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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

[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

Letters : : Berlin, 1888 Sept. 9, 1904 June 20.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .S354

Letters: [microform]

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #36

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

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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
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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
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Language
English 71
French 3
German 1
 
Names
American Museum of Natural History 17
Department of Entomology 7
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 7
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 6
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 5
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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
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