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George Elford Hudson Papers, 1930-1971

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Hudson, George Elford
Title
George Elford Hudson Papers
Dates
1930-1971 (inclusive)
Quantity
1 container., (3 linear feet of shelf space.), (353 items.)
Collection Number
Cage 503
Summary
Contains original drawings in pencil and ink, and plates used for illustrations for his articles showing bird musculature.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research use.

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

Dr. George Elford Hudson was born on May 6, 1907. He taught in the Washington State University Department of Zoology from 1938 to 1974. From 1938 to 1946 he was an Assistant Professor of Zoology and the zoology museum curator. In 1946 he became an Associate Professor and gained his full Professorship in 1951. During the Second World War, Dr. Hudson worked with the War Department on chemical warfare. He was a charter member of the Washington Environmental Council. Dr. Hudson authored numerous articles on bird musculature, which appeared in the American Midland Naturalist and Ibis. Many of these articles were extensions of masters and doctoral research at the University of Nebraska in 1937. Dr. Hudson died on August 4, l974.

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Content Description

The records contain original drawings, in pencil and ink, and plates used for illustrations for his articles showing bird musculature.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]. Cage 503, George Elford Hudson Papers. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The papers of George Elford Hudson, which date from 1930 to 1971, are arranged in a single series in alphabetical order by subject. The folders listed as oversized are located in the flat files in a large folder separate from the other containers.

Acquisition Information

The papers of George Elford Hudson, 1930-1971, were donated toWashington State University Libraries in May 1980 (MS80-17).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

  • Description: Bird Drawing: Left Leg, Medial View.
    1 item.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box Oversized, Folder 1
  • Description: Bird Names Referred to by Gadow in Discussing the Muscles of the Pelvic Appendadge of Birds: Brown's Klasse Und Ardnungen, pp. 139-209
    1 item.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box Oversized, Folder 2
  • Description: Ciconiiformes Correlations
    6 items.
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  • Description: Cross-Section Drawings of Ring-Billed Gull (B. 373)
    3 items.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  • Description: Correlation Coefficients: Legs; Wings (Family Comparisons); Wings (Numerical Scores); Legs (Numerical Scores); Legs (Family Comparisons); and, Final Run
    7 items.
    Dates: 1966-1971
    Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  • Description: Crow Drawings
    12 items.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box Oversized, Folder 6
  • Description: Crow Muscles
    3 items.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 7
  • Description: Draft Bird Drawings (ink)
    4 items.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 8
  • Description: Draft Bird Drawings (pencil)
    5 items.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 9
  • Description: Figures 1-9 For Muscles of the Pectoral Limb in Galliform Birds, Hudson and Langillotti, American Midland Naturalist, 71 (1).
    4 items.
    Dates: January 1964
    Container: Box Oversized, Folder 10

  • Galliformes Computer Runs (Hudson, et al.), Muscle Coefficients:

  • Description: Hudson Data Sheets
    8 items.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 29
  • Description: Ink Drawings: Bird Musculature
    9 items.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 30
  • Description: Lari and Alcae, Original Drawings (Figures 1-26b), Ibis: III: 459-524. Hudson, et al.
    25 items.
    Dates: 1969
    Container: Box Oversized, Folder 31
  • Description: Negatives--Crow Wing Muscles, Plates 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10-20
    18 items.
    Dates: April 2, 1951
    Container: Box 1, Folder 32
  • Description: Original Drawings for Paper on Gross Anatomy of the Wing Muscles in the Family Corvidaes: Pectoral Appendages, (Hudson and Lanzilotte, American Midland Naturalist. 53 (1): 1-44
    24 items.
    Dates: 1955
    Container: Box Oversized, Folder 33
  • Description: Original Drawings for Paper on Muscles of the Pelvic Limb in Galliform Birds. American Midland Naturalist, 57 (1): 1-66. (Author's Note).
    6 items.
    Dates: January 1959
    Container: Box Oversized, Folder 34
  • Description: Pectoral Appendage, Falconiformes
    1 item.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box Oversized, Folder 35
  • Description: Pectoral Appendage (cross-section), Quail, Killdeer, Green-Winged Teal, Ring-Billed Gull, Pied-Billed Grebe, Kingfisher, Burrowing Owl
    21 items.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 36
  • Description: Photostatic Prints From A Text, Erklarung von Tafal, XIX-XXIV
    15 items.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 37
  • Description: Plates On Bird Musculature
    7 items.
    Dates: 1951
    Container: Box 1, Folder 38
  • Description: Strigiformes and Caprimulgiformes: Illustrations of the Pelvic Limb Muscles
    1 item.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box Oversized, Folder 39
  • Description: Studies on the Muscles of the Pelvic Appendage in Birds. American Midland Naturalist 18 (1): 1-108. George E. Hudson's Original Drawings for Ph.D. Thesis, 26 Plates.
    60 items.
    Dates: January, 1937
    Container: Box Oversized, Folder 40
  • Description: Tinamiformes--Pectoral and Pelic Muscles Drawings
    21 items.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 41
  • Description: Wing and Leg Muscles Correlation Statistical Chart
    2 items.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box Oversized, Folder 42
  • Description: Wings, Crow (M.S. Thesis Drawings, University of Nebraska, George E. Hudson)
    17 items.
    Dates: 1930
    Container: Box Oversized, Folder 43

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Subject Terms

  • Birds -- Anatomy

Personal Names

  • Hudson, George Elford --Archives (creator)

Corporate Names

  • Washington State University--Faculty -- Archives

Finding aid prepared by Patricia M. Gourd
2012

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