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Roy Chapman Andrews papers, 1987 Accession
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A54
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection consists of Andrews' correspondence, manuscripts, and transcripts of Andrews' broadcasts and talks from 1934 to1944. It also contains one folder of family and biographical documents and newspaper clippings received from Charles Gallenkamp, Andrews' biographer, in 1990. The majority of the administrative papers' correspondence concerns requests for speaking engagements about Andrews' explorations, requests for articles, and letters from the public and from companies...
Dates:
1920-1947; Majority of material found within 1934-1944
Central Asiatic Expeditions records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C446
Scope and Contents
This collection is a record of the Museum’s explorations undertaken during the 1920s in the Gobi Desert under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews. A list of the men who participated in the CAE can be culled from the expeditions’ letterheads used by museum personnel in New York. All but three of the men cited on these letterheads are represented here. Those not found are Mont Reid, a physician, James Wang, an interpreter and G. Horwath of motor transport. The variety of other correspondents...
Dates:
1916-1940; Majority of material found within 1921-1933
George K. Cherrie correspondence, 1902 Jan. 9, 1903 Apr. 11
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C454
Scope and content
The collection consists of two handwritten signed letters from Hartert, the first discussing Cherrie's collecting plans for an upcoming expedition to Cayenne, French Guiana, and the second evaluating the results. In the first letter, Hartert requests six specimens of every species of bird from Cayenne; eight of hummingbirds and swifts. Payment is discussed. Hartert says that Oldfield Thomas of the Natural History Museum (London, England) wants mammals from Cayenne, and stresses his own...
Dates:
1902 - 1903
William King Gregory papers, 1889-1948 (bulk 1906-1948)
Collection
Identifier: Mss .G7441
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of administrative, scientific, academic and personal papers, and correspondence. Papers include Gregory's general correspondence with universities, colleges and scientists about his research topics and publications; correspondence with museums about purchasing replicas of fossils; and with students seeking employement. Other papers include lecture notes prepared for zoology classes emphasizing evolution, 1925-1926 and 1939; and manuscripts and notes for his...
Dates:
1889-1948; Majority of material found within 1906-1948
Joseph Asaph Allen correspondence, 1870-1919
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A451-.A452
Dates:
Majority of material found within ( 1899-1902)
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- Mongolia -- Description and travel 2
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- Australia -- Description and travel. 1
- Birds -- Classification 1
- Birds -- Collection and preservation 1
- Birds -- French Guiana -- Cayenne. 1
- Fishes -- Anatomy. 1
- Fishes -- Evolution. 1
- Game protection -- United States 1
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- Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
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- Mammals -- Evolution. 1
- Moths -- Collection and preservation. 1
- Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 1
- New Zealand -- Description and travel. 1
- Ontogeny. 1
- Ornithologists -- Correspondence. 1
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- Paleontology -- Research -- History. 1
- Phaethornis malaris. 1
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- Scientific expeditions -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia 1
- Transvaal (South Africa) -- Description and travel. 1
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- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 4
- American Museum of Natural History 3
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 3
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 3
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 3
- Beebe, William, 1877-1962 2
- Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 2
- Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 2
- Dodge Brothers 2
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 2
- Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 2
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 2
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 2
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 2
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 2
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 2
- Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 2
- Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929 2
- Young, John McKenzie 2
- Adamson, Hans Christian 1
- Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 1
- Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 1
- Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 1
- American Association of Museums 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 1
- Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
- Bangs, Outram, 1862-1932 1
- Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
- Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
- Berlepsch, Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig, Graf von, 1850-1915 1
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
- Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
- Brown, Barnum 1
- Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
- Buxton, N. G. (Norman G.) 1
- Cherrie Expedition to French Guiana (1902-1903) 1
- Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946 1
- Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
- Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
- Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 1
- Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 1
- Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
- Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 1
- Department of Ichthyology 1
- Dutcher, William, 1846-1920 1
- Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929 1
- Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915 1
- Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
- Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 1
- Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
- Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992 1
- Heinz 1
- Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 1
- Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 1
- Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 1
- Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) 1
- Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 1
- Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
- Lee, Hugh J. 1
- Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 1
- Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 1
- McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
- Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942 1
- Miller, Gerrit S. (Gerrit Smith), 1869-1956 1
- Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 1
- National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals 1
- Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 1
- Nyholm, N. Erik I. 1
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 1
- Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 1
- Pearson, T. Gilbert (Thomas Gilbert), 1873-1943 1
- Peary, Josephine Diebitsch, 1863-1955 1
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
- Pond, Alonzo William, 1894-1986 1
- Pope, Clifford H. (Clifford Hillhouse), 1899-1974 1
- Putnam, George Palmer, 1887-1950 1
- Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 1
- Rutland (Vermont) Women’s and Men’s Clubs 1
- Sanford Memorial Hall of the Biology of Birds 1
- Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 1
- Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 1
- Shackelford, James B. 1
- Smith, Herbert H. (Herbert Huntington), 1851-1919 1
- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 1
- Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 1
- Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 1
- Wilkins, George H., Sir (George Hubert), 1888-1958 1
- Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918 1
- Zoological Museum (Tring, England) 1 ∧ less
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