This project has been developed in the Department of Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, by Mark Maier (mark@markmaier.com), working in cooperation with Patrick Scott (scottp@mailbox.sc.edu), Associate University Librarian for Special Collections,
and other department staff. Technical advice was also provided by
Prof. Robert Molyneux (drdata@molyneux.com), of the School of Library & Information Science, and Alma Creighton(ALMAC@mailbox.sc.edu), Systems Librarian, Thomas Cooper Library.
We wish also to acknowledge advice and support, especially in the planning of this project, from Rudy F. Mancke(mancke@environ.sc.edu), of USC's School of the Environment, and the generosity of John V. Calhoun (bretcal@gte.net), a Research Associate of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods,James K. Adams (jadams@em.daltonstate.edu) of Dalton State College and Laurence F. Gall (lawrence.gall@yale.edu) of the Peabody Museum, Yale University, in sharing research on Abbot and identifications for the drawings.
This library is a congressionaly designated depository for U.S. government documents. Public access to the government documents collections is guaranteed by public law.