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Cage
503
Hudson, George Elford
George Elford Hudson
Papers
1930-1971
1 container.
3 linear feet of shelf space.
353 items.
Contains original drawings in pencil and
ink, and plates used for illustrations for his articles showing bird
musculature.
Collection materials are in
English
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.
The records contain original drawings, in pencil and ink, and plates
used for illustrations for his articles showing bird musculature.
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.
This collection is open for research use.
[Item Description]. Cage
503, George Elford Hudson
Papers. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The papers of George Elford Hudson, 1930-1971, were donated
toWashington State University Libraries in May 1980 (MS80-17).
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Hudson, George Elford --Archives
Washington State University--Faculty --
Archives
Birds --
Anatomy
Science
Fisheries and Wildlife
Washington (State)
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Oversized
1
Bird Drawing: Left Leg, Medial
View.
undated
1 item.
Oversized
2
Bird Names Referred to by Gadow in
Discussing the Muscles of the Pelvic Appendadge of Birds: Brown's
Klasse Und Ardnungen, pp. 139-209
undated
1 item.
1
3
Ciconiiformes
Correlations
1966
6 items.
1
4
Cross-Section Drawings of
Ring-Billed Gull (B. 373)
undated
3 items.
1
5
Correlation Coefficients: Legs;
Wings (Family Comparisons); Wings (Numerical Scores); Legs (Numerical Scores);
Legs (Family Comparisons); and, Final Run
1966-1971
7 items.
Oversized
6
Crow Drawings
undated
12
items.
1
7
Crow Muscles
undated
3 items.
1
8
Draft Bird Drawings
(ink)
undated
4 items.
1
9
Draft Bird Drawings
(pencil)
undated
5 items.
Oversized
10
Figures 1-9 For Muscles of the
Pectoral Limb in Galliform Birds, Hudson and Langillotti,
American Midland Naturalist, 71 (1).
January 1964
4 items.
Galliformes Computer Runs (Hudson,
et al.), Muscle Coefficients:
1
11
Coefficients, Pelvic Limb
Muscles
1964
1
item.
1
12
Coefficients, Pelvic
Muscles
1965
4
items.
1
13
Coefficients, Wing
Muscles
1964
1
item.
1
14
Coefficients, Wing Muscles (All
Items)
1965
1
item.
1
15
Detail Sheets, Wing Muscles
(Computed by R. A. Parker)
April 13, 1962
1
item.
1
16
Leg and Wing Muscles
Chart
1965
1
item.
1
17
Leg Muscles, Pelvic Appendage
(Partridge, Grouse)
undated
12
items.
1
18
Negatives - Pectoral Appendage
(Pigeon, Blue Grouse, Prairie Falcon)
undated
2
items.
1
19
Pectorals,
Non-Sesamoid
1965
1
item.
1
20
Pectorals, Sesamoid
1965
1
item.
1
21
Pelvic Limb Muscles
(Revised)
1963
1
item.
1
22
Pelvic Limb Muscles
(Revised)
1963
1
item.
1
23
Pelvic Limb Muscle Scores
(Revised)
1964
1
item.
1
24
Pelvic Muscles
1964
1
item.
1
25
Wing Muscles Scores
1964
1
item.
1
26
Wing Muscles Scores
(Revised)
1964
1
item.
1
27
Wing Muscles Summaries, Computed
by R.A. Parker
1962
1
item.
1
28
Wing Myology, Wing Muscles
Summaries (Computed by R.A. Parker)
1962
1
item.
1
29
Hudson Data Sheets
undated
8 items.
1
30
Ink Drawings: Bird
Musculature
undated
9 items.
Oversized
31
Lari and Alcae, Original Drawings
(Figures 1-26b),
Ibis: III: 459-524. Hudson, et al.
1969
25
items.
1
32
Negatives--Crow Wing Muscles,
Plates 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10-20
April 2, 1951
18
items.
Oversized
33
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
1955
24
items.
Oversized
34
Original Drawings for Paper on
Muscles of the Pelvic Limb in Galliform Birds.
American Midland Naturalist, 57 (1): 1-66. (Author's
Note).
January 1959
6 items.
Oversized
35
Pectoral Appendage,
Falconiformes
undated
1 item.
1
36
Pectoral Appendage (cross-section),
Quail, Killdeer, Green-Winged Teal, Ring-Billed Gull, Pied-Billed Grebe,
Kingfisher, Burrowing Owl
undated
21
items.
1
37
Photostatic Prints From A Text,
Erklarung von Tafal, XIX-XXIV
undated
15
items.
1
38
Plates On Bird
Musculature
1951
7 items.
Oversized
39
Strigiformes and Caprimulgiformes:
Illustrations of the Pelvic Limb Muscles
undated
1 item.
Oversized
40
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.
January, 1937
60
items.
1
41
Tinamiformes--Pectoral and Pelic
Muscles Drawings
undated
21
items.
Oversized
42
Wing and Leg Muscles Correlation
Statistical Chart
undated
2 items.
Oversized
43
Wings, Crow (M.S. Thesis Drawings,
University of Nebraska, George E. Hudson)
1930
17
items.