Association of Southeastern Biologists publications, 1954-2012

Summary

Creator:
Association of Southeastern Biologists
Date:
1954-2012
Extent:
3 Linear Feet 3 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Association of Southeastern Biologists publications, UA01-007, University Archives, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Association of Southeastern Biologists publications: ASB Bulletin and Southern Biology dating from the 1950s through 2012.

Biographical / historical:

The Association of Southeastern Biologists, a voluntary association of individuals engaged in research, teaching, and graduate study of biology and related sciences, was organized in 1937. The major objective of the Association is to encourage advances in biology and related sciences by promoting research, by preserving biological resources, and through its meetings, reports, and publications. Biologists in Georgia felt keenly a sense of professional isolation as they pursued research and teaching in the early decades of the twentieth century. In 1936, the Georgia Academy of Science invited representatives of other scientific academies to meet in Athens, Georgia to consider the organization of a regional association for biologists. No firm decision to organize was made at that time. The faculty of the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Georgia invited biologists from Georgia and the immediately surrounding states to a meeting May 7 and 8, 1937. Definite interest in a regional association of biologists grew out of that meeting, and the Association of Southeastern Biologists was organized with its next annual meeting to be held at the University of Georgia in 1938. Originally located at Emory University as manuscript collection 602, the archives were moved to UGA in 2002 and assigned the number UGA 02-030.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged by journal title and chronological order.

Access and use restrictions

Preferred citation:

Association of Southeastern Biologists publications, UA01-007, University Archives, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.