Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery

This collection is organized into seven Series: I. History, II. Executive Committee, III. Membership, IV. Meetings, V. Publications, VI. Affiliated Societies, VII. Miscellaneous. Series II. And IV. Are further divided into subseries.

Series I: History – Box I

Series II: Executive Committee – Box I – XVI

Subseries:

1. President
2. Secretary
3. Treasurer
4. Tellers Committee

Series III: Membership – Box XVII – IXX

Series IV: Meetings – Box XX – XXI

Subseries:

1. Annual Business/Membership
2. Executive Committee

Series V: Publications – Box XXI – XXVI

Series VI: Affiliated Societies

SeriesVII: Miscellaneous

The collection came to UMBC Special Collections in two acquisitions. The first was accession number MSS 97-11 consisting of 16 boxes plus 47 bound and loose journals. The material dates from 1947 to 1990. It was transferred in March 1997 from Dr. Bruce Hill at Mt. Vernon College, Washington, D. C. The second acquisition came from Dr. Susan Langreth at the Herbert School of Medicine in Bethesda, Md. This consisted of three boxes of general records dating from 1984 to 1990. The acquisition number is SARCV 2000-13.

Addendum: A third donation of records was received after the earlier accessions had been processed. Accession SARCV 2001-04, consisting of 2 record cartons of materials, was donated by Dr. John Kloetzel on June 5, 2001.

This collection was processed by Sharon Knecht under the supervision of Marcia Frank Peri and completed in May 2001.

This collection of the records of the Society of Protozoologists arrived in two acquisitions of 16 boxes plus 47 bound and loose journals in March 1997 and 3 additional boxes of general records in November of 2000. The records were filed and received in a very disordered state due to the fact that there was no central office for the Society and were therefore kept by individual officers while they served the Society. It was determined that the bulk of the documents fall into recognizable groupings by officer. These were thus designated as the Executive Committee and were divided into attempt to keep the records filed under the office of the Society who created the record originally. There were very few files on specific Society committees, however various committee reports can be found in annual and executive committee meeting files. Remaining files were organized by the type of activity and in the order in which they were received. Multiple copies have been disposed of whenever there were more than two copies of a given document as have old checks and checkbooks.

Addendum 1: The two additional boxes of materials were processed in the fall of 2001 and are additions to Series II, Subseries 3 (Executive Committee, Treasurer.

Related materials: Agricultural Research Institute, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Biological Sciences, American Society for Cell Biology, American Type Culture Collection, National Academy of Sciences, Technical and Scientific Societies of the United States, World Federation of Parasitologists