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Audubon family correspondence, 1846 Nov. 17-1942 Jan. 28
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A93
Dates:
(bulk 1898-1914).
Edgar A. Mearns correspondence, 1883-1915
Collection
Identifier: Mss .M43
Scope and Contents
The collection consists entirely of photocopies of handwritten letters. The first letter, dated May 17, 1883, is from Albert S. Bickmore, founder and superintendent of the AMNH, concerning Mearns's proposed donation of a collection of birds. The second letter is from curator J.A. Allen, discussing details of the specimens. Other correspondents include James P. Chapin, Frank M. Chapman, L.P. Gratacap, C. Hart Merriam, Jenness Richardson and Anthony Woodward.
Dates:
1883-1915
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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- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 2
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 2
- Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Insects and Spiders 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 1
- Audubon 1
- Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 1
- Audubon, M. Eliza (Mary Eliza) 1
- Audubon, Maria R. (Maria Rebecca), 1843-1925 1
- Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 1
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
- Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 1
- Gratacap, L. P. (Louis Pope), 1851-1917 1
- Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938 1
- Lincoln, Thomas, 1812-1883 1
- Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916 1
- Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942 1
- Richardson, Jenness 1
- Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946 1
- Thayer, John Eliot, 1862- 1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 1
- Woodcraft Indian Trip to the Southwest of the American Museum of Natural History (1927) 1
- Woodward, Anthony, d. 1915 1 ∧ less
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