Calvert E. Norland Manuscript, Print, and Artifact Collection

(2nd century, A.D. to 1995)

Special Collections

Library and Information Access

San Diego State University

5500 Campanile Drive

San Diego, CA 92182-8050

Administrative Information

Extent
4 linear feet plus 161 items

Provenance
The Calvert E. Norland Manuscript, Print, and ArtifactCollection was donated by collection Calvert and Elisabeth Norland to Special Collections and University Archives in 1974 (addition 2003).

Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.

Copyright:
The copyright interests in this materials found in this collection have been transferred to San Diego State University. Special Collections and University Archives can only grant permission to publish materials for which it is the copyright holder. For further information, please consult the section on copyright in the rules for using the collections, or contact the United States Copyright Office at (202) 707-3000 or http://www.loc.gov/copyright.

Audiovisual: None.

Photograph: In box 1.

Preferred Citation
Identification of item, folder title, box number, [Calvert E. Norland Manuscript, Print, and Artifact Collection,] Special Collections and University Archives, Library and Information Access, San Diego State University.

Processed by :
Elke Zobl, May 2003.

HTML by Elke Zoble, 2003

Contact Information:
Special Collections and University Archives, Library and Information Access, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-8050

Email: scref@rohan.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-6791
Fax: (619) 594-0466

Bibliography

Calvert E. Norland (1908 - 2002) was born June 24, 1908 in Los Angeles, later moving to Orange County, California in 1911 where he attended public schools. His interest in entomology led to studies at Santa Ana Junior College and Pomona College where he graduated magna cum laude in 1931. It was during this time he met and married his wife, Elisabeth Davenport Crow, also a graduate of Pomona College. The young couple moved to Berkeley where Mr. Norland continued his studies, receiving his M.S. from University of California at Berkeley.

Norland was an Entomologist-Agricultural Inspector in Orange County from 1933 to 1939. He received his teaching credentials from Claremont College in 1939. From 1939 to 1940 he did graduate work in education and entomology at the University of California at Berkeley and from 1954 to 1958 graduate courses in education at the University of Southern California.

Norland served as an officer in the United States Army where he served as a Medical Entomologist from 1942 to 1947 in India, China and Japan. He left the army as a Lt. Colonel.

His career at San Diego State University began in 1947 as an Instructor and Professor of Entomology, Zoology and Botany where he worked until his retirement in 1976. Professor Norland was a member of several scientific societies. Both he and his wife were avid supporters of music and art throughout their marriage and were members of the San Diego Opera, Symphony and the San Diego Museum of Art.

He and Elisabeth (Betty), a well-known botanist, were married 62 years until her death in 1993. Their son, Eric, died in 1969. Dr. Norland passed away on September 20, 2002 in Arcadia, California.

In 1974, Professor Calvert E. Norland and Elisabeth C. Norland donated their extensive personal library on the history of biology and the sciences to the Library. The books are cataloged and housed in the Special Collections and University Archives Department. Letters and manuscripts were collected by Professor Norland for their history of science interest and consist, in part, of correspondence from Wallace M. Pearce (araneologist), Wyatt W. Jones (entomologist), Lee H. Watkins (apiarist), and handwritten notebooks from early to mid-1800s on botanical/garden, and entomology topics. Also included is a notebook of Louis Agassiz lectures on geology.

Scope and Content Note

The Calvert E. Norland Manuscript, Print, and Artifact Collection measures 4 linear feet plus 161 items and date from 2nd century, A.D. to 1995. The collection is arranged in four series.

The prints are all housed in flat files; the majority are framed and suitable for hanging. Science, botany, insects, and human anatomy are all represented.

The artifacts include such items as Roman surgical tools, microscopes, specimen slides.

Series Description

The Professional series (1803 - 1973) contains C. E. Norland's certificates and awards, correspondence as well as correspondence and research material collected by C. E. Norland, and his lecture notes and papers.

The Personal series (1944 - 1995) contains correspondence with Betty Norland during World War II when Calvert Norland was stationed in Calcutta, India, correspondence from friends and colleagues, items regarding Norland's interests in Art and Music and his philanthropic interest in SDSU library, and in particular in Special Collections and University Archives.

