Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899

Scope and Contents

Correspondence relative to the formation and organization of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology. Correspondence between Morris K. Jesup, Henry Fairfield Osborn, C.O. Marsh, J.L. Wortman, J.B. Hatcher, O.A. Peterson, W.H. Utterback. Many letters from Volume II have been removed. Two volumes containing approximately 100 letters.

Scope and Contents This collection originally belonged to the Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology, and was transferred in 1944 to the Department of Geology and Paleontology when the two were combined. Department of Geology and Paleontology in turn became the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology. The Department of Reptiles and Fishes (later Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology) was established in 1903 with Bashford Dean heading it jointly with Miss Mary C. Dickerson, who was the...