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Roy Chapman Andrews papers, 1987 Accession

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .A54
Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection consists of Andrews' correspondence, manuscripts, and transcripts of Andrews' broadcasts and talks from 1934 to1944. It also contains one folder of family and biographical documents and newspaper clippings received from Charles Gallenkamp, Andrews' biographer, in 1990. The majority of the administrative papers' correspondence concerns requests for speaking engagements about Andrews' explorations, requests for articles, and letters from the public and from companies...
Dates: 1920-1947; Majority of material found within 1934-1944

Central Asiatic Expeditions records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .C446
Scope and Contents This collection is a record of the Museum’s explorations undertaken during the 1920s in the Gobi Desert under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews. A list of the men who participated in the CAE can be culled from the expeditions’ letterheads used by museum personnel in New York. All but three of the men cited on these letterheads are represented here. Those not found are Mont Reid, a physician, James Wang, an interpreter and G. Horwath of motor transport. The variety of other correspondents...
Dates: 1916-1940; Majority of material found within 1921-1933

Gardner S. Stout papers, 1963-1971

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .S76
Dates: (bulk 1968-1971).

William King Gregory papers, 1889-1948 (bulk 1906-1948)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .G7441
Scope and Contents The collection consists of administrative, scientific, academic and personal papers, and correspondence. Papers include Gregory's general correspondence with universities, colleges and scientists about his research topics and publications; correspondence with museums about purchasing replicas of fossils; and with students seeking employement. Other papers include lecture notes prepared for zoology classes emphasizing evolution, 1925-1926 and 1939; and manuscripts and notes for his...
Dates: 1889-1948; Majority of material found within 1906-1948

Edmund Otis Hovey papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .H681-.H682

William Diller Matthew papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .M338
Dates: 1922-1926; Majority of material found within ( 1925-1926)

Henry Fairfield Osborn papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .O835
Dates: 1877-1935; Majority of material found within 1908-1935

Albert Eide Parr papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .P371-.P375
Scope and Content Note

The collection contains a wide variety of documents pertaining to Albert E. Parr, particularly during his tenure as Museum Director (1942-1959). Additionally, the collection also hosts a large collection of his original publications, as well as an assortment of newspaper clippings, receipts, meeting minutes, drafts of speeches, and correspondence.

Dates: 1933-1935, 1942-1980

O. A. Stevens papers and correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .S748
Scope and Contents The items in this collection reflect Stevens’ academic correspondence between the years of 1909 and 1959. The majority of the topics center on his collection of bee and wasp specimens, their proper naming, and their research value to other amateur and professional entomologists. Some correspondence also touches on his botanical and ornithological pursuits, including several letters between Myron H. Swenk, Stevens’ long time correspondent and co-author of the highly regarded paper entitled...
Dates: 1909-1959; Majority of material found within 1920-1940

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Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 5
Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence 4
Paleontologists -- United States -- Correspondence 3
Geologists -- United States -- Correspondence. 2
Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 2
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Mammals -- Evolution. 2
Mongolia -- Description and travel 2
Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 2
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History 2
Ontogeny. 2
Paleontologists -- Correspondence 2
Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 2
Animals -- Classification 1
Australia -- Description and travel. 1
Bees -- North Dakota -- Classification 1
Birds -- Exhibitions 1
Caves -- United States. 1
Caves -- Virginia -- Luray 1
City Planning 1
Earthquakes. 1
Education -- Museums 1
Entomologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Entomology -- North America 1
Evolution (Biology) -- History -- Sources. 1
Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy -- History -- Sources. 1
Fishes -- Anatomy. 1
Fishes -- Evolution. 1
Geology -- Exhibitions -- New York (State) -- New York 1
Insects -- North Dakota -- Classification 1
Invertebrates, Fossil -- Collection and preservation. 1
Invertebrates, Fossil -- Identification. 1
Mammals -- Classification -- History. 1
Mammals -- Exhibitions 1
Mammals, Fossil -- North America. 1
Mammals, Fossil. 1
Meteorites 1
Mines and mineral resources -- United states. 1
Museum curators -- United States -- History. 1
Natural history museum curators 1
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions 1
Natural history museums -- United States -- History. 1
New Zealand -- Description and travel. 1
Oceanographers -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Paleontology -- Methodology. 1
Paleontology -- Research -- History -- Sources. 1
Paleontology -- Research -- History. 1
Pelée, Mount (Martinique) -- Eruption, 1902. 1
Primates -- Evolution. 1
Rocks -- Collection and preservation. 1
Rocks -- Identification. 1
Saint-Pierre (Martinique) 1
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Earthquake, 1906. 1
Saurischia. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Africa. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Australia. 1
Soufrière (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) -- Eruption, 1902. 1
Teeth, Fossil. 1
Transvaal (South Africa) -- Description and travel. 1
Vertebrates, Fossil 1
Volcanoes 1
Wasps -- North Dakota -- Classification 1
Willamette meteorite. 1
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Names
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 3
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 3
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 3
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 3
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 2
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Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 2
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 2
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 2
Department of Geology and Paleontology 2
Dodge Brothers 2
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 2
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 2
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 2
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 2
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 2
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 2
Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 2
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 2
Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 2
Young, John McKenzie 2
Adamson, Hans Christian 1
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 1
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 1
American Association of Museums 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 1
Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
Brooklyn Museum 1
Brown, Barnum 1
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 1
Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 1
Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 1
Department of Education 1
Department of Ichthyology 1
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
Friese, Heinrich, 1860-1948 1
Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 1
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992 1
Heinz 1
Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 1
Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 1
Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 1
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
Lee, Hugh J. 1
Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 1
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 1
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 1
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 1
Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 1
New York Zoological Park 1
Nyholm, N. Erik I. 1
Olsen, George, d. 1939 1
Peary, Josephine Diebitsch, 1863-1955 1
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
Pond, Alonzo William, 1894-1986 1
Pope, Clifford H. (Clifford Hillhouse), 1899-1974 1
Putnam, George Palmer, 1887-1950 1
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 1
Rutland (Vermont) Women’s and Men’s Clubs 1
Sanford Memorial Hall of the Biology of Birds 1
Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 1
Shackelford, James B. 1
Smithsonian Institution 1
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 1
Stevens, Orin Alva, 1885-1979 1
Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 1
United States. Department of Agriculture 1
University of Kansas 1
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 1
Wilkins, George H., Sir (George Hubert), 1888-1958 1
Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918 1
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