Box 12

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Correspondence regarding work on Pleistocene horse fossils, Childs Frick becoming a charter member of the newly established Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in 1941.

Also regarding disposition of funds from the Paleontology Field Fund donated to the museum by Childs Frick including short reports by Simpson on the field work from 1946-1954.

Correspondence regarding fossil specimens loaned from DVP to Frick Laboratory, Frick's gift of glyptodont fossils to DVP.

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Contains correspondence regarding Skinner's work on preparing fossils and his field work. Includes correspondence regarding Skinner's work on bison material.

Includes some correspondence regarding permits. Also correpondence about shipments of specific boxes from the field.

Included correspondence regarding Skinner's efforts to arrange the papers in the Frick Laboratory - i.e. old correspondence and field notebooks.

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Contains reports by Morris Skinner on possible fossil collecting localities in Florida.

Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding offer by Osborn of a position to Childs Frick in 1917 and Frick's declining the position due to joining the army during WWI. Also appointment of Childs Frick as an Honorary Curator of Late Tertiary and Quaternary Mammals by the Trustees in 1930.Correspondence regarding Frick's expeditions and his work on the fossils. Also regarding proposed office locations for the Frick Laboratory in the AMNH and the arrangements between AMNH and Frick Laboratory. ...

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Correspondence regarding an ibex skull found in Iowa and identified by Childs Frick

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Correspondence regarding Pearce's field work, including expense statments and receipts.

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Correspondence regarding photography of fossils, about the work of Dr. Jepsen in Princeton and about Childs Frick's financial support for the university.

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Correspondence about Riley's work in the field and find of a deer skull and the training Riley got in preparation at the Frick Laboratory in 1946.

Scope and Contents Contains correspondence between Quentin Roosevelt II (grandson of Theodore Roosevelt) and Childs Frick regarding Roosevelt's and his friend Joseph W. Burden find of antelope fossils in an Arizona cave in 1934.The fossils were sent to the Frick Laboratory and the find was subsequently published in a museum Novitates in October 1934.The material includes hand drawn color sketches of the locality and the cave.Also included is correspondence between the...

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Dr. Carlos Rusconi was the chief at the Jardin Zoologico in Buenos Aires.

Contains correspondence regarding exchange of publications. Includes a list of publications by Dr. Rusconi.