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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
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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- Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy -- History -- Sources. 1
- Evolution -- History -- Sources. 1
- Mammals -- Evolution. 1
- Mammals, Fossil -- North America. 1
- Mammals, Fossil. 1
- Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 1
- Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence 1
- Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 1
- Natural selection -- History -- Sources. 1
- Naturalists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence. 1
- Naturalists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Ontogeny. 1
- Paleontologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Paleontology -- Research -- History -- Sources. 1
- Saurischia. 1
- Teeth, Fossil. 1
- Zoologists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence. 1
- Zoologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1 ∧ less
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- American Museum of Natural History 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Insects and Spiders 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 1
- Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 1
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
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American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192