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Libbie Henrietta Hyman taxonomic records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .H86
Scope and contents
The collection consists of six notebooks (four composition, one small spiral notepad, one leather), kept as part of Hyman’s research work on invertebrate, including taxonomic identification of Turbellaria. The notebooks range from 1927 to 1964. They feature mathematical equations, trial and error scientific testing and a log of specimens. The majority of the journal content details specimen numbers, as well as information when these items were received, from where and whom. They are all...
Dates:
1927-1964
Lerner Marine Laboratory papers
Collection
Identifier: DR 088-089
Scope and Contents
The Lerner Marine Laboratory (LML) collection at the American Museum of Natural History contains documents, photographs, and clippings documenting the history of the lab from 1947-1977. Important elements of the collection include correspondence to and from key staff members; files on conferences, symposiums, meetings, and ceremonies; information about financial contributors; general paperwork; photographs of the lab, employees, and visitors; publicity documents and correspondence regarding...
Dates:
1947-1977; Majority of material found within 1948-1975
National Center for Science Literacy, Education and Technology (NCSLET) retired Curriculum Collections
Collection
Identifier: MA2022-004
Scope and Contents
This collection contains curriculum material that has been retired from the AMNH website. The curricula were designed for educators, students and families and includes activities, readings, and other content related to varied science subjects. They are arranged in their original subject groupings as curriculum sets.
Dates:
Existence: 1998-2015
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)
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
Walter (Zarh) Pritchard paintings
Collection
Identifier: RF-93-Aa and RF-94-C
Scope and Contents
13 oil paintings, many of them done underwater in Tahiti, All items are nailed to wooden frames, except for item 6, titled "Coral-garden in the lagoon of Maraa, Tahiti, toward sunset, depth 20 ft. 1930."
Dates:
1914-1922
Richard Milner collection, c1989-c2000.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .M55
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1989 - 2000
Alfred Russel Wallace correspondence
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss .W3551
Scope and Contents
The collection consists almost entirely of handwritten, signed letters from Wallace to Cockerell, along with a few postcards. There are also one letter from Wallace's wife, Annie, and four letters (one typewritten) and a postcard from Wallace's son, William, following Wallace's death; and one newspaper clipping. The bulk of the letters are an ongoing one-sided conversation between the two naturalists on their scientific work and theories, beginning with a discussion of Wallace's book,...
Dates:
1890-1914
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