Additions to the Norland Collection

Clarissa Salter, sister of Calvert E. Norland, professor of zoology at SDSU from 1947 to 1976, has donated additional materials to her uncle's collection. Professor Norland's collection, which consists of his and his wife Elisabeth's personal library of scientific works, as well as letters, manuscripts, prints, and artifacts, has been housed in Special Collections and University Archives since 1974. The collection contains rich sources of information on the history of biology and the sciences. Salter's recent contribution to the collection includes research papers on such topics as entomology prepared by Norland for students in his history of biology course during the 1960s and 1970s. Yet it also features a paper on the philosophy of conservation--partly written in his own hand--and an outline of the history of the world through the Renaissance. Additionally, several reprints of articles that Norland consulted for his research and teaching are part of the new accession, covering such topics as coastal sand dune plants of California and eighteenth-century scientists in New Spain.