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Title	Genres	Topics	Date (Start)	Date (End)	Type	Description	Creator/Author	Locations

Martin Grant letter to Philip DuMont regarding identification key, May 17, 1937	Correspondence Instructional materials	Birds--Identification Ornithology--Study and teaching	1937-05-17	N/A	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Letter from Martin Grant to Philip DuMont dated May 17, 1937. In this letter Grant asks DuMont to look over the key he is using to teach students to identify bird species in the lab. Included with this letter is an edited copy of "A Key to and synopsis of the orders and families of Iowa birds."	Grant, Martin L.	Iowa	Philip A. Dumont Papers \| MS 153	1	31
James Dinsmore letter to Oscar Allert regarding mounted bird specimens, September 1, 1978	Correspondence	Ornithology--Study and teaching Birds--Collection and preservation Zoological specimens	1978-09-01	N/A	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Letter from James Dinsmore to Oscar Allert dated September 1, 1978. Dinsmore tells Allert, who had donated many bird specimens, about the bird mounts kept in the Iowa State University vertebrate museum.	Dinsmore, James J.	Ames	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	45	7