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Box 13

 Container

Contains 8 Results:

Skinner, Morris, correspondence regarding expenses, 1932 - 1953

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence regarding Skinner's expenses and the payments made by the Frick Corporation.

Dates: 1932 - 1953

Skinner, Morris, correspondence regarding expenses, 1954 - 1959

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence regarding Skinner's expenses and the payments made by the Frick Corporation.

Dates: 1954 - 1959

Skinner, Morris, correspondence regarding expenses, 1960 - 1965

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence regarding Skinner's expenses and the payments made by the Frick Corporation.

Dates: 1960 - 1965

Skinner, Morris, expense forms, 1947 - 1958

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes expense forms and some receipts.

Dates: 1947 - 1958

Skinner, Morris, expense forms, 1959 - 1965

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Includes expense forms and some receipts.

Dates: 1959 - 1965

Smithsonian Institution, Frick East African bird collection, 1919 - 1937

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence regarding creating and publishing a report on the collection of East African birds made by Childs Frick in 1911-1912 and donated by him to the U.S. National Museum.

The reports were written and published by Dr. Herbert Friedmann.

Also includes correspondence regarding transfer of some of the bird specimens to AMNH. Acknowledgement of sending of 374 specimens to AMNH in 1937.

Dates: 1919 - 1937

Smithsonian Institution, general correspondence, 1920 - 1964

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence with Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

Concerns meetings, exchange of publications, casts, and specimen measurements. Also includes information about loans of fossils and exchange of duplicates.

Also includes correspondence from 1943 regarding the U.S. Army using the area around Kilpatrick Ranch, Sioux County, Nebraska for target practice and the concern that this would damage fossil bearing deposits.

Dates: 1920 - 1964

Smithsonian Institution, Dr. James Gidley, 1927 - 1931

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence with and regarding Dr. Gidley.

Concerns financial support by Childs Frick of Gidley's field work and includes informal reports by Gidley from the field.

Dates: 1927 - 1931