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The Papers of Henry Fairfield Osborn (1877-1935)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .O835
Scope and Contents

Accompanying the collection is a three-drawer wooden cabinet containing file cards on assorted research subjects and people.

Dates: 1877-1935; Majority of material found within 1908 - 1935

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

Harry Lionel Shapiro papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .S537
Scope and Contents Collection consists of English translations of articles written by Shapiro and published from 1874 to 1938 pertaining to anthropological research. Most articles were translated by Edward Hulles or Grace P. Eldridge.Contents of articles[Southern tip of South America] -- Les Araucaniens du Jardin d'acclimation / Deniker, M. (1883) -- Materiaux pour servir à l'histoire des Oonas indigènes de la Terre du feu / Lahille, F. (1926) -- Ein Onaschädel aus Feuerland : zur...
Dates: circa 1930s-1980s

O. A. Stevens papers and correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .S748
Scope and Contents The items in this collection reflect Stevens’ academic correspondence between the years of 1909 and 1959. The majority of the topics center on his collection of bee and wasp specimens, their proper naming, and their research value to other amateur and professional entomologists. Some correspondence also touches on his botanical and ornithological pursuits, including several letters between Myron H. Swenk, Stevens’ long time correspondent and co-author of the highly regarded paper entitled...
Dates: 1909-1959; Majority of material found within 1920-1940

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Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 5
Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence 4
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History 3
Paleontologists -- United States -- Correspondence 3
East Asia -- Description and travel 2
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Geologists -- United States -- Correspondence. 2
Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Mammals -- Evolution. 2
Mongolia -- Description and travel 2
Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 2
Ontogeny. 2
Paleontologists -- Correspondence 2
Scientific expeditions 2
Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 2
Ainu 1
Animals -- Classification 1
Animals -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Catalogs and collections 1
Animals -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Classification. 1
Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. 1
Australia -- Description and travel. 1
Bees -- North Dakota -- Classification 1
Beijing (China) 1
Biology 1
Birds -- Exhibitions 1
Caves -- United States. 1
Caves -- Virginia -- Luray 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
City Planning 1
Conservationists -- New York (State) -- New York 1
Conservationists -- United States 1
Craniometry. 1
Diaries 1
Earthquakes. 1
Education -- Museums 1
Entomologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Entomology -- North America 1
Evolution (Biology) -- History -- Sources. 1
Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy -- History -- Sources. 1
Evolution. 1
Extinction (Biology) 1
Fishes -- Anatomy. 1
Fishes -- Evolution. 1
Geology -- Congresses. 1
Geology -- Exhibitions -- New York (State) -- New York 1
Gilyaks. 1
Honolulu (Hawaii) 1
Human body -- Measurement. 1
Indonesia -- Description and travel. 1
Insects -- North Dakota -- Classification 1
Invertebrates, Fossil -- Collection and preservation. 1
Invertebrates, Fossil -- Identification. 1
Mammals -- Classification -- History. 1
Mammals -- Collection and preservation 1
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Natural history -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York. 1
Natural history museum curators 1
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions 1
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources. 1
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New York (N.Y.) 1
New Zealand -- Description and travel. 1
Oceanographers -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Ornithologists -- United States 1
Ornithology -- United States 1
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Paleontology 1
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Pelée, Mount (Martinique) -- Eruption, 1902. 1
Physical anthropology. 1
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Reefs. 1
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Saint-Pierre (Martinique) 1
San Francisco (Calif.) 1
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Earthquake, 1906. 1
Saurischia. 1
Science -- Congresses -- Planning. 1
Science -- Societies, etc. -- United States. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Africa 1
Scientific expeditions -- Australia 1
Scientific expeditions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Seoul (Korea) 1
Shanghai (China) 1
Skull. 1
Soufrière (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) -- Eruption, 1902. 1
Submarine geology. 1
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Names
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 6
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 5
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 4
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 3
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 3
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Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 3
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 2
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 2
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 2
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 2
Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 2
Department of Education 2
Department of Geology and Paleontology 2
Dodge Brothers 2
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 2
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 2
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 2
Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 2
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 2
Newell, Norman Dennis, 1909-2005 2
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 2
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 2
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 2
Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 2
Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 2
University of Kansas 2
Young, John McKenzie 2
Adamson, Hans Christian 1
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 1
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 1
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 1
Amadon, Dean 1
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting (1916) (New York, N.Y.) 1
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting (1928-1929) (New York, N.Y.) 1
American Association of Museums 1
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Library Services 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 1
American Philosophical Society 1
Anderson, Sydney, 1927- 1
Asiatic Zoölogical Expedition (1st : 1916-1917) 1
Atz, James W. 1
Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 1
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
Boyd, Donald Wilkin 1
Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
Brooklyn Museum 1
Brown, Barnum 1
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
Carneiro, Robert L. (Robert Leonard), 1927- 1
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
Cloud, Preston, 1912-1991 1
Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. 1
Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
Cooper, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur), 1902-2000 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
Field Museum of Natural History 1
Fischer, Alfred G. 1
Freed, Stanley A. 1
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
Friese, Heinrich, 1860-1948 1
Gardiner, Henry, 1916- 1
Geological Society of America 1
Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 1
Gould, Stephen Jay 1
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992 1
Heinz 1
Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939 1
Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 1
Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 1
Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 1
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
Lanyon, Wesley E. 1
Lecroy, Mary 1
Lee, Hugh J. 1
Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 1
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 1
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
McKenna, Malcolm C. 1
Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
Morden, Irene 1
Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 1
Myers, Charles W. 1
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 1
Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 1
New York Zoological Park 1
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