Neal A. (Neal Albert) Weber papers, [ca. 1930s-1980s] Mss.Ms.Coll.12
Date: Circa 1930s-1980s
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Size: 22 Linear feet, Ca. 19,000 items
This diverse collection includes correspondence, field notes, lecture and meeting notes, publication material, drawings, and lantern slides. It documents Weber's professional career as an internationally known myrmecologist, or ant scientist, and his wider ranging interests in entomology and ecology. There are class and lab notes for his educational period at Harvard University (A.M. 1933; Ph.D. 1935), and substantial documentation on his primary academic career at Swarthmore College (1947-1974; includes teaching records, data on the Biology Dept. and the College). His field notes, 1930s-1970s (ca. 3 lin. ft.), contain detailed observations of the many scientific expeditions he was a member of, including trips to: West Indies, 1933-1936; Colombia, 1938; Sudan, Uganda, and Kenya, 1939. He also participated in numerous American Museum of Natural History expeditions: Central Africa, 1948; Middle East, 1950, 1952; and Tropical America, 1954. There are data for his time as visiting professor at the University of Baghdad, Iraq, 1950-1952, and his period as Scientific Attaché, Buenos Aires, for the U. S. Dept. of State, 1960-1962. Weber's contributions to polar scientific studies can be studied through his files of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Polar Research, 1958-1960 (he was on the panel on biological and medical science), as well as many numerous miscellaneous files on polar research. There is substantial material on the Entomological Society of America, and on such local ecological groups as the Chester-Ridley-Crum Watersheds Assoc., Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Entomologist Neal Albert Weber taught at Swarthmore College from 1947 to 1974.
American Museum of Natural History Chester-Ridley-Crum Watersheds Association. Entomological Society of America Harvard University -- Students. National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Polar Research Swarthmore College. -- Faculty. United States. -- Dept. of State. University of Baghdad -- Faculty. Drawings. Field notes. Lantern slides. Lecture notes. Africa, Central -- Description and travel Polar regions -- Discovery and exploration. Bennett, Thomas Peter Bequaert, Joseph C. (Joseph Charles), 1886-1982 Brown, W. L. (William L.) Campbell, Frank L. (Frank Leslie) Donisthorpe, Horace Emerson, Alfred E. (Alfred Edwards), 1896-1976 Haskins, Caryl P. (Caryl Parker), 1908-2001 Mann, William M, 1886-1960 Martin, Michael M. Talbot, Mary Weber, Neal A.(Neal Albert) Wheeler, George C. (George Carlos) Wheeler, William Morton, 1865-1937 Wilbur, Brayton Ants Arctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration Biology. Ecology. Entomology. Scientific expeditions.
