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Joseph Asaph Allen correspondence, 1870-1919
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A451-.A452
Dates:
Majority of material found within ( 1899-1902)
Kalbfleisch Field Research Station collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss .K35
Scope and Content note
This collection contains a wide variety of documents related to the Museum’s acquisition and operation of the Kalbfleisch Field Research Station in Huntington, Long Island, which span from 1937, when Ms. Kalbfleisch began pursuing her wish to bequeath the estate, through 1982 when the Museum finally sold the property. The collection provides a comprehensive history of the Station by featuring information related to all aspects of its existence, including: correspondence, memos, legal...
Dates:
1937-1982
George Newbold Lawrence correspondence
Collection
Identifier: Mss .L39
Scope and Contents
The George Newbold Lawrence Correspondence collection consists almost completely of handwritten, signed letters received by Lawrence from other ornithologists and naturalists from the United States and Europe discussing the classification of birds and the exchange of bird skins. Some of the folders contain drafts or copies of Lawrence's replies. While there is a small number of official letters from institutions, almost all of the letters are from individuals. In addition to 228 documents...
Dates:
1847-1894; Majority of material found within 1865-1894
[Letter] 1865 Jan. 26 : : Boston[Mass., to] W.W. Bailey, Providence[R.I.]
Item
Identifier: Mss .S37
Dates:
1865
[Letter] : New York [N.Y.], to Francis Nathan
Item
Identifier: Mss .D88
Scope and content
The letter is one handwritten, signed sheet, addressed to "My dear friend Francis.". The subject is personal, accepting Nathan's invitation to visit, and referring to himself as "your friend from the gorilla country." Included with the letter is a fragment, signed by du Chaillu, addressed to "My dear old friend Francis Nathan" and dated Aug. 30, 1900.
Dates:
1896 March 17
Letter : Pavie [Pavia, Italy][to S.L. Mitchill, New York, N.Y.].
Collection
Identifier: Mss .R87
Dates:
1820 Nov. 4 :
Letters : Rhyl, Wales, to J. Van Voorst [London] [1866] Sept. 22, 1866 Oct. 4.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C53
Scope and content
The collection consists of two handwritten signed letters discussing the Record of zoological literature, begun the previous year and published by Van Voorst. Clark had ordered a copy of vol. 2 (1865). In the first letter, Clark commiserates with Van Voorst on the difficulties of finding subscribers for a new annual publication. Clark suggests that Van Voorst sell the work in parts, to attract buyers interested only in a particular subject or unwilling to pay for the complete contents. In...
Dates:
1866 - 1866
Letters : : Rue des Petits-Augustins [Paris], 1798 Apr. 23, 1798 May 15, 1798 July 18.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .L33
Dates:
1798 - 1798
Frank E. Lutz collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss .L88
Scope and content
The collection consists of three boxes of handwritten notes and notebooks, typescripts, correspondence and publications, with accompanying photoprints, most relating to Lutz's research, with a few personal items. Box 2 contains three 78 rpm recordings of insect and frog sounds. The bulk of the research notes involve Lutz's work on insect sounds, primarily those of grasshoppers and crickets, with some of bees and frogs; and of his experiments with ultraviolet patterns in butterflies. Most of...
Dates:
1915-1938; Majority of material found within 1933-1938
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- Entomologists -- United States -- Correspondence 12
- Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 10
- Paleontologists -- United States -- Correspondence 7
- Ornithologists -- United States -- Correspondence 6
- Geologists -- United States -- Correspondence. 5
- Zoologists -- United States -- Correspondence 5
- Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 4
- Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 4
- Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence 4
- Natural history museum curators 4
- Naturalists -- United States -- Correspondence 4
- Anthropologists -- United States -- Correspondence 3
- Paleontologists -- Correspondence 3
- Anatomists -- United States -- Correspondence 2
- Birds -- Classification 2
- Birds -- Collection and preservation 2
- Butterflies -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 2
- Butterflies -- Type specimens. 2
- Education -- Museums 2
- Entomologists -- Correspondence. 2
- Entomologists -- North America -- Correspondence. 2
- Evolution (Biology) -- History -- Sources. 2
- Explorers -- Africa, Central -- Correspondence. 2
- Explorers -- United States -- Correspondence. 2
- Fishes -- Research 2
- Lepidoptera -- Catalogs and collections -- New York (State) -- New York. 2
- Lepidoptera -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 2
- Lepidoptera -- North America -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 2
- Mammals -- Evolution. 2
- Meteorites 2
- Mongolia -- Description and travel 2
- Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History 2
- Ontogeny. 2
- Ornithologists -- Correspondence. 2
- Publications 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 2
- Teeth, Fossil. 2
- Aleuts 1
- Ammonoidea 1
- Amphibians -- Classification 1
- Amphibians -- Development 1
- Amphibians -- Embryology 1
- Anatomists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence 1
- Animals -- Classification 1
- Animals -- Nomenclature 1
- Animals -- Transportation 1
- Anthropologists -- Russia (Federation) -- Correspondence 1
- Anthropometry. 1
- Archaeologists -- Mexico -- Correspondence. 1
- Archaeologists -- United States -- Correspondence. 1
- Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- American. 1
- Argali -- Classification. 1
- Art and science 1
- Artists -- United States -- Correspondence. 1
- Astronomy in art 1
- Australia -- Description and travel. 1
- Bees -- North Dakota -- Classification 1
- Beetles -- Trinidad and Tobago. 1
- Beneficial insects. 1
- Birds -- Catalogs and collections -- New York (State) -- New York. 1
- Birds -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Birds -- Exhibitions 1
- Birds -- Flight. 1
- Birds -- French Guiana -- Cayenne. 1
- Birds, Fossil. 1
- Botanists -- Germany -- Correspondence. 1
- Botanists -- United States -- Correspondence. 1
- Brain -- Evolution. 1
- Butterflies -- Jamaica. 1
- Butterflies -- North America -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 1
- Butterflies -- Type specimens -- North America -- Catalogs and collections. 1
- Carcinology -- History -- Sources 1
- Caves -- United States. 1
- Caves -- Virginia -- Luray 1
- Cerro de Pasco (Peru) -- Description and travel 1
- Cervus duvauceli -- Classification. 1
- Chemists -- United States -- Correspondence. 1
- Cichlids 1
- Cinematographers -- United States -- Correspondence. 1
- City Planning 1
- Coelacanth 1
- Correspondence 1
- Crabs -- Physiology 1
- Crustacea -- Physiology 1
- Decapoda (Crustacea) -- Physiology 1
- Dichodon cuspidatus. 1
- Dinosaur tracks -- Connecticut River Valley. 1
- Earthquakes. 1
- Ecology 1
- Embryologists -- Italy -- Correspondence. 1
- Entomologists -- Colorado -- Correspondence. 1
- Entomologists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence. 1
- Entomology -- Colorado -- History -- Sources. 1
- Entomology -- North America 1
- Ethnological expeditions -- Northwest Coast of North America. 1
- Ethnological expeditions -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia. 1
- Ethnologists -- Africa, Central -- Correspondence. 1
- Ethnologists -- Germany -- Correspondence. 1
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- French 3
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- American Museum of Natural History 10
- Department of Entomology 7
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 5
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 5
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 5
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 5
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 4
- Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 4
- Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 4
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 4
- Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 3
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 3
- Department of Geology and Paleontology 3
- Department of Ichthyology 3
- Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 3
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 3
- Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 3
- Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942 3
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 3
- Smithsonian Institution 3
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 2
- Audubon, Maria R. (Maria Rebecca), 1843-1925 2
- Beebe, William, 1877-1962 2
- Berlepsch, Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig, Graf von, 1850-1915 2
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 2
- Boston Society of Natural History 2
- Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 2
- Brown, F. Martin (Frederick Martin), 1903-1993 2
- Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 2
- Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 2
- Dodge Brothers 2
- Dutcher, William, 1846-1920 2
- Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915 2
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 2
- Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 2
- Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) 2
- Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 2
- Lee, Hugh J. 2
- Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916 2
- Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 2
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 2
- Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 2
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 2
- Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 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
- Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929 2
- Young, John McKenzie 2
- Académie royale de chirurgie (France) 1
- Adamson, Hans Christian 1
- Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 1
- Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 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 Insects and Spiders 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 1
- Atz, James W. 1
- Audubon 1
- Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 1
- Audubon, M. Eliza (Mary Eliza) 1
- Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
- Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 1
- Bangs, Outram, 1862-1932 1
- Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
- Batchelder, Charles F. (Charles Foster), 1898-1973 1
- Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
- Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 1
- Blanford, William Thomas, 1832-1905 1
- Bliss, Dorothy E. 1
- Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936 1
- Borup, George, 1885-1912 1
- Brand, Albert R. (Albert Rich) 1
- Brewster, William, 1851-1919 1
- Brooklyn Museum 1
- Brown, Barnum 1
- Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
- Buxton, N. G. (Norman G.) 1
- Carnegie Institute 1
- Chapin Field Trip to the Eastern Congo (1953-1958) 1
- Cherrie Expedition to French Guiana (1902-1903) 1
- Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946 1
- Clark, Eugenie 1
- Clark, Hamlet, 1823-1867 1
- Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
- Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 1
- Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
- Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 1
- Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
- Department of Anthropology 1
- Department of Education 1
- Dietz, William George, 1848-1932 1
- Dos Passos, Cyril F. (Cyril Franklin), 1887-1986 1
- Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903 1
- Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929 1
- Démeusy, Noëlle 1
- Edwards, William H. (William Henry), 1822-1909 1
- Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880-1951 1 ∧ less
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