The Prints and Drawings series (1785-1929) contains engravings and prints of portraits of scientists, sketches of human and insect anatomy, botany and facsimiles of historic documents on astronomy.
The Artifacts (2nd century, A.D. - 1880) series contains microscopic instruments (microscopes, magnifying glasses and slide specimens) as well as Roman bronze surgical instruments.

Subject Access Terms

Norland, Calvert E. (1908 - 2002)
Art Objects -- Roman -- Surgical instruments
Bee culture -- Beekeeping
Botany -- Anatomy of plants
Botany -- Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona
Entomology -- Economic
Entomology -- Insects
Entomology -- Research
Entomology -- Study and Teaching
History -- Biology
History -- Science
History -- Natural Sciences
Human Anatomy
Insects -- Anatomy
Insects -- Collection and preservation
Library -- San Diego State University -- Policies and Services
Library -- San Diego State University -- Special Collections and University Archives -- gifts
Lithographs -- Natural history
Lithographs -- Human skeleton and musculature
Microscopes -- History
Magnifying glasses
Mosquitoes -- Malaria
Natural History -- Science
Natural History -- Collection and preservation
Natural History -- Scientific illustration -- Botanical illustration
Natural History -- Scientific illustration -- Scientific illustration
Natural History -- Scientific illustration -- Zoological illustration
Plant Collecting
Plant Research
Portrait prints -- scientists and writers
Science --Natural Science
Science -- Study and teaching -- United States -- California
Science -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Job applications
Scientists - - Pearce, Wallace M. -- Entomologist-araneologist
Scientists - - Wallace, Russel Alfred -- naturalist
Scientists - - Watkins, Lee H. -- apiarist

Related Collections at San Diego State University

The History of Medicine in the Norland Collection: An Annotated Bibliography
The History of Medicine in the Norland Collection: A Checklist Ordered by Author
The History of Medicine in the Norland Collection: A Checklist Ordered by Call Number

Related Collections at Other Repositories

Kendall-Frost Marsh Preserve/Mission Bay
Robert E. Smith Papers
Ernst Zinner Collection
Zinner Portrait Collection
History of Biomedicine
American Committee of Medical Entomology
The Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods)
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (Department of Entomology)
The Natural History Museum, London (Entomology Department)

Container List

Box 1

Professional

Certificates and Awards
Correspondence

Job applications 1947

- Curriculum Vitae (notes), photographs of C. E. Norland, Norland's 'Officers' application for settlement [Armed Forces Leave Act of 1946]'

- Letters from and to The California Department of Agriculture [3 letters], California State Department of Education [2 credentials], California Teachers Association [1 letter], personal letter from Charles F. Chapman regarding teaching positions in Northern California, The Claremont Graduate School [2 transcripts of records, 2 letters], The Clemson Agricultural College [5 letters]

- Letters from the Los Angeles University of Applied Education, Longfellow Junior High School, Long Beach Public Schools

M, N

- Letters from the Monterey Peninsula College [2 letters], Navy with a 'Chronological Record of Military Experience'

- Letters from and to the Pennsylvania State College [2 letters], Pomona College [2 copies of Transcript of Record, 4 letters], Public School of the District of Columbia application form

- Letters from Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden [4 letters], Richmond school system

- Letters from and to the San Diego State College [5 letters, employee's earning statement 1950], Santa Ana School System, Santa Ana Junior College [2 letters], Santa Ana City Schools [3 letters], State of California/Department of Agriculture [5 letters], State of California/Department of Education, Southwestern Teachers Agency [4 letters]
Box 1 (cont.)
Professional (cont.)
Correspondence (cont.)
Job applications 1947 (cont.)

