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Benjamin Silliman correspondence, 1839-1861.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .S55

Édouard Lartet correspondence : Paris.

 Item
Identifier: Mss .L37
Dates: 1854 Apr. 9 :

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

Edmund Otis Hovey papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .H681-.H682

Norman Dennis Newell Collection, 1909-2005 (bulk 1973-2003)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .N495
Scope and Contents These papers consist of Newell’s scientific work at the American Museum of Natural History from 1973-2005, and Columbia University from 1945-1997; and his contributions mentioned below in the individual Series. They also include some personal and family papers dating from his childhood in Kansas through his education at the University of Kansas at Lawrence and Yale University, to his death in 2005. Series I: Correspondence with Individuals (includes some institutions, where...
Dates: 1909-2005 (bulk 1973-2003)

Henry Fairfield Osborn papers

 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

Otto Haas papers, 1909-1976

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

[Prehistoric scenes] [art original] / [Rob Barber]

 Collection
Identifier: Floor 6, Stack 6-38, shelf F-2
Scope and Contents

The paintings were made for the Wallach Orientation Center, which introduces visitors to the key concepts presented in the Museum's fossil halls: the Hall of Vertebrate Origins, the David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing, and the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives. The paintings were removed in September 2015 when the Museum began to renovate the Center. Paintings signed RJB or R; a few are dated in back.

Dates: 1995-1996

Preparation Molds for Exhibits

 Collection
Identifier: Mem 306
Scope and Contents Molds for exhibits were created and used to prepare the models that compose the exhibits of the American Museum of Natural history, approximately from 1889 to the 1990s, first by the science departments and then by the Department of Exhibition and its different iterations. Models were meant to reproduce existing and extinct animal specimens, humans and cultural artifacts, insects and plant life. The types of mold that can be found in this grouping provide insight on the methods employed to...
Dates: Usage: circa 1889-1990s

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Manuscript Collection 8
Paleontologists -- United States -- Correspondence 4
Geologists -- United States -- Correspondence. 3
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Meteorites 2
Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 2
Ontogeny. 2
Teeth, Fossil. 2
Ammonoidea 1
Amphibians 1
Animals -- Classification 1
Anthropology 1
Australia -- Description and travel. 1
Biology 1
Birds -- Exhibitions 1
Birds, Fossil. 1
Botany 1
Caves -- United States. 1
Caves -- Virginia -- Luray 1
Chemists -- United States -- Correspondence. 1
Dichodon cuspidatus. 1
Dinosaur tracks -- Connecticut River Valley. 1
Dinosaurs -- Models 1
Dinosaurs -- Pictorial works 1
Diorama 1
Earthquakes. 1
Evolution (Biology) -- History -- Sources. 1
Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy -- History -- Sources. 1
Evolution. 1
Exhibitions 1
Extinct birds -- New Zealand. 1
Extinction (Biology) 1
Fishes 1
Fishes -- Anatomy. 1
Fishes -- Evolution. 1
Footprints, Fossil -- Connecticut River Valley. 1
Fossils -- Pictorial works 1
Geology -- Nebraska -- Sioux County. 1
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Geology, Stratigraphic 1
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Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Ichthyology 1
Invertebrates 1
Invertebrates, Fossil -- Collection and preservation. 1
Invertebrates, Fossil -- Identification. 1
Invertebrates, Fossil. 1
Mammals -- Exhibitions 1
Mammals, Fossil -- England. 1
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Mammals, Fossil. 1
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Paleontology -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 1
Paleontology -- Mesozoic. 1
Paleontology -- Methodology. 1
Paleontology -- Pictorial works 1
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Paleontology -- Research -- History. 1
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Rocks -- Identification. 1
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Scientific expeditions -- Africa 1
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Soufrière (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) -- Eruption, 1902. 1
Submarine geology. 1
Transvaal (South Africa) -- Description and travel. 1
Vertebrates, Fossil 1
Vertebrates, Fossil -- Pictorial works 1
Volcanoes 1
Willamette meteorite. 1
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American Museum of Natural History 4
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 2
Department of Geology and Paleontology 2
Department of Ichthyology 2
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 2
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Adamson, Hans Christian 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 Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 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 Preparation and Installation 1
American Museum of Natural History. Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Orientation Center 1
American Philosophical Society 1
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 1
Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
Barber, Robert J. 1
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 1
Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
Boyd, Donald Wilkin 1
Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
Brown, Barnum 1
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
Cloud, Preston, 1912-1991 1
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 1
Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 1
Cooper, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur), 1902-2000 1
Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 1
Department of Anthropology 1
Department of Exhibition 1
Department of Herpetology 1
Fischer, Alfred G. 1
Frick Collection 1
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
Geological Society of America 1
Gould, Stephen Jay 1
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians 1
Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 1
Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 1
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 1
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 1
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 1
Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 1
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 1
Newell, Norman Dennis, 1909-2005 1
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 1
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 1
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 1
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 1
Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 1
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 1
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
United States National Museum 1
University of Kansas 1
Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918 1
Yale University 1
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