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Department of Vertebrate Paleontology correspondence
Collection
Identifier: VPA 105
Scope and Contents
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology correspondence from 1887-1966, alphabetized by subject or author. Hundreds of scientists worldwide are represented by correspondence and include Alexander Agassiz, Glover M. Allen, Florentino Ameghino, Erwin H. Barbour, Franz Boas, Stephen F. Borhegyi, Robert Broom, Barnum Brown, Hermon C. Bumpus, Edwin H. Colbert, Thomas Alva Edison, Walter Granger, William T. Gregory, Claude W. Hibbard, D.A. Hooijer, William T. Hornaday, Remington Kellogg, Charles R....
Dates:
1887-1966
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
George Newbold Lawrence correspondence
Collection
Identifier: Mss .L39
Scope and Contents
The George Newbold Lawrence Correspondence collection consists almost completely of handwritten, signed letters received by Lawrence from other ornithologists and naturalists from the United States and Europe discussing the classification of birds and the exchange of bird skins. Some of the folders contain drafts or copies of Lawrence's replies. While there is a small number of official letters from institutions, almost all of the letters are from individuals. In addition to 228 documents...
Dates:
1847-1894; Majority of material found within 1865-1894
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- Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
- Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 1
- Audubon, Maria R. (Maria Rebecca), 1843-1925 1
- Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 1
- Batchelder, Charles F. (Charles Foster), 1898-1973 1
- Berlepsch, Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig, Graf von, 1850-1915 1
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
- Boston Society of Natural History 1
- Brewster, William, 1851-1919 1
- Brown, Barnum 1
- Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 1
- Dutcher, William, 1846-1920 1
- Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915 1
- Finsch, O. (Otto), 1839-1917 1
- Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
- Gould, John, 1804-1881 1
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
- Gurney, John Henry, 1819-1890 1
- Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 1
- Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
- Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932 1
- Lawrence, George N. (George Newbold), 1806-1895 1
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
- McKenna, Malcolm C. 1
- Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916 1
- Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942 1
- Merriam, J. C. (John Clark), 1829- 1
- Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
- Nichols, Rachel H. (Rachel Husband) 1
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
- Pike, Nicholas, 1817-1905 1
- Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929 1
- Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004 1
- Sennett, George B. (George Burritt), 1840-1900 1
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
- Smithsonian Institution 1
- Sternfeld, Ruth, d. 2007 1
- Wortman, J. L. (Jacob Lawson), 1856-1926 1
- Zeledón, José C. (José Cástulo), 1846-1923 1 ∧ less
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