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The collection consists of Brown's correspondence, notes, images and maps relating to his field work, papers of his second wife, Lilian Brown, drafts of unfinished autobiography, notes and illustrations for his scientific articles, records of his work for the museum, including exhibition halls, records of his commercial work as well as reports from his consulting work for the goverment. The collection also contains papers of Peter Kaisen who was a long-term Brown's assistant.

Scope and Contents

The Department of Vertebrate Paleontology began sending staff into the field as early as the first year of its founding, 1891. Since then the department has organized and supported decades of seminal field work as it continues to do so today.

Scope and Contents This series consists of materials related to Gaffney's work in the field in the United States and Australia. Materials include field notes and specimen descriptions; photographs of dig sites, landscapes, specimens, and participants; correspondence with scientific colleagues, AMNH staff, local residents and regulatory bodies, and others; publications and clippings about the region's fossil record and the activities and findings of the fieldwork; and financial materials.In addition...