Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 51 - 60 of 75

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

Martin Johnson papers, 1923-1942

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .J63- .J65
Dates: (bulk 1923-1937).

William Diller Matthew papers

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

Edgar A. Mearns correspondence, 1883-1915

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .M43
Scope and Contents

The collection consists entirely of photocopies of handwritten letters. The first letter, dated May 17, 1883, is from Albert S. Bickmore, founder and superintendent of the AMNH, concerning Mearns's proposed donation of a collection of birds. The second letter is from curator J.A. Allen, discussing details of the specimens. Other correspondents include James P. Chapin, Frank M. Chapman, L.P. Gratacap, C. Hart Merriam, Jenness Richardson and Anthony Woodward.

Dates: 1883-1915

James Arthur Oliver papers

 Collection
Identifier: DR 125-125A
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of administrative papers from the years 1959-1969 when Oliver was director of the AMNH. The files were arranged arranged alphabetically by subject, most likely by Oliver's secretary, and have been kept in their original order. A typewritten Guide to the file cabinet was found in box 1. Some miscellaneous files from the last box were interfiled. Most of the material is typewritten or printed matter, but there is a handwritten signed letter from explorer Roy...
Dates: 1940-1972

The Papers of Henry Fairfield Osborn (1877-1935)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .O835
Scope and Contents

Accompanying the collection is a three-drawer wooden cabinet containing file cards on assorted research subjects and people.

Dates: 1877-1935; Majority of material found within 1908 - 1935

Otto Haas papers, 1909-1976

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .H33
Dates: (bulk 1939-1976).

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

Filtered By

  • Subject: Correspondence X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Repository
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library 70
Department of Ornithology Archives 3
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives 2
 
Subject
Manuscript Collection 59
Entomologists -- United States -- Correspondence 12
Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 11
Department Records 10
Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence 8
∨ more
Paleontologists -- United States -- Correspondence 8
Correspondence 6
Ornithologists -- United States -- Correspondence 6
Zoologists -- United States -- Correspondence 6
Geologists -- United States -- Correspondence. 5
Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 5
Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 4
Natural history museum curators 4
Naturalists -- United States -- Correspondence 4
Ornithologists -- Correspondence. 4
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Archives. 3
Anthropologists -- United States -- Correspondence 3
Fishes -- Research 3
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History 3
Paleontologists -- Correspondence 3
Publications 3
Anatomists -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Birds -- Classification 2
Birds -- Collection and preservation 2
Butterflies -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 2
Butterflies -- Type specimens. 2
Coelacanth 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
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
Museum publications 2
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York 2
Ontogeny. 2
Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 2
Teeth, Fossil. 2
Administrative 1
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
Archives Microfilm 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
Black-and-white photographs 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
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
Embryologists -- Italy -- Correspondence. 1
Entomologists -- Colorado -- Correspondence. 1
∧ less
 
Language
English 71
French 3
German 1
 
Names
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
∨ more
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