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Central Asiatic Expeditions : fossils and artifacts
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 147
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The film records the paleontological finds of the expedition. The most important is shown first: the discovery of the "perfect dozen" nest of dinosaur eggs by George Olsen, paleontologist, at the Flaming Cliffs of Shabarakh Usu in the Gobi Desert. Bones of Baluchitherium, one of the largest land mammals, a hornless relative of today's rhinoceros, and Embolitherium, an Oligocene mammal, are also seen being...
Dates:
1925
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
[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
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- Animals -- Classification 1
- Australia -- Description and travel. 1
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- Fishes -- Anatomy. 1
- Fishes -- Evolution. 1
- Fossils -- Pictorial works 1
- Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Mammals -- Evolution. 1
- Manuscript Collection 1
- Mongolia -- Antiquities 1
- Moving Images 1
- Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 1
- Museum exhibits 1
- Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 1
- Neolithic period -- Mongolia 1
- New Zealand -- Description and travel. 1
- Ontogeny. 1
- Paleontologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Paleontology -- Pictorial works 1
- Paleontology -- Research -- History. 1
- Primates -- Evolution. 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Africa 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Australia 1
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- Transvaal (South Africa) -- Description and travel. 1
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- American Museum of Natural History 2
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 2
- Adamson, Hans Christian 1
- Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 1
- Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Orientation Center 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
- Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
- Brown, Barnum 1
- Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
- Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 1
- Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 1
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
- Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 1
- Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 1
- Department of Ichthyology 1
- Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
- Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
- Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 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
- Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 1
- Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 1
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 1
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 1
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 1
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
- Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 1
- Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 1
- Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 1
- Shackelford, James B. 1
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 1
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
- Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918 1 ∧ less
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