Box 53

Correspondence and drafts of the text of "An Introduction to the Skull of Chelydra serpentina, with a Review of the Morphology Literature of Chelydra", which was published as a chapter in a book "Biology of the snapping turtle (Chelydra Serpentina) by Anthony Steermark and Michael Finkler in 2008.

Proposal for a book by Gaffney and Lowell Dingus titled "Blueprints for Bodies: The Evolution of Animals with Backbones"

Include texts of "Introduction to Cladistics" by Gaffney.

Contains abstracts and summaries of papers presented by Gaffney at various professional meetings.

Material related to "Bairdemys, a new side-necked turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Carribean" published by Gaffney and R.C. Wood in Novitates 3359 in September of 2009.

Correspondence, notes and images related to "Chelid turtles from the Miocene freshwater limestones of Riversleigh Station, Nortwestern Queensland, Australia" by Gaffney, M. Archer and A. White, published in Novitates 2959, 1989