Highlights from ESA Archives
ESA’s papers are held at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia, Athens. The papers of distinguished ESA members and eminent ecologists are included in the collection. Documents collected go well beyond routine administrative matters and shed much light on the evolving history of ecology and of ESA over the century. Here we include a sample of documents to illustrate the diversity of materials that can be found in these papers.
An finding aid for ESA’s Administrative papers is available online. The ESA curator is E. Gilbert Head: email Gilbert Head.
A related collection is The Institute of Ecology (TIE) whose finding aid is online.
Explore these selections from the Archives:
Pioneer Ecologists who built the discipline
- Tribute to Homer Shantz, 1944
- Marion Ellis to A.G. Vestal, 1915
- Barrington Moore to Vestal, 1920
- Barrington Moore to A.G. Vestal, book review, 1930
- Cornelius Mueller to A.G. Vestal, economy and employment, 1930s
Role of Ecology in Society, ESA’s political voice
- ESA and the 1968 Election
- Auerbach to Gore re: damming the Cumberland River, 1968
- LaMont Cole to Sen. Jackson re: ecologists as advisers, 1968
- Letter to ESA president Auerbach on herbicides in Vietnam, 1970
- F.H. Bormann on the urban crisis, 1970
- Rep. Blackburn to Ed Deevey, 1970
