 1560-001
Wilson, E. B.
1899
2/11 1560-001
Wolcott, Robert H.
1902
General correspondence II
Scope and Content: Deals with trips to Japan and Russia for investigation of a gypsy moth infestation. Letters are mainly handwritten copies of his letters to various persons contacted during the trips.
1908-1909
Box/Folder Accession
2/12 1560-001
Japan trip regarding gypsy moth parasites
1908
2/13 1560-001
Russia trip regarding gypsy moth parasites
1908, 1909
2/14 1560-001
Russia trip regarding gypsy moth parasites
1909
General correspondence III
Scope and Content: Mainly concerned with the Washington oyster industry.
1911-1958
Box/Folder Accession
2/15 1560-001
Ablan, Guillermo L.
1941
2/15 1560-001
Agassiz, A.
undated
2/15 1560-001
Allen, H. F.
General Notes: See: National Oyster Company
2/15 1560-001
Allhands, F. H., Sr.
General Notes: See: Coos Bay Oyster Cooperative
2/15 1560-001
American Association of Economic Entomologists
1949
2/15 1560-001
Associated Oyster Lands, Incorporated, Seattle
1931, 1932
2/15 1560-001
Bristol, W. C.
1916, 1922
2/15 1560-001
Cahn, A. R.
1949
2/15 1560-001
Canada Biological Board
General Notes: See also: Elsey, C. R.
1933
2/15 1560-001
Canada, Fisheries Research Board
1949
2/15 1560-001
Coos Bay Oyster Cooperative
1954
2/15 1560-001
Cronin, L. Eugene
1953
2/15 1560-001
DeHaven, Glen
General Notes: See: Oregon Fish Commission and Oyster Growers Service Association
2/15 1560-001
Elsey, C.R.
General Notes: See also: Canada Biological Board
1929
2/15 1560-001
Florida Conservation Board, Oyster Division
1953
2/15 1560-001
Forester, R. E.
General Notes: See: Canada Fisheries Research Board
2/15 1560-001
Great Britain and Fisheries Ministry, Fisheries Experiment Station
1931, 1952
2/16 1560-001
Hancock (Allen) Foundation
1954
2/16 1560-001
Herdman, W. A.
1950s? August 29
2/16 1560-001
Holland Rijksinstituut voor Visscherijonderzoek
1948
2/16 1560-001
Imai, Takeo
1948
2/16 1560-001
Ingle, Robert M.
General Notes: See: Florida Conservation Board, Oyster Division
2/16 1560-001
Japan Imperial Fisheries Institute
1924-1948
2/16 1560-001
Japan Cooperative Seed-Oyster Export Association
Scope and Content: Item of 1937 has contract and statement appended.
1936, 1937
2/16 1560-001
Kellogg, E.L.
1916
2/16 1560-001
Kiefer, Friedrich
1954
2/16 1560-001
Korringa, P.
1947
2/16 1560-001
Long Island Oyster Company, Nahcotta, Washington
1919
2/16 1560-001
Loosanoff, Victor L. (United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Aquatic Biologist in charge)
1944
2/16 1560-001
McKernan, Donald L.
1946
2/16 1560-001
McMillin, Harvey
1954
2/16 1560-001
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (Great Britain)
1952
2/16 1560-001
Mayr, Ernst
1954
2/17 1560-001
National Oyster Company, Olympia
1911-1912
2/17 1560-001
National Shellfisheries Association
1957
2/17 1560-001
Nelson, Julius
1914
2/17 1560-001
Nelson, Thurlow C.
1922-1957
2/17 1560-001
Northern Oyster Company, Portland, Oregon
1914
2/17 1560-001
Oregon Fish Commission
1954
2/17 1560-001
Oregon Highway Department, Chief Counsel
1952
2/17 1560-001
Oyster Growers Service Association, Salem, Oregon
1952-1954
2/17 1560-001
Pacific Coast Oyster Growers Association
1957
2/17 1560-001
Pacific Oyster District
1933
2/17 1560-001
Padilla Bay Oyster Landowners Association
1951
2/17 1560-001
Podpielow, W.
1913
2/18 1560-001
Rock Point Oyster Company, Washington
General Notes: See also: Steele, E. N.
1923-1957
2/19 1560-001
Seno, Hidemi
General Notes: See: Japan Imperial Fisheries Institute
2/19 1560-001
Shaw, Herbert
1921
2/19 1560-001
Sherwood, H. P.
General Notes: See: Great Britain Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry, Fisheries Experiment Station
