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Edgar A. Mearns correspondence, 1883-1915

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .M43
Scope and Contents

The collection consists entirely of photocopies of handwritten letters. The first letter, dated May 17, 1883, is from Albert S. Bickmore, founder and superintendent of the AMNH, concerning Mearns's proposed donation of a collection of birds. The second letter is from curator J.A. Allen, discussing details of the specimens. Other correspondents include James P. Chapin, Frank M. Chapman, L.P. Gratacap, C. Hart Merriam, Jenness Richardson and Anthony Woodward.

Dates: 1883-1915

James Arthur Oliver papers

 Collection
Identifier: DR 125-125A
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of administrative papers from the years 1959-1969 when Oliver was director of the AMNH. The files were arranged arranged alphabetically by subject, most likely by Oliver's secretary, and have been kept in their original order. A typewritten Guide to the file cabinet was found in box 1. Some miscellaneous files from the last box were interfiled. Most of the material is typewritten or printed matter, but there is a handwritten signed letter from explorer Roy...
Dates: 1940-1972

Henry Fairfield Osborn papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .O835
Dates: 1877-1935; Majority of material found within 1908-1935

Otto Haas papers, 1909-1976

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .H33
Dates: (bulk 1939-1976).

Albert Eide Parr papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .P371-.P375
Scope and Content Note

The collection contains a wide variety of documents pertaining to Albert E. Parr, particularly during his tenure as Museum Director (1942-1959). Additionally, the collection also hosts a large collection of his original publications, as well as an assortment of newspaper clippings, receipts, meeting minutes, drafts of speeches, and correspondence.

Dates: 1933-1935, 1942-1980

Henry Cushier Raven papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .R38
Scope and Contents The items in this collection reflect much of Henry Cushier Raven’s species data research from approximately 1920-1944. The collection consists of handwritten and typed notes and research; hand-drawn illustrations of animals and their dissections; photographs of specimens and expedition sites; and manuscript drafts associated with his various essays, articles, and scholarly publications. Research and illustrations on various whale species, land mammals, and Raven’s data from his Australia/...
Dates: circa 1912-1944; Majority of material found within 1920-1944

Chester Reeds papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS .R44
Summary

2 boxes containing 52 folders of correspondence, typescript, handwritten notes, and printed images (maps, illustrations, etc.), most of which relates to the September-October 1926 issue of Natural History entitled The Romance of Fossil Hunting.

