Manuscript Collection
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Distinguishes collections in the Library that are part of the Manuscript (Mss) data set.
Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:
Edmund Heller diary
Collection
Identifier: Mss .H45
Scope and Contents
The diary is dated from October 9, 1917 to January 12, 1918, with undated addenda and address lists. It contains Heller’s personal reflections and daily activities on his solo return trip from the First Asiatic Zoological Expedition. He discusses the sites and architecture, the flora and weather, as well as the culture and his impressions of the people of each country. He writes of goods for sale, with a particular interest in lantern slides and fur-skinned merchandise. Many of his...
Dates:
October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918
Henry Augustus Ward papers relating to the Ward-Coonley collection of meteorites, 1896-[1901].
Collection
Identifier: Mss .W37
Henry Edwards papers, 1854-1897
Collection
Identifier: Mss .E39-.E391
Dates:
Majority of material found within ( 1862-1891)
Henry Fairfield Osborn family records, 1860-1930
Collection
Identifier: Mss .O8351
Abstract
Letters, telegrams, Christmas cards, memorabilia, Perry family geneology, and miscellaneous printed matter. Includes correspondence from members of Henry Fairfield Osborn's family.
Dates:
Majority of material found within ( 1915-1925).
Henry Fairfield Osborn research papers, circa 1888.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .O8352
Abstract
Bound volumes, notes and book manuscripts on amynodontidae and proboscidea, including evolution and skeletal structures.
Dates:
1888
Edmund Otis Hovey records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .H683
Scope and Content Note
The Edmund Otis Hovey Records collection consists of approximately 50 field notebooks and journals from his and Mrs. Ettie Hovey’s travels around the Caribbean, North America, Europe and the Arctic; as well as, manuscripts of his papers and lectures notes. The collection also includes photographs, postcards, ephemera and newspaper clippings regarding the Crocker Land Expedition that took place from 1913-1917. The collection spans a period of approximately 20 years, beginning in 1890 and...
Dates:
1890-1919
Libbie Henrietta Hyman taxonomic records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .H86
Scope and contents
The collection consists of six notebooks (four composition, one small spiral notepad, one leather), kept as part of Hyman’s research work on invertebrate, including taxonomic identification of Turbellaria. The notebooks range from 1927 to 1964. They feature mathematical equations, trial and error scientific testing and a log of specimens. The majority of the journal content details specimen numbers, as well as information when these items were received, from where and whom. They are all...
Dates:
1927-1964
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
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New York, NY 10024-5192