2/19 1560-001
Simpson Logging Company
1958
2/19 1560-001
Smith, George R.
1938
2/19 1560-001
South Carolina Wildlife Resources Department, Bears Bluff Laboratories
1957
2/19 1560-001
Stafford, Joseph
1916
2/19 1560-001
Steele, E. N.
General Notes: See also: Rock Point Oyster Company
1925, 1945
2/19 1560-001
Stoughton, George M.
1936
2/19 1560-001
Tartar, Vance
1946
2/19 1560-001
Tokyo College of Fisheries, Japan
1947
2/20 1560-001
Tsukimoto, J. Emy
1921-1951
2/21 1560-001
United States Commerce and Labor Department, Fisheries Bureau Commissioner
1912, 1914
2/21 1560-001
United States Commerce Department, Fisheries Bureau Deputy Commissioner
1915
2/21 1560-001
United States Commerce Department, Fisheries Bureau Commissioner
1916-1928
2/21 1560-001
United States Interior Department, Fisheries and Wildlife Service, Milford, Connecticut
1950-1957
2/21 1560-001
Virginia, Hampton Institute, Fish and Wildlife Service
1946
2/22 1560-001
Washington Agricultural and Home Economics Cooperative Extension Service
1956
2/22 1560-001
Washington Public Lands Commissioner
1929
2/22 1560-001
Washington State Supervisor of Fisheries
1921
Correspondence relating to "Parasitic Enemies of Oysters"
Box/Folder Accession
2/23 1560-001
Benson, H. K.
1930
2/23 1560-001
California Sciences Academy (Dallas G. Hanna)
1951, 1952
2/23 1560-001
Fiedler, Lieutenant Colonel Reginald H. (G.H.Q.-S.C.A.P.)
1946
2/23 1560-001
Gunter, Dr.
1959
2/23 1560-001
Holman, Sprague and Allen
1944
2/23 1560-001
Holway, Theodore W.
1930-1931
2/23 1560-001
Japan, Consul (Kiyoshi Uchiyama)
1934
2/23 1560-001
Japanese Fishery Institute (Juzo Hori)
1946
2/23 1560-001
Keen, Myra
1941
2/23 1560-001
McGowan (P. J.) and Sons, Incorporated
1922
2/23 1560-001
Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha, Limited
1935
2/23 1560-001
Nelson, Thurlow C.
1923
2/23 1560-001
New Washington Oyster Company (George Yanagimachi)
1941
2/23 1560-001
Oregon Fish Commission (Donald L. McKernan)
1946
2/23 1560-001
Simpson Logging Company (A.T. Walton)
1953
2/23 1560-001
Steele, E. N.
1922, 1944
2/23 1560-001
Steele, E. N. to Holman, Sprague and Allen
1944
2/23 1560-001
Turner, R. D.
1947
2/23 1560-001
United States Attorney (Frank Pelligrini)
1949
2/23 1560-001
Washington Fisheries Department, Oyster Laboratory (Vance Tartar)
1946, 1947
2/23 1560-001
Washington Fisheries Department, Shellfish Laboratory (Cedric A. Lindsey)
1949, 1952, 1953
2/23 1560-001
Washington Health Department (W.P. Henderson)
1942
2/23 1560-001
Wilson, Charles B.
1938
2/23 1560-001
Imai
undated
2/23 1560-001
Korringa
1949
2/23 1560-001
Stan
1953
2/23 1560-001
Correspondence among Henry O'Malley, Lewis Radcliffe, Willis H. Rich and H.C. McMillin.
Scope and Content: Collected by Kincaid. Some or perhaps all are of the United States Fisheries Bureau.
1925
2/23 1560-001
Oakland Bay and Hammersley Inlet Biological Examination report
1927
2/23 1560-001
Olympia District Trip reports
1943
Writings by Kincaid
Box/Folder Accession
3/1 1560-001
"The acclimatization of the Pacific oyster upon the West Coast of North America," reprint from Proceedings Seventh Pacific Science Congress, volume 4
undated
3/2 1560-001
The Ant Plant Orthocarpus Pusillus Bentham
1954
3/3 1560-001
"The biology of plankton," The Eleusis of Chi Omega
1935
3/4 1560-001
"The biotic and economic relations of the plankton," reprint from California Fish and Game
1942
3/5 1560-001
A contribution to the taxonomy and distribution of the American fresh-water calenoid crustacea
1953
3/6 1560-001
"Development of oyster industry of the Pacific," reprint from Transactions of American Fisheries Society
undated
