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Historical materials
Below are a selection of transcribed or scanned materials from the archives of the department.
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- Jordan Hall dedication ceremony program (June 1956)
- Jordan Hall brochure (from its opening in the 1950's)
- "School Days" (covers 1896-1918, written in 1967 by Paul Weatherwax)
- "Zoology and its Makers at Indiana University: Sequel" (covers 1950-1968, by Theodore W. Torrey, 1968)
- "Zoology at Indiana University: The Torrey Years" (covers 1948-1966, by Frank N. Young)
- "Training in Microbiology at Indiana University-Bloomington" (L.S. McClung, 1981)
- "McClung's vision and effort to establish microbiology at IU" (E.D. Weinberg, 2001)
- "My Life—Up To Now" (L.S. McClung, 1996)
- "Where did all the departments go?" (covers 1950s to 1983, by Susan Green and Walter Konetzka, 1983)
- "A Brief History of Biology at Indiana University" (Frank N. Young, 1983)
- "A Brief History of Evolution at Indiana University" (excerpted from Frank Young's history, 1983)
- "Via Cadillac to Kalamazoo to You" (William Breneman's lecture on the history of the Earth, circa 1970)