- Letters from and to the University of California, Berkeley [6 transcripts of records, 8 letters], U.S. National Museum/Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine ['Entomological activities questionnaire armed forces personnel' and 'A history of entomology in relation to World War II'], U.S. Department of Agriculture/San Francisco, U.S. Department of Agriculture/Washington D.C [4 letters with 2 envelopes], U.S. Civil Service Commission ['Application for Federal Employment' form], University of Idaho/College of Agriculture [4 letters]
Lee H. Watkins [apiarist]
- Correspondence to C. E. Norland 1966-71
- Articles on history of beekeeping in the Western United States 1967-1970]

Collected Correspondence [correspondence collected by C. E. Norland]

S.F. Blake 1924-37 [botanist]

- [Letters between the New York Botanical Garden, Herbarium of L. H. Bailey, Gray Herbarium at Harvard University, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, The Arnold Arboretum Harvard University and S.F. Blake]

W.W. Jones [entomologist]

Correspondence 1917-72

- Letters between the University of California at Riverside/College of Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture/Bureau of Entomology in Washington D.C., U.S. National Museum in Washington, D.C., California Academy of Sciences at San Francisco, Dr. George Duff, L.V. Olson,
Professor R. W. Doane/Stanford University, Geo. M. Stirrett/Department of Agriculture in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, Dr. and Mrs. Norland and W.W. Jones

Misc. [notes, list, drafts of insect descriptions]

- Manuscript on "Two new species of Nepticula from California", a list with "American Nepticulae", "Nepticula", "Paraleucoptera", etc.

Papers 1920-1952 [A detailed contents list is included with the papers]

Wallace M. Pearce [entomologist-araneologist]

- Incoming and outgoing correspondence 1938-67 [a detailed contents list is included with the letters; a biographical sketch of W. M. Pearce is attached at the end of the inventory]
- Misc. 1940-43 [correspondence, notes, study material and drawings not included in the contents list above]

Alfred Russel Wallace [naturalist]

- Misc. Notes [A. R. Wallace may have been Wallace M. Pearce's maternal grandfather?]

Collected research material [material collected by C. E. Norland]

- Mounted butterflies and edelweiss, found in 18th century German bible
- Pencil drawings and text of animal and plant life, found in 18th century German bible
- Bibliographies and various articles in entomology (1740-1893)
- Notebook, possibly from Rockingham, NC. Includes entries in two different hands, starting at either end of the book:

1) May 1803 - Feb. 1804 "Botanical Calendar" [listing of plants, most likely observed in wild]
2) Nov. 1811 - 1816 "Gardening Memories" [garden diary]

- Manuscript/diary/research notes on insect collecting and identification, British, Jan 1810-Oct 1817. Very fine pencil drawings throughout.
- Photocopy of "Political essay on the Kingdom of New Spain (etc.)" by Alexander de Humboldt (1811)
- Photocopy of "In Memoriam Allan Marion Barnes" (1924-1992)
- Brochure "The Panama Canal" by Ruth Winter Cameron and J. Isabella Dodds. The Pan American Union: Washington, DC, 1942.
- Brochure "Atlas of India" by A. M. Lorenzo. Oxford Pamphlets of Indian Affairs, London: Oxford University Press. No. 8, July 1944 [second edition, enclosed are handwritten notes on Indian religion]
- Pamphlets "Flax Pests" (1954), "Biology of Scymnus Nubes Casey" (1923) and a "Picture Guide to Southern Arizona Wildflowers" (1963)
- Newsletter "Los Entomologos", San Diego. September 21, 1964.
- Swedish Museum Pamphlet (two-sided) "Linnemuseet I Uppsala" and "Linnes Hammarby" (1963) [With English texts to the pictures]
- Pamphlet "Botanical explorations in Washington, Oregon, California and adjacent regions" by John H. Thomas (1969)
- Notebook of handwritten "Notes from Prof. [Louis] Agassiz Lectures on Geology," J.F. Flagg (n.d.).

Box 1 (cont.)

Professional (cont.)

Collected research material (cont.)

- Nine "Rare and/or unusual letters, notes (mostly purchased) dealing with biological matters" (Norland's description). Including 2 holograph letters and marginalia from Louis Agassiz (n.d.)
- "Marginalia II", by C. E. Norland (2 copies, n.d.)

Lecture Notes and Papers

- Economic Entomology 1965
- History of Biology 1962
- History of Biology 1964, 1965, 1967
- History of Biology 1971, 1972

Box 2

Professional (cont.)

