Alexander Klots Papers
Scope and Content Note
Collection is comprised of correspondence (mostly scientific), military files, publication files for A Field Guide to Butterflies, research and field notes, and photographs.
Dates
- undated, circa 1900-1979
Access
The collection is open and available for research.
Restrictions on Use and Copyright Information
Permission to publish from these Papers must be obtained in writing from both the University of Connecticut Libraries and the owner(s) of the copyright.
Biography/History
American entomologist and lepidopterist Alexander Barrett Klots was born on December 12, 1903 in New York City. He attended the Trinity School in New York City and the Blair Academy in New Jersey before beginning his studies at Dartmouth. However, focusing most of his time outdoors and not on his studies Klots left Dartmouth, only to enroll at Yale shortly thereafter. Here Klots was able to study for three years before again leaving to pursue graduate studies at Cornell University. Yet despite not having received a bachelors degree from Yale, Klots continued to study at Cornell receiving a master's degree, and in 1931 his Ph.D. After receiving his degree he began teaching at Wards Natural Science Establishment in Rochester, New York, then owned by the University of Rochester. In 1927 he married Elsie Broughton.
In 1934 Klots was offered a position in the biology department at the City College of New York, where he would go on to teach for the next 31 years, retiring as an Emeritus Professor in 1965. Dr. Klots devoted his life to the study of butterflies or lepidopterology. He is the author of A Field Guide to the Butterflies of North America, East of the Great Plains, and many other scientific and popular works.
During his career he served as a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History and was a past president of the New York Entomological Society and of the International Lepidopterists Society. He was a fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and of the Linnean Society of London. Alexander Klots died April 18, 1989.
A more complete biography can be found through the Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, at http://peabody.research.yale.edu/jls/pdfs/1990s/1992/1992-46(4)314-Wagner.pdf.
Extent
6.75 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Papers of American entomologist and lepidopterist Alexander Barrett Klots comprised of correspondence, military files, publication files for A Field Guide to Butterflies, research and field notes, and photographs.
Provenance and Acquisition
The papers were donated to the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.
- Title
- Alexander Klots Papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- Archives & Special Collections staff
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library Repository
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