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Field and Expedition Equipment
Collection
Identifier: Mem 305
Scope and Contents
Since 1887, the American Museum of Natural History has been conducting field expeditions in every continent. This is one of the main resources for the Museum’s scientific research and collection development activities throughout all its disciplines. This grouping holds the equipment that were used during expeditions from around 1877 to 1996. Most of these expeditions required direct interaction with the natural habitat of the subject of study, which usually involves being out in the...
Dates:
Usage: circa 1877-1990s
James Paul Chapin correspondence, 1953
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C4537
Scope and content
The collection consists of letters, handwritten and typwritten, to and from Chapin, mostly concerning his upcoming trip and work. The letters are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. Seven letters are from Henri Schouteden and nine are from Robert W. Storer. Other correspondents (one letter each, except where noted) include Rudyerd Boulten; L.D. Branch, discussing the lyre-tailed honeyguide; Herbert Friedmann, discussing honeyguide nesting, including the species Indicator minor;...
Dates:
1953 - 1953
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
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- Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 1
- Archbold, Richard 1
- Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 1
- Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 1
- Brown, Barnum 1
- Chapin Field Trip to the Eastern Congo (1953-1958) 1
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
- Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
- Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 1
- Department of Anthropology 1
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- Gratacap, L. P. (Louis Pope), 1851-1917 1
- Hayden Planetarium 1
- McKenna, Malcolm C. 1
- Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916 1
- Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942 1
- Mission Zoologique franco-anglo-américaine à Madagascar (1929-1931) 1
- Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947) 1
- Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1953) 1
- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
- Patagonian Expedition (1899-1900) 1
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
- Richardson, Jenness 1
- Skinner, Morris F. 1
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