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This correspondence was added to the collection as part of an additional installment to the Jones Family Papers. The series contains both personal and professional correspondence of Lynds and Clara Jones, as well as correspondence with colleagues concerning the Wilson Ornithological Club. It includes correspondence with Althea Sherman, an Oberlin graduate and ornithologist who was the first to observe and document the life cycle of chimney swifts.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Consisting of two filing units: personal diaries, 1883-1951; and travel diaries, 1898-1926. This series contains diaries kept by Lynds Jones before, during, and after his years at Oberlin College. Information in the personal diaries includes the day-to-day activities of Lynds Jones, as well as temperature and weather data he recorded for each day of the year. Travel diaries also exist from Lynds and Clara Jones in which is recorded their travels between 1898 and 1926--primarily to the...

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The writings and notes series primarily relates to Lynds Jones’ professional ornithological work as it mostly contains research materials (data sheets and field studies), and articles (drafts and published copies) of the professor’s. Also found here are the personal writings and public speeches of Clara Tallmon Jones, as well as a small amount of miscellaneous writings of others.

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Covers years 1897 through 1949.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Arranged into four filing units (letters received and sent by Clara Tallmon Jones, 1873-1956, undated; letters received and sent by Jones family members, 1875-1926, undated; letters received and sent by Tallmon family members, 1854-1924, undated; and, miscellaneous, 1832-1835), this series contains correspondence from members of the Jones-Tallmon families. The bulk of the series consists of the incoming and outgoing correspondence of Clara Tallmon Jones.  Correspondents include her...

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1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1954

Scope and Contents From the Series: Consisting of two filing units: personal diaries, 1883-1951; and travel diaries, 1898-1926. This series contains diaries kept by Lynds Jones before, during, and after his years at Oberlin College. Information in the personal diaries includes the day-to-day activities of Lynds Jones, as well as temperature and weather data he recorded for each day of the year. Travel diaries also exist from Lynds and Clara Jones in which is recorded their travels between 1898 and 1926--primarily to the...

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Spring Bird Migration at Oberlin, Ohio, 1896-1935; The Oberlin Grackle Roost, 1897; The Wilson Bulletin, 1897, 1899, 1910; The Birds of Ohio, 1903; Nineteen Years of Bird Migration at Oberlin, 1914; Miscellaneous articles, 1888, 1924

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This correspondence was added to the collection as part of an additional installment to the Jones Family Papers. The series contains both personal and professional correspondence of Lynds and Clara Jones, as well as correspondence with colleagues concerning the Wilson Ornithological Club. It includes correspondence with Althea Sherman, an Oberlin graduate and ornithologist who was the first to observe and document the life cycle of chimney swifts.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This correspondence was added to the collection as part of an additional installment to the Jones Family Papers. The series contains both personal and professional correspondence of Lynds and Clara Jones, as well as correspondence with colleagues concerning the Wilson Ornithological Club. It includes correspondence with Althea Sherman, an Oberlin graduate and ornithologist who was the first to observe and document the life cycle of chimney swifts.