Additional records related to Zoology can be found in the Department of Genetics and Development record group.

College and Departmental Archives

• Departmental Correspondence, 1905-1909 (Record Series 15/24/1): Includes letterpress copybooks containing the correspondence of the Zoology Department Head, Stephen A. Forbes, with President Edmund James, Deans David Kinley and Edgar Townsend, faculty, presidents and faculty at other universities, school principals, and others.
• Zoology Subject File, 1920-1958 (Record Series 15/24/2): Contains annual reports; accident reports; Biological Division committee reports; reports and brochures on biological stations throughout the United States, including courses taught at biological stations; departmental staff meeting minutes; language proficiency exams; and correspondence of Henry B. Ward and Charles Zeleny.
• Zoology Graduate Assistants and Faculty Staff Files, 1926-1958 (Record Series 15/24/6): Regards faculty appointments and graduate assistantships.
• Student Laboratory Guides, 1893 (Record Series 15/24/10): Laboratory guides include descriptions of laboratory exercises on the morphology of clams, crawfish, grasshoppers, worms, perch, and frogs and synopses of species, orders, and genres of North American crustaceans. The series includes a "blueprint" draft of the guidebook, a bound copy as displayed at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, a bound copy with additions made by Zoology Professor Frank Smith, and 1942 notes from Van Cleave describing the provenance and background of the notebooks.
• Announcements (Record Series 15/24/801): Includes announcements of the spring meeting of the Central Branch of the American Society of Zoologists (1912), lectures given by Professor Jacob Reighard (1910), a field study course in animal ecology (1936), field ecology courses (1939, 1942), summer session programs (1958), and graduate study opportunities (1961-).
• Laboratory Directions and Outlines, ca. 1900 (Record Series 15/24/802): Contains an outline of the University of Illinois Zoological Laboratory prepared as a guide for students.
• Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory, 1913-1938 (Record Series 15/24/815): Includes reprints and offprints of articles written by faculty and graduate students.

Faculty and Staff Papers

• Victor E. Shelford Papers (Record Series 15/24/20): Includes materials concerning plant, animal, and aquatic ecology; the Ecological Society of America; preservation of natural areas; the University Committee on Natural Areas and Uncultivated Lands; and a 1965 tape-recorded interview.
• Henry B. Ward Papers (Record Series 15/24/21): Includes materials relating to parasitology; Alaska and Pacific salmon; The Journal of Parasitology; American Microscopical Society; and scientific meetings.
• Charles Zeleny Papers (Record Series 15/24/22): Contains files and publications on graduate work and research in experimental embryology, regeneration, and heredity. Digitized records can be found here.
• Lyell J. Thomas Papers (Record Series 15/24/23): Includes materials on parasitology and the Illinois Junior Academy of Science.
• Leverett A. Adams Papers (Record Series 15/24/25): Contains materials concerning natural history museums and animal physiology, particularly that of lower vertebrates, especially fish.
• S. Charles Kendeigh Papers (Record Series 15/24/26): Includes materials concerning bird banding, censuses, feeding, and migration; ornithology; conservation; ecology; environmental research; animal populations; insects; natural areas; and prairie chickens.
• Wilbur M. Luce Papers (Record Series 15/24/27): Contains materials documenting research on drosophila melanogaster, genetics, and laboratory equipment; and zoological society meetings.
• James B. Kitzmiller Papers (Record Series 15/24/28): Includes research on genetics and cytogenetics of mosquitoes and malaria control.
• Arthur W. Ghent Papers (Record Series 15/24/31): Includes personal, teaching, and professional materials; and research and statistical studies concerning the Allerton Park floodplain, bagworms, trees, bank swallows, Rachel Carson and Silent Spring, clams, Danish pigs, date-of-birth analysis, salmon and other fish, cockroaches and other insects, growth curves, and squirrels.

Publications and Reference Files

• University Archives Reference File (Record Series 35/3/65): Contains files on Stephen A. Forbes; Victor Shelford; Henry B. Ward; and Zoology.