The Charles Lewis Camp
Papers

 
Table of Contents
  
  Introduction    
  Biographical Chronology    
  Series Description    

 

Introduction    

Funding
Funding for processing provided by University of California Museum of Paleontology.

Access
Collection is open for research at the Museum of Paleontology, with permission from the Museum Director. Contact Mark Goodwin for further information.

Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director or the Principal Museum Scientist for forwarding. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Museum of Paleontology as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Size
Number of containers: 3 boxes, 1 drawer, 2 large format print containers, 1 poster roll.
Linear feet: 5

Processed by
Robin P. Walker

Date Completed
July, 2004

Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], [collection name & number], University California Museum of Paleontology

Related Collections
Researchers should also note that the Bancroft Library, The UC Berkeley Bio Sciences Library, and the University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology also hold some papers of Charles L. Camp.



Biographical Chronology

1893 Born in Jamestown, North Dakota on March 12.
1895 Camp family moved to Southern California near Pasadena.
1908

Visited fossil localities in the Bridger Basin, Wyoming.

Assisted in the UC Museum of Vertebrate Zoology biological survey of Mt. San Jacinto.
1911 Entered the University of California, Berkeley as an undergraduate in the Department of Zoology, where his studies led to nine publications on mammalogy, herpetology, and a description of fossil amphibian remains from the Rancho la Brea tar pits.
1915 Received a Bachelor’s Degree from UC Berkeley
1916 Received an M.A. at Columbia University.
1917 Camp attended the U.S. Army School at Plattsburg, was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Field Artillery, and served overseas in the American Expeditionary Forces, where he advanced to First Lieutenant. Camp was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for his service.
1922 Appointed to teach comparative anatomy in the University of California, Berkeley Zoology Department
1923 Wrote Classification of the Lizards.

Received Ph. D. from Columbia under the tutelage of William K. Gregory and Henry Fairfield Osborn.

Appointed a Director of the California Historical Society and a member of its publications committee, where he served until 1935.
1924 Married Jessie Margaret Pratt, with whom he later had four children: Charles, Nancy, Patsy, and Roderick.
1930

Appointed Director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology, a position he maintained until 1949.

Wrote "A Study of the phytosaurs with Description of New Material from Western North America."
1933 Began abstracting publications to compile a bibliography of fossil vertebrates.
1935-36 Received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study vertebrate mammal-like reptiles in the Karroo region of South Africa, visit Triassic exposures in China with C.C. Young, and visit Triassic vertebrate collections in Europe.
1937 Edited The Plains and the Rockies by Henry Raup Wagner
1938 Camp and others resurrected the miners' organization E. Clampus vitus as a prominent historical preservation fraternity and social club.
1939 Appointed Chair of the UC Berkeley Department of Paleontology, where he served until 1949.
1946 Elected President of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology.
1947-48 Second African Expedition to Karoo with Frank E. Peabody for study of vertebrates and to visit a number of important Pleistocene sites associated with early humans.
1952 Published Earth Song: A Prelude to History.
1953 Excavated ichthyosaur fossils form the Shoshone Mountains in Nevada. Camp dedicated the next five summers to this endeavor, eventually persuading the State of Nevada to declare the site a state park.
1959 Wrote monograph on dicynodonts.
1960

Retired form teaching at UC Berkeley.

Expedition to Western Australia with John Cosgriff to find Triassic vertebrates.

Published James Clyman Frontiersman: The Adventures of a Trapper and Covered Wagon Emigrant as Told in His Own Reminisces and Diaries.

1968 Completed the 8-volume Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates and related subjects: 1928-1968.
1970 Camp received the Henry R. Wagner Memorial medal, the California Historical Society's highest honor.
1971 Jessie Camp died.
1972 Married Joanna Bilbrey.
1975 Camp died on August 14 in San Jose.


Series Description

Series 1: Correspondence, 1936-1996

Container Contents  
Box 1 Correspondence to and from Charles L. Camp arranged alphabetically, with major correspondents included in separate files.  
   

Series 2: Manuscripts and Paleontological Research Notes

Container Contents
Box 2 Research files and manuscripts arranged alphabetically.

 

Series 3: Fieldnotes

Container Contents
Drawer 1 Fieldnotes and Locality Files Arranged Chronologically. An overview is related below.
  Date Subject
  1913-14 Section 1 — Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino & Tehama Co., Calif. (“North Coast Counties”)
    Section 2 — Marin Co., Calif.
    Section 3 — San Bernardino and Los Angeles Cos., Calif.
    Section 4 — E. Base Turtle Mts., San Bernardino Co., Calif. Arizona.
    Section 5 — Kern, Los Angeles and San Bernardino Cos., Calif.
     
  1920 1920 Weekend Trips About NY
     
  1921 Triassic Chinle, N.E. Arizona
     
  1922 Santa Barbara
     
  1923 Southern Nevada, Utah, and Arizona
     
  1924 Arizona and New Mexico
     
  1926 Arizona and Mexico
     
  1927 Arizona & Utah
     
  1928 New Mexico, Texas via Arizona
     
  1930 Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah
     
  1931 Nevada and St. Johns, Arizona
     
  1932 St. John’s, Arizona
     
  1933 Vols. 1 & 2 New Mexico
     
  1934 Arizona, New Mexico, and Vicinity
     
  1935-36 Volume I — U.S. Southwest, England, France
    Volume II — France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Africa
    Volume IV — Africa, China
     
  1937-38 California, Arizona, and New Mexico
     
  1939 Arizona
     
  1941 Genesee, Calif. and Nevada
    San Andreas, Calif.
     
  1942 Field Trip to Arizona
     
  1943 Elephant Locality at Milbrae
     
  1945 Utah
     
  1946-47 Vernal, Utah — Pat’s Hole and Lily Park
    Colorado — Rockville, Utah—Princeton
    Meetings — African Memoranda
     
  1947 Africa, Book I, II
     
  1947-48 Africa, Book III
     
  1948 Africa, Book IV, V
     
  1949 New York
     
  1950 Squaw Creek Salamander Hunt
     
  1950 New Mexico and Southern Utah
     
  1952 The Eastern US, South Dakota, Kansas
     
  1953 Santa Barbara, Arroyo Grande, Monument Valley, Colorado, Utah
     
  1953-54 Nevada
     
  1955 Nevada
     
  1956 Nevada (Ichthyosaur Park)
     
  1957 Nevada (Ichthyosaur Park)
     
  1958 Wyoming
     
  1960 Australia
     
  1960-65 Nevada
     
  1966-68 Nevada
     
  1969 South Dakota and Wyoming
     
  1970 California, Wyoming, South Dakota
     
  Locality and Specimen Numbers and Records 1921-1924 (Book I)
     
  Locality and Specimen Numbers and Records 1926-1932 (Book II)


Series 4: Miscellany

Container Contents
Box 3 Miscellany, including newspaper clippings, fliers, and C.L. Camp obituaries. Also contains Dr Camp's son, Charles M. Camp's South African Diary.
Container 1 Plates and William Huff sketches for Earth Song: A Prelude to History.
Container 2 Misc. plates and sketches.
Poster Roll Oversized Huff illustrations.