Martha's Vineyard Museum

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Summary Information

Biography/Historical Note

Scope and Content of Collection

Administrative Information

Index Terms

Collection Contents

Descriptive Summary

Repository	Martha's Vineyard Museum, Gale Huntington Research Library 59 School Street P.O. Box 1310 Edgartown, MA 02539 (508)627-4441
Call Number	RU 455
Creator	Mitchell, Edward D.
Title	Edward D. Mitchell offprints and reprints
Date	1963-1982
Extent	1 box (0.504 cubic feet)
Language	Language(s):The materials are in English.
Abstract	The collection contains offprints and reprints created by research scientist, Edward D. Mitchell, dated 1963-1982, regarding whales and marine mammals.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use and Reproduction Restrictions

Requests to reproduce material from this collection should be directed to museum staff. Reproduction fees may apply.

Acquisition Information

Four reprints gift of Edward Mitchell in 1974. (Accession no. 1974.013). The immediate source of acquisition and date of accession are unknown for the remainder of the materials, however at least a third are stamped "with the author's compliments," or contain notes to that effect. It is likely that all of the offprints and reprints were received directly from Edward D. Mitchell.

Publication Information

Martha's Vineyard Museum

Gale Huntington Research Library
59 School Street
P.O. Box 1310
Edgartown, MA 02539
(508)627-4441

Processing Information

Finding aid prepared by Insley Julier, September 2013. Machine-encoded by Nathaniel Janick April 2014.

 Creation of this finding aid was sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Biography/Historical Note

Edward D. Mitchell, Jr. is a vertebrate paleontologist, research scientist and conservationist interested in the fossil evidence, ecology and population of whale species and other marine mammals. Mitchell was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles and received his Ph. D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Early in his career Mitchell focused on vertebrate paleontology and he was responsible for collecting a number of marine mammal specimens for the Los Angeles County Museum in the early 1960s. In 1966, Edward Mitchell left the museum to work for the Canadian government. He was employed as a research scientist for the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Arctic Biological Station in Sainte Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada. Mitchell's position at the Arctic Biological Station led to his involvement with the International Whaling Commission, a group of 200 leading cetacean scientists from around the world, charged with managing the global whaling industry and the conservation of whales. Edward D. Mitchell served on the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission as a Canadian representative from 1971 until 1982 and as an invited participant in 1983, contributing to a number of the commission's reports between 1973 and 1981. By 1999, Mitchell had returned to the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Los Angeles, California, where he remained until around 2009. Throughout his career, Edward D. Mitchell has contributed to an array of scientific periodicals and popular magazines on a wide range of topics including, natural history, zoology, classification, paleontology, marine biology, fisheries, morphology, whaling, marine mammals, ecology and conservation.

Scope and Content of Collection

The collection contains offprints and reprints created by Edward D. Mitchell, dated 1963-1982, regarding whales and marine mammals, with particular focus on the geographic areas of California, the Pacific Ocean, the North Pacific Ocean and the Arctic regions. Several of the articles have other authors, including a number co-authored by Randall R. Reeves of the Arctic Biological Station.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged chronologically and therein alphabetically.