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Biographical Note
Alumnus and ichthyologist Carl Bond received B.S. and M.S. degrees from
Oregon State College in 1947 and 1948. Bond also received a Ph.D. from the
University of Michigan in 1963, for which he left OSU in 1959 and returned in
1960. He began his teaching and research career in OSC's Fisheries and Wildlife
Dept. in 1949 as Assistant Aquatic Biologist. Specializing in the study of
freshwater fish, Bond established himself as one of the world's leading
authorities on
Sculpin cottidae. Bond was also involved in
research internationally, working in Latin America and Africa, as well as India
and Iran in Peace Corps projects from 1967 to 1971. In addition to his teaching
post, Bond also held the position of Assistant Dean of the Graduate School from
1969 to 1974. He became Professor Emeritus of Fisheries in 1984.
Content Description
Series I pertains to research projects and consists of annual and
quarterly progress reports, correspondence, presentation notes, studies,
research outlines and proposals, and surveys. The bulk of this series documents
three projects funded by the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station: a survey
of fishes in Oregon (#32), aquatic weed control (#34, 773), and aquaculture
development in farm ponds (#294). Unnumbered projects in this series pertain
entirely to research of Oregon and California freshwater and ocean fishes,
including the identification and survey of sculpin, tui chub, and sucker
varieties.
The correspondence in series II relates to Bond's research activities,
interaction between others involved in fish research, the Peace Corps in Asia
and other international research projects in Latin America and Africa,
involvement with state agencies in the study and protection of endangered
Oregon fish species, Bond's post as Assistant Dean of the graduate school, and
faculty fellowships with the National Science Foundation.
Series III includes notes, research data, and studies pertaining to farm
pond and weed studies, stream pollution, Coho salmon, the effects of certain
chemicals on fish, fish oxygen consumption, Peace Corps research projects, and
fisheries in India. The notes, which are found both in field notebooks and
loose in folders, include research data originally compiled by Oregon State
Fisheries and Wildlife Professor Roland Dimick.
Series IV contains a slide show script, presentation outlines, and a
workshop guide from seminars and lectures presented by Bond. Consisting
primarily of article reprints and abstracts, the publications in series V
document fish research by Bond and others. This series also includes two
publications on Oregon fish, one of which was written by Bond.
The photographs primarily depict various freshwater and ocean fishes and
were generated as a byproduct of Bond's research, featured in publications, or
were received by Bond for the purposes of identification. Images of farm pond
weed research that include shots of a classroom field trip are among the
photographs.
Use of the Collection
Preferred Citation :
Carl E. Bond Papers, Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis,
Oregon.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
These records are organized into six series: I. Research Projects; II.
Correspondence; III. Research Notes; IV. Lectures and Seminars; V.
Publications; and VI. Photographs.
Related Materials :
Other materials relating to fish research and fisheries include: the E.
E. Wilson Papers; the Roland Dimick Papers; the Oregon Wildlife Federation
Scrapbooks; Fisheries and Wildlife Department Records (RG 190); and the
Agricultural Experiment Station Records (RG 25). Several of Bond's published
works are available in the OSU Valley Library.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series I: Research Projects, 1948-1990
Container(s)
Description
Project series #32 (Oregon
Fishes, their classification, distribution and biologies)
Box
1
Annual Progress
Reports, 1959-1975
1
Correspondence,
Information on Rare and Endangered Fishes, 1972-1973
4
Inventory: Freshwater
Fishes of Oregon, 1984
1
Studies: Preliminary
observations on the comparative osteology of Salmo
Gairdnerii gairdnerii and Salmo Clarkii
Clarkii1948
1
Fishes of the Siltcoos
Lake Region, Lane and Douglas Counties, Oregon
1951
1
Red-sided Bream as a
possible mosquito control fish, 1951
1
Freshwater Cottid Fishes
of Western Oregon, 1952
1
Fishes of the South
Santiam River, 1953
1
New Downstream
Distribution Record of the Sand Roller Fish, Percopsis Squawfish
Ptychocheilus Oregonense In Lookout Point and
Dexter Reservoirs, 1957
1
Coastal Cutthroat
Study, 1962
1
Grass Rockfish,
Sebastodes Rastrelliger from the Yaquina Bay
area, 1963
1
Migration and
distribution of Cottus Asper Richardson in a small
coastal stream, 1963
1
Sand Roller Fish,
Transmontana, in the Columbia River, 1963
Written by Paul Reimers and presented at the Oregon
Academy of Sciences, 2-23-63.
1
Occurrence of the
Reticulate Sculpin, Cottus Perplexus, in
California, With Distributional Notes on Cottus
Gulosus in Oregon and Washington, 1971-1972
1
Status of rare
Suckers, 1973-1974
1
Cottus Species in Oregon, 1975
1
Fish fauna of Lookout
Point Reservoir with emphasis on distribution and abundance of the Oregon
Chub, 1976-1984
1
Oregon Range validation
project-fishery study, 1977-1980
1
Salmonid and Non-game
fishes in selected Coos Bay District streams, 1977-1981
1
Field Inventory of
fishes, amphibians, and reptiles of the Charles Sheldon Antelope range and
refuge, 1978-1980
1
Salmonids from surface
deposits at Fossil Lake, Oregon, 1981-1982
