Weber, Neil Albert (1908-2001)

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

This diverse collection includes correspondence, field notes, lecture and meeting notes, publication material, drawings, and lantern slides. It documents Weber's professional career as an internationally known myrmecologist, or ant scientist, and his wider ranging interests in entomology and ecology. There are class and lab notes for his educational period at Harvard University (A.M. 1933; Ph.D. 1935), and substantial documentation on his primary academic career at Swarthmore College (1947-1974; includes teaching records, data on the Biology Dept. and the College). His field notes, 1930s-1970s (ca. 3 lin. ft.), contain detailed observations of the many scientific expeditions he was a member of, including trips to: West Indies, 1933-1936; Colombia, 1938; Sudan, Uganda, and Kenya, 1939. He also participated in numerous American Museum of Natural History expeditions: Central Africa, 1948; Middle East, 1950, 1952; and Tropical America, 1954.

There are data for his time as visiting professor at the University of Baghdad, Iraq, 1950-1952, and his period as Scientific Attaché, Buenos Aires, for the U. S. Dept. of State, 1960-1962. Weber's contributions to polar scientific studies can be studied through his files of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Polar Research, 1958-1960 (he was on the panel on biological and medical science), as well as many numerous miscellaneous files on polar research.

Significant correspondents include:

• Thomas Peter Bennett
• Joseph C. Bequaert
• William L. Brown, Jr.
• Frank L. Campbell
• Horace Donisthorpe
• Alfred E. Emerson
• Caryl Parker Haskins
• William M. Mann
• Michael M. Martin
• William J. Robbins
• Mary Talbot
• George C. Wheeler
• William Morton Wheele

From American Philosophical Society web site: Weber, Neal Albert (1908- ) Entomologist. Papers, ca. 1930s-1980s. ca. 19,000 items (ca. 22 lin. ft.).

Neal Weber, professor emeritus of zoology at Swarthmore, died on Jan. 21 at age 92. Weber was an internationally known expert on tropical ants. His research took him all over the world and led to more than 150 publications, including a monograph on gardening ants that won the American Philosophical Society's John F. Lewis Prize. After receiving a doctorate from Harvard in 1935, Weber embarked on a series of scientific expeditions that took him through Africa, the Middle East, South America, and the West Indies. He taught biology at the University of North Dakota for several years, then spent four years instructing military medical students during the war. Weber, the first scientific attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Argentina, came to Swarthmore in 1947. As a visiting professor in the 1950s, he started the Zoology Department at the University of Baghdad in Iraq. He retired in 1974. Swarthmore College Bulletin, Sept 2001

Primary location of author's collection: American Museum of Natural History, Museum of Comparative Zoology.

PUBLICATIONS

• Weber, N. A. 1934a. Notes on neotropical ants, including the descriptions of new forms. Rev. Entomol. (Rio J.) 4: 22-59.
• Weber, N. A. 1934b. A new Strumigenys from Illinois (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 41: 63-65.
• Weber, N. A. 1935. The biology of the thatching ant, Formica rufa obscuripes Forel, in North Dakota. Ecol. Monogr. 5: 165-206.
• Weber, N. A. 1937. The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part l. New forms. Rev. Entomol. (Rio J.) 7: 378-409.
• Weber, N. A. 1938a. New ants from stomachs of Bufo marinus L. and Typhlops reticulatus (L). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 31: 207-210.
• Weber, N. A. 1938b. The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part IV. Additional new forms. Part V. The Attini of Bolivia. Rev. Entomol. (Rio J.) 9: 154-206.
• Weber, N. A. 1938c. The food of the giant toad, Bufo marinus (L.), in Trinidad and British Guiana with special reference to the ants. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 31:499-503.
• Weber, N. A. 1939a. New ants of rare genera and a new genus of ponerine ants. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 32: 91-104.
• Weber, N. A. 1939b. Description of new North American species and subspecies of Myrmica Latreille (Hym.: Formicidae). Lloydia 2: 144-152.
• Weber, N. A. 1939c. Tourist ants. Ecology 20:442-446.
• Weber, N. A. 1940a. Ants on a Nile River steamer. Ecology 21:292-293.
• Weber, N. A. 1940b. The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part VI. Key to Cyphomyrmex, new Attini and a new guest ant. Rev. Entomol. (Rio J.) 11: 406-427.
• Weber, N. A. 1940c. Rare ponerine genera in Panama and British Guiana (Hym.: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 47: 75-84.
• Weber, N. A. 1941a. Four new genera of Ethiopian and Neotropical Formicidae. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 34: 183-194.
• Weber, N. A. 1941b. The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part VII. The Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone, species. Rev. Entomol. (Rio J.) 12: 93-130.
• Weber, N. A. 1941c. The rediscovery of the queen of Eciton (Labidus) coecum Latr. (Hym.: Formicidae). Am. Midl. Nat. 26: 325-329.
• Weber, N. A. 1942a. A biocoenose of papyrus heads (Cyperus papyrus). Ecology 23:115-119.
• Weber, N. A. 1942b. New doryline, cerapachyine and ponerine ants from the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 44: 40-49.
• Weber, N. A. 1942c. The genus Thaumatomyrmex Mayr with description of a Venezuelan species (Hym.: Formicidae). Bol. Entomol. Venez. 1: 65-71.
• Weber, N. A. 1943a. The queen of a British Guiana Eciton and a new ant garden Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 45: 88-91.
• Weber, N. A. 1943b. New ants from Venezuela and neighboring countries. Bol. Entomol. Venez. 2: 67-78.
• Weber, N. A. 1943c. Parabiosis in Neotropical "ant gardens". Ecology 24:400-404.
• Weber, N. A. 1943d. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389.
• Weber, N. A. 1944a. The tree ants (Dendromyrmex) of South and Central America. Ecology 25:117-120.
• Weber, N. A. 1944b. The neotropical coccid-tending ants of the genus Acropyga Roger. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 37: 89-122.
• Weber, N. A. 1945. The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part VIII. The Trinidad, B. W. I., species. Rev. Entomol. (Rio J.) 16: 1-88.
• Weber, N. A. 1946a. Two common ponerine ants of possible economic significance, Ectatomma tuberculatum (Olivier) and E. ruidum Roger. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 48: 1-16.
• Weber, N. A. 1946b. Dimorphism in the African Oecophylla worker and an anomaly (Hym.: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 39:7-10.
• Weber, N. A. 1946c. The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part IX. The British Guiana species. Rev. Entomol. (Rio J.) 17: 114-172.
• Weber, N. A. 1947a. Binary anterior ocelli in ants. Biological Bulletin (Woods Hole) 93:112-113.
• Weber, N. A. 1947b. A revision of the North American ants of the genus Myrmica Latreille with a synopsis of the Palearctic species. I. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 40: 437-474.
• Weber, N. A. 1947c. Lower Orinoco River fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae, Attini). Boletín de Entomologia Venezolana 6:143-161.
• Weber, N. A. 1948a. A revision of the North American ants of the genus Myrmica Latreille with a synopsis of the Palearctic species. II. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 41: 267-308.
• Weber, N. A. 1948b. Studies on the fauna of Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire and the Venezuelan islands: No. 14. Ants from the Leeward Group and some other Caribbean localities. Natuurwet. Studiekring Suriname Ned. Antillen 5: 78-86.
• Weber, N. A. 1949a. New African ants of the genera Cerapachys, Phryacaces, and Simopone. American Museum Novitates 1396: 1-9.
• Weber, N. A. 1949b. New ponerine ants from equatorial Africa. American Museum Novitates 1398: 1-9.
• Weber, N. A. 1949c. The functional significance of dimorphism in the African ant, Oecophylla. Ecology 30:397-400.
• Weber, N. A. 1949d. A new Panama Eciton (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1441: 1-8.
• Weber, N. A. 1950a. The African species of the genus Oligomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1442: 1-19.
• Weber, N. A. 1950b. Ants from Saipan, Marianas Islands. Entomological News 61:99-102.
• Weber, N. A. 1950c. A revision of the North American ants of the genus Myrmica Latreille with a synopsis of the Palearctic species. III. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 43: 189-226.
• Weber, N. A. 1950d. New Trinidad Myrmicinae, with a note on Basiceros Schulz (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1465: 1-6.
• Weber, N. A. 1950e. A survey of the insects and related arthropods of Arctic Alaska. Part I. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 76:147-206.
• Weber, N. A. 1952a. Studies on African Myrmicinae, I (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1548: 1-32.
• Weber, N. A. 1952b. Biological notes on Dacetini (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1554: 1-7.
• Weber, N. A. 1952c. Observations on Baghdad ants. Baghdad: The Trading and Printing Co., 30 pp.
• Weber, N. A. 1958a. Nomenclatural notes on Proatta and Atta (Hym.: Formicidae). Entomol. News 69: 7-13.
• Weber, N. A. 1958b. Nomenclatural changes in Trachymyrmex (Hym.: Formicidae). Entomol. News 69: 49-55.
• Weber, N. A. 1958c ("1957"). The nest of an anomalous colony of the arboreal ant Cephalotes atratus. Psyche (Cambridge) 64:60-69.
• Weber, N. A. 1958d. Synonymies and types of Apterostigma (Hym: Formicidae). Entomol. News 69: 243-251.
• Weber, N. A. 1958e. Some attine synonyms and types (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Proc. Entomol.Soc. Wash. 60: 259-264.
• Weber, N. A. 1958f. Evolution in fungus-growing ants. Pp. 459-473 in: Becker, E. C. et al. (eds.) 1958. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Entomology, Montreal, August 17-25, 1956. Volume 2. Ottawa: Mortimer Ltd., 1055 pp. [1958-12]
• Weber, N. A. 1963. Argentine myrmecology. Entomological News 74:205-208. [1963-10-02]
• Weber, N. A. 1964. Termite prey of some African ants. Entomological News 75:197-204. [1964-09-24]
• Weber, N. A. 1965. Note on the European pavement ant, Tetramorium caespitum, in the Philadelphia area (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological News 76:137-139.
• Weber, N. A. 1966a. The subgenus Cyphomannia Weber 1938 of Cyphomyrmex Mayr 1862, reinstated, and systematic notes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomol. News 77: 166-168.
• Weber, N. A. 1966b. Fungus-growing ants. Science (Washington, D. C.) 153:587-604.
• Weber, N. A. 1966c. Development of pigmentation in the pupa and callow of Trachymyrmex septentrionalis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological News 77:241-246.
• Weber, N. A. 1967. Synonyms of Trachymyrmex bugnioni Forel and Trachymyrmex diversus Mann (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 69: 273-274.
• Weber, N. A. 1968a. Tobago Island fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological News 79:141-145. [1968-06-07]
• Weber, N. A. 1968b. The Panamanian Atta species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 70:348-350. [1968-12-18]
• Weber, N. A. 1969a. A comparative study of the nests, gardens and fungi of the fungus-growing ants, Attini. Pp. 299-307 in: Ernst, E. et al. (eds.) 1969. International Union for the Study of Social Insects. VI Congress. Bern 15-20 September 1969. Proceedings. Bern: Organizing Committee of the VI Congress IUSSI, 309 pp. [1969-09-15]
• Weber, N. A. 1969b. Ecological relations of three Atta species in Panama. Ecology 50:141-147. [1969]
• Weber, N. A. 1970. Northern extent of attine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 72:414-415. [1970-09-25]
• Weber, N. A. 1972. Gardening ants, the attines. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, xvii + 146 pp. [1972] 129707
• Weber, N. A. 1982. Fungus ants. Pp. 255-363 in: Hermann, H. R. (ed.) Social insects. Volume 4. New York: Academic Press, xiii + 385 pp.
• Weber, N. A.; Anderson, J. L. 1950. Studies on central African ants of the genus Pseudolasius Emery (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1443: 1-7.

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