Honorary Doctor of Science, Occidental College (1953) Phi Beta Kappa, Occidental College Chapter (1962) Professor Emeritus, Riverside City College (1965) Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of California, Riverside (1967) Member, University of California Chapter of Sigma Xi (1966) : 216, 378, 397, 404, 406
Jaeger first attended the newly relocated Occidental College in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles (in 1914), but moved to Palm Springs in 1915, where he taught at the one-room schoolhouse. At Palm Springs he met artist Carl Eytel,: 168–71 and authors J. Smeaton Chase and Charles Francis Saunders. These men formed what University of Arizona Professor Peter Wild called a "Creative Brotherhood" that lived in Palm Springs in the early 20th century. Other Brotherhood members included cartoonist and painter Jimmy Swinnerton, author George Wharton James, and photographers Fred Payne Clatworthy and Stephen H. Willard. The men lived near each other (like Jaeger, Eytel built his own cabin), traveled together throughout the Southwest, helped with each other's works, and exchanged photographs which appeared in their various books. He then returned to Occidental to complete his degree in 1918 and started teaching at Riverside Junior College. Retiring from teaching after 30 years, he worked the Riverside Municipal Museum in Riverside. During all these years Jaeger used his Palm Springs cabin for his research trips across the desert.[citation needed] Throughout his career he wrote many popular nature books and became known as the "dean of the California deserts".
A Preliminary Report on the Flora of the Charleston Mountains of Nevada. Occasional papers of Riverside Junior College., v. 1, no. 1. Riverside, CA: The Junior College. 1927. p. 15. OCLC5663721.
Birds of the Charleston Mountains of Nevada. Occasional papers of Riverside Junior College., v. 2, no. 1. Riverside, CA: The Junior College. 1927. p. 8. OCLC16016140.
Denizens of the Mountains. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas. 1929. p. 168. ASINB00085C1KE. OCLC716567.
A Dictionary of Greek and Latin Combining Forms used in Zoological Names (revised and enlarged from 1930 ed.). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas. 1931. ASINB002AQF1BU. OCLC10567568.
The California Deserts: A Visitor's Handbook (also 1933, 1938, 1955 ed.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1965. p. 220. ISBN978-0804712231. OCLC716807042. (Samuel Stillman Berry and Malcom Jennings Rogers contributed chapters)
A Source-book of Biological Names and Terms (3rd ed.). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas. 1978 [1944]. p. 323. ISBN978-0398061791. OCLC1524400. (illustrations by Merle Gish and the author)
The Biologist's Handbook of Pronunciations (first in 1960 ed.). Charleston, SC: Nabu Press. 2011. p. 340. ISBN978-1175764539. OCLC310096649. (illustrations by Morris Van Dame and Jaeger)
Desert Wildlife (revised and enlarged of 1950 Our Desert Neighbors ed.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1961. p. 320. ISBN978-0804701242. OCLC637075718.
"Monk of Palm Springs". Palm Springs Villager. 4 (6): 22. January 1950.
"From Cheese to Cash". Palm Springs Villager. 5 (87): 18–19, 38. February 1951.
"I Well Remember J. Smeaton Chase". Palm Springs Villager. 6 (8): 54–56, 58. March 1952.
"Tall Tales from Old Palm Springs". Palm Springs Villager. 6 (11): 14, 33. June 1952.
Archives of Jaeger's work
Much of Jaeger's original work is archived at the University of California, Riverside, Library Special Collections.
Also see: Manuscripts and correspondence, OCLC44935014 (Summary: biographical material, list of publications, newspapers articles and correspondence of Edmund C. Jaeger, Head of the Zoology Dept. at Riverside City College. 358 items in one box)
In 1986 The Nature Conservancy completed development of the "Edmund C. Jaeger Nature Sanctuary" in the Chuckwalla Mountains near Desert Center, California. It was in the Chuckwalla Mountains that Jaeger discovered the poorwill, and after his death in 1983, his cremated remains were scattered in the same canyon.
The University of La Verne of La Verne, California, Cultural and Natural History Collections (formerly the Jaeger Museum), maintains personal and professional materials pertaining to the life of Edmund C. Jaeger, including his 1947 field notes recording his initial study of the common poorwill in hibernation. The Collections is located inside the Jaeger House, named in his honor.
Pacific Union College of Angwin, California, annually presents an "Edmund C. Jaeger Award" in biology and "Dr. Edmund C. Jaeger Scholarship Grant" in education to deserving students.
Lawton, Harry (October 13, 1957). "Edmund C. Jaeger Fills Role of Nature's Sherlock Holmes". Press-Enterprise. Riverside, CA: Press-Enterprise Company. pp. B: 4, 5.
Whitney, Harry L. (October 1948). "Edmund C. Jaeger, Denizen of the Desert". Palm Springs Villager. 3 (2). Palm Springs, CA: 15–16.
Wild, Peter (Summer 1999). "Edmund C. Jaeger: From the Classroom to Palavers". Wildflower. 15 (3). Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada: North American Native Plant Society: 40–43.
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