Institution: University of California, Davis, Shields Library
Collection Title: Knowles A. Ryerson Papers
Date (inclusive): 1892-1990
Collection Identifier: D-011
Repository (location info): University of California, Davis, Shields Library, Archives and Special Collections, Davis, CA
Finding Aid link: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c83n254m/
Website link: https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/archives-and-special- collections/manuscript/ryerson-knowles-a-1892-1990-papers/
RBMVE Biographical Note: Over the course of the RBMVE, Knowles Ryerson served as a Scientific and Business Advisor, an Advisory Board Member, and a member of the Board of Trustees.
Scope and Content: From finding aid listed above: “Correspondence and minutes from various commissions, including the National Arboretum and the South Pacific Commission; subject files related to subtropical horticulture and international agriculture; correspondence to academic colleagues and friends.”
Container List or Summary of RBMVE-related Material:
Box 18: American Exploration Society (175 pages)
Photo of cover of Explorer’s Journal, April-June 1930
News Release “Explorers to Map Navajo Country
American Exploration Society list of Board of Trustees and field staff for its incorporation. Second copy of the news release “Explorers to Map Navajo Country”
“Up-to-the-minute information on the 1937 expedition.”
“Qualifications of Men Acceptable for Membership in the RBMVE.” Outlines knowledge and skills necessary for each discipline.
Forms and Articles of Incorporation of the American Exploration Society
Letters between Knowles Ryerson and Ansel Hall, Franklin O. Rose, and Tracy R. Kelley about RBMVE business.
Box 21: Ansel Hall Folder “Brief Outline of Plans for the 1933 RBMVE” “Wanted: 10 Explorers” from UC Alumni Monthly Map with expedition area colored in
Explorers Newsletter, Nov 1, 1934
General Report 1933 by Ansel Hall
1934 RBMVE Bulletin no. 1, “Information for Prospective Members of the Scientific Field Staff”
Correspondence between Knowles Ryerson and Ansel Hall and Robert Burton about RBMVE business.
Box 68, Folder 55 RBMVE General Report of 1933
