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Latimeria (Coelacanth) at the American Museum of Natural History
Collection
Identifier: DR 078
Summary
Thirteen folders of correspondence and reprints relating to the Coelacanth at the American Museum of Natural History, including discovery of five unborn pups.
Dates:
1962-1992
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
Leonard C. Sanford collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn97
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from BMNH Archives between Sanford, Rothschild, Stresemann, Mayr, Stein, Frost, and Dammerman concerning joint projects in New Guinea
Dates:
1927-1931
Found in:
Department of Ornithology Archives
[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
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- Department Records 10
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- Butterflies -- Jamaica. 1
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- 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
- Crabs -- Physiology 1
- Crustacea -- Physiology 1
- Decapoda (Crustacea) -- Physiology 1
- Development 1
- Dichodon cuspidatus. 1
- Dinosaur tracks -- Connecticut River Valley. 1
- Earthquakes. 1
- Ecology 1
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- English 71
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- American Museum of Natural History 17
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 8
- Department of Entomology 7
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 6
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 5
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 5
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 5
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 4
- Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 4
- Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 4
- Department of Ichthyology 4
- Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 3
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 3
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 3
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 3
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 3
- Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 3
- Department of Geology and Paleontology 3
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 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
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 3
- Smithsonian Institution 3
- Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 2
- Atz, James W. 2
- Audubon, Maria R. (Maria Rebecca), 1843-1925 2
- Beebe, William, 1877-1962 2
- Berlepsch, Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig, Graf von, 1850-1915 2
- Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 2
- Boston Society of Natural History 2
- Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 2
- Brown, Barnum 2
- Brown, F. Martin (Frederick Martin), 1903-1993 2
- Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 2
- Correia, José G., 1881-1954 2
- Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 2
- Department of Education 2
- Dodge Brothers 2
- Dutcher, William, 1846-1920 2
- Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915 2
- Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 2
- Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 2
- Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 2
- Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) 2
- Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 2
- Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 2
- Lee, Hugh J. 2
- Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 2
- Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916 2
- Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 2
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 2
- Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 2
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 2
- Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981 2
- Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 2
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 2
- Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 2
- Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 2
- Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004 2
- Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 2
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 2
- Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
- Smith, J. L. B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968 2
- Sternfeld, Ruth, d. 2007 2
- Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929 2
- Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 2
- Young, John McKenzie 2
- Académie royale de chirurgie (France) 1
- Adamson, Hans Christian 1
- Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 1
- Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 1
- Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 1
- Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
- American Association of Museums 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Insects and Spiders 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Library 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
- Beck, Rollo Howard, 1870-1950 1
- Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 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
- Bryan, E. H. (Edwin Horace), 1898-1985 1
- Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
- Bush, Katharine J. (Katharine Jeannette), 1855-1937 1
- Buxton, N. G. (Norman G.) 1 ∧ less
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