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Accessions book: [microform]

 Item
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #14

Dates

  • 1879?-1881?]

Extent

1 v. (240 p.) ; (1 v. (240 p.) ; 27 cm.)

Language of Materials

English

Location of Originals Note

Indicator 1 Holder of originals: American Museum of Natural History. Dept. of Anthropology.

General Note

Title on cover label: Pencil memo of the Squier Collection, Auchincloss [Collection], Pyne [Collection], Steward [Collection], Collection #12 and other specimens.

General Note

Accessions list for specimens numbered 666-1631 (including the Holmes and Squier Collections, and catalogs of stone implements from Porto Rico and of Danish antiquities, as well as specimens from other sources and other locations), 1710-1856 (dated 1879; specimens 1755-1804? are from the Steward Collection), and collections acquired from A.C. Williams (257 specimens), Hugh Auchincloss (94 specimens), J.W.A. Robinson (20 specimens), and P.R. Pyne (67 specimens), numbered Collections 9-12 respectively.

General Note

Pages 111-132, 159-208, 211-234, and 239-240 cut out and missing. Four notes, all signed James Terry and 2 of which are dated Mar. 30th and 31st, 1893, on front pastedown.

General Note

"Continued on page 111"--Page 90, following description of Specimen 1856.

General Note

Also includes diary notations, dated 1880 and 1881, pertaining generally to the progress of the installation of the Hall of North American Birds (possibly by Bickmore)

General Note

Original in the AMNH Dept. of Anthropology.

Reproduction Note

Type of reproduction--Microfilm.; Place of reproduction--[New York, N.Y. :; Agency responsible for reproduction--The Museum: Date of reproduction--1987]. Physical description of reproduction--1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm.

Related / Analytical Title

Pencil memo of the Squier Collection.. [[microform]].

Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Sponsor
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation provided support to make this finding aid available in ArchivesSpace (2016-2017).

Repository Details

Part of the Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library Repository

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