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American Museum Congo Expedition correspondence, 1917-1920.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C661
Dates:
1917 - 1920
American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition field book on fish
Item
Identifier: Mss .A465
Scope and Contents
Contains one field book titled "Fishes".
Dates:
1909-1915
Roy Chapman Andrews papers, 1987 Accession
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A54
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection consists of Andrews' correspondence, manuscripts, and transcripts of Andrews' broadcasts and talks from 1934 to1944. It also contains one folder of family and biographical documents and newspaper clippings received from Charles Gallenkamp, Andrews' biographer, in 1990. The majority of the administrative papers' correspondence concerns requests for speaking engagements about Andrews' explorations, requests for articles, and letters from the public and from companies...
Dates:
1920-1947; Majority of material found within 1934-1944
Brief notes on a two months' African safari : Collecting the Desert Group for the American Museum of Natural History : typescripts [1935?, 1938?] / by William D. Campbell
Item
Identifier: Mss .C36
Scope and content
Typescripts recount two of Campbell's expeditions: to East Africa, Dec. 1934-Jan. 1935; and to the Dunqulah region of Sudan, Dec. 1937-1938(?); primarily to collect specimens for the AMNH. Both reports are undated, and the account for the Sudan expedition appears to be unfinished. The reports mention Campbell's associates and co-leaders: hunter and photographer Alfred J. Klein in East Africa, and hunter Major W.V.D. Dickinson in Sudan. The appendix to the report on the East African...
Dates:
1935 - 1938
T. Donald Carter field books
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C376
Scope and Contents
The collection includes diaries and field notebooks from the 1927-1928 Day Roraima Expedition, the 1931-1932 Legendre Indochina Expedition, and the 1934 Sage West China Expedition, as well as material on the 1946-1947 Rutherford African Expedition. There are also diaries labeled by location and year(s): Costa Rica 1914; Abyssinia 1927-1929; Africa 1938; East Africa 1958; and Ungava, Québec 1953; and some yearly diaries. Carter participated in 27 expeditions in North and South America,...
Dates:
1910-1972
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
American Museum of Natural History, Expedition to China correspondence
Collection
Identifier: Mss .E973
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 16 folders of material, primarily typewritten correspondence (some carbon copies), relating to the planning, organization and progress of the Expedition to China. The majority of the letters are between Laufer and Franz Boas (a famed anthropologist who had formerly worked at AMNH and at the time was running the anthropology PhD. program at Columbia University), with Laufer supplying regular reports on his work to Boas, who disseminated and coordinated the...
Dates:
1900-1904; Majority of material found within 1901-1904
Exploration tales for soldiers and sailors : : YMCA lecture series.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .Y55
Dates:
1917 - 1919
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
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- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 2
- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 2
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 2
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 2
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- Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 1
- Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 1
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- Hunt, Reid, 1870-1948 1
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