Correspondence

, 1928 re: Specimens
Scope and Content Note: This folder contains about 35 letters, mostly August-October 1928, concerning Wisconsin grouse specimens shipped to Dr. Gross in Maine for pathological examination. Correspondents include conservation wardens, Dr. M.L. Jones of the Research Bureau, W.B. Grange, Superintendent of Game, and various other individuals who sent specimens.

1928-1929
Scope and Content Note: About 105 letters, September 1928 to December 1929, are included, many of them correspondence with W.B. Grange concerning initiation and conduct of the first year's investigation. Among other correspondents are Duane Kipp, Dr. M.L. Jones, Aldo Leopold, William C. Adams, Herbert L. Stoddard, P.S. Lovejoy, and M.D. Pirnie. The letter from Gross to Grange, Dec. 14, 1928, contains a list of legends for lantern slides.

1930, Jan.-May
Scope and Content Note: About 85 letters are included, dealing with the progress report, photographs, and preparation for the summer 1930 investigation. Besides considerable correspondence with Grange and Kipp, there is some with Leopold, Paul Kelleter, Matt Patterson, A.C. Bent, Outram Bangs, Jones, Pirnie, Alvin Whitney, Carlos Avery, F.S. Lodge, and W.L. McAtee.

1930, June-1931, Feb.
Scope and Content Note: The approximately 105 letters in this folder concern conduct of the summer 1930 investigation, preparation of motion picture films, preparation and editing of the progress report, and matters relating to other articles and talks about the investigation. Much of the correspondence is with Duane Kipp, Superintendent of Education and Publications; also represented are Grange, Jones, Patterson, Stoddard, O.J. Gromme, E.E. Tyzzer, F.J.W. Schmidt, William Mauthe, Kelleter, and William F. Grimmer.

, 1931 Comments
Scope and Content Note: The progress report was distributed in February 1931. This folder contains about 30 congratulatory letters, February and March 1931, from many noted ornithologists and naturalists.

Data and Photographs

Data: Specimens, Films, etc.
Scope and Content Note: Included in this folder are data on stomach contents of prairie chicken and sharp-tailed grouse; hatching times; lists of specimens and collectors, and parasites and diseases; subject matter of moving picture reels, and legends for lantern slides.

Specimens selected for food determination by Dr. E.E. Tyzzer
Scope and Content Note: Envelope containing about 38 data cards on individual birds.

Original Field Notes, 1929-1930
Scope and Content Note: This envelope contains 4x6 inch cards or slips, pencil or typed, of Gross' field notes. For summer 1929, there are pages numbered 1-180 (with a few missing) covering June 4 to July 14. For summer 1930 there is a list of nests found (15 pp.), notes from May 29 to June 14 (circa 20 pp.), about 60 pp. of notes arranged according to nest numbers, and about 15 miscellaneous sheets.

Photographs
Scope and Content Note: Envelope containing 18 prints of prairie chickens and habitat, including one hand-colored print.

Snapshots
Scope and Content Note: An album containing about 73 photographs by Gross, 1930, of prairie chickens, eggs, chicks, and habitat. Negative numbers are indicated, but not captions. (This album was originally housed in Box 2, Folder 2.)

Manuscripts

Progress Report

Early Draft
Scope and Content Note: These are typed drafts of about half the material in the completed progress report. Several sections are labelled “first draft” and most contain pencil or ink revisions, many of which are incorporated in the later draft. Also included in the folder are 4 outline maps showing grouse, nest, and feeding station distribution.

Copy 1
Scope and Content Note: This folder contains the original copy of the major draft, but it is not complete. Page numbers corresponding to the published version have been noted in the upper left corner. The draft contains some pencil and ink revisions, mostly in Gross' hand.

Copy 2
Scope and Content Note: This is a complete carbon of the major draft (above), also with revisions, some of which are different from those on the original copy. Included in the folder are proof sheets for many of the photographs and drawings used in the report.

Copy 3
Scope and Content Note: Unrevised carbons of some sections of the above.

Gross Manuscripts
Scope and Content Note: The following typed drafts, many with revisions, are included:

• “Prairie Chicken Report” 4 pp. plus carbon of pp. 2-4; early version of below
• “Prairie Chicken Report” 6 pp. “as read in N.Y.”
• “The Wisconsin Prairie Chicken Investigation” 7 pp. “as presented to Bull. Am Game Protective Ass.” with cover letter from Carlos Avery, Jan. 7, 1930 (A revised version of “Prairie Chicken Report” above)
• “New England Ruffed Grouse Investigation” 5 pp. “New England Game Conference, January 11th, 1930”
• “Home Life of the Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin” 2 pp. “Federation--Boston”
• “The Prairie Chicken of the Wisconsin Prairies” pp. 1, 6-9. “Bird Lore”
• “Prairie Chicken” 9 pp. talk
• “Prairie Chicken Investigation” 1-p. fragment; “A.O.U. Meeting, Salem, Mass., Oct 21-23 Inc.” [193O]
• “The Heath Hen Census for 1930” 3 pp. 2 copies
• “Save the Prairie Chicken for Illinois” 4 pp. with cover letter to F.S. Lodge, Dec. 14, 1930; also included in correspondence with Lodge is a 2-pp. comment on Professor Frank Smith
• “305. Tympanchus Cupido Americanus...” 29 pp.
• 2 magazine covers with Gross prairie chicken photographs (American Game, April-May 1930, and The Game Breeder, Feb. 1931)
• pp. 85-88 of “The Wisconsin Prairie Chicken Investigation” clipped from the Game Breeder, March 1931
• a mimeographed bibliography of the publications of A.O. Gross, to 1966

F.J.W. Schmidt Manuscripts

Scope and Content Note

• “Program of Work for Game Research” 3 pp.
• “Food, Parasites, Disease and Abundance of Grouse in Wood County” 6 pp.
• “Parasites and Disease at the State Game Farm” 1 p.
• “Predatory Animal Nest Destruction” 2 pp.
• “Conservation Commission Study Skin Collection” 1 p.
• “Grouse Hunting at Babcock, October 1-6, 1932” 7 pp.
• “Banding...” 6 pp. handwritten report, 1932
• [3 drawings] 1932
• [letter to Gross] Nov. 21, 1932.

Wallace Grange Manuscripts

Scope and Content Note

• “A Five Year Program for Game Research” 8 pp. typed [circa May 1930--see Grange to Gross, May 16, 1930]
• “The Future of the Prairie Chicken” clipped from Outdoor America, March 1930, pp. 18-20