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Dorothy Bliss papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss .B55
Scope and Contents
In the case of this collection, Scope and Content are virtually synonymous. Both words encompass Dr. Bliss's single-minded, detailed study of crustaceans in general and the land crab gecarcinus lateralis in particular. There is nothing in these papers that refers to her teaching positions or the other outside interests cited in the biographical sketch. It must be assumed that she was always careful to compartmentalize her various activities. The scope of the material starts in...
Dates:
1950-1979
Central Asiatic Expeditions records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C446
Scope and Contents
This collection is a record of the Museum’s explorations undertaken during the 1920s in the Gobi Desert under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews. A list of the men who participated in the CAE can be culled from the expeditions’ letterheads used by museum personnel in New York. All but three of the men cited on these letterheads are represented here. Those not found are Mont Reid, a physician, James Wang, an interpreter and G. Horwath of motor transport. The variety of other correspondents...
Dates:
1916-1940; Majority of material found within 1921-1933
Cyril F. dos Passos papers, 1932-1978
Collection
Identifier: Mss .D67
Scope and content
The collection consists of minimally processed material. It is primarily correspondence, with some administrative papers, notes, newspaper clippings and a few personal and family photographs. Some general subject headings are noted in pencil on the outside of the boxes, such as Lepidoptera, Entomology, Zoological nomenclature and Carnegie [Institute]. Correspondents include F. Martin Brown, Jeane D. Gunder, Alexander B. Klots and Charles Lee Remington.
Dates:
1932 - 1978
D. Owen Stephens collection, 1937 May 14-1937 June 8.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .S747
Dates:
1937 - 1937
Bashford Dean papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss .D433-.D434
Abstract
Bashford Dean (1867-1928) was a teacher, ichthyologist, and armor scholar. As curator, he headed emergent departments at the American Museum of Natural History (Reptiles and Fishes, 1903-1910) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (curator, Arms and Armor, 1904-1912) in New York City. The Bashford Dean Papers primarily consists of correspondence and sketchbooks.
Dates:
1888-1961 and unknown; Majority of material found within 1901-1902
Department of Ornithology historic correspondence 'A-Z' collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn5
Scope and Contents
Historic correspondence files organized from A to Z and include articles, photographs (one slide), biographical information, bird lists and field notes. Also includes articles, expedition histories, oral history.
Dates:
1865-2002, undated
Found in:
Department of Ornithology Archives
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology correspondence
Collection
Identifier: VPA 105
Scope and Contents
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology correspondence from 1887-1966, alphabetized by subject or author. Hundreds of scientists worldwide are represented by correspondence and include Alexander Agassiz, Glover M. Allen, Florentino Ameghino, Erwin H. Barbour, Franz Boas, Stephen F. Borhegyi, Robert Broom, Barnum Brown, Hermon C. Bumpus, Edwin H. Colbert, Thomas Alva Edison, Walter Granger, William T. Gregory, Claude W. Hibbard, D.A. Hooijer, William T. Hornaday, Remington Kellogg, Charles R....
Dates:
1887-1966
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
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- American Museum of Natural History 17
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- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 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
- 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
- Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 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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