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Box 8

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

Simpson, George Gaylord; Scarritt-Patagonia Expedition, 1930 - 1931

 Record Group — Box: 8, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents Correspondence between Simpson and Brown. Includes letters of introduction from AMNH to Dr. Luis Maria Torres and others, letter from Osborn to Julian Enciso, Charge d'Affaires of the Argentine Republic. Included is correspondence between Simpson and the Minister of Justice and Public Instruction regarding permission to explore and work paleontological deposits. Also includes correspondence regarding transporatation. Includes list of materials and supplies, receipts and...
Dates: 1930 - 1931

Simpson, George Gaylord; Recognizance of Southern States, 1930

 Record Group — Box: 8, Folder: 1
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Simpson and Brown. Includes a short field report, a map with the route of the trip, and expenses.

Dates: 1930

Brown, Barnum; Montana; Wyoming, 1931 - 1933

 Record Group — Box: 8, Folder: 2-4
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents Correspondence between Brown and Kaisen, Rolfe Lord, Granger, Osborn. Includes list of specimens collected, the box list, report on the expedition to Montana, New Mexico and Arizona in 1931. Also included is the daily travel report from Peter Kaisen, who was a member of the expedition and expense vouchers. Correspondence from 1932 includes an unsigned report on Reconnassance Trip in Cow Island District, Missouri River. Also included correspondence with the motor company in Billings...
Dates: 1931 - 1933

Williams, Coleman, S.; Scarritt-Patagonia Expedition, 1931

 Record Group — Box: 8, Folder: 2
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents

Although Williams accompanied Simpson in 1930 and 1931, only letters from 1931 are present in the archive. Williams wrote letters to his wife, Dora Williams, who typed them and forwarded them to Brown. Includes list of expenses.

Dates: 1931

Simpson, George Gaylord; Montana, 1932

 Record Group — Box: 8, Folder: 3
Identifier: VPA 101

Simpson, George Gaylord; Second Scarritt-Patagonia Expedition, 1933 - 1935

 Record Group — Box: 8, Folder: 5
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents Correspondence between Simpson and Horaace S. Scarritt, Granger, G.H.H. Tate of the Department of Mammalogy. Also includes letters from Martin Doello-Jurado, Director of Buenos Aires Museo Nacional de Historia Natural to F.T. Davison and G.H. Sherwood. Includes lists of supplies ordered from Sear, Roebuck Company, receipts and disbursments, document from the Ministry of Finance of Argentina allowing Simpson to bring his tools into the country. A report in Spanish from the President of the...
Dates: 1933 - 1935

Brown, Barnum; Sinclair Dinosaur Expedition, 1934

 Record Group — Box: 8, Folder: 6
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents Sinclair Dinosaur Expedition had 2 components: full season of excavation at the Howe Quarry in Wyoming and an airplane survey by Barnum Brown from September 1st to October 16th over the states of Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Correspondence between Brown and Kaisen, George H. Sherwood, Rolfe Lord. Correspondence regarding car insurance in Wyoming and Montana. Included are the report from the season by Brown as well as a daily log of the...
Dates: 1934

Lewis, G. Edward; Sinclair Dinosaur Expedition, 1934

 Record Group — Box: 8, Folder: 6
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Lewis and Brown. Contains letters, postcards, 6 black and white photographs.

Dates: 1934

Sorensen, Carl; Sinclair Dinosaur Expedition, 1934

 Record Group — Box: 8, Folder: 6
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence between Sorensen and Brown, and Rolfe Lord.

Dates: 1934

Simpson, George Gaylord; Third Scarritt Expedition, 1935

 Record Group — Box: 8, Folder: 7
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents

The Third Scarritt expedition consisted of work in Montana. Correspondence between Simpson and Brown, Granger. Also included the financial account.

Dates: 1935