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William Diller Matthew papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 122
Scope and Contents
William Diller Matthew's notebooks, notes, correspondence and manuscripts. He worked at the AMNH for thirty-two years. His more than 250 publications deal with the morphology and classification of the Eocene mammals and later Cenozoic mammals. He was especially interested in horses and he made them a showpiece of evolution. Evolution was the one theme on which he constantly wrote whether dealing with descriptions or comparisons. Box 1 contains biographical and bibliographic materials, Boxes...
Dates:
1893-1979
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Malcolm C. McKenna Papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 117
Dates:
1948-2003
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Charles C. Mook papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 123
Scope and Contents
Mook's papers consist of two folders containing annotated manuscripts, pencil illustrations and charts on fossil mammals and reptiles with notes and exchanges with William King Gregory, William Diller Matthew and Childs Frick. The collection includes materials for courses at Columbia University and outlines of lectures by various lecturers. The materials are organized into two folders and are roughly chronological, though many items are undated. There is also correspondence and...
Dates:
1900-1966
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Rachel H. Nichols papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 124
Scope and Contents
Rachel H. Nichols served as a cataloger, staff assistant and finally as a scientific assistant and replaced Miss Lucas in charge of the Osborn Library. The records that resulted consist of a great variety of subjects and represent her activities both in some personal enterprises and in her official capacity.
Box 1 (1908-1966) contains Osborn Library history, organization, and administrative activity (1908-1962); excerpts from the publication Fossil Vertebrates, vi-xii (1926-1939), v.16-19...
Dates:
1901-1966
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Henry Fairfield Osborn papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 125
Scope and Contents
Series 1 (Boxes 1 to 6) contain Osborn’s correspondence, both general and relating to specific publications including “Age of Mammals” 2nd edition, “Ape Man,” and “Men of the Old Stone Age.” This series also contains accession information for the entire Henry Fairfield Osborn Papers collection. It is arranged alphabetically and thematically, then chronologically.Series 2 (Boxes 6 to 21) contains materials related to Osborn’s published papers, articles, and unpublished...
Dates:
1870-1949
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Bobb Schaeffer collection
Collection
Identifier: VPA 126
Dates:
1940-1984
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Morris F. Skinner papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 127
Dates:
1901-1993
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Gilbert F. Stucker papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 128
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three folders of Stucker's incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding loans and exchanges of specimens and casts, as well as some internal department discussions from 1960-1979. Includes correspondence regarding loans and exchanges of specimens and casts: some are listed by number; some dated; some undated. Includes notes regarding a Polish shipment; information regarding publications, expense accounts and field trips of which only some are dated; a listing of...
Dates:
1960-1979
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Beryl E. Taylor papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 129
Scope and Contents
Collection includes Beryl E. Taylor's professional papers from working in the Frick Laboratory, specializing in deer and cameloid fossils of North America. Box 1 contains biographical data, and DVP/Frick Laboratory administrative materials such as memos, meeting notes, and grant applications. Box 2 contains correspondence. Box 3 contains published papers and indices by Taylor. Box 4 contains research notes and unpublished papers, primarily on deer species. Box 5 also contains notes and data...
Dates:
1891-1980; Majority of material found within 1960-1980
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Richard H. Tedford papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 130
Scope and Contents
Richard H. Tedford's correspondence. In 1994, Tedford cleared his office files of early correspondence through 1985 and deposited them in the archives. They have been processed and inventoried, keeping the original order. Boxes 1- 16 are correspondence and organized alphabetically. There are additional materials dating from post-1994 to 2002.
Dates:
1951-2002
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
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