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Frederick B. Butler collection on the 1925 field season of the Third Asiatic Expedition
Collection
Identifier: Mss .B88
Scope and Contents
This collection contains field notes written by Butler during the 1925 field season (April 11-August 20) of the Third Asiatic Expedition. It also contains a typed diary detailing his experiences in Mongolia and discussing expedition staff members. Correspondences include letters to and from Butler and his wife in Tianjin (Tientsin), China, and official correspondences. Also included are various lectures ("Speech to the Algonquin Club. Boston, Dec. 7, 1926"; "Expedition lecture with...
Dates:
1924-1927; Majority of material found within 1925-1926
Central Asiatic Expeditions records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C446
Scope and Contents
This collection is a record of the Museum’s explorations undertaken during the 1920s in the Gobi Desert under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews. A list of the men who participated in the CAE can be culled from the expeditions’ letterheads used by museum personnel in New York. All but three of the men cited on these letterheads are represented here. Those not found are Mont Reid, a physician, James Wang, an interpreter and G. Horwath of motor transport. The variety of other correspondents...
Dates:
1916-1940; Majority of material found within 1921-1933
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- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 2
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 2
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 2
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- Burden East Indian Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926) 1
- Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
- Butler, Frederick B. 1
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
- Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
- Dodge Brothers 1
- Forrestal, James, 1892-1949 1
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
- Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 1
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 1
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 1
- Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947 1
- Pond, Alonzo William, 1894-1986 1
- Pope, Clifford H. (Clifford Hillhouse), 1899-1974 1
- Roosevelt, Kermit, 1889-1943 1
- Rutland (Vermont) Women’s and Men’s Clubs 1
- Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 1
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
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