James R. King (1927-1991) was born in San Jose, California. While earning his B.A. in Biological and Physical Sciences from San Jose State College, King married Eleanor P. Porter (1928-2006) in 1950. He then came to Washington State College, where he received his M.A. (1953) and Ph.D. (1957) with a combined focus in Zoology and Physiology. King became an Assistant Professor in Experimental Biology at the University of Utah, and then returned to WSU as a Professor of Zoophysiology in the Department of Zoology from 1960 until his death in 1991. King Served as Chairman of the Department of Zoology (1972-1978), the President of the Council of the Cooper Ornithological Society (1977-1978), and the President of the American Ornithologists' Union (1980-1982). He was also the recipient of the William Brewster Medal (1974), Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1969), editor of the journal "Condor" (1965-1968), and among many other publications, he co-edited the multivolume series "Avian Biology" with Donald Farner. In 1979, King received the WSU Distinguished Faculty Award, and the Department of Zoology annually awards a memorial James R. King Fellowship to graduate students.
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
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions may apply.
[Item description]
Preliminary Guide to the James R. King Papers, 1960-1991 (MS.1991.31)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Received by Washington State University Libraries from Eleanor P. King in 1991 (MS.1991.31).
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