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Franz Weidenreich collection, 1910-1948

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .W445
Dates: (bulk 1935-1948).

Frederick Adams Woods papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .W66
Abstract

Diaries, letters, photographs, manuscripts and notes.

Dates: 9999 - 9999

Gardner S. Stout papers, 1963-1971

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .S76
Dates: (bulk 1968-1971).

George A. Treadwell papers, 1870-1912

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .T74
Dates: (bulk 1870-1896).

George Cuvier collection, circa 1800

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .C88
Scope and Contents

Books, prints, engraving, correspondence, and memorabilia. Includes a letter addressed to unknown person (Monsieur) in French from "Monica" (possibly Cuvier's daughter, his wife as Ann-Marie) and co-signed by Georges Cuvier, undated.

Dates: 1800

George Frederick Kunz papers, 1879-1932.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .K861- .K862
Abstract Chiefly correspondence between Kunz and earth scientists, mineralogists, mineral dealers and collectors, museum and government officers, professors and students. Most of the letters deal with the acquisition, exhibition, exchange of or research on gemstones, pearls, ivory, new mineral specimens or meteorites; several hundred letters deal specifically with radioactive minerals, radium production and the effects of radiation on the color of gems. Also included are some related business...
Dates: 1879 - 1932

George K. Cherrie correspondence, 1902 Jan. 9, 1903 Apr. 11

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .C454
Scope and content The collection consists of two handwritten signed letters from Hartert, the first discussing Cherrie's collecting plans for an upcoming expedition to Cayenne, French Guiana, and the second evaluating the results. In the first letter, Hartert requests six specimens of every species of bird from Cayenne; eight of hummingbirds and swifts. Payment is discussed. Hartert says that Oldfield Thomas of the Natural History Museum (London, England) wants mammals from Cayenne, and stresses his own...
Dates: 1902 - 1903

Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon portraits, circa 1780s

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .B84
Scope and Contents

Nine assorted portraits of Buffon some copperplate engraving prints (one color, rest black and white), and one letter of correspondence (1787).

Dates: 1780 - 1789

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

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Entomologists -- United States -- Correspondence 12
Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 10
Paleontologists -- United States -- Correspondence 7
Ornithologists -- United States -- Correspondence 6
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Natural history museum curators 5
Scientific expeditions 5
Zoologists -- United States -- Correspondence 5
Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 4
Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 4
Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence 4
Naturalists -- United States -- Correspondence 4
Anthropologists -- United States -- Correspondence 3
Birds -- Classification 3
Birds -- Collection and preservation 3
Birds -- Exhibitions 3
Butterflies -- Type specimens. 3
Field notes 3
Fishes -- Research 3
Mammals -- Collection and preservation 3
Meteorites 3
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History 3
Ornithology -- United States 3
Paleontologists -- Correspondence 3
Voyages and travels 3
Anatomists -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Arctic regions 2
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration 2
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- American. 2
Biology 2
Bird banding 2
Butterflies -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 2
Butterflies -- Jamaica. 2
Caves -- Virginia -- Luray 2
Conservationists -- United States 2
Diaries 2
East Asia -- Description and travel 2
Education -- Museums 2
Entomologists 2
Entomologists -- Correspondence. 2
Entomologists -- North America -- Correspondence. 2
Entomology -- North America 2
Evolution (Biology) -- History -- Sources. 2
Evolution. 2
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Explorers -- United States -- Correspondence. 2
Lepidoptera -- Catalogs and collections -- New York (State) -- New York. 2
Lepidoptera -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 2
Lepidoptera -- North America -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 2
Lepidoptera. 2
Mammals -- Classification 2
Mammals -- Evolution. 2
Mammals -- Exhibitions 2
Mexico -- Antiquities. 2
Mongolia -- Description and travel 2
Museum curators 2
Ontogeny. 2
Ornithologists -- Correspondence. 2
Publications 2
Scientific expeditions -- Africa. 2
Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions 2
Scientific expeditions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 2
Teeth, Fossil. 2
Acoela 1
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Adventure and adventurers -- Africa, East 1
Adventure and adventurers -- United States 1
Aids to navigation -- United States 1
Ainu 1
Aleutian Islands (Alaska) 1
Aleuts 1
Alytes obstetricans 1
Ammonoidea 1
Amphibians -- Classification 1
Amphibians -- Development 1
Amphibians -- Embryology 1
Amynodontidae 1
Anatomists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence 1
Animals -- Classification 1
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Animals -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Classification. 1
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Argali -- Classification. 1
Art and science 1
Art, Chinese 1
Artists 1
Artists -- United States -- Correspondence. 1
Asia, Central -- Description and travel. 1
Astronomy in art 1
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American Museum of Natural History 24
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 12
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 8
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 7
Department of Entomology 7
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American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 6
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 6
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 6
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 6
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 5
Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 4
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 4
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 4
Department of Ichthyology 4
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 4
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 4
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 4
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 4
Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 3
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 3
Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 3
Brown, F. Martin (Frederick Martin), 1903-1993 3
Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 3
Department of Education 3
Department of Geology and Paleontology 3
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 3
Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 3
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 3
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 3
Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 3
Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942 3
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 3
Reeds, Chester A. (Chester Albert), 1882-1968 3
Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 3
Shackelford, James B. 3
Smithsonian Institution 3
Young, John McKenzie 3
Adamson, Hans Christian 2
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 2
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 2
Allen, Jerome Lee, 1891-1955 2
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) 2
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Insects and Spiders 2
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 2
Atz, James W. 2
Audubon, Maria R. (Maria Rebecca), 1843-1925 2
Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 2
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 2
Berlepsch, Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig, Graf von, 1850-1915 2
Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 2
Borup, George, 1885-1912 2
Boston Society of Natural History 2
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 2
Carter, T. Donald (Thomas Donald), 1893 2
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 2
Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 2
Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 2
Dodge Brothers 2
Dutcher, William, 1846-1920 2
Ekblaw, W. Elmer (Walter Elmer), 1882-1949 2
Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915 2
Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) 2
Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 2
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 2
Lanyon, Wesley E. 2
Lee, Hugh J. 2
Martin Johnson African Expedition (2nd : 1924-1928) 2
Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916 2
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 2
Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 2
Newell, Norman Dennis, 1909-2005 2
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 2
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 2
Pike, Nicholas, 1817-1905 2
Pope, Clifford H. (Clifford Hillhouse), 1899-1974 2
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 2
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 2
Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 2
Tanquary, Maurice Cole, 1881-1944 2
Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929 2
United States. Department of Agriculture 2
University of Kansas 2
Weyer, Edward Moffat, 1904-1998 2
Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 2
Yale University 2
Académie royale de chirurgie (France) 1
Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 1
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 1
Akeley African Expedition to the Belgian Congo of the American Museum of Natural History (1921-1922) 1
Akeley, Delia J. (Delia Julia), 1875?-1970 (1875 December 5-1970 May 22) 1
Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926-1927) 1
Allen, Arthur A. (Arthur Augustus), 1885-1964 1
Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
Amadon, Dean 1
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting (1916) (New York, N.Y.) 1
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting (1928-1929) (New York, N.Y.) 1
American Association of Museums 1
American Eugenics Society 1
American Museum of Natural History. Committee for Chemical Brush Control Recommendations for Rightofways 1
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