Archives West Finding Aid

This collection contains the papers of Dr. James R. King (1927-1991), a Professor in the Department of Zoology at Washington State University from 1960 to 1991. The collection primarily consists of teaching and research materials, including assignments, exams, lecture notes, photographs, as well as manuscript drawings and graphs. The collection also contains professional correspondence, article and manuscript reviews, records pertaining to his publication "Avian Biology", and papers related to professional associations. Additionally, the collection includes papers from the Department of Zoology, such department correspondence and committee letters and reports.

Preliminary Inventory:

Boxes 1-4: Professional correspondence

Box 5: Department of Zoology papers, including committee letters and reports, and memos

Box 6: Course materials, including assignments, exams, lecture notes, and overhead projector sheets from the 1960s and 1970s

Box 7: Course materials, including assignments, exams, lecture notes, and overhead projector sheets from the 1960s (mainly 1960 and 1961)

Box 8: Materials connected to professional organizations, including articles, correspondence, and pamphlets, as well as records pertaining to his publication Avian Biology;

Box 9: Research materials, including notes and articles

Box 10: Manuscripts and article reviews (including two copies of a book manuscript), correspondence related to his publication Avian Biology, as well as banding and collecting reports from various states

Box 11: Papers and correspondence related to grants and research foundations, including the National Science Foundation, as well as research notes and documents pertaining to the WSU Department of Zoology

Box 12: Conference and research notes

Box 13: Research notes

Box 14: Research and lecture notes including photographs and illustrations

Boxes 15-16: Manuscript drawings including large scale hand-written graphs