3/7 1560-001
The Ecology of Willapa Bay, Washington, in Relation to the Oyster Industry
1968
3/8 1560-001
"A gastropod on the holothurian, parastichopus californicus (Stimpon)," reprint from Transactions of the American Microscopical Society
1964
3/9 1560-001
A Half Century of Biological Science in the Pacific Northwest
after 1944
3/10 1560-001
"The Harriman Alaska expedition," magazine unknown
circa 1900
3/11 1560-001
Latent Marine Resources
General Notes: Copied from materials in the possession of Mrs. Marjorie Illman
3/12 1560-001
A List of Coleoptera From the Vicinity of Willapa Bay, Washington, co-authored with Melville H. Hatch
1958
3/13 1560-001
Marine Plankton as a Source of Human Food -- Outline discussion -- High spots
undated
3/14 1560-001
The Metamorphoses of Some Alaska Coleoptera
undated
3/15 1560-001
"A new species of polyxenus," Entomological News
1898
3/16 1560-001
"Notes on American psychodidae," Entomological News
1901
3/17 1560-001
"Notes on thais," Pacific Northwest Shell News, volume IV, number 2
undated
3/18 1560-001
"Notes on the species of crabro found in the state of Washington," Entomological News
1900
3/19 1560-001
"Oyster culture," Pacific Northwest Industry
1951
3/20 1560-001
"Oyster culture in Washington, " reprint from Transactions Second Annual Meeting Pacific Fisheries Society
1915
3/21 1560-001
"The oyster industry of the Pacific Coast," Pacific Fisherman, photostat
undated
3/22 1560-001
The Oyster Industry of Willapa Bay, Washington
1951
3/23 1560-001
Parasite Hunting in Japan
undated
3/24 1560-001
Possible Improvements in the Technique of Oyster Culture
undated
3/25 1560-001
"To preserve the color of the skin in frogs," Turtox News
1948
3/26 1560-001
"Professor Kincaid outlines development of oyster industry and explains economic importance to state," Bulletin, University of Washington
1941
3/27 1560-001
"The progress of Biology in Washington, " The Saturday Mail
1899
3/28 1560-001 1914
3/29 1560-001
"The psychodidae of Washington," Entomological News
1897
3/30 1560-001
"The psychodidae of the Pacific Coast," Entomological News
1899
3/31 1560-001
"P.B. Randolph," The Pacific Northwest Shell News
1962
3/32 1560-001
The Role of the Element Manganese in the Reproduction of Animals and Plants
1968
3/33 1560-001
The Russian Parasites of the Gypsy Moth
undated
3/34 1560-001
"Salvaging the whales," Tempo
undated
3/35 1560-001
"The sphegoidea and vespoidea," Papers from the Harriman Alaska Expedition, photocopy
1900
4/1 1560-001
"Tenthredinoidea" and "Sphegoidea and vespoidea," Alaska, volume IX, Insects, Harriman Alaska Expedition
1904
4/2 1560-001
The Tenthredoidea of the Expedition (Harriman Alaska Expedition)
1904
4/3 1560-001
"Trip to the Bermudas," The Goat, University of Washington
1905
Box/Folder Accession
4/4 1560-001
Reviews of Kincaid's writings
1957
Writings by others
1857-1949
Box/Folder Accession
4/5 1560-001
Agersborg, H.P. Kjerschow, "Gymnosomatous pteropoda from Friday Harbor, Washington," Sciences Naturelles
1923
4/6 1560-001
Ashmead, William H., "A new spider parasite," Insect Life
1894
4/7 1560-001
Field, Irving, "Sea mussel mytilus edulis," Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries
: photostat
undated
4/8 1560-001
Frison, Theodore H., "The distribution of bremus kincaidii (Cockerell)" and Needham, James G., "A baetine mayfly nymph with tusked mandibles," The Canadian Entomologist
1927
4/9 1560-001
Hatch, Melville H., Biology of the University of Washington and A Century of Entomology in the Pacific Northwest
2 copies of Biology of the University of Washington
1949
4/10 1560-001
Hatch, Melville H., In Memoriam -- John Earl Guberlet (1887-1940)