Dates: 1924-1930; Majority of material found in 1926

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Manuscript Collection 59
Entomologists -- United States -- Correspondence 12
Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 11
Department Records 10
Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence 8
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Paleontologists -- United States -- Correspondence 8
Ornithologists -- United States -- Correspondence 6
Zoologists -- United States -- Correspondence 6
Geologists -- United States -- Correspondence. 5
Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 5
Correspondence 4
Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 4
Natural history museum curators 4
Naturalists -- United States -- Correspondence 4
Anthropologists -- United States -- Correspondence 3
Fishes -- Research 3
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History 3
Paleontologists -- Correspondence 3
Publications 3
Anatomists -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Birds -- Classification 2
Birds -- Collection and preservation 2
Butterflies -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 2
Butterflies -- Type specimens. 2
Coelacanth 2
Education -- Museums 2
Entomologists -- Correspondence. 2
Entomologists -- North America -- Correspondence. 2
Evolution (Biology) -- History -- Sources. 2
Explorers -- Africa, Central -- Correspondence. 2
Explorers -- United States -- Correspondence. 2
Lepidoptera -- Catalogs and collections -- New York (State) -- New York. 2
Lepidoptera -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 2
Lepidoptera -- North America -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 2
Mammals -- Evolution. 2
Meteorites 2
Mongolia -- Description and travel 2
Museum publications 2
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York 2
Ontogeny. 2
Ornithologists -- Correspondence. 2
Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 2
Teeth, Fossil. 2
Aleuts 1
Ammonoidea 1
Amphibians -- Classification 1
Amphibians -- Development 1
Amphibians -- Embryology 1
Anatomists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence 1
Animals -- Classification 1
Animals -- Nomenclature 1
Animals -- Transportation 1
Anthropologists -- Russia (Federation) -- Correspondence 1
Anthropometry. 1
Archaeologists -- Mexico -- Correspondence. 1
Archaeologists -- United States -- Correspondence. 1
Archives Microfilm 1
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- American. 1
Argali -- Classification. 1
Art and science 1
Artists -- United States -- Correspondence. 1
Astronomy in art 1
Australia -- Description and travel. 1
Bees -- North Dakota -- Classification 1
Beetles -- Trinidad and Tobago. 1
Beneficial insects. 1
Birds -- Catalogs and collections -- New York (State) -- New York. 1
Birds -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Birds -- Exhibitions 1
Birds -- Flight. 1
Birds -- French Guiana -- Cayenne. 1
Birds, Fossil. 1
Botanists -- Germany -- Correspondence. 1
Botanists -- United States -- Correspondence. 1
Brain -- Evolution. 1
Butterflies -- Jamaica. 1
Butterflies -- North America -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 1
Butterflies -- Type specimens -- North America -- Catalogs and collections. 1
Carcinology -- History -- Sources 1
Caves -- United States. 1
Caves -- Virginia -- Luray 1
Cerro de Pasco (Peru) -- Description and travel 1
Cervus duvauceli -- Classification. 1
Chemists -- United States -- Correspondence. 1
Cichlids 1
Cinematographers -- United States -- Correspondence. 1
City Planning 1
Crabs -- Physiology 1
Crustacea -- Physiology 1
Decapoda (Crustacea) -- Physiology 1
Development 1
Dichodon cuspidatus. 1
Dinosaur tracks -- Connecticut River Valley. 1
Earthquakes. 1
Ecology 1
Embryologists -- Italy -- Correspondence. 1
Entomologists -- Colorado -- Correspondence. 1
Entomologists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence. 1
Entomology -- Colorado -- History -- Sources. 1
Entomology -- North America 1
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Language
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French 3
German 1
 
Names
American Museum of Natural History 16
Department of Entomology 7
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 6
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 5
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 5
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Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 5
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 4
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 4
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 4
Department of Ichthyology 4
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 4
Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 3
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 3
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 3
Department of Geology and Paleontology 3
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 3
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 3
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 3
Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942 3
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 3
Smithsonian Institution 3
Atz, James W. 2
Audubon, Maria R. (Maria Rebecca), 1843-1925 2
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 2
Berlepsch, Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig, Graf von, 1850-1915 2
Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 2
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 2
Boston Society of Natural History 2
Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 2
Brown, F. Martin (Frederick Martin), 1903-1993 2
Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 2
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 2
Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 2
Department of Education 2
Dodge Brothers 2
Dutcher, William, 1846-1920 2
Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915 2
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 2
Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 2
Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) 2
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 2
Lee, Hugh J. 2
Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916 2
Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 2
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 2
Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981 2
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 2
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 2
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 2
Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 2
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 2
Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 2
Smith, J. L. B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968 2
Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929 2
Young, John McKenzie 2
Académie royale de chirurgie (France) 1
Adamson, Hans Christian 1
Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 1
Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 1
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 1
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 1
American Association of Museums 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Insects and Spiders 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 1
American Museum of Natural History. Library 1
Audubon 1
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 1
Audubon, M. Eliza (Mary Eliza) 1
Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 1
Bangs, Outram, 1862-1932 1
Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
Batchelder, Charles F. (Charles Foster), 1898-1973 1
Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
Blanford, William Thomas, 1832-1905 1
Bliss, Dorothy E. 1
Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936 1
Borup, George, 1885-1912 1
Brand, Albert R. (Albert Rich) 1
Brewster, William, 1851-1919 1
Brooklyn Museum 1
Brown, Barnum 1
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
Bush, Katharine J. (Katharine Jeannette), 1855-1937 1
Buxton, N. G. (Norman G.) 1
Carnegie Institute 1
Chapin Field Trip to the Eastern Congo (1953-1958) 1
Cherrie Expedition to French Guiana (1902-1903) 1
Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946 1
Clark, Eugenie 1
Clark, Hamlet, 1823-1867 1
Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 1
Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
Department of Anthropology 1
Department of Herpetology 1
Dietz, William George, 1848-1932 1
Dos Passos, Cyril F. (Cyril Franklin), 1887-1986 1
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