Box 9

Scope and Contents Correspondence between Thomson and Granger. Includes correspondence between Granger and Childs Frick regarding financing the expedition. Correspondence from 1938 and 1939 includes list of expenses. Correspondence from 1939 includes a permit to collect fossils near Badlands National Monument as well as a list of specimens collected.There is no correspondence for 1940.Correspondence from 1941 includes letter from Thomson(?) to National Park Services regarding the expedition and...

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Correspondence between Bird and Brown. Included is the box list and expedition expenses paid by Bird.

Scope and Contents Contains letters of the USGS staff discussing fossil finds by Superintendent of the Owl Creek Coal Company site in Wyoming from 1925. Also included is correspondence regarding permission to collect fossils on land belonging to United Pacific Rail Road as well as the provision by the United Pacific of a Caterpillar shovel and dragline. Also included is correspondence between Brown and C. H. McWhinnie, Commissioner of Public Lands in Wyoming regarding permission to excavate fossils on public...

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Correspondence between Simpson and Victor M. Lopez, W.H. Phelps, Granger. Includes correspondence regarding permits and transportation. Also included are some letters from Anne Roe Simpson to Louis Monaco.

Included a report in Spanish of reconnaissance in Zaraza, list of supplies sent to the expedition from the museum in Spanish.

Also included is correspondence from 1960 regarding returning specimens to Venezuela.

Scope and Contents Bird found dinosaur tracks in Texas in 1938 and went back in 1940 to excavate them. During the season of 1939 Bird went to Montana and Alberta. Correspondence from 1938 includes letters from numerous people to the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology regarding specimens. Bird visited some of the localities mentioned to examine the finds. Also included is a letter from Granger to Childs Frick endorsing Frick's financing of Bird's trip, detailed instructions from Brown to Bird...

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Correspondence between Bird and Brown, Louis Monaco. Included is a list of photographs taken with descriptions as well as the expense account.

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Includes list of expenses by H.E. Volkes, letters to Brown from Edward S. Wood, Jr., and Erick (no last name). Also included a letter from Brown to Wayne Faunce dating to December 1940, describing Brown's meeting with National Park Service administrators to prove that his work did not interfere with theirs.

Scope and Contents Correspondence between Brown and H.E. Rothrock of the Department of the Interior regarding proposed Big Bend National Park, museum's search for fossils in the area. Also correspondence with Ellias Howard Sellards, Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology in Texas. Letter from Brown to Trubee Davison discussing the expedition, its financing and salaries. The correspondence concerns museum's right to collect fossils in the area. Included are 2 black and white photographs of locations, list...

Scope and Contents Correspondence between Granger and Peter Dondlinger regarding participating in the expedition. Also letter from George Pineley on the same subject. Also included is a letter from Childs Frick and Charles Cadwalader of the Acadmy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia regarding Granger's assistance to Bob Chaffee in the field. Letter from Junius Bird regarding some finds in South Dakota. List of expenditures, list of most important fossils found, Granger's report to Childs Frick. Also included...