1941
4/11 1560-001
Japan Agriculture Department, Fisheries Bureau, "Increasing production of sea food: The oyster industry in Japan"
undated
4/12 1560-001
Johnson, Charles W., "Dipteran fauna of Bermuda"
undated
4/13 1560-001
Swan, James G., Three Years Residence in Washington Territory, extracts from, by Kincaid
1857
4/14 1560-001
Woodworth, C. B., "Goeducks," Nature Magazine(photostat)
1929
4/15 1560-001
The Research Society 1919-1944, University of Washington
1944
4/16 1560-001
Unidentified
undated
4/17 1560-001
Unidentified, photostat, annotated
undated
4/18 1560-001
Unidentified author, Method and Costs Oyster Seed Production in Japan Matsushita Bay
Diaries and notes
1888-1899
Box/Folder Accession
4/19 1560-001
Notes -- Development of Pacific oyster industry
undated
4/20 1560-001
Notebook (photocopy)
1888
Diaries
Box/Folder Accession
4/21 1560-001
August 4 - October 26, 1895
1895 August 4-October 26
4/22 1560-001
January 1 - August 6, 1896
1896 January 1-August 6
4/23 1560-001
1897
1897
4/24 1560-001
July - October 1897
Scope and Content: Includes Pribilof Islands
1897 July - October
5/1 1560-001
Diary of Harriman Expedition
1899 May 30 - June 30
5/2 1560-001
Insect notes, Harriman Expedition
1899 June
Notes
Box/Folder Accession
5/3 1560-001
Lists
undated
5/4 1560-001
Raia Kincaidii
undated
5/5 1560-001
Carr Point clams
undated
Keys for species identification
Box/Folder Accession
5/6 1560-001
Acmaedae
undated
5/7 1560-001
Arthropoda
undated
5/8 1560-001
Caridea
undated
5/9 1560-001
Chaetognatha
undated
5/10 1560-001
Cragonidae and argis
undated
5/11 1560-001
Decapoda crustacea
5/12 1560-001
Sea anemones
undated
Box/Folder Accession
5/13 1560-001
Legislation: House Bill No. 208 -- relating to oyster beds
1931
Reports
1900-1918
Box/Folder Accession
5/14 1560-001
A Summary of Investigations Upon the Ocean Fishing Off the Coast of Washington, Trevor Kincaid and E. Victor Smith of the University of Washington
1918
5/15 1560-001
Washington Fish and Game Commissioner
Scope and Content: Photostat of report regarding the planting of Eastern oysters in Willapa Bay, also a note regarding Japanese oyster.
circa 1900
Photographs
undated
Box/Folder Accession
5/16 1560-001
Bivalve clam and oyster larvae
undated
5/17 1560-001
Oysters
undated
5/18 1560-001
Parasite hunting in Japan
undated
Box/Folder Accession
5/19-21, 6/1-5, 7/1-4 1560-001
Clippings
undated
7/5 1560-001
Unidentified
undated
Bay Point Oyster Company
Scope and Content: Also includes Willapa Development Company and Bay Point Oyster Farms, Incorporated
1929-1948
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 1560-001
General correspondence
1929-1948
Reports
Box/Folder Accession
7/7 1560-001
Financial reports
1929-1944
7/8 1560-001
Reports to shareholders
1929-1946
Pacific Coast Oyster Growers Association
1954-1958
Box/Folder Accession
7/10 1560-001
General correspondence
1948-1957
7/11 1560-001
Outgoing letters - Letters to members
1949-1958
8/1 1560-001
Minutes
1950, 1956-1958
8/2 1560-001
Reports
1951-1957
8/3 1560-001
Annual reports
1948-1959
8/4 1560-001
Notices, memoranda
1947-1951
8/5 1560-001
Bulletins
1947-1958
8/6 1560-001
Newsletter
1957
8/7 1560-001
Facts and Flashes
1952-1954
Conferences and conventions
Box/Folder Accession
8/8 1560-001
Annual meeting, South Bend, Washington
1954
8/8 1560-001
Annual meeting, Olympia, Washington
1958
Box/Folder Accession
8/9 1560-001
Ephemera
undated
Willapa Oyster Farms Incorporated
1930-1943
Box/Folder Accession
8/10 1560-001
Reports -- Financial and Reports to Shareholders
1930-1943
Willapapoint Oysters, Incorporated
1932-1951
Box/Folder Accession
8/11 1560-001
Financial Records
1932-1951

Accession No. 1560-005: Trevor Kincaid limnology class notebook, 1932Return to Top

.03 cubic feet (1 vertical file)

Scope and Content: Looseleaf notebook of course notes, presumed to have been made by a student in Trevor Kincaid's 1932 Limnology class; the name A.G. Stewart appears on the cover. Typed notes with handwritten annotations. Ink drawings and some black and white photographs pasted to the pages.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Custodial History: Dr. George C. Anderson, professor emeritus of oceanography, received the notebook as a gift from the wife of a civil engineering professor.

Acquisition Info: Gift of Dr. George C. Anderson, April 4,1996

Accession No. 1560-006: Trevor Kincaid papers, 1922-1965Return to Top

2.73 cubic feet (7 boxes)

Scope and Content: Correspondence, field notes, writings, photographs and illustrations, relevant to Kincaids' research, circa 1922-1965.

Some of the volumes in this accession were printed by Trevor Kincaid at home on his hand press.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Gift of Rod Crawford, February 6, 1990 (Accession No.1560-2-90-13).

Purchased from William James, bookseller, 1991 (Accession No. 1560-003).

Gift of Richard Engeman, July 8, 1992 (Accession No. 1560-004).

Processing Info: Processed by Molly Quick, 1997.

Merger of Accession Nos. 1560-2-90-13, 1560-003 (monograph, "Local Races and Clines in the Marine Gastropod Thais Lamellosa Gmelin" 1957), and 1560-004 .

