Administrative/Biographical Note
| 1945 |
Edward Steinhaus (1914-1969) established the Laboratory of Insect Pathology at the
University of California, Berkeley.
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| 1958 |
The First International Conference on Insect Pathology and Biological Control was
organized by Jaroslav Weiser, and held in Prague, Czechoslovakia. This meeting facilitated
the first collaboration between insect pathology scientists.
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| 1959 |
The first issue of the Journal of Invertebrate Pathology is published, edited by Edward
Steinhaus.
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| 1967 |
Edward Steinhaus proposed the formation of a new society for Invertebrate Pathology. |
| May 1967 |
The founding meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology was held in Seattle,
Washington. Edward Steinhaus was elected first President, and Albert K. Sparks elected
first Vice president.
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| December 1967 |
The first issue of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology Newsletter was published. |
| 1968 |
The first annual meeting of the SIP, hosted by John Briggs, is held in Columbus, Ohio
with the annual meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
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| 1970 |
The first Division of the SIP, Microsporidia, was officially established at the annual
meeting in College Park, Maryland.
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| 1981-1982 |
Mauro Martignoni wrote the SIP Constitution and Bylaws. |
| 1996 |
Two divisions of the SIP, the Bacteria Division and the Virus Division, were officially
established at the annual meeting in Cordoba, Spain.
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| 1999 |
The Division of Diseases of Beneficial Invertebrates was officially established at
the annual meeting in Park City, Utah.
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| 2000 |
The Nematode Division of the SIP was officially established at the annual meeting
in Guanajuato, Mexico.
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Scope & Content
Arrangement
This collection is organized into five series:
Series I. Council
- Meeting proceedings
- Establishing documents
Series II. Publications
- Newsletters
- Meeting programs and abstracts
- Directories
- Education
Series III. Members
- Member directories
- Honorary members
- Mauro Matignoni
- Jaroslav Weiser
- Edward Steinhaus
Series IV. Photographs
Series V. Audiovisual
- Presentations
- Interviews
Note
The Society for Invertebrate Pathology (SIP), founded in 1967, is a group for students,
researchers, and scientists around the world who study diseases in invertebrate species.
Their records span from 1954 to 2012, and are 5.75 linear feet. The records are divided
into five series: I. Council, II. Publications, III. Members, IV. Photographs, and
V. Audiovisual.
Council Records (Series I) are divided into two sub-series: A. Meeting Proceedings
and B. Establishing documents. The meeting proceedings contain minutes from the SIP's
first and second business meetings (1968-1970). The establishing documents contain
drafts and final editions of the SIP Constitution and Bylaws written by Mauro Martignoni
in 1981-1982.
Series II is the largest series in the collection. The publications are divided by
type into four sub-series: A. Newsletters, B. Meeting programs and abstracts, C. Directories,
and D. Education. The newsletters span 1968-2012, and include scanned copies of volumes
1 through 31. The meeting programs and abstracts are predominately from SIP meetings
but also include meetings held in conjunction with the SIP: the American Institute
of Biological Sciences and the International Congress of Invertebrate Pathology. Directories
are published by the SIP or affiliated organizations for scientist engaged in related
fields. Membership directories are located in Series III. Educational publications
include glossaries, course listings, and laboratory exercises.
Member records (Series III) span from 1967 to 2012 and are divided into five sub-series:
A. Directories, B. Honorary Members, C. Mauro Martignoni, D. Jaroslav Weiser, and
E. Edward Steinhaus. This series contains directories published by the SIP for society
members, biographical data, curriculum vitae, papers, and correspondence of SIP members.
The correspondence from sub-series B is between Elizabeth Davidson and honorary members
of the SIP. The Martignoni records include his correspondence with Davidson and his
own papers. Included with the Martignoni papers is a biographical book on Edward Steinhaus
(1970). Weiser records include his correspondence with Elizabeth Davidson. Steinhaus
records include scanned correspondence, dated 1963-1971, between Dr. Edward Steinhaus,
Mabry Steinhaus, and Dr. John Briggs. The correspondence also includes photographs
of Ohio State University and Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center faculty
from 1966.
The photographs (Series IV) are not divided into sub-series. They span from 1954 to
2012. The SIP photographs are of annual meetings, lectures, members, laboratories,
and affiliated institutions or organizations. Other institutions include laboratories
in Germany and Prague, the Laboratory of Insect Pathology at Berkeley, and the Glasshouse
Institute. This series includes prints, slides (most likely from member John Briggs),
and scanned copies on CDs. Some CDs with photographs also include seminar material
and scanned documents. Scanned documents include correspondence of Mauro Martignoni,
Edward Steinhaus, and John Briggs, SIP newsletter obituaries, and material for a talk
on Edward Steinhaus.
Series V includes audiovisual material. This series is divided into three sub-series:
A. Presentations, and B. Interviews, and C. Correspondence. Sub-series V.A includes
presentation slides and word documents for various pathology lectures and meetings.
Sub-series V.B contains five discs of audio interviews. There are five interviewees:
Thomas Angus, Wayne Brooks, Albert Sparks and Phyllis Johnson, and Yoshinori Tanada.
Interviews cover the interviewee's research, contributions to the SIP, and their work
with Edward Steinhaus. Interviews were conducted as research for a biography on Edward
Steinhaus. Some audio is hard to decipher due to a problem with the recording device,
including interviews with Brooks and Tanada.
Provenance Information
Provenance and Acquisition Information
This collection was created by the Society for Invertebrate Pathology. The records
arrived in two accessions: SARCV 2013-01, with an additional donation of photographs
in
June, 2013: SARCV 2013-03.
Processing Note
The Society for Invertebrate Pathology records were processed by graduate student
Dorothy Alexander under the supervision of the Special Collections Archivist Lindsey
Loeper in the Summer of 2013.
The collection was processed following original order, and the records were processed
to the folder level. All CD materials were arranged together in one box.
Descriptive Rules Used
Describing Archives: a Content Standard (DACS)
Archives Processing Manual: Description
(2015): The processing manual used in Special Collections for all descriptive platforms,
including PastPerfect.