Research Notes and Papers

- Assorted Photographs of insects and plants 1924-25
- Calendar and address notes 1945
- Research reports by C.E. Norland: "Coleoptera: Common in this vicinity", "Hemiptera: The bugs common in this vicinity", "Swamp and river life in Western Orange County"
- Handwritten notes by C.E. Norland on "The history of Agriculture"
- Handwritten miscellany notes [exhibit lists]
- Four notebooks with field notes 1968, 1970, 1971, 1973 [Mexico]
- Research paper by C.E. Norland: "Notes on the Early History of the Microscope" (1963)
- Manuscript: "Some Basic Concepts Underlying the Philosophy of Conservation

Personal

Correspondence

- Letters to Betty [Elizabeth] and Eric Norland when Calvert Norland was stationed with the Navy in Calcutta, India during WWII

- August 1944
- September 1944
- October 1944
- November 1944
- December 1944
- January 1945
- February 1945
- March 1945
- April 1945
- May 1945
- June 1945
- July 1945
- August 1945
- September 1945
- October 1945
- November 1945
- December 1945
- January 1946
- April 1946

- Personal letters from friends and colleagues 1977, 1985, 1995.
- Mexican postcards with congratulations to 50th wedding anniversary, includes news clippings on traveling by train in Mexico (1973, 1974)
- Guestbook 1975-76

Hobbies

Art and Music

- Music Magazines: "Bravo" Vol.X, No.3, 1971 and "Blithe Spirit" (Kansas, n.d.)
- Misc. Music Programs from the Berkeley Musical Association and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (1931-32)
- Misc. Music Programs from the San Diego Symphony Orchestra (1968-1969), the Helen H. Price Concert and Stage Attractions (1950-1953), the San Diego Opera (1979), CALTECH Committee on Programs (1977), Pomona College - Department of Music (1939-1931), Clairemont Colleges Artist Course (1935), and the Los Angeles Music Guild (1948).
- Misc. Music Programs: University of California, San Diego (1967), University of California (1933), Geary Theatre (1931), Theatre Mart (n.d.), International Artists Series, San Diego (1969), Columbia Theatre (1932), ENSA Garrison Theatre, Calcutta (1945), the American Red Cross (1945).
- Newspaper music reviews: "New Yorkers Evaluate Dobrowen" in: San Francisco Chronicle Dec. 11, 1932 and "Stokowski and the Era of the Gods" in: Los Angeles Times (n.d.)
- Sheet music purchase in Bloomington, Indiana (1983?)
- Booklet: "The Los Angeles Grand Opera Association 1924-1934:
A Short Career in a Big City" by Cardell Bishop (1979)
- Notebooks with inventory of music recordings A-C and D-G, as well as handwritten notes

Box 3

Personal (cont.)

Philanthropy

SDSU library

- Friends of the library board minutes, newsletters, reports, member lists and correspondence 1974-1990
- "Library Policies, Materials, and Services described for the Faculty", New Series, Vol.1, No.3, December 9, 1959
- Special Collections information regarding C. E. Norland collection 1976 booklist and correspondence regarding Norland's donation
- Lists of donations 1979-1990
- Norland's original book collection catalog cards. Handwritten on 5"x7" index cards
- Notes on book collection
Anatomy
Botany and herbals
History
Medieval science and renaissance
Microscope
Science in ancient civilizations

A-B [information on authors, organized alphabetically by last name]
C-D
E-F
G
H
I-K
L-M
N-P
Q-R
S-T
U-Z

Prints and Drawings

- Engravings and prints of insects (9)

Flat File 3, Drawer 1

Prints and Drawings (cont.)

- Rev. J. Bachman, D.D., portrait, 1811
- John J. Audubon, portrait, 1835
- Louis Agassiz, portrait, ca. 1840
- John Charles Spencer, portrait, [1782-1845] (Earl Spencer, better known as Viscount Althorp)
- Galileo Galilei, portrait [modern reproduction, n.d.]
- Sir John Hill, M.D. portrait, [1714?-1775] "Knight of the Polar Star, First Superintendent of the Royal Gardens at Kew"
- Anthony Van Leeuwenboek, portrait [1632-1723] (magazine reproduction of painting in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) "Father of Microscopy"

Flat File 3, Drawer 2