James William Bee Journals | KU Libraries Digital Collections

James Bee (1913-1996) was a professor of zoology and curator of mammalogy at the University of Kansas. Bee worked with Philip Humphrey to create the Museum Studies program at KU and implemented many new educational initiatives and collections methods at the university's Natural History Museum. His most notable field work was conducted in the Point Barrow region of the Arctic and in the Utah Valley. After his retirement from KU in 1979, James Bee moved with his wife to Lopez Island, Washington and continued his natural observations and studies.

This digital collection features James Bee's meticulously kept field journals from 1927-1995. The journals include extensive hand-written accounts of his travels and studies throughout his life, as well as related drawings, photographs, and botanical samples.

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: 1927 Journal

: 1928 Journal

: 1929 Journal

: 1930 Journal

: 1931 Journal

: 1932 Journal

: 1933 Journal

: 1934 Journal

: 1935 Journal

: 1936 Journal

: 1937 Journal

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: 1939 Journal

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: 1965 Journal

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: 1967 Journal

: 1968 Journal

: 1969 Journal

: 1970 Journal

: 1971 Journal

: 1972 Journal

: 1973 Journal

: 1974 Journal

: 1975 Journal

: 1976 Journal

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