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Rare Books and Special Collections Series
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Miscellaneous

File consists of typescripts related to Expo 67 and records related to McGill's own Canadian centennial celebrations of 1967. Many of the typescripts are preview or planning documents, including write-ups of Expo 67 event planning and pavilions. There is also a list of participants and exhibitors compiled by the Department of Exhibitions, Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition, and two library lists for periodicals and accessions. There are also two volumes of "The Story of Man and His World", in English, volume 1: May 17-July 31, 1968, and an unnumbered volume for June 12-September 1969.

Glass plate negatives

This series consists of glass plate negatives and other photographic materials with their original boxes relating to the Feather Book, ornithology, falconry, McGill University Library, and Casey Wood. The majority of the glass plates were produced in Berlin, Germany by Agra, while a few were produced in London, England and Toronto, Canada; which is indicated on the boxes the plates were contained in. On many of these boxes, McGill University librarian Dr. G. R. Lomer’s name appears, indicating these plates and photographic materials were used for library-related activities. Most of the plates, photographs, and photographic negatives (1927, 1930, 1956) show pages from the Feather Book by Dionisio Minaggio. Other glass plate negatives and photographic material depict artwork or images relating to ornithology and falconry, a portrait of Casey Wood (1927), Gronvold’s painting of Wood’s parrot John III (1930?), an ornithological archeological exhibit in the Redpath Library (1924), and library stacks in the Redpath Library (1924).

Minutes

Series consists of minute books from various Montreal camps and committees, including the Carrick-Deeside Camp, McKenzie (MacKenzie) Camp, Mount Stephen Camp, Past Grand Chief Association, Social Committee, and the Montreal District Committee.

Association of Canadian Publishers

Series contains records relating to the Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP), including newsletter "Just the Fax", correspondence, and membership information.

Montreal Microscopical Society

The series consists of administrative documents such as notes and proposals on membership, correspondence, invoices, programs of the Society (1896-1897), pages from the Microscopical Journal (1890), newspaper clippings on varying topics and a notebook of the Field Day Committee (1887).

This series also contains a published copy of R. Lachlan’s A Retrospective Glance at the Progressive State of the Natural History Society of Montreal (see Essays and Lectures Series). In addition, the series contains a few materials produced by the Natural History Society after 1902 such as invitation cards to meetings.

Vehicule

This series consists of materials that relate to the group of poets that Endre Farkas was associated with called the Cabaret Vehicule Poets.

Henry James : Research Files

Series consists of various research files created by Edel in the course of his work on Henry James. The majority of files are copies of original sources, such as the diaries of Theodora Bosquanet, James's amanuensis. Includes numerous off-prints related to James's various novels, Edel's notes on James's letters and correspondents, and ephemera such as book jackets and drafts. Many notes, drafts, and miscellany relate to Edith Wharton and Percy Lubbock.

Minutes

The minutes series comprises eight bound volumes, two publications and one envelope of loose duplicate minutes. The minutes document proceedings from the annual, general, monthly, special, ordinary and extraordinary meetings held by the Society. It consists of the minutes from the Natural History Society (1827-1923), the Natural History Society Council (1827-1922), and the Natural History Society Committees (1906-1908).

The handwritten and typed minutes document the Society’s activities, including lists of members, newspaper articles, donations to the Society, elections, advertisements for sponsored lectures, and reports from committees. Handwritten copies of letters from Dr. Meade, Mr. C.U. Shepard, Major Delafield (File 5.2) and Robert Burn (File 9.1) to the Society as well as letters sent on behalf of the Society (Smithsonian Institute, File 5.1) are included with the minutes.

Artefacts

This series consists of falconry equipment, falconry exhibit labels and cards, a taxidermy young peregrine falcon, and two large burlap envelopes collected by Casey A. Wood from 1920-1937. Also included in this series are two Wolf Envelope Co. (Ohio) allsteel transfer cases manufactured by General Fireproofing Co., Ohio for book binding, found within Wood’s materials (191-?).
The leather falconry equipment and those worn by the young peregrine falcon were made by Otto Kals in Dusseldor-Benrath, Germany approximately in 1930-1937 and the falcon bells were made by Captain Russell Luff Meredith in the United States in 1920. The taxidermy young peregrine falcon in training is mounted on a weathering block and wears a United States Bureau of Biological Survey identification band, indicating that it was acquired legally. The falcon is also wearing a hood, a leash, a swivel, and a jess. A falcon bell is also held with the falcon as well as another leather jess, which is damaged.
Many of the artefacts in this series were purchased by Casey A. Wood due to his interest in falconry during his research with Marjorie Fyfe for the publication “The Art of Falconry,” a translation of Frederick II of Hosenstaufen's “de Arte Vendandi cum Avibus.” The falconry items were gifted to the Redpath Library at McGill University in autumn 1938 by Dr. Casey A. Wood.
The two large burlap envelopes previously held the contents of flat box MSG 1203-2-25, which contains photostats produced by the British Museum of Emperor Frederick II's manuscript “de Arte Venandi cum Avibus,” books I-II. It is evident on one envelope that labels were removed, while the other includes two original labels indicating Persian miniatures and drawings from the "fourteenth to nineteenth century, collected in North India, Bombay, Cairo, and London by Casey A. Wood," were previously contained. These two labels were scratched out and the note "Fred. II" was added.

Translations

This series consists of poems translated by Endre Farkas into English and French. A large portion of this translations are of a Hungarian poet named Bari Karoly, with whom Farkas was good friends.

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