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Chester Reeds papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS .R44
Summary

2 boxes containing 52 folders of correspondence, typescript, handwritten notes, and printed images (maps, illustrations, etc.), most of which relates to the September-October 1926 issue of Natural History entitled The Romance of Fossil Hunting.

Dates: 1924-1930; Majority of material found in 1926

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

Thomas E. Bean papers, 1877-1961

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .B42
Dates: Majority of material found within ( 1877-1931)

Waldemar Jochelson collection, 1899-1979 (bulk 1899-1942)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .D66
Scope and content The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs and memorabilia. The material relates to both Jochelson's and Brodsky's work and writings, and also includes many personal and family items. Much of the early correspondence is from the 1920s and 30s between Jochelson or Brodsky and former colleagues and professors, many living in Russia (the USSR at the time). Letters describe social conditions as well as covering professional topics. Correspondents...
Dates: 1899-1979; Majority of material found within ( 1899-1942)

Alfred Russel Wallace correspondence

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss .W3551
Scope and Contents The collection consists almost entirely of handwritten, signed letters from Wallace to Cockerell, along with a few postcards. There are also one letter from Wallace's wife, Annie, and four letters (one typewritten) and a postcard from Wallace's son, William, following Wallace's death; and one newspaper clipping. The bulk of the letters are an ongoing one-sided conversation between the two naturalists on their scientific work and theories, beginning with a discussion of Wallace's book,...
Dates: 1890-1914

William Dunham Kearfott papers, 1896-1915.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .K43

William G. Dietz letter, 1888 Aug. 27

 Item
Identifier: Mss .D54
Scope and content Consists of one handwritten signed letter by a dealer in zoological specimens in Port of Spain [Trinidad and Tobago], with Dietz's pencil notes at the end. Correspondent is replying to an earlier letter from Dietz. He says that he is low on beetles, but has a larger number of Lepidoptera available and offers to send them. [Specimen?] numbers for Coleoptera and Lepidoptera are listed in the left margin. Dietz has added what look like genus and species names in pencil at the bottom of the...
Dates: 1888

William Thomas Blanford correspondence, 1899

 Item
Identifier: Mss .B536
Scope and content

One handwritten signed letter in which Blanford discusses the taxonomy and nomenclature of the barasingha (Cervus duvauceli), the swamp deer of northern India and Nepal. Blanford claims "barasinga" is the correct spelling; he also mentions the Tibetan argali or mountain sheep (Ovis ammon hodgsoni).

Dates: 1899

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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
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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
Ethnologists -- Russia (Federation) -- Correspondence. 1
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Language
English 55
French 3
German 1
 
Names
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
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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
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