Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929
Biography
A zoologist and taxidermist who served as the Director at the American Museum of Natural History from 1911 to 1923 and honorary director from 1924 to his death in 1929.
Lucas worked for more than eleven years at Ward’s Natural Science Establishment with well known museum people such as William Hornaday, Carl Akeley, William Wheeler. He served as osteologist and curator for the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. from 1882 to 1904 and as the Curator-in-Chief of the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York from 1904 to 1911.
Source
Fifty years of museum work. Autobiography, unpublished papers, and bibliography of Frederic A. Lucas, SC. D
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.94498
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Museum matters, 1910-1915
Primarily correspondence between E. O. Hovey and museum administrators or staff. Also contains quarterly and annual departmental reports, meeting minutes, and "Index to Letters."
Museum matters, 1909-1913
Primarily correspondence between E. O. Hovey and museum administrators or staff. Also contains sketches of museum floor plans, meeting minutes, departmental reports, financial statements, photographs of geological formations, and "Index to Letters."
Museum matters, 1916-1925
Primarily correspondence between E. O. Hovey and museum administrators or staff. Also contains departmental reports, memoranda, and photographs of exhibits and geological formations.
Museum matters, 1911-1912
Primarily correspondence between E. O. Hovey and museum administrators on various museum matters, including Hovey's acceptance of the position of Acting Director of the museum. Contains "Index to Letters" (1 p.).
Museum matters, 1911
Primarily correspondence between E. O. Hovey and museum administrators. Contains "Index to Letters" (1 p.)
Museum matters, 1913-1914
Primarily correspondence between E. O. Hovey and museum administrators. Also contains minutes of Sub-Committee on Publications and statements of Department of Geology receipts and expenditures. Contains "Index to Letters" (1 p.)
Museum matters, 1907-1914
Monthly reports from the Assistant Curator Chester A. Reeds. Correspondence regarding theft of specimens.
Paleontological models, 1917-1918
Primarily correspondence between E. O. Hovey and others, regarding construction of paleontological models. Elvira Wood, who constructed the models, is the correspondent on many of the letters.
Production of electrotypes, 1910-1913
Primarily correspondence between E. O. Hovey and others, regarding production of electrotypes for a relief map and other objects. Also contains bills from electrotype company.
Requisitions for supplies, 1906, 1909-1911
Requisitions for supplies and correspondence regarding supplies.
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192