Excerpt from Published Writings of Arthur Holmes Howell, 1872-1940

This bibliography is being published at the suggestion of Dr. Francis Harper, who wrote to me on September 6, in part as follows: Evelyn Preble Walter wrote me recently that she had turned over a MS Howell bibliography to his son, Elbert. Presumably, Preble had prepared it. In a second paragraph Would you care to get hold of the MS from Elbert and see what you could do with it? It would be nice to publish for the sake of our old friend, A. H. At the time of the lamentable death of Arthur Howell on July 10, 1940, I was on inspectional biological field work in the Desert Game Range, Nevada. As Chief of the Section of Wildlife Surveys, with which Mr. Howell had been associated, I suggested to the Washington office that a bibliog raphy be prepared and copies distributed to a few of Howell's associates. The bibliography was prepared by Miss Emma M. Charters and contained 88 titles. Typewritten and carbon copies were made, but the bibliography was never published or mimeo graphed. Thirty titles have been added to the original manuscript, and the present bibliography is believed to be fairly complete. Possibly, some early notes or abstracts have been missed.

Howell published few articles anonymously. Individual items in the Comment and News column of the Journal of Mammalogy may have been supplied to the Editor, but the assembling, writing, and editing of the entire column is accredited to Howell while he was editor of the Journal. His authorship is in nearly every case easily established. He never resorted to initials only, and never used a fictitious name. Various sources were pursued in locating Howell's papers, but by and large nearly all of them were in the private library of this bibliographer. The former house organ of the old Biological Survey, The Survey, vol. 1 (1920) to vol. 21 (1940) offered many clues or suggestions.

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