Society for Invertebrate Pathology records

Overview

Administrative/Biographical Note

1945 Edward Steinhaus (1914-1969) established the Laboratory of Insect Pathology at the University of California, Berkeley. 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. 1959 The first issue of the Journal of Invertebrate Pathology is published, edited by Edward Steinhaus. 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. 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. 1970 The first Division of the SIP, Microsporidia, was officially established at the annual meeting in College Park, Maryland. 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. 1999 The Division of Diseases of Beneficial Invertebrates was officially established at the annual meeting in Park City, Utah. 2000 The Nematode Division of the SIP was officially established at the annual meeting in Guanajuato, Mexico.

Scope & Content

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.

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

Provenance 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.

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.

Access & Use

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Reproductions allowed for research purposes. Copyright maintained by creator.

Subject Headings

• Invertebrates Diseases Congresses
• Society for Invertebrate Pathology Archives
• Invertebrates Diseases Periodicals
• SIP Newsletter

Series Description & Container List

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Series I. Council

Sub-series I.A. Meeting proceedings

Sub-series I.B. Establishing documents

Series II. Publications

Sub-series II.A. Newsletters

Sub-series II.B. Meeting programs and abstracts

Sub-series II.C. Directories

Sub-series II.D. Education

Series III. Members

Sub-series III.A. Member directories

Sub-series III.B. Honorary members

Sub-series III.C. Mauro Martignoni

Sub-series III.D. Jaroslav Weiser

Sub-series III.E. Edward Steinhaus

Series IV. Photographs

Series V. Audiovisual

Sub-series V.A. Presentations

Sub-series V.B. Interviews