Container(s) Description Dates
General correspondence
1937-1965
Box/Folder Accession
1/1 1560-006
Wilson, Mildred S.
1951-1959
1/2 1560-006
Miscellaneous
1937, 1962-1965
Speeches and writings
1922-1951
Of Kincaid
Box/Folder Accession
1/3 1560-006
Acmaea (rough notes)
undated
1/3 1560-006
Scallops and Their Hitch-Hikers
undated
1/4 1560-006
Thais Lima: A Marine Gastropod Inhabiting Areas in the North Pacific
undated
Of Others
Box/Folder Accession
1/5-6 1560-006
Writings
1922, 1951-1952
Notes
Box/Folder Accession
1/7-2/1 1560-006
Field notes and data
1937-1940, undated
2/2 1560-006
Notes - Miscellaneous
undated
2/3-5 1560-006
Reading notes
undated
Illustrations
undated
Box/Folder Accession
2/6-9 1560-006
Miscellaneous
undated
3/1-2 1560-006
Diaptomus America
undated
Box/Folder Accession
3/3-4 1560-006
Publication: Thais Lamellosa - A Population Study
2 copies
1957
3/5 1560-006
Photographs
undated
Photograph albums
undated
Box/Folder Accession
3/6 1560-006
Bryzoa
undated
4/1 1560-006
Coelenterata
undated
4/2 1560-006
Crustacea - Crabs
undated
4/3 1560-006
Crustacea - Shrimp, etc.
undated
4/4 1560-006
Crustacea - Miscellaneous
undated
5/1-2 1560-006
Echinoderms
undated
5/3 1560-006
Genus Acmaea, The
undated
5/4 1560-006
Japanese House, The
undated
5/5 1560-006
Mollusca
undated
6/1 1560-006
Polychoeta
undated
6/2 1560-006
Protozoa
undated
6/3 1560-006
Sponges
undated
6/4-6 1560-006
Thais Lamellosa - Vols. I, II, IV
undated
7/1 1560-006
Thais Lapillus - Local races
undated
Subject files
Box/Folder Accession
7/2 1560-006
Shell exchanges
undated
7/3 1560-006
Thais collection material
1947-1948, 1954
Box/Folder Accession
7/4 1560-006
Conchological Club of Southern California
1945, 1952

Accession No. 1560-007: Trevor Kincaid Papers, 1945-1975Return to Top

0.21 cubic ft. (1 box)

Scope and Content: Biographical features, correspondence, publications, clippings; 1945-1975.

Includes copies of Kincaid's The Oyster Industry of Willapa Bay, Washington and The Ecology of Willapa Bay, Washington, In Relation to the Oyster Industry, and Muriel L. Guberlet's biography, The Windows to His World: The Story of Trevor Kincaid. Also includes two outgoing letters and a newspaper article detailing the announcement of a proposed Kincaid Hall at the University of Washington.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Gift of Sandra Stone Tellvik, February 7, 2002.

Container(s) Description Dates
Biographical Features
Box Accession
1 1560-007
The Windows to His World: The Story of Trevor Kincaid by Muriel L. Guberlet
1975
Correspondence
Box Accession
1 1560-007
Christmas Card to Stone Family
1945
1 1560-007
Letter to Mrs. Lillian Clark
1968
Publications
Box Accession
1 1560-007
The Oyster Industry of Willapa Bay, Washington by Trevor Kincaid
1951
1 1560-007
The Ecology of Willapa Bay, Washington, In Relation to the Oyster Industry by Trevor Kincaid
1968
Box Accession
1 1560-007
Clippings-Trevor Kincaid Hall article
1970

Accession No. 1560-008: Trevor Kincaid papers, 1909Return to Top

1 oversize folder

Scope and Content: Honorary passport certificate issued by Huntington Wilso, Acting Secretary of State.

Restrictions on Access: No restrictions on access.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Donated by Keith Allen, August 22, 2022

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Entomology--Study and teaching
  • Marine ecology--Washington (State)
  • Oyster culture--Washington (State)
  • Small presses--Washington (State)
  • University Archives/Faculty Papers (University of Washington)
  • Zoology--Study and teaching

Personal Names

  • Banks, Nathan, b. 1868--Correspondence
  • Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948--Correspondence
  • Kincaid, Trevor, 1872-1970--Archives
  • Steele, E. N. (Earl N.)--Correspondence
  • Tsukimoto, J. Emy--Correspondence

Corporate Names

  • Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)
  • Pacific Coast Oyster Growers' Association
  • Rock Point Oyster Company
  • Washington (State). Dept. of Fisheries

Occupations

  • Entomologists
  • Naturalists
  • Zoologists